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Originally Posted by dancinbr
So we have hope and that is terrific.
Keep any one meal under 20 grams of carbs for me and I don't really need any bolus insulin (Novolog).
But I am better off today because of the knowledge and discussions we share here constantly.
Cajunboy47 tried like heck to get me to use herbs and be faithful to my low carb.
But I wanted better given the circumstances of my habits good or bad and the desire to lower my BFG and BG under 100 and maybe get my A1C under 5.0 and emulate "normal" as much as possible.
Again, as I look back at what I am writing in this post, all this knowledge, experimenting, improvement in lifestyle is all a result of sharing all kinds of information here, reading Dr. B's book, etc. and all of your kind support.
Can I do better; certainly.
Both this surgeon and the cardiologist I am now seeing talk in terms of me reversing my disease (again Type 2) if I get probably 70 pounds off and soon since I am still early into this journey as a diabetic. I countered back to them that Phase I response is gone.
Now, to get the weight off.
Ralph
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Ralph,
Perhaps, now you'll say I'm not so kind, but I'm not only concerned how you're doing today, but how you'll be doing tomorrow. So, I'll HOPE you understand my truest meaning and not feel offended or attacked.
When I am reading your writings; I see a man who knows he eats too many carbs. This wise man learned that he can take insulin to control BG and still eat excessive carbs and "emulate" normal BG levels in this way.... But, their must be an inner voice inside this man that tells him, controlling BG is not enough, because he has concluded he needs to lose the weight. This man at some level, realizes that carbohydrates is his enemy, but his desire to consume these carbohydrates is stronger than his desire to control the intake of them. So, this man chooses what he sees as a way out of his dilemna, "lap-band surgery"......
Ralph, I didn't have as many pounds to shed, but I share your problems with carbs... I love them too................ In my beginning, I didn't realize what I know now and I'll share this with you. At one level, I know you already know this, but if you can learn it at the level at which it really counts, you'll take my words to heart and a true change can take place within you that might help you in your fight with those damn carbs that we so love and hate....
Cutting out all carbs will accelerate weight loss. At some point, enough weight loss allows a person to feel better, then a person feels like doing more regular exercise and then more weight loss can occur. It is like taking a downward spiral and turning it upside down to spiral things upward for a change......
After sufficient weight loss, either the pancreas starts producing sufficient insulin, or the body starts using the insulin more efficiently. All of a sudden, you can enjoy many of the carbs that once gave you trouble.
I shouldn't say this, as it might make others go on a carb binge, but my last A1c was a 5.4, but truthfully, I think on most days my carbs were about 35%, never less than 30% and on about 1/5th of those days, I might have consumed as much as 60% carbs......... I didn't take as many herbs as I used to take and I didn't take them with any degree of regularity. As a matter of fact, my wife tells me the herbs are more effective if taken 30 minutes before I eat and in the last 6 months, I don't think I took the herbs once before I ate a meal......
I'm not walking around as a thin man yet.... I am currently weighing 165, 10 pounds over my goal weight, but guess what? I realize that when I was young and weighed 155, I had a lot more muscle. Now, most likely, I need to get my weight down to about 145 to lose all the fat, so I'm most likely walking around with an extra 20 pounds of fat while having my carb/bg story to talk about.....
Removing carbs is not a forever thing. Something happened for me in my metabolism, something totally different from before. I can't prove anything about what exactly did it. I just know it can be done, because I did it....
My concern for you is that after a lap-band surgery, even though you know you need to still change your diet to be successful at weight loss and BG control, is that the surgery will leave you feeling like you're now having to battle with another problem and the current one still won't be resolved.
In my beginning to change things, I felt so overwhelmed by diabetes. I started taking it a day at a time, losing my anxiety and thoughts about the future. I took it a meal at a time. I lost about 20+ pounds in about a 2 year period before going to China, then I lost 30+ pounds in just 4 months while in China. If something isn't working, change it! I suppose that along with hope, that was my driving force. The way I was doing it was not working for me like I wanted.
For me, my wife's changing my diet completely from anything I've read or tried turned my life around. Herbs turned my diabetes around also. Exercise turned my diabetes around.
Anyway, I know you've considered all these things. All I ask is that while you wait for your surgery, try going carbless, try taking herbs, try different things.... Read what I quoted you as writing. Your own words speak very loudly to what I am trying to convey to you....
I care about you man!
Ron