prediabetics

ilovetheholyland, just checking up on you… how are you doing? How is it all going?

“just curious, did you/do you have the same thing or are you just nice like that?” Look at the diabetes thread for the answer 😉 i struggle with weight too and i know how difficult it is to be fussy (sigh). And yes, i do care in my own little way.

Aries, I have been drinking Glucerna, but I would be interested in the Slim Fast low carb shake you mentioned. Could you find out a) calorie count and b) how many grams of sugar and carbs (before the fiber is deducted)?

I have lost about the same amount as you, and I know how hard that was, so yasher koach.

ilovetheholyland, hey thanks! Not sure what i did to deserve such nice words, but i appreciate it!! I sincerely hope it all works out for you in ALL areas. May the right guy come along QUICKLY and both know you’re for each other. How was this new doctor? It can be so annoying to have to travel far for appointments. i hope it is worth the while!! Keep me posted 😉

How are doing ilovetheholyland? Hoping you’re okay. And btw i also love the holy land!;)

Thank you. It is SO hard to make three dozen latkes and try to avoid eating them. MY kitchen smells incredibly yummy right now. MUST NOT GIVE IN TO MY YETZER HARA!!!!!

Thanks for the chizuk. It is not easy for me, as even when I was watching my weight NOT for diabetic reasons, by eating low-calorie and low-fat healthy foods, I was still eating a lot of fruit, controlled portions of pasta, etc. and I cannot eat much of that now because I have to watch my sugar count. SOOOOOO, I am primarily eating controlled amounts of low glycemic index complex carbs,i.e., sweet potato rather than white potato, brown rice, not white, whole wheat bread (I save my whole wheat consumption for challah on Shabbos, and get 100% whole wheat). These little changes have added up to a BIG change for me. I look better, feel better, the sugar is stablizing, and I can walk much better as well.

I am also drinking plenty of water, eating a lot of salads or steamed green vegetables and low-fat proteins, including plain fat-free Greek yogurt with some fresh blueberries or a little Splenda, chicken, and fish. When you cut down your food intake, after a few weeks, you really cannot eat the way you used to. The body doesn’t want as much food as it used to take in. I am satisfied with much less, and I no longer crave certain food items that were bad for me, like fried chicken or pizza. I really did not believe that would ever happen, but it did. B”H for that.

What helps the most is the support I get from my family and friends who constantly remind me how great I am doing. It gives me tremendous chizuk. I had to do something to prevent myself from succumbing to the various conditions that diabetes can cause. If anyone here is pre-diabetic, please take my words to heart, get checked out by your doctor, and proactively take steps to try to reverse the condition through diet changes and exercise (even just walking every day). Very often it can be done. I am hoping to reverse my actual Type 2 diabetes.

ILTHL – my pleasure; we are all in this together.

Please people!! get off the drugs!!! if its Pre Type 2 and controllable. diet and excercise work ten times better than the drugs. and when you say you made changes those are great, but NO flour at all, and that means shabbos, (until your sugar is really stabalized) take a bite of matza. and no sweet potatoes either. when you get ALL sugar out of your system (even fruit) you can begin to rebound. You can have berries and NO SPLENDA not ever. not today, not a bit, not a taste, it is terrible for you. (get stevia or raw honey. Raw Honey should be your sweetener of choice. and yes you dont wnat to starve so you have to FEED your body with fats, yes you heard me right, fats. Meat and chicken and fish, cooked in good old fashioned shmaltz (made yoruself not with BHT) and olive oil. the fats keep you satieated. dairy fats such as whole milk, cheese and cream, and the biggest fix for prediabetics is to BUILD MUSCLE> you might be wroking out and doing all the wrong things. you need to specifically BUILD MUSCLE> thats your best defense in my opinion. and brisk walking can bring your sugar down faster and better than any drug. (im speaking about metabolic related pre diabetic type 2) now if you have a heridetary predispositon to type 2 you may have more of a battle ahead of you. this advice is if you got your own self into this mess by your food choices. (yes I am one of you!! not judging)

ilovetheholyland! Hey right back!!! how are you doing?? I’m sooo glad you don’t need the surgery!!! And i def. empathize with taking meds, i know how difficult that can be. Do you get side effects from it? What’s the meds for – ? Hope you’re doing okay!!!! Thinking of ya too!

Rc – it must have been very difficult to make all those changes – congrats to you!

ilovetheholyland! How ya doing?!! i’m soo sorry about the side effects, that’s dreadful! Did you manage to talk to your doctor? I know how difficult it can be to have to take a medication and KNOW that you’re going to have side effect ;( 🙁 . Okay, sounds interesting what you don’t want to explain, i hope it gets ALL better REAL quickly.

Thanks!!! I love to write…that’s my way of expression 😉 i hope all goes well, shidduchim and otherwise!

Hey ilovetheholyland! How was your follow up???? Dr pleased with you??? He sure should be! You sound so amazing!!!!

Hey ilovetheholyland!! CONGRATS!!!!!!! I’M SOOOOO PLEASED FOR YOU!!!!!! (and i don’t even know you!) WELLLL DONNNNEE, FANNNNTTTASSSTICC!!!!! keep it up, and take it as encouragement for the future! See, G-d can help out, we can have faith and hope that things will turn out well! (ahhahaha, my turn now to get it in normal range…) I’ve also been “hiding out” as it is, lol. You been thinking of me for any special reason?!

Btw when you going to the holy land next 😉 your username always makes me think of it!

MAZEL TOV!!!!!!!!!