I gave you a hug for the reaction you have to seeing cream cakes. I agree that awareness of the problems which many people can develop by eating too many carbs, especially diabetics, is not currently widespread and the Panorama programme was hard hitting. I am wary of becoming too censorious of other people's food preferences and not entirely convinced LCHF is good for non diabetics or problem free for us. Knowing what to avoid and staying on message is now second nature personally. What to actually eat and how healthy that is now an issue for me. Not eating anything as the safe option can also become a problem.
Thank you
I understand.
LCHF is not the whole answer(I don't think any one strategy ever is), but it is a step, at least that diabetics can take, and then work from there. It has lowered my blood glucose readings. But I need to work/adapt/something on it better to attempt to get more 'normal' blood sugar readings.
I research, have done online courses, research old stuff and new stuff, make notes (I am not a spreadsheet or analytical person, but I could go there if I thought that was my answer).
Something, in my opinion, has to be a better answer on so called 'normal' eating for anyone.
I am doing a form of intermittent fasting, which is just eating from dawn or when I get up until about midday, usually about a 6 hour window unless I am out for the entire day. But I have other health problems, including GERD and a hiatus hernia which makes fasting hard for me, I get terrible heartburn. I cannot fast for a longer period because of that. Although I would like to because I feel better and 'cleaner' by not eating.
I do have meds for the GERD and hiatus hernia, but for some reason a mistake by the surgery was made on the repeat prescription and they were not prescribed this time (I didn't realise until I looked in the prescription bag when they ran out), so I went to the surgery, but it is run by the nhs now, as the doctors left under a cloud, and it has been a mess. So they said I had to wait the usual 4 or 5 days for the repeat prescription. This was last Thursday and supposedly I can pick it up today possibly. And the weekend was in the way.
I did argue it was their fault, but nothing. So I have been without my PPI med for nearly a week now. I have been on this since 2004, and on researching it, it looks like it is meant for 3 to 6 months maximum, not 15years.
Yes, I could have gone a lot further in complaining, but I had already been tentatively researching how to come off it, and other strategies. And some research I found, suggested a link with diabetes, which concerned me a lot.
I had forgotten how bad the pain was, but I used my strategies, and hopefully it will be possible to manage without that med.
I don't know how much that med could have caused/impacted on my diabetes.
I had been told by the dietician (a different one in 2004), that I needed to have those carbs and processed carbs for my health and well being, and so I needed to take the PPI. So obviously I followed medical advice of 2004.
I can't help but wonder if taking that med caused my diabetes. And the overload of carbs I had been advised to take. I told them then that taking those carbs for one meal heated my body, but they insisted I was wrong and that had nothing to do with it.
We all have different health problems, different life histories, and pop genetics in that mix as well, and this is a very individual journey for all of us, diabetic or not.
But I do think we have to listen very closely to our own bodies. We have lost that knack for lots of reasons.
A little story (sorry my posts are long ones, but once I write, I write). My young son had growing pains in the early 1980's, he was in tears, it hurt him badly. I took him to doc. Doc said get on with it, all children have growing pains he said. We get back home. I feel for my son, because I was told the same thing as a child, to shut up and put up, no compassion, nothing.
So, I listen to my son. He is only a child but he cannot take any more of this pain. He is crying with it. I didn't know anything, but a mother's intuition told me he needed more water. I only had a 2 litre bottle which had held pop. So we filled the pop bottle with water. And I told him to keep drinking from it during the day.
That was his answer. The growing pains went away. And he was never without his bottle of water(a smaller bottle by now), all through his childhood. Even at school. And even in adulthood he always had a bottle of water in one hand (and his phone in the other...). He has never drunk pop since that day when we were sitting on the stairs together trying to work out how I could help him.
We need to listen to our own bodies, but it has been drummed out of us to be that sensitive.
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