Oy I am under the weather. Sick with a virus and sore throat. Its amazing when I am sick how my legs and feet burn. I wonder why sugar goes up when we are sick.

I hope you are doing the chicken soup and fluid thing.

Got to restore the balance of the body.

And when I get sick (I rarely do but everybody gets SOMETHING at one time or another), I immediately do the AIRBORNE thing.

That stuff is amazing. It's got all the vitamins that give you a boost.

I once had to go to a wedding in two days.

I will never forget this. I came down with a nasty sore throat. I was walking in the street (not feeling good and my throat was killing me).

I walked into a health food store (this was YEARS BEFORE AIRBORNE CAME OUT). I went over to the clerk and said "you've got to help me, I have to go to a wedding in two days, I don't feel good"

He handed me some zinc and C and said "take these". I took one losenge every 4 or 5 hours.

I WENT TO THE WEDDING. My symptoms evaporated.

All in my brain??? Who on earth cares. If the thing does the trick, I let the thing do the trick.


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Check, check, checkin in!!!!!

Hey everyone!! Hope all are having a good day!
I heard from my old doctor today....I do beleive he is very upset that I am changing to a new doctor....he is also trying to soak me for my records...and has let me know that if I do switch doc's I will not be welcome back with him!!! Unbeleivable! I explained to the receptionist that I have been having alot of pain in my legs for the last year and he has not even examined me let alone send me to a specialist. Same doc that forgot that he told me I was well on my way to R.A. 10 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will pop in on the weekend

Wow dorrie I am sorry he is giving you a hard time. Thats just not right.

Anyway I am recovering from my cold/flu thing this week. Sugar is better and burning is down.

Hey all ...checkin in! Glad you are getting better!!Hugs to all!!!!

Hi. I'm kind of new to this forum, I've been in PN, but I thought I would come over here and see what there is to see. I have Glucose intolerane, not severe, so I guess i am a pre-diabetic. I have been taking my meds, and trying to eat right (thats the hard part, as I absolutly love bread/pasta). Does anyone have any tips to make the transition away from eating a lot of bread products? Also, does anyone know which fruits are worse for your sugars than others?

Hi there and welcome.

I'm a controlled diabetic and I completely changed ALL my eating habits. For me (and this is not easy to do), I changed the way I view food. Food is fuel for the body. The body absorbs nutrients from the food and that's how we get our body to function.

You put good stuff in, and (with god's help), everything works).

Sometimes, it's not enough. But in your case, you are obviously not a diabetic yet, right?? And you HAVE asked what you can do, and which fruits to avoid, and which to eat.

I can tell you what I do.

I was obese. I am not any more. First change. I looked at my body, I listened to what my doctors told me. AND I APPLIED IT.

I was a food junkie. I ate the wrong carbs, loads of pasta, the wrong kind of bread, etc.

BAD BAD BAD.

So I began a system of changes. BUT THIS WAS BASED ON HOW I LOOKED AT FOOD.

If you look at food as "wow, this will make me feel great, I'm depressed, this will cheer me up," etc. etc, well, you'll doom yourself.

If you look at food and say: "now how will this benefit my body, my arteries, my heart, my pancreas, etc. etc."

GOOD GOOD GOOD.

Easy to say, this I know. But believe me, if I can do this, (and this did not happen over night), you can do it too.

It's ALL in how we look at what we put into our mouths.

I eat small portions of fruit. I don't eat oranges, or any high glycemic index foods. Just go to yahoo, and type in glycemic index foods. You'll get a list immediately.

I do not EAT ANY RED MEAT. That was based on the advise of my nutritionist. This is not for everyone, this I know.

I eat my veggies. I LOVE BROCCOLI, green stuff. I love this. I imagine it going into my arteries, and clearing them out. My cholesterol at my last test was 160 so I must be doing something right, right?? lol

I have battled diabetes for 20 years. I never took it serious.

I NOW DO.

It's all about breaking habits. Substituting better habits for the bad ones.

I eat fish. I eat salmon. My pancreas loves the fact that I eat Salmon. I get a much better sugar reading when I eat my fish.

I have learned various ways to cook vegetables.

I have made MAJOR CHANGES.

I have no idea how old you are, but I will be 61 on November 4th.

I should have made these changes YEARS ago. But I wasn't ready.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself, believe me, I might not have developed diabetes.

So take what I said, use it, and watch your sugar readings.

Drink lots of water, and you just might have a shot at not developing diabetes.

Hoped I didn't come off as too preachy.

Didn't want to do that.

lol

Melody

Hi, And nope, you don't sound too preachy!

I am 21, and I am not a diabetic (the dr says he can't diagnose me as one, but just in case my PN is coming from my blood sugar he has me on a drug for it.)

Ok, as for veggies I am a big fan, but I just find it hard to get to them... if I have them in a chilli or something it's no problem, but otherwise I get lazy.
Fruit also I am a fan, but I am a bit picky-er. (I'll look up on google about the glycemic index)
Now bread, I used to hate wheat bread (I have a wierd texture thing, and am wicked picky about textures.) But now they make whole wheat bread that I can deal with. I also eat low-carb pasta. (My problem with the pasta I guess. is volume).
And as for fish I can't eat it as I am allergic, but I eat chicken and extremely lean beef on occasion.
I don't eat junk food really (an occasional cookie), and no soda.

Did you go to a nutritionist or did you figure all this stuff out on your own? Is there some way to convert how much sugar is in something into what it will do to your Glucose level?

Thanks for all your help!

Hi. I absolutely went to a nutritionist. Only it was for my husband. I had already made GREAT changes in my cooking and eating, but when my husband had a stent put in, and went to Cardiac Rehab, his doctor said:

"Go to a nutritionist", learn all about saturated fats, mono, trans, this fat and that fat.

We had given up Red meat YEARS AGO, but it never hurts to sit down with a nutritionist and when she shows you a list of low glycemic foods and then you see a list of high glycemic foods, AND RICE CAKES AND POPCORN is on the list of HIGH, well, it just about blew me away, because popcorn has no fat (no salt either if you eat the unsalted freshly popped kind),

I used to be able to have rice cakes with a cup of coffee at night. It really didn't impact my sugar but then I read the labels, and listened to what the nutritionist said.

She addressed everything to me because I'M THE SHOPPER AND COOK in my home, and my husband will eat what you put down in front of him.

He just likes sweet stuff, (he's not a diabetic), and he doesn't use salt on ANYTHING, and I don't cook with it.

So far, our blood pressure is just fine. I get better sugar readings since I followed the advice of my nutritionist.

Honestly, I was the picker of all picker. YEARS ago, I used to sit down in front of the tv EVERY NIGHT, with my bowl of chips, party mix, ding dongs, yankee doodles, dip, you name it, it was on my tray.

I would zone out in front of the tv AND ALL WAS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD.

but all was NOT RIGHT inside my body.

When I changed the way I viewed food, then THERE WAS NO MORE PICKING, NO MORE CHIPS, NO MORE DING DONGS, NO MORE BAD STUFF.

I realized this was all coping mechanisms due to stress. We all have stress and we all have our coping skills.

I just knew that if I didn't want to get sicker, and develop stuff later on in life (we all think we are infallible at your age, believe me, I did). but as we get older, and develop stuff, well, we look back and say "God, if I only could go back to that day when I started self medicating with food (or booze, or ANYTHING that we use to make us feel good).

And I think food is really hard because we need it to exist, and we use it culturally. We sit down around tables with families and we EAT. And god help us if we have a sister or a brother who can eat us under the table and still weigh what they did in high school.

My friend is married to a man who is 65 years young. He weighs 195. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall. Long and Lean. he never stops eating. He eats all night long. He picks all night long.

She goes crazy because she is 5 feet 8 and weighs over 300 and she doesn' eat anything near what he eats.

but he obviously has a faster metabolism than she does.

I dieted for 5 years (from age 54 or so to age 59 or so). I watched EVERYTHING that went into my mouth. I didn't lose that much weight. Oh, yeah, a pound here or there. BUT VERY SLOWLY.

I was also on diabetic meds, and insulin. No one tells you that it's stored in your fat cells. I had to pin down my doctor and ask her "why the heck am I not losing weight with the way I eat". She then admitted how diabetic meds work. I NEVER KNEW.

So I was more determined. I started walking. They lessened my insulin. I was taken off all oral diabetic meds. The weight started to come off.

Honestly, if I was a different person altogether, I just might have given up and said "oh what the heck, and grabbed a ding dong".

But once you change the way your brain views food, you change the way you live.

So you hang in there. You can do it.

Melody