Re: no real advice, just a bunch of clap trap

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:50:23 GMT, "esal via MedKB.com" <u22861@uwe>
wrote:

I don't get it. Many t1 and t2 and very little help in terms of what and
when exactly to eat, how to exercise, injection sites, reliable meters etc.
Yes, I've read many of the threads. And still it seems there is no coming
together. I dare you to put down your diet plan, exercise regiment and
testing procedure, and please refrain from the back slapping talk. Give up
the facts weight, numbness in fingers and toes, morning highs, evening lows
etc. Let's hear it. Keep His ever loving heart and the blessedness to
minimum this will surely come through in your honesty.

Alright.

My diet (although I hate that word):

I literally eat anything that I want. Having said that now allow me to
qualify it.

I have learned to not crave most foods that would spike me. White rice
comes right up to the top on that one. On my birthday when we were
eating lunch at our favorite Mexican restaurant the inadvertently
brought me both rice and beans. I believe our waiter that day is the
only person that works there that does not know I do not want the rice
due to what it does to my BG. I told him to just leave it. Actually
they have a very good Spanish Rice that has a rather nutty flavor to
it. I do know they use chicken broth along with the other ingredients
in it. So I ate about 1/3 of the rice on my plate and enjoyed it.

Normally I would eat the refried beans and use corn tortillas to scoop
them up and eat them as they are meant to be. The beans and the corn
tortillas are slow acting carbs and don't spike me - not even hours
later.

Do I eat ice cream? Yes, in small amounts as part of my meal plan.

I don't have much time to go into detail right now, but I will say
that still use the exchange system most of the time although I have
modified it to suit my personal needs. That is, when I look at foods I
ask myself how large a serving of this equals 15g of carbs.

For my birthday Laurie baked me a butter/pecan cake and put coconut in
it. She frosted it very lightly and sprinkled more coconut that she
had roasted on the top. At my request she baked the cake in a bundt
cake pan, then dropped it out on to the cake keeper. I wanted it as a
bundt cake because the portion size is much easier to regulate so I
can have a piece for my afternoon or evening snack and keep it within
the bounds of one to one and a half exchanged in the afternoon and two
exchanges in the evening.

Did it spike me on my birthday? I don't have the slightest idea. You
see that is one of the few days of the year that my doctor has told me
to not touch my meter. He said, "Take you meds as you normally do and
then the next morning go back on your regular schedule of testing and
eating in a healthy manner.

I know this is only a small part of the information you asked for, but
it is a beginning.

--
Grandpa Chuck
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The following information is given with the utmost respect
for the armed forces and civilians who have died in the
current war in Iraq. According to http://icasualties.org/oif/
The number of Americans killed in Iraq as of June 22, 2006 is 2,513.
Americans wounded = more than 17,869
United Kingdom = 113
Other = 113
In January through March over 3800 Iraqi civilians were killed.
Most of them by the so-called insurgents.

Today, June 23, 2006 it has been 1149 days since Bush declared,
"Mission Accomplished in Iraq."
Why do some people still believe what he says?

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