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Originally posted by Brenda:
I'll grab myself a between meal snack in over half an hour.

Be thankful you don't have a thyroid problem as I do because that walks hand in hand with hypoglycemia(low blood sugar). I have to basically graze all day to keep my blood sugar in check. Diet is my only control.

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Yikes. I feel for you. I've never really had to put much thought into what and when to eat before.

I think we've ruled out hyper/hypothyroidism, but with these doctors who the heck knows????



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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I'll grab myself a between meal snack in over half an hour.

Be thankful you don't have a thyroid problem as I do because that walks hand in hand with hypoglycemia(low blood sugar). I have to basically graze all day to keep my blood sugar in check. Diet is my only control.

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Yikes. I feel for you. I've never really had to put much thought into what and when to eat before.

I think we've ruled out hyper/hypothyroidism, but with these doctors who the heck knows????



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Looking for a thyroid problem is easy. A simple blood test and since you were loosing weight if it showed up as out it would have been hyper. When your thyroid is slow which is my problem, I gained a bunch of weight. But once I was put on thyroid meds, the weight came off easily. The blood sugar problem showed up a while later and again was found through a blood test.

It is a pain to be sure. I take my thyroid med on an empty stomach then half hour later my seizure meds and breakfast then I stop for coffee while I am out on errands. Then I stop for lunch before coming home. Then I have an afternoon snack. Then supper usually after 5pm. My night seizure meds, I take around 9:30pm then I have a snack around 11pm. That's my routine.

I've been doing this routine over 20years.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Looking for a thyroid problem is easy. A simple blood test and since you were loosing weight if it showed up as out it would have been hyper. When your thyroid is slow which is my problem, I gained a bunch of weight. But once I was put on thyroid meds, the weight came off easily. The blood sugar problem showed up a while later and again was found through a blood test.

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Oh... well if that's the case, I don't have it. They tested my blood for it and it was good. I didn't know if there were other places it could hide though. I'm a dummy.

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It is a pain to be sure. I take my thyroid med on an empty stomach then half hour later my seizure meds and breakfast then I stop for coffee while I am out on errands. Then I stop for lunch before coming home. Then I have an afternoon snack. Then supper usually after 5pm. My night seizure meds, I take around 9:30pm then I have a snack around 11pm. That's my routine.I've been doing this routine over 20years.

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The longer I stick around here it would seem the more we're walking in just about the same shoes more or less, huh?

I'm sure it will be a struggle at first, but things will work out fine. They almost always do once I screw my head on straight. This one is going to force the issue. It's probably what I needed, and definitely what I deserved.



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Just had the best workout I've had in 20 years. My 3rd for the day.

I'm up to about 15 straight minutes with zero break in between with the dumb bells with 10 different exercises (Only 10lbs, but up to 20-25 reps each depending on the exercise), followed by getting on the yoga mat to do 20 push ups, 60 crunchies, and two yoga leg lifts. I even went back and finished it off with another 12 reps of curls and shoulder lifts with my 20lb dumb bells when I was done. Muscles are toast when I'm done, but I'm hardly breathing heavy at all anymore when I'm finished when 2+ weeks ago doing less than half of this was leaving me super winded.

Dinner is cooking now. I'm going to start dialing that back to a more normal time at night now that I'm eating 3 times a day again. I know 9:30PM is still too late to be eating dinner, but it's sure better than sometime after Midnight.



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Altho I still sound froggy and my nose is still crazy-stuffed, I no longer feel tired and sick.

So it took me three days but the front yard has been weed whacked. Again. I hope the neighbors are less pissed at me.

I'm waiting for a landscaper to get back in touch with me, as I have no illusions about, or desire to, relandscape the entire front yard by myself! But landscapers, like handymen, seem to be scarcer than hen's teeth. I've had three come by. One gave me a quote and we scheduled the work but he eventually was a no-call no-show. One provided a quote, and I may go back to him even tho he was more expensive than the guy I picked. The last guy has yet to even give me a quote, even tho he was here a week ago. (I just texted him a reminder)

In the meantime I did some exploratory digging to find where the oak tree roots are, and didn't find any on my planned "dry stream bed/swale" (so far) which is meant to carry water away from the downspout and let it infiltrate farther away from the house. And I just bought some mason's string, survey stakes and a line-level so I can re-grade the yard and make sure water will flow in the right direction.

The backyard is an explosion of flowers thanks to the abundant rainfall. The white Lady Banks rose is blooming in sprays of small white roses, the Joseph's Coat climbing rose is full of its roses of multiple colors (some are yellow, some are pink, some red and some orange.) The bed below is filled with nasturtiums and borage that reseed themselves every year. Our neighbor's deep red bougainvillea is scrambling over the wall, and in a shady corner pink azalea is covered in flowers.

I sent a picture to my sisters and nieces and they thought it was lovely. One even decided to use it as her phone wallpaper!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Looking for a thyroid problem is easy. A simple blood test and since you were loosing weight if it showed up as out it would have been hyper. When your thyroid is slow which is my problem, I gained a bunch of weight. But once I was put on thyroid meds, the weight came off easily. The blood sugar problem showed up a while later and again was found through a blood test.

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Oh... well if that's the case, I don't have it. They tested my blood for it and it was good. I didn't know if there were other places it could hide though. I'm a dummy.

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It is a pain to be sure. I take my thyroid med on an empty stomach then half hour later my seizure meds and breakfast then I stop for coffee while I am out on errands. Then I stop for lunch before coming home. Then I have an afternoon snack. Then supper usually after 5pm. My night seizure meds, I take around 9:30pm then I have a snack around 11pm. That's my routine. I've been doing this routine over 20years.

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The longer I stick around here it would seem the more we're walking in just about the same shoes more or less, huh?

I'm sure it will be a struggle at first, but things will work out fine. They almost always do once I screw my head on straight. This one is going to force the issue. It's probably what I needed, and definitely what I deserved.



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That's good that your thyroid is functioning like it should.

It does seem like it. I'm just the other end of the scale from you now.

It will be. But you have started off really well and that is what is important. Like I said you are willing to learn from the doctors and others around you.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Altho I still sound froggy and my nose is still crazy-stuffed, I no longer feel tired and sick.

So it took me three days but the front yard has been weed whacked. Again. I hope the neighbors are less pissed at me.

I'm waiting for a landscaper to get back in touch with me, as I have no illusions about, or desire to, relandscape the entire front yard by myself! But landscapers, like handymen, seem to be scarcer than hen's teeth. I've had three come by. One gave me a quote and we scheduled the work but he eventually was a no-call no-show. One provided a quote, and I may go back to him even tho he was more expensive than the guy I picked. The last guy has yet to even give me a quote, even tho he was here a week ago. (I just texted him a reminder)

In the meantime I did some exploratory digging to find where the three roots are,and didn't find any on my planned "dry stream bed/swale" which is meant to carry water away from the downspout and let it infiltrate farther away from the house. And I just bought some mason's string, survey stakes and a line-level so I can re-grade the yard and make sure water will flow in the right direction.

The backyard is an explosion of flowers thanks to the abundant rainfall. The white Lady Banks rose is blooming in sprays of small white roses, the Joseph's Coat climbing rose is full of its roses of multiple colors (some are yellow, some are pink, some read and some orange. The bed below is filled with nasturtiums and borage that reseed themselves every year. Our neighbor's burgundy bougainvillea is scrambling over the wall, and in a shade corner pink azalea is covered in flowers.

I sent a picture to my sisters and nieces and they thought it was lovely.

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Yeah... That's crazy you can't find anybody to do the work for you. I wonder if there's a problem like that here. Maybe I could go into business for myself after I get these health issues squared away. I wish we lived on the same block, Sigs.

I'm glad you're feeling better and getting stuff done.

You should post a picture of your up here. It's been a while.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
That's good that your thyroid is functioning like it should.

It does seem like it. I'm just the other end of the scale from you now.

It will be. But you have started off really well and that is what is important. Like I said you are willing to learn from the doctors and others around you.

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Yeah. I might hem and haw about it, but I'll get there.


Feeling really good after working out and eating a fairly big meal with my upped dosage after that insulin shot this afternoon. I usually feel better at night then I do during the day though, so we'll see how tomorrow goes with the new regimen.

Hopefully I start putting on some muscle weight soon.

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Could be the other way around: there is stuff you should not eat. From today's news: “Our study suggests poor carbohydrate quality is a leading driver of diet-attributable type 2 diabetes globally,” says senior author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University and professor of medicine at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston, in a statement.

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I have a different idea. (I second-guess doctors all the time. My doctors hate me!)

What is our human evolutionary history? Well, at one point, when we diverged from the other great apes, we evolved on a seacoast near the Afar Triangle. I deduce this from certain aspects of our anatomy, and our requirements for iodine, fish oil, vitamin A, vitamin D, and salt which are MUCH higher compared to the -other- great apes. (You don't see gorillas with goiter and cretinism, for example, but it was very common among humans who lived away from the ocean, before iodine started being added to salt).

So, as gatherer-scavenger-hunters, what did we originally eat?

Well, little fish. Any edible root we could dig up. Frogs, lizards, snails, birds eggs. Shellfish (which we prolly learned to bash open with rocks). Edible green shoots. Any small, mostly sour little fruits as they came in season.

Then, when we moved inland, I hypothesize that we transferred our shell-bashing skills to break bones for marrow, opening up a niche for us that was only occupied by hyenas. (If you were to feed an ape, cat, or dog the amount of fat that humans ordinarily consume, they'd get pancreatitis. The human tolerance for fat is high)

It was only later that humans developed enough hunting skills to kill animals, and "red meat" entered our diet.

Over the four million years or so of hominid and human evolution, grains didn't come into the picture until about 15,000 years ago, when we became agriculturalists. But it did leave a genetic imprint- grains are easily dried and can be stored over winter, and allowed stable human populations to exist in temperate climates.

So, what did we get from this mixed-bag evolution?

Well, we still need iodine, salt, vitamins A and D, and fish oil. We are obligate omnivores: required to eat both meat (for B12, which herbivores ca)n synthesize, but we can't) and fresh vegtables or fruits (for vitamin C, which carnivores can synthesize, but we can't) As a species, we're generalists and are able to tolerate wide ranges of macrontrients (fat, carbohydrate and protein) but as individuals our tolerance varies from person to person.

But whatever we ate, it mostly came with lots of fiber. When we did eat fish, small animals or large game, THEIR diets depended on grass, or algae or sea)weed, or bugs, all of which are high in things like carotenes, polyphenols, omega-3 fatty acids etc. Unlike farm-raised animals which are fed hay, corn, and soy, which have little of the good-for-you stuff.

Altho our early diet was low-fat, we do tolerate lots of fat. One group- the Innuit- have survived for millenia on a diet of a little meat and lots and lots of blubber over 6-month winter. So it's an option, but not ideal.

But there are two things not found in a natural diet:
Concentrated sugars, and fat combined with carbs, especially highly refined starch or sugar.

And that is exactly what we crave:
Bread and butter
Potato chips
Pizza (bread dough with cheese and pepperoni fat)
Whipped cream and sugar
Ice cream
Donuts and pastries
Fried rice
French fries
Corn chips

The combination of fat + carbs is also responsible for worldwide malnutrition, since milled, refined flours stores for a long time (doesn't go rancid), similar to palm oil, palm kernel oil, and coconut oil. They're cheap, they keep, and they're bad for you.
Studies show that starch combined with fat makes blood sugar go up, and KEEPS blood sugar up.

So if you're going to eat carbs, make it beans, whole grains, and root vegetables, but keep it away from fat.

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