Mon, Dec-29-08, 20:37
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Senior Member
Posts: 357
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Plan: My Own/Atkins
Stats: 500/364/225
BF:
Progress: 49%
Location: Wisconsin
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Talk to a Diabetic and Change Your Mind!
Years ago after my mom (God rest her soul) was found to be diabetic she went the route of the diets her doctors put her on. All of them low fat and sugar but plenty of carbs. She could never figure out why she couldn't keep her blood sugars in control, she ate sugarfree this and that, tried to eat low fat etc to no avail and never felt good again.
Fast forward years later I found I was diabetic! Well after alot of depression, and crying and feeling like s**t everyday I was bound and determined to not go on any pills, to do it myself. Thank you to whatever guided me to pick up an atkins book and read it cover to cover!
After that I got and kept my A1C in the normal range! I am not thin by any stretch of the imagination but my glucose levels are normal and comparing lipid panels with my naturally slender husband who is not diabetic and I am the winner hands down!
Yes you need to exercise, everyone does, but we were made to eat everything including meat!
If I became a vegan I might as well put myself in for an amputation and a insulin pump because my blood sugars would go wild.
I have veggies and fruits but just have to know which ones effect me and which don't and its all trial and error.
Don't foster your vegan ways on us and we wont foster our low carb lives on you.
People that abandoned Atkins when it fell out of favor for the new diet of the day were posers anyway and most likely did not need to be on a low carb diet in the first place!
So yah, talk to a low carbing diabetic and see how it has changed thier lives for the better.
Also being the fattest person in the room doesn't make you the most unhealthy either.
As my grandma would say, stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
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