I am tired of meds!!!!!!!
I am on Biaxin for whatever is wrong with me now.
I decided the the new med is crap and went back to my metformin and glyberide......my #s are far too high and I need to bring them down I feel like ****!
Hubby and the boys are up north at a friends for fireworks to ring in the new year...Saffire and I are hanging at home...I think we will be naughty and order something off of "the baby channel" and snuggle under the blankies...instead of doing any housework!!!!! Hope everyone else is OK...

Dorrie:

Maybe I can help you reduce those numbers. I found out that eating plain yogurt DRAMATICALLY reduces my sugar readings. I mean really really reduces.

As long as I eat a cup of Fage yogurt, I am good to go (and I mean that literally). It has friendly bacteria and it's just plain good for you.

Now I don't know if we've discussed this before, and maybe you don't like the taste of yogurt, but honestly, with those numbers, YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO LIKE IT!!! lol

I love Fage plain. Zero fat. It tastes like sour cream. It took me some while to not make a face when I put it in my mouth. But now I can't imagine not eating it. My body LOVES yogurt.

It loves it so much, I am now bidding on a yogurt maker on ebay.

I'll be making my own homemade yogurt from now on. Buying it is much too expensive and since the people at Cornell are the ones who told me to eat Fage, well, they seem to know their stuff.

Thankfully, I do love it. But at $2.00 a pop, well, I'm glad I can make this in my kitchen.

That, and my sprouts, well, I'm in heaven.

I feel like I'm turning into an Amish Farm Wife.

lol

Melody

Hi Melody!! I am glad that I decided to go back to the old meds....would you believe I saw a 117 reading today....I feel cooler, a little more energenic, and content with the reading for now. It has not been that low in so long. I only took a quarter of a pill rather than a half. I am monitering my numbers closely though...do not want to bottom out!!!!!

Thank you for being here for me Melody..I really do appreciate you!! Happy New Year, my friend!!!!

117!!! FANTASTIC.

no wonder you are jumping for joy!!! lol

I know how I get when I see the meter and it says

94!!!

I remember the days when it wouldn't go under 265 (that's because I was stupid way back then and I had an even stupider (is that a word?), well I had a stupider doctor who told me

"Maybe your sugar is supposed to be 265".

Good Lord.

how where you taking the cinnamin?
have you tried curcumin?
d chiro inositol? think that is right....ask mrsd....

Take a look at this!!! Just got this off of the internet!!
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D-Chiro Inositol

Another naturally occurring form of inositol is d-chiro-inositol, which has been found to have activity against insulin resistance. However, d-chiro-inositol is not commercially available either as a drug or as a supplement.

It is found in legumes and especially in buckwheat. Consumption of buckwheat concentrate appears to reduce excessively high blood sugar levels and reduce the excretion of d-chiro-inositol in diabetic rats."


Guess what Melody started eating last week (besides my yogurt). BUCKWHEAT GROATS!!

I thought I could sprout them, but I found out they were of a toasted variety and had to be cooked. Another name for them is Kasha.

Well!! easy as pie. I cooked them in Swanson's Organic Vegetable Stock. You can add some bow-tie macaroni or any thing you want. Or eat it plain.

My numbers reflected the change.

The buckwheat works.

Hey, it's buckwheat. It has d-chiro-inositol.

can't hurt.

This is a brand new year.

Let's all get us some brand new LOWER blood sugar numbers!!!

Okay?????????????????
lol

Melody

Ok Sprout Lady...how do I do this?? I wanna give it a go!!
Do I buy the beans from the grocery store in the bags...like pinto, kidney, lima, white, black etc?? What do I do then...gotta start out a little small I do not have alot of room!!

Okay, here's the first step.

Anything you buy in a grocery store (unless it's labeled organic), it will have been exposed to pesticides. So don't go there.

Buy a bag of any organic bean, seed, anything that can be sprouted.

Just know that after you sprout beans, you should sautee them (or add them to soups). They might have a natural toxin. This just applies to beans (especially kidney beans). So I don't do kidney beans.

The beans I do sprout are black turtle beans. I supposed I'll get to other beans later.

Today I made a home-made soup with all my sprouts.

I had sprouted lentils, green peas and black turtle beans (all in the same jar, it's just easier.)

So to start off with, get some organic anything. Put in a glass jar, put water up to half of the jar. Soak over night.

Next day, drain off ALL THE WATER. You don't want the seeds/beans WET. You want to drain well!!

do this for 4 to 5 days. Rinsing and draining twice a day if you can manage.


after 3 days you will see the little sprouts.

If you do any kind of beans, put them in a nice broth, add some carrots, simmer, and you'll love this.

If you sprouts seeds, give 5 or so days, and add them to your salad. it really is fun.

Melody

P.S. Buy some buckwheat groats. Follow directions. it's good for diabetes. I told you this in a previous post.

P.P.S. I just bought a rack, put it together and it HAS ALL MY SPROUT JARS ON IT.

Take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl0Gh3oSOio

So they do not have to be kept in the fridge??

NOTHING IS PUT IN THE FRIDGE until they have finished sprouting. Then you make sure they are nice and dry (whatever they are, be it beans, seeds, ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE SPROUTED)

You only put it in the fridge when you are finished sprouting. Then you get a nice bowl, put in the sprouts (or beans, legumes, whatever), and cover them.

Many of them last up to 2 weeks. But believe me, you'll add them to your salads and soups, or stews, so they go fast.

Today, I put the quinoa sprouts into my soup. along with the lentils, green peas and black turtle beans. I'm thinking "lots of good protein in this soup".

I made some Dreamfield's pasta. I broke them up into smaller pieces.

Cook em up. Add them to a nice piping hot cup of this soup, and you'll have a hearty lunch. For dinner tonight, Alan will have a bowl of soup, with a sweet potato and a side of buckwheat.

I feel like I'm living "LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE"

lol