Diabetic Recipes
ansy
I was planning on writing a weekly diet update, but I never did get around to it. Now, I'm at the semi-end of the diet so it's kind of pointless. But I’ll throw my thoughts out there anyway.
The first two weeks went alright. I had many, many lows but finally I got my basals and work outs adjusted so that I was having a normal amount of lows for my body. The third week, I hit a major bump in the road.
If you remember, my blood sugars started doing crazy things. The diet stayed the same roughly and I kept increasing my basals. Nothing changed.
After five or six days of that, I got a stomach bug. My blood sugars stayed between 120 and 200 with careful basal changes and lots of finger pricks. (Sick days are so much easier on the pump.) But the stomach thing left me feeling pretty nasty and unable to eat.
I wasn't eating more than about 20 carbs. Eventually, I forced myself to eat after about forty-eight hours. But I didn't restrict myself to the diet. I figured that I hadn't eaten in days, why should I make my food unappealing and not so easy on the stomach?
It's now been six days and I'm not following the diet still. I've slowly put more diet foods back into my life than non-diet foods, but it's still painfully obvious that I am not eating what I should be eating (like the piece of cake I just enjoyed).
On top of not eating the right foods, being sick threw all my medicines off so I've only just resumed all of them today. Not so great, but at least we’re getting that back on track.
Tuesday would have been the end of my diet, but now I'm going to move that deadline out another two weeks. The diet won't be as harsh as it was before just because I want to enjoy my summer eating delicious foods instead of salad and rice all the time (these are delicious as well but get old after you eat them everyday for three weeks straight). I'll resume all my medicines and stick with them until a month or two after the diet ends.
At that point, I feel that my body would have had plenty of time to rid itself of toxic yeast. And hopefully, my A1c will reflect the better blood sugars than these past ten days of turmoil.
If it makes you feel any better, I am pretty sure I would almost die too if I was only eating salad and rice......rice to me has the same effect as drinking a coke...Hopefully you are feeling better.
Keep Going..........Peace, Bob
HAHA! Thank you SOOO much for this!
A friend of mine did one of those yeast-cleanse-type things seven or eight years ago to conquer chronic fatigue syndrome. She said it had to be followed extremely strictly for the entire course, because if one doesn't, it gives a foothold for the yeast to continue growing. She said it was extremely difficult, but it was something she felt she had to do for her health (and it worked for her). OTOH, she was about 60 years old at the time and did NOT have diabetes.
Yea, I have to say that being diabetic adds a whole new feature into a yeast free diet. And being on insulin adds another whole new feature. It's been crazy. It does need to be followed strictly, but unfortunately I'm not able to do that. So I've revamped the diet. I'm on several yeast ridding pills so that is a great help when I'm not following the diet so strictly.
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I sympathize. This month I've had an autoimmune flare up and have been out of control. I know a sick day can raise sugars, but this is chronic. I tried increasing my long acting insulin but finally had to just cut the carbs. Any other ideas?
I definitely understand having chronic health issues that affect the diabetes. I've been dealing with that for two years now, it's not fun to say the least. Increase your long acting again is my suggestion. I know that's what I have to do...just keep raising it until you see the numbers dropping. Don't give up hope. I promise we'll all make it.