In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Did not get that longer night of sleep that I was hoping for. I still only would have had 2 interruptions if I did though. I just need to go to sleep earlier. Drinking (and needing) much less water overnight seems to be the new norm.
148lbs this morning. Already did a morning workout, but my legs are pretty much trashed from all the squatting picking up the lawn debris and 2 hours of lawn mowing. The routine gets easier by the day, so I'll have to add new things to mix it up. Definitely have to add some core stuff and leg routines since I've really only been focusing on upper body stuff first.
Going to get a few more workouts in today, but other than that the work will be low key. Going to get paperwork done, clean the house up a bit and probably get around to finally installing my new dusk-to-dawn porch lamp that should properly illuminate the Bermuda Triangle back there and prevent me from ever having to strain my eyes to find the key to the garage.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Sounds like the metformin is working for you. Just curious what your dosage is (mg) bc that will give me an indication of the size of the problem the doctor is trying to correct.
But if you want to control your blood sugar with no, or less, medicine you should start thinking about your total carb load.
For example, banana
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The nutrition facts for 1 medium-sized banana (100 grams) are (1):
Calories: 89
Water: 75%
Protein: 1.1 grams
Carbs: 22.8 grams
Sugar: 12.2 grams
Fiber: 2.6 grams
Fat: 0.3 grams
Carbs
Bananas are a rich source of carbs, which occur mainly as starch in unripe bananas and sugars in ripe bananas.
The carb composition of bananas changes drastically during ripening.
The main component of unripe bananas is starch. Green bananas contain up to 80% starch measured in dry weight.
During ripening, the starch is converted into sugars and ends up being less than 1% when the banana is fully ripe (2).
The most common types of sugar in ripe bananas are sucrose, fructose, and glucose. In ripe bananas, the total sugar content can reach more than 16% of the fresh weight (2).
Bananas have a relatively low glycemic index (GI) of 42–58, depending on their ripeness. The GI is a measure of how quickly carbs in food enter your bloodstream and raise blood sugar (3).
Bananas’ high content of resistant starch and fiber explains their low GI.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/bananas
You may need to trade off something else for bananas, or switch to a lower-sugar fruit altogether that still provides potassium, like cantaloupe. Here is a list of fruits high in potassium, they helpfully provide mg potassium per 200 calories. Start at the highest value and work your way down until you find something that's acceptable to you.
https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/high-potassium-fruits.php
BTW, I have a LOT of experience in this. I had to implement a ketogenic diet for our daughter for attempted seizure control that limited her to 3 (yes, 3, not 30) grams of carbs (that's like two strawberries or a small spoonful of cantaloupe) per day and 12 g of protein. Plus I manage hubby's steroid-induced diabetes as much as he will let me, by providing low carb, high fiber meals and snack options. I can rank vegetables, fruits and nuts by carb content. Dried fruit, fruit juice, high-sugsr fruits, rice, bread, tortillas, cereals, pasta etc... are not in MY menu plan, altho hubby does indulge. I substitute shirataki noodles, cauliflower, zucchini etc as low- carb tummy fillers. (Altho I think beans are ok, in moderation).
My no-med dog- walking friend goes the keto route: very low carbs and high fat, moderate protein.
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He put me on 500mg, twice per day. BMI was something like 22.03 or 23.02. I don't remember. I'm about smack-dab in the normal range for that right now.
The funny thing is, the doctor did not bring up diet to me one single time while I was there, or what I need to do IMMEDIATELY. Not once. I didn't ask, but he also didn't tell me anything.
Maybe I'm assuming something I shouldn't be, but I think he wanted me to keep eating like I was eating while I started taking those pills until I see Dr. Endo and do a follow up, otherwise, why wouldn't he be telling me everything that you're telling me which more or less matches up with everything that I'm seeing with online research?
I'm not sure how much this will actually tell him though since two of the huge culprits (peanut butter, which has been cut out completely from my diet) and cereal (which has been drastically reduced from my diet) are far different than the were 3 days ago going forward and I haven't had any junk food either.
As boring as it is, maybe I should be keeping a log of what I do eat from now until I see him again.
ETA: I had a conversation with my Dad about this earlier today...
After telling him about you suggesting that I use a monitor with test strips and lancets everyday to keep off the medicine, he asked me "why don't you just keep eating what you want to and stay on meds instead of putting yourself out for the rest of your life like that, since you'll still be having to buy expensive testing crap the rest of your life with all that added headache of testing yourself all the time"?
He's been on BP meds for 10 years now and never worries about what he eats anymore.
I have to admit that he makes sense from that point of view.
Obviously, I can't go back to eating 1/4 jar of peanut butter, drinking a gallon of milk in a day or having days where I skip real food altogether and eat 3 bags of junk food... But I wouldn't have to be carb counting and worrying about a banana.
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Back from mah jong on another bright day. Lucked out with the sunshine but mah jong sucked. I couldn't do anything. Just one of those days.
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Quote:True, that.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
He put me on 500mg, twice per day. BMI was something like 22.03 or 23.02. I don't remember. I'm about smack-dab in the normal range for that right now.
The funny thing is, the doctor did not bring up diet to me one single time while I was there, or what I need to do IMMEDIATELY. Not once. I didn't ask, but he also didn't tell me anything.
Maybe I'm assuming something I shouldn't be, but I think he wanted me to keep eating like I was eating while I started taking those pills until I see Dr. Endo and do a follow up, otherwise, why wouldn't he be telling me everything that you're telling me which more or less matches up with everything that I'm seeing with online research?
I'm not sure how much this will actually tell him though since two of the huge culprits (peanut butter, which has been cut out completely from my diet) and cereal (which has been drastically reduced from my diet) are far different than the were 3 days ago going forward and I haven't had any junk food either.
As boring as it is, maybe I should be keeping a log of what I do eat from now until I see him again.
ETA: I had a conversation with my Dad about this earlier today...
After telling him about you suggesting that I use a monitor with test strips and lancets everyday to keep off the medicine, he asked me "why don't you just keep eating what you want to and stay on meds instead of putting yourself out for the rest of your life like that, since you'll still be having to buy expensive testing crap the rest of your life with all that added headache of testing yourself all the time"?
He's been on BP meds for 10 years now and never worries about what he eats anymore.
I have to admit that he makes sense from that point of view.
Obviously, I can't go back to eating 1/4 jar of peanut butter, drinking a gallon of milk in a day or having days where I skip real food altogether and eat 3 bags of junk food... But I wouldn't have to be carb counting and worrying about a banana.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
It depends on how much metformin costs for a month's supply versus how much it would cost to test yourself (appx $25-35 out of pocket for test strips and lancets once you buy the meter itself and the springloaded finger-poker i.e "lancing device")
Also, keep in mind that you wouldn't need to test yourself every day once you figure out an approximate diet, just maybe once a week (appx $1 per test) just to make sure things aren't going off the rails. IMHO testing your blood sugar is more like a way for YOU to fine-tune YOUR planned interventions, or determine what you can get away with, instead of relying on a doctor (and those expensive doctor and specialist visits and blood tests) to figure it out for you.
But since you ASKED... well, not really but I'm always ready to opine.... if you're not going to be measuring your blood sugar, but (I assume) will be depending on doctors to do it for you... just eat the way you plan on eating for the foreseeable future. If what that means is ditching peanut butter, cereal, junk food and 1/2 gallon milk every day but otherwise following your normal diet including eating with friends once in a while) then do that, and let your doctors check your A1C and adjust your meds accordingly.
1000 mg is a middle-of-the-road dose. The lowest dose normally Rxd is 500 mg extended release once per day. The highest dose is 1000 mg twice per day (2000 mg). I was a bit shocked to learn that you were thirsty and losing weight bc of diabetes, that usually doesn't happen until blood sugar is waaaaay out of control, and I expected (and perhaps still expect) to see your dose increased at the next Dr visit. Beyond that, they start adding other, more expen$ive meds like jardiance and januvia.
If it were me, I&#
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Ha! Well, I looked it up, and they DO have at-home cholesterol test kits! Gonna get me one bc Im anxious to see if I'm heading in the right direction n I don't want to have to wait for my next Dr visit.
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Quote:But thank goodnesss for the sunshine, eh?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong on another bright day. Lucked out with the sunshine but mah jong sucked. I couldn't do anything. Just one of those days.
I hope you have good luck AND sunshine next week!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:But thank goodnesss for the sunshine, eh?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong on another bright day. Lucked out with the sunshine but mah jong sucked. I couldn't do anything. Just one of those days.
I hope you have good luck AND sunshine next week!
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Oh definitely thank goodness for the sunshine because it was suppose to rain today.
Have to see what the weekend brings for the weather at the beginning of next week.
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With this partial I got sometimes when I talk I sound like anything with an "s" on it just "ssssss" *L* Told that to the poet yesterday and she never noticed anything over the phone.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
True, that.
It depends on how much metformin costs for a month's supply versus how much it would cost to test yourself (appx $25-35 out of pocket for test strips and lancets once you buy the meter itself and the springloaded finger-poker i.e "lancing device")
Also, keep in mind that you wouldn't need to test yourself every day once you figure out an approximate diet, just maybe once a week (appx $1 per test) just to make sure things aren't going off the rails. IMHO testing your blood sugar is more like a way for YOU to fine-tune YOUR planned interventions, or determine what you can get away with, instead of relying on a doctor (and those expensive doctor and specialist visits and blood tests) to figure it out for you.
But since you ASKED... well, not really but I'm always ready to opine.... if you're not going to be measuring your blood sugar, but (I assume) will be depending on doctors to do it for you... just eat the way you plan on eating for the foreseeable future. If what that means is ditching peanut butter, cereal, junk food and 1/2 gallon milk every day but otherwise following your normal diet including eating with friends once in a while) then do that, and let your doctors check your A1C and adjust your meds accordingly.
1000 mg is a middle-of-the-road dose. The lowest dose normally Rxd is 500 mg extended release once per day. The highest dose is 1000 mg twice per day (2000 mg). I was a bit shocked to learn that you were thirsty and losing weight bc of diabetes, that usually doesn't happen until blood sugar is waaaaay out of control, and I expected (and perhaps still expect) to see your dose increased at the next Dr visit. Beyond that, they start adding other, more expen$ive meds like jardiance and januvia.
If it were me, I'd want to get a head's up. But if your doctor can dial in your dosage with two blood tests per year (maybe four, to start out with) and keep an eye on your blood sugar, without having to resort to expensive meds, that could be a whole lot less trouble.
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One of my chronic health conditions is high cholesterol - inherited, I'm afraid. I've been trialed on three different statins, IMHO they were invented by the devil himself, caused so much pain and fatigue I thought I was seriously sick. Now that I've got most of my other issues under control (I hope) I'm trying different dietary interventions, my latest is oat bran, beans, flax seed and red yeast rice. I wish there was a home kit for cholesterol so I could tell if it's doing any good or if I should ditch the idea and try something else.
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Well.... I'm only 4 pills in and the thirst issue is all but gone at this point. I'd reckon I'm down to around 1 gallon of liquid per day from 2.5 gallons, and that's just because I like my watered down coffee.
My weight seems to have stabilized too. I'm weighing in at 148 or slightly above that every time I've stepped on the scale for the last 2 days. And that's including after all the labor and working out I did yesterday. That's a far cry better than the 143 I was weighing in at on Saturday and Sunday.
Also, while I was eating whatever I could scarf down just to try to not lose any more weight, I had the bright idea of buying a pack of chocolate covered cookies at the dollar store and ate the entire 30 count package along with 2 bags of shit food AND my nightly rice/vegetable/burger patty meal on Saturday before gorging myself on about 5lbs of food on Easter (including a lot of sugary desserts which I usually never eat), and then eating a ton of cereal and peanut butter on Monday (the day before I got tested). All of this while eating 1-2 bananas and drinking a lot of whole milk every day as well.
I don't think my issue was nearly as bad as the test results would hav
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