Mrs. D.

Alan has had his last bit of honey. I do thank you for that. He puts it on everything. He has an impulse problem (all formerly obese people still possess the traits that got them obese in the first place).

It's all about replacing bad habits with good habits. I told him "you are not bringing another cereal bar in this house".

Fresh fruits and veggies from now on. Maybe on the weekend, he can have one of my brownies. That's a guilty pleasure, that we all need, and if we don't indulge, then we MIGHT INDULGE EVERY DAY.

That's how I lost my 100 lbs. I'm still losing. Very slowly, but I'll lose.

About stents. I dont' understand this. If they are no good, then why are doctors still doing it.

Oh, I have a question about diabetes. I don't eat after 7 p.m. That's how I've been able to lose weight. Slowly, but I'm 60, and better slow and steady, than to take off 10 lbs and put it right back on.

So here's my question. Sometimes I get up and my sugar is 130. Sometimes 127. ( I can live with his, because it used to be over 265). My a1c is 6.5. They are happy with this.

But why, sometimes is my sugar 160, or 154?? I dont' get this. I eat fish, I eat my veggies. I don't juice fruit (like I do with Alan).

I once did a test. I ate something at 8 p.m. (a small apple)., The next morning my sugar was 118.

Why the heck would it not have gone up.

Does not eating after 7 p.m. make my pancreas work harder and that's why my sugar is over 120 (sometimes).

And if I do my walking for one hour, every day, then the next day my sugar is better. So I understand that exercise is key in this.

I am on 22 of the Lantus. I go to Cornell on May 30th.

During my last visit, (because Alan's nurse had told me never to go to bed without eating something, well, I listened, and at 10 p.m., I would eat a bit of something). Well, that didn't work, and my sugar went up. I went to Cornell and they said "why on earth are you eating at 10 p.m. ? I said 'because someone told me that my sugar will go DOWN at 4 a.m. and I should prevent this by eating a bit of something before bedtime"

They replied: 'You are not that type of diabetic, stop eating at 10 pm.".

I listened, and my sugar got better. I have done this 'not eating after 7 p.m." for two years now, and got my a1c down to 6.5 (from 9.0) when I first began the Cornell Protocol.

I just want to understand why, sometimes, if I don't eat after 7 p.m, my sugar might read 154, and sometimes, if I eat an apple at 8 p.m, my sugar will be 118 the next morning.

I really don't understand this diabetes thing.

I don't eat white stuff. I do occasionally eat one brownie after dinner with a cup of coffee (only on weekends).

Would having a brownie at 6 p.m. with a cup of coffee significantly impact my sugar reading at 8 am. the next morning.

That's a lot of hourse to go without any food in my body. I don't miss it. I don't need it. My sugar does not drop in the middle of the night. I feel fine.

This means I go over 10 hours without eating. Shouldn't my sugar be 100 or so the next morning??

One would think I would by hypoglycemic, but this is not the case.

I tested this theory more than once. I ate the way I normally eat. Protein, veggies, no refined carbs. I ate my dinner (usually broiled salmon or turbot fillet). I then ate something at 8 p.m. (a small apple, some 100 calorie snack thingees).

The next morning my sugar was fine.

Then, I would do the same thing, without the 8 a.m. snack. and bam, the next morning my sugar is 150 or so.

I am not taking the chromium picolinate (I ran out), going to get some today.

This whole diabetes thing is quite confusing.

And don't get me wrong. I know plenty of people who wish they could get their diabetes down to 200 in the morning. They are on insulin, oral meds, they eat fine, and sometimes they go to 400. I know I am not that type of diabetic.

And I do test during the day.

sometimes it's 115.

I wonder, if I changed to taking Lantus at night (like some people I know), would that make a difference??

Thanks if you can make heads or tails about of my diabetes question.

I just want to get up in the morning and see a sugar reading of less than 110.

And I don't want to up my insulin.

I'm thinking. As I continue to lose, (they say if you lose even 10 lbs), your sugar reading gets better)

Oh, and the Methyl B-12 is still WORKING JUST FINE!!!!