Any diabetics using the FB?

[llchevy56]

Wondering if there are any diabetics out there who are using the FB and working towards weight loss?  I'm insulin dependent and trying to lose weight but more importantly trying to regain my health and physical strength while balancing everything.  A challenge a day! Love to hear your stories....

[WillowTheWhisp]

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@Mikey1234 wrote:

Will I become diabetic again?  Absolutely yes, if I go back to my old lifestyle.  Type II is on the rise.  It isn't rising because people all of a sudden are predisposed to diabetes, or genetics.  It's rising because of our lifestyle.  

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Absolutely agree! 

The same applies to anyone not currently diagnosed as diabetic if they live a lifestyle which encourages diabetes then like as not they will become diabetic. They may not even be aware that they are and that could be very dangerous.

By that criteria should we class the whole population as diabetic on the premise that if they do not live  healthy lifestyle they will show all the symptoms of diabetes?

What I'm trying to say is that as far as I see it someone who has developed T2 due to unhealthy lifestyle but then changes their lifestyle and no longer shows diabetic symptoms is no less NON-diabetic than someone who could develop the disorder by living unhealthily but is currrently healthy and living in a way to maintain that health..

[Janrah]

I'll second what has just been said. Maybe this health promotion message should be promoted beyond this forum! It is currently diabetes week here in Australia and whatever little media has been covered has been explicit in this message! 280 day is the theme, and negative media advertising has shown the damage diabetes can do to us if it is not managed!! People with D may not want to see this for many reasons!
Maybe you should work for Diabetes Australia in the health promotion campaign. As for every person who has previously been diagnosed with type2 diabetes, there is another waiting to be diagnosed. As a person with 30yrs T1 it's a constant (but not unreasonable) challenge to keep well and keep the negatives away. I don't believe in cure, but remission may be a possibility with healthy lifestyle & weightloss in some people with T2! Good luck & keep motivated!

[sinch]

While I agree that we all should live a healthy lifestyle to prevent disease, not everyone who lives a poor lifestyle becomes diabetic, although they are considered high risk and also at risk for other health issues.   My husband's whole family eats a very unhealthy diet, including his mother who passed away at 85.  She ate poorly and fed her familyof 7 poorly.  They are all over 50 and none has diabetes.  There's only one who is overweight, but he goes to the doctor regularly, and no diabetes.  I don't understand it but I can't argue with numbers.  I don't think we are going to get people to change their lifestyle anytime in the near future.  It's up to the individual.

[Lightsinger]

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@sinch wrote:

While I agree that we all should live a healthy lifestyle to prevent disease, not everyone who lives a poor lifestyle becomes diabetic, although they are considered high risk and also at risk for other health issues.   My husband's whole family eats a very unhealthy diet, including his mother who passed away at 85.  She ate poorly and fed her familyof 7 poorly.  They are all over 50 and none has diabetes.  There's only one who is overweight, but he goes to the doctor regularly, and no diabetes.  I don't understand it but I can't argue with numbers.  I don't think we are going to get people to change their lifestyle anytime in the near future.  It's up to the individual.

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The simple truth is:  diabetes is not caused by obesity, diabetes contributes to obesity.  For many years, the cart has been put before the horse.  Weight gain can be a symptom of diabetes, not the other way around, which is not to say that diabetes doesn't also appear in people who are not fat.  I have friends who are thin -- and have been all their lives -- but who are diabetic because of the genetic predisposition to it.  One young man that I work with has developed diabetes despite being athletically built and at a good weight, because both parents and all four of his grandparents are diabetic.  The only thing that he did wrong was pick the wrong parents.  He is learning to eat better now, and he's attempting to control his diabetes through diet and exercise, which I have every confidence he will.  Sure there are people who live unhealthy lifestyles who live to be quite old despite all their vices, but what is the quality of that life?  That's what I'm shooting for:  quality of life.

[Elendili]

@Lightsinger  You are so right!  Quality of life is where I am too.  That is what I am working for.  In a way everyone who starts on this journey to get healthy and in shape is looking for a better quality of life.  You don't have to have diabetes to want that.

  Elendili

[JustMike]

Yesterday was a very active day (well, active for this old man!).  Physical therapy (achilles problem) in the morning involved lots of stretches and some mild cardio on a jogging trampoline.  Then a 2 mile walk at lunch.  Then a challenging 90 minutes of vinyasa yoga last night.  The net result was the scale recorded a loss of 2.2 pounds yesterday.  Yes, I know it's all water weight loss that my morning coffee probably has already backfilled.  But seeing that sure was a great way to start a Friday!

Have a good weekend, all!

[jcpoole]

Wow! Proof that exercise is key! Way to go...it is such a good feeling to see those numbers go down. After 3 months of healthy eating and exercise I've lost 21 lbs. All my numbers are lower and within normal ranges (except triglycerides) and my Dr stopped my hydrochlorothiazide and now the scale won't budge! **ahem** water!!

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[Lightsinger]

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@jcpoole wrote:
Wow! Proof that exercise is key! Way to go...it is such a good feeling to see those numbers go down. After 3 months of healthy eating and exercise I've lost 21 lbs. All my numbers are lower and within normal ranges (except triglycerides) and my Dr stopped my hydrochlorothiazide and now the scale won't budge! **ahem** water!!

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

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My doctor just took me off my diuretic, too.  Ugh.  I instantly gained two pounds, but I'm back in line now.  Low sodium has become my new friend.

[PapaStu]

Congratulations and keep it going

[anrento]

Move more, use very low cal foods. I just had puffed rice with egg whites on top. The Puffed rice absorbs the Egg whites. I add slaw for crunchy.

[sinch]

Wow!  I never heard of that.  Are you talking about Puffed Rice Cereal?????

[Lightsinger]

Puffed rice cereal is not something I can have.  Rice in any form, brown, wild, long grain, short grain, cereal, rice cakes, all of it makes my blood glucose go up unacceptable levels.  If you are diabetic, you should probably just have the egg whites without the rice cereal.  Eggs make a great breakfast for diabetics.  Give me a nice veggie and egg frittata any time over any kind of cereal.

[Elendili]

@Lightsinger  I don't eat much rice.  But @anrento that sandwhich sounds good.  Maybe I should try it!

 I eat a lot of nuts and seeds.  No, I'm not vegan!  But I can't eat many grains so nuts and seeds replace my grains.  They are high in fat and protien and low in carbs, but you have to be careful not to eat too much!

Elendili

[dancefoxtrot]

Hey JustMike

coffe dihydrates so it is just passing through. Doing great.

Barb

[anrento]

Yes, Puffed rice, I tried the rice cripies as well but the puffed rice has only 50 calories per cup..

[anrento]

I am prediabetic,I lost 30 lbs and expect my A1c # to be much lower on my next blood test. I track my food on MFP and keep moving. I make sure I don't stay online too long sitting on my butt. I am hopping my lower back pain will stop with a lighter body. My clothes don't fit anymore.  I have some size 14 jeans I am waiiting to fit and I am close.

[dancefoxtrot]

Wow Anrento,

Great progress and I hope your A1c fell dramatically to 5.5!  Isn't it great to get back in clothes that you didn't fit in for a while?  Many MDs want us to have waist lines of less than 35 inches so we don't hold on to that viseral fat that messes with our metabolism.  Reversing pre-diabetes takes a lifetime life style change and you are wise to take it seriously now and stave off diabetes. 

Hope that you love veggies, raw and cooked and lean protein and fresh fruit. Be very careful of white rice, puffed or not, as it turn immediately into sugar. Complex carbs have fiber and the whole grain burns slower and doesn't spike your blood sugar and stimulate insulin as much. Insulin is the fat storage hormone so less refined carbs, smaller waist line, pants fit better and lower A1c score. 

Are you in our Labor Day challenge group as well? 

Enjoy,

Barbara G

[anrento]

Barb, you great at responding to everyone. I have been working hard on this new lifestyle. I have to go for a walk after cleaning my PC getting ready for Win10. Eating away from home is a challenge but I guess the more you do it the better you get. I let myself have some sweet stuff at a party but I have to get back to my serious tracking now that I had the fun. You definitely know the formula to dropping the lbs. My doctor told me I had a kidney stone now this week he tells me I don't. Now I can eat those foods high in Oxalates and many were healthy items: spinach, beans,strawberries,celery.etc.

[anrento]

Barb I know nothing about the Labor day challenge.??

[dancefoxtrot]

Great Anrento,

All those nice healthy foods that you can eat now! Yum. Enjoy. It is important not to take more than 700 mg of Calcium at one time because you don't absorb it and then the kidneys have to get rid of it.  Drink lots of water to stay hydrated.  

One more idea about pre-diabetes. Beware refined carbs and sugar as your pancreas is under great stress now and struggling to cope. By eating a diet that is mostly veggies and lean protein you are letting it heal. 

Check out the ADA.org and drfuhrman.com websites for more info..

You can stop this disease more easily now.

Yours in health,

Barb