August 21, 2004

Controlling Diabetes with Diet

To lose weight, you have to cut calories and fat. To help blood sugar stay under control, you cut carbs and sugar. I have early kidney disease from diabetes, so you have to cut protein. What else is left? I can only exercise if my blood sugar is between 90-150, and only with a meter, insulin, glucose gel and water, under doctor's supervision. If I go in to ketoacidosis, they tell me to eat more fat, but still lose weight, while not exercising. ARGH! anyone else feel confused???

Do you have any idea what just cutting carbs and sugars out of your diet entails? I love carrots. Healthy, right? Wrong. They have lots of sugar! I still eat them, I just have to take more insulin to eat them. Breads, carbs, sugars, even natural sugars, some medicines, stress, even excitement, infections...all raise my blood sugar.

The message I'm getting from doctors is : Don't eat, and Don't exercise. Don't be happy, but don't be said either. Live in a germ-free environment.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
~Laurence J. Peter

Posted by HeatherLeigh on August 21, 2004 01:23 AM