Wow, Great Blood Sugars
Just a few days ago , I was worried that I had insulin in my near future because I was getting too many over 200 blood sugar readings. Since then, I’ve had two low blood sugars. Yesterday it was about to crash but I headed it off so I could walk. This morning I wake up with my blood sugar at 99. That’s fantastic!
I haven’t changed that much, renewed commitment to walking more but I was doing better than I thought. I have a pedometer. I had not
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downloaded its data into my computer for a while but when I did, I had averaged a mile a day for February. I’ve increased it to 1.5 miles now, maybe not an average but I try to walk that much per day. I need to get my walks back up to 2 miles in order to average 1.5. I think I’ll go on one my extra long routes today, depending on how the weather goes. That is, it doesn’t rain. It is also pretty much the hottest part of the year right now.
I had already cut back on what I was eating a month ago. Next month I’m going to eat more fish. We’ve already bought groceries this month and the budget is tight since I want to go to Bantayan Island again and not worry much about what I spend when I get there. We’ll do more budgeted visits in the future. It may end up costing me less this time around as I know now to spend less money by eating at the market. However, I’m planning on hanging out at the floating restaurant a lot more. I’m also planning to hang out on a board with a sail, to do some wind surfing. Oh man that’s gonna hurt the next day. LOL
I just wanted to give everyone an update on me, the subject of this website. :) I had this domain for years before I put it into use. Maybe ten years. Don’t know why I kept putting off posting about such an awesome subject. ME! LOL I jest. I’m just a guy, a guy that is rather introspective but I’m just an average Joe.
I have my limitations, that I struggle with and try to overcome. With some success. With some wrong choices. With some choices a bit in the middle. I think it is important to repeat something I’ve said many times before. There are not many 60 year old fat people. I’ve got to get this weight off or I’m going to die sooner rather than later.
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You are right about the fact that there are not many fat 60 year olds. I am 61 and not overweight but believe me, my knees are starting to crack as I walk up the stairs. Not that it hurts but just the sound of it is enough to spook me.
Chances are that if you stay overweight, your knees & ankles will cave in and your walking may have to be terminated.
Swimming for exercice may be the last choice left.
Just walking every day 20-30 min per day is great but you MUST lose weight as well.
Yes, I know, it is no fun to be hungry.
I wish it was as simple as being hungry. Its not.
I’ve had bursitis since I was 15. Not really something you’d expect in a child. Most people are not wearing away the protective cushions in between their bones at 15 years old.
I use to go to a therapist that I was quite fond of. She use to talk like a lot of you folks and it was the only thing I didn’t like about her. I just have to let you guys be wrong and attempt to educate you. Finally I started seeing a doctor that was a friend of hers. After they discussed me, my therapist had a new understanding. On a side note, soon as I got rid of the X2 (soon as I converted the second wife into second X wife) therapist cut me loose, said I didn’t need her now. LOL
In my thirties, I use to see a nutritionist once a week or once every two weeks and even she said that something was not right with me. Regardless of what the doctors said, my body was not behaving normally. I was on a 1600 calorie a day diet and walking a mile a day and STILL did not loose weight.
If I hadn’t taken massive doses of Prednisone in my 30s, I wouldn’t have made it to my forties. Prednisone does things to your body, it damages your muslces. They become cushioniod and mine have. This means I cannot build a lot of new mitochondria which are the power houses of a cell. This is how you increase metabolism. Even an old hateful doctor told me that was probably not in the cards for me and he said that five years ago. Prednisone also decreases testosterone which helps builds muscles and mine has been low for years.
You also can’t live to 60 if you don’t make it to 40.
About half my day is spent toward working toward improved health, in part because I’m hungry all t he time and fighting eating. Look where it got me yesterday, nearly in the hospital. I’ve never had low blood sugar before where my heart had to start beating hard just to keep me conscious. That was serious stuff, what caused it? Me trying to loose weight.
Its nice that some of you are healthy. My bones have been popping since my 30′s. My hips have severe pain when I walk yet I walk on average 1.5 miles per day. And I do walk aerobic. I use a pedometer, it does really register all the aerobic time because it doesn’t know when I’m walking up a hill. It only bases it on a rate of speed and time. Ten minutes at a certain speed equals the beginning of aerobic time. I usually get in about 30 minutes of aerobic time. I often walk for an hour.
I would agree with you guy but then we’d both be wrong. It may not be possible for me to loose weight, if it is not possible there is no point in putting myself down. All I can do is try. Which I’m doing. That I have dropped two diabetic meds in the last year really is quite impressive.
O.K. Rusty
Now I understand better your situation. You have all my sympathy.
Hopefully you understand me when I write a reply; usually all my comments are positive to neutral. I am always carefull in that regard; it is so easy to hurt a person with an abrasive comment.
By the way, do you like swimming?
Hey Robert, Ii appreciate that, my purpose is to educate people while I also document my life. That is what this website is about. :) ME. Welcome to me lol
Well all the things I can print. Actually, I can print anything but … oh well… I guess I’ve learned to keep my mouth a bit more shut. Well maybe, we’ll see. LOL
I was not upset with anything you said.
Yes, I need to loose weight but no one is more obsessed with that than I am. I’m having a blast in my fifties. I am absolutely living in a wonderful place and I want to stay.
Swimming is cool but I’m low on funds so I’ve not joined any of the beach clubs yet. Its high on my list to do. I’m not crazy about swimming around Bogo or any other larger city. Bogo City has won wards three years in a row for being the cleanest and greenest in the Philippines but sadly the water is not clean. Pretty hard for one town to do much about that. Its gotta be a national and world wide thing.
I know swimming burns more calories and is easier on the joints but walking exercises the whole body too. What I need is an indoor pool, haven’t seen any of those around here.
San Remigio has scuba lessons, I want to join there, I may just have to get a lower down membership than the one I really want. :)
A little education, no one with a chronic illness wants to hear the word sympathy. Empathy is okay, like many things in life, its hard to fully understand until you hear the words “you have lupus but we don’t believe you have the killing kind.”
Main thing is, you’re making the most of your life now, shame you did not come over 20 years ago! Will post more soon.
True! But I wouldn’t have a pension 20 years ago. :)
Went out last night, had beer and bbq and a cigar and Filipina and my blood sugar is 135. Gonna stay home tonight though, not gonna push my luck.
mmm,135 doesn’t mean anything to me. I should really get a conversion table. You are talking in mg/DL, whereas I’m used to mmol/L. I looked it up why US and UK/Australia are having different systems of BGLs (blood glucose levels) readings. mmo/L is the world standard unit for measuring glucose in the blood. Specifically, it is the designated SI (Systeme International) unit. World standard of course means that mmol/L is used everywhere in the world except the US. A mole is about 6*10^23 molecules. If you want more details, take up a chemistry course LOL! mg/dl (milligrams/deciliter) is the tradional unit for measuring BGLs. All scientific journals are moving quickly toward using mmol/L exclusively-and I can say not soon enough!. So to convert mg/dl, to mmol/L, just divide your readings by 18 or multiply by 0.055. So 135mg/dl (US) is = to 7.5mmol/L ( Australia and rest of the world). Nothing wrong with that reading. You should backtrack and record what you’ve done right for that day.
I’ll post a full conversion table later under Health as you suggested. Hope I haven’t got other member’s head spinning with this thread!
Normal range for the system I use is 70 to 120 200 is bad but its going to happen sometimes after eating for a diabetic. So 135 is pretty good.
>>>>>Went out last night, had beer and bbq and a cigar <<<<<<<<
And you wonder why you can’t loose weight? Carbs and fat mixed with lots of sugar.
This is not “being rude” as you put it, just trying to point out to you where you are going wrong with your weight loss program.
I made a long post about constructive ways to loose weight by exercise and diet and you deleted it because it goes against what you want to believe. There were no “attacks” in it, just a frank discussion. A discussion if you would look at a little closer that might just help you get some weight off.
You want everyone to agree with you. I’m not “putting anyone down” I just can’t sit back and watch someone use pretzel logic and bad information especially when it comes to health.
Walking 1 mile in 1 hour is not aerobic. Coming back from the walk and consuming sugar, fat and carbohydrates is canceling out any positive effects from the exercise. And you complain about always being hungry, I tried to point out to you that once again it’s your diet, just make some changes and the hunger goes away and makes losing weight more manageable, but you deleted that. Foods like Spam (high fat and sugar) Macaroni and cheese (sugar and carbohydrates) milk (sugar) bread (carbohydrates and sugar) beer (high carbohydrates) are extremely bad for anyone trying to loose weight.
Exercise and diet take determination and will power. I have spent my entire adult life battling weight and have managed to keep it off. My family has a background of diabetes and I’m determined to keep it away.
So the comment about “you’re own worst enemy” Et tu, Brute?
I restored your post Mike. Its well written. You are extremely rude, the comments I get in private confirm that.
Oh and your wrong about the meaning of morbid obesity. It does not mean extremely overweight. It means overweight to the point it may cause death.
I don’t have my medical books online, but this is a good explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity
Use the formula and work out your BMI.
You know Rus? Memphis Belle is actually right. I still think it’s nobody’s business if you are trying to commit the slower form of suicide, but hey, this site will not be the same without you. It will probably die with you.
Hello Mike
I think you do not undrstand the degree of Rusty’s illness complexity.
He says himself that if the only issue would be a proper diet and exercise he wouldn’t be in the shape he is and I do believe he is saying the truth… I see no reason why he wouldn’t.
You or me giving him advices doesn’t do him any good; he seem to know all that.
I understood it and that is good enough for me.
He seem to be very well informed about health issues, all you have to do is read his numerous explanations.
Robert, I appreciate the support, I have improved my diet. I’m working on improving it more but its just not human to get it perfect. Most of us need to splurge and break the rules from time to time. Even dietitians say so.
Mostly, I consider food to be poison which my doctors and nurses will fuss at me for, I figure because they see so many people with eating disorders. I try to point out to them that I don’t have that problem. LOL Actually, I probably do have a kind of eating disorder. Just not bulimia or anorexia.
I do not eat enough to be 100 pounds over weight but here I am. The thing is I’m doing better. Being able to drop two diabetes medications and now I’ve reduced a third and I woke up with a normal blood sugar of 120 this am! Woot! I wouldn’t be doing that if I were not doing some things right!
When you stop and consider two years ago I was getting no blood sugars below 200 I think I have earned a few kudos. Do I have it perfect. No. Should I ever drink a beer? No. Oh well, I’m going to have a few a week. Or maybe I’ll have to lay off them for a couple of months to get that 20 pounds back off. I gained all this weight drinking nothing. I almost never drank until six months ago. And now I am a very light drinker. My stomach can’t take a lot of alcohol, I’ll get sick from that.
Advice isn’t so bad, I could use that but to think I’m going to be able to change 100%, not realistic.
I would do nearly anything to be able to eat things that most other eat. If I could stand carrots, I’d eat nothing but them for a week. Okay so I might turn slightly orange but I’d sure reduce my calories a lot.
Next month I’m going to more of a fish diet. That will be extremely helpful. Jessie likes her chocolate and ice cream, I’m doing better at refusing even small amounts. Actually, I’m doing perfect on that. I succumb to temptation some, which is okay, I can sum but then I started doing it too much. So I’ve just cut myself off again.
This freaking chocolate covered bread they have here is insane. LOL I haven’t had any in a month.
I go through periods were I do it next to perfect within the limitations of my fouled up sense of smell. I guess its fouled up, that is usually mm problem with the food most people eat that literally make me puke.
Its a struggle. I know big people that don’t care, they are going to eat what they want and be non-repentant about it. And they do it every day. The have decided that is what they want to do.
I don’t think I’ll even mention Mike again. I also doubt he’ll be back now that I told him he could post. The guys not even in Manila, he’s in New Jersey. He’s not who he holds himself out to be. He’s got issues. I can take criticism but if someone attacks me they best be ready to take it because I can find weaknesses in someone that they themselves don’t know they have. Mike is all about seeking attention.
Its a shame really, he writes well but its pretty obvious he is socially inept. He makes me look like an expert in social skills and that just ain’t so. He needs to rest his “mouth” and exercise his social skills. Starting with not being someone he’s not.
If others want to communicate with him, that’s fine. I decided that I will allow him to present his dissenting opinion as long as he doesn’t insult anyone other than me.
I’m trying to follow the philosophy of a guy that lived just north of me. He name was Skip. He owned or ran Skip’s resort just north of me. He died last year, I think from complications of diabetes but I don’t know. His motto was “I love you, and there’s not a [dang] think you can do about it.” I don’t have that attitude mastered yet but I’m working on it. :)
Did you or Jessie ever try to make your own yogurt?
When I was living on an out-island in the Bahamas I used to make my own yogurt from powdered milk.
It is really delicious and very easy to make in tropics.
As a matter of fact, every day I eat one portion of yogurt in the morning and plenty of fruits during the day.
Some knowledgeable people even believe that it lowers blood sugar level.
http://www.drmirkin.com/diabetes/9331.html
Soy yogurt (I have never eaten soy yogurt).
http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/blog/Amy_Campbell/Diabetes_and_Dairy_Soy_Yogurt_As_Good_as_Insulin
Look through GOOGLE and you will see numerous links.
I don’t think there are any good fruits for a diabetic. Lots of sugar usually.
Yougart has never appealed to me. It would be unlikely that it would be a wise choice for me. It is expensive and not very filling unless it has some strange properties after eaten. I think it would just make me more hungry if I did like it.
its basically bacteria in a cup. :)
thankks ffor the try. Fish will further improve my situation.
I agree with you, fish is probably better for your situation. I’ve eaten soy yogurt, you can still taste that tofu aroma. Tofu ice cream is not too bad, but I don’t think you can buy it in PI. Besides, being ice cream, it will have more sugar and fat.
Wow Christine,… you like soy ice cream !!!???
This coming summer I must try it as well.
Right now, it is the maple syrop season. It is amazing how Canadians don’t get tired of it. Year after year we gulp gallons of that stuff.
Despite living up-north, one of my favourite fruits is Papaya sprinkled with lime. Very expensive here, but so good.
This said, fish is god’s food Rusty, and if you can buy it fresh you have the best.
Geesh gallons of maple syrup, that’s just wrong to say around me. Its right up there with Cheese, my favourite good group with bread and mean coming in close behind. :)
Man I miss french toast, probably be 15 years or close to it. last time I had it it made me feel so bad there was justs no point any more. That’s the way most really good foods are. I can have something sugary rarely but it doesn’t take much of a pattern of it before it becomes like poison to me.
I use sugar free candy to lp curb my eating. I think I’ve been drinking too much coke. I’m drinking coke zero of course but is it full off sodium or other bad things? You look at the label and it looks okay as it is all zero on nutrition. Jessie says its why I’ve stopped loosing.
Are the sugar free cokes a problem? I wasn’t drinking many the first few months I was here but boy was I craving them.
Fish will be the main menu next month. I just need to find something that doesn’t take me an hour to eat.
I tried a new restaurant last night. I got sizzling hawaiian pork chop, it was awesome. The place is about as expensive as the Pizza Pub but it felt a lot healthier. I’m going to cut back on what I eat at the BBQ too.
Right now, I just finished some popcorn, great for dieting but I’m so hungry I don’t think I can go to sleep so I’ve gotta have some fat free milk.
I’ve been keeping with my walking, it got cut short today though as it started to rain. Would have been two miles. I try to walk two days and then take a day off. Besides Jessie I now have other two girls going with me. Gotta keep my kano reputation up, you know?
My blood sugars are doing excellent. 120 to 115…. 120 is upper end of high but normal. Those are my fasting before meds. After those low spells I was taking it a lot over the last week. They’ve been really good. With diabetes, you can really eat anything, its about how much of you eat.
Sugar is going to go up after eating but I’m returning to normal or nar normal soon after.
I tried to wait for the rain to quit today but finally gave up and got that tricycle home. :)
Got some pictures of an awesome rainbow the other day, don’t know if they will come out. They are going to need some work in the darkroom. Hope it works.
You have 2 other girls going with you? You should really put those knives away before bed!
I’m not that fond of any ice cream, I bought the soy ice cream one time because it’s supposed to be good for you. Just be careful how much to eat though. Soy contains small amounts of oestrogen, that’s why they advise post-menopausal women to drink soy milk to try and help with the menopausal symptoms. Now if you are going to consume a fair bit of soy and you’re a man, you could find yourself growing man boobs-LOL!
LOL @ Christine. its only walking. Both are closer to Jessie than myself though one is very flirty with me. The other rather friendly. I’m happy too finally make some Filipino friends that see me for something MORE than a dollar sign. I don’t mind it being partly for that. I’m learning that having Filipino friends that I can work WITH can be productive for both of us. That is me and the FiLipino.
Christine, what about my cokes, the bad for me? How could they be, there all zeros LOL
Fat grows man–boobs too a nd they are cross if you ask me. I would rather be nude from the waste down than the waste up. GROSS!
I really could use a dancing nurse taking care of me. :P
The problem with diet soda, and more importantly ANY carbonated beverage is the phosporus, and phosphoric acid. Every carbonated beverage, diet or regular, contains phosphoric acid which is known to deplete the bones of calcium. This is a major risk factor for osteoporosis. Caffeine of any form, diet coke or normal coke or coffee depletes calcium. Caffeine always dehydrates the body which means if you don’t drink tons of water then you body is in water storage mode where it thinks there’s a drought and it stores extra water in your body since it doesn’t know when it’s going to get enough fresh water. The sodium in coke also helps you store more water in your body.
The caffiene restricts your blood vessels while upping your heart rate so if you appear to be a little high in blood pressure this can be the cause. Also this can be the cause of many headaches when you go too long without it. Getting off caffeine takes a little time but your blood vessels will get better,your water (if you go to drinking just water, 2.5 liters atleast per day) weight will drop… and overall you’ll feel a lot better as well.
And the bad new is, diet coke contains aspartame. Aspartame/Nutrasweet (aspartylphenylalanine-methyl-ester) breaks down to its poison constituents at 86 degrees (Aspartic Acid 40%, Phenylalanine 50%, and Methanol 10%). Remember your stomach is at 98.6 degrees! Therefore you should never usAspartame/
Nutrasweet in hot beverages or cooked foods. How the FDA allows this remains a mystery. There is mounting evidence that the “Burning Mouth Syndrome” experienced by the Desert Storm troops was actually Methanol poisoning from the Diet Coke they drank lots of, after being exposed to desert temperatures.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet’s 10% Methanol appears in the body quickly and is the same alcohol (wood alcohol also in lacquer thinner), that your mother correctly warned you could make you blind. Many skid-row alcoholics had major problems with this cheap but deadly form of alcohol. Aspartame/Nutrasweet’s 40% Aspartic Acid is an “excitotoxin” in the brain and excites neurons to death, i.e. it kills brain cells and causes other nerve damage.
Sorry to give you the bad news but you did asked!
..and stop wishing for the “dancin’ nurse” to look after you. She will considerably shorten your life. She will only put you on a strict diet of; low salt, no fat, no sugar, no carbs, no meat, and definitely no diet sodas and a strict exercise regime. You will end up so stress you’d wish you’d rather be dead!
You could try to put me on such a diet.
I don’t think you know what your dealing with.
You see the wall next to you, its easier to move that than to change my mind from what I know I’m going to do. Women have tried and they have become frustrated quickly. :) I would be dead from what you described and you would change your mind after watching me gag.
Okay so what’s bad with the diet sodas? I’m all ears. I have a LOT of trouble waking up, maybe it would be better for me to have one cup of coffee instead of 1.5 liters of coke. Coffee gives me a lot of problems with my stomach or gall bladder or something. I’ve had a lot of problems with my gall balder but the docs don’t find any reason for it. I think it has to do with the inflammation from lupus or Scleroderma. I once went in and ask them to just take it out, I don’t want it any more. They did all kind of studies and I had to relent after all that and still nothing. :( it didn’t behave normally but nothing to make them know it neeed to be removed. Sometimes they can’t get it to show up at all. One time they me something to make it expand or fill or someting. they got very worried, called in the doctor but just before he got there what ever was bothering them cleared up. The nurse was stressed, very stressed! I never really got a clear story from them on what happened.
And I’ll never stop wishing for a harem even if I know its a crazy idea. One territorial female is enough. I can’t imagine dealing with eight of them. LOL
Oh and already walking 2 miles a day, I walk for two to three days and then take a day off. I have a tendency to do too much and then get sick from it.
I’m beginning to realize just how deeply the death of George distressed me. I stopped walking, I started wating too much bread, way too much. I think I was more depressed than I realized, something that has plagued me, now I’m just fighting it so it didn’t show through so much. looking back, I’m pretty sure that since July 28th, when he was killed, I can see it had a very negative impact in me.
I’m worried now, looks like I’m going to be getting off effexor, not by choice. i’ve tried very hard to get it just no luck. I may be able to get it next month. Hopefully but I’m cuttng my dose now to prepare for stopping it. I hate depression, its probably the true silent killer as you can be without known it.
You know we don’t use a lot of Efexor anymore for depression. The “in-thing” at them moment is Citalopram, Escitalopram and Seroquel. Seroquel is actually authorized to be prescribed for schizophrenia but it is very good as a mood stabilizer, especially for someone who has the tendency to be depressed. Can you get generic Efexor?
I”ve posted another article on health, but it’s been nearly 3 days and it’s still pending. Is someone going through it with a fine tooth comb?
BTW would you be interested in another monkey? This is something I’d been meaning to ask you. I know he won’t replace George. But I would really like this monkey to go to someone who will care for him. He was caught stealing the corn crops from someone’s farm. He’s been in captivity since, near where my brothe lives. I’m happy to buy his freedom, because he is only being kept outdoors, in open weather. I can’t even remember if he had a little shelter to go into when it rains. It’s just I can’t take him with me. I’ll e-mail you a photo of him.