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11 months ago yesterday I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes - today I hit my weight goal.
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Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »That's so great! Way to go!Ringbearer2 wrote: »This is so inspiring. Thank you for posting.I'm quite certain you have the sense and fortitude needed to accomplish your goal/s. Hi-5!NonnaTurtle wrote: »Wow! I loved reading your post. Your journey and results are inspirational. Hope you will post an update at some point.Wow - kudos to you! Your determination in the face of adversity is amazing. No doubt that you'll beat T2D as well!Congratulations! You did it. May you have many more years of keto ahead!
Thanks all!You are an inspire in so many ways! Congratulations on conquering your journey thus far! I wish you strength through your maintenance journey!
To add: I don't care for "globs of fat" either. I try to spread my fat consumption throughout the day; hwc in morning coffee, cook eggs in butter, add mayo to ham and cheese roll ups, and have fatty meat for supper. Keeps me from having to have it all at once! Hope you find the balance that works for you, and you don't have to eat "globs". Hugs dear!
Thanks! As for the fat - all of the things you mentioned, except cooking eggs in butter, fall in to the gobs of fat category for me - I'm just not fond of fatty food, unless the fat is combined with carbs (either bread or sugar). I see lots of cheese, full fat yogurt, nuts, and nut butters in my future - unless I can get diabetes into remission and increase carbs as part of increasing calories. I'd still plan to eay way lower than a standard American diet, and primarily whole grain carbs or pulses, but that would be a much more maintainable diet for me.ProCoffeenator wrote: »Amazing!!
I'm placing you up on my when I grow up board!!..... Cause one day I wanna be I. Those shoes of yours saying I met goal and conquered my major medical hurdles!!Amazing job! What an incredible 11 months for you, and now you are on the other side!
Thanks!
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Congratulations on reaping in on all the hard work you've invested in your health this year. You've certainly earned it having the courage diving into experimental protocols like the Blood Sugar Diet.
If it is of interest to you, the new channel by Dom D'Agostino Epigenix Foundation has lectures with all the latest within keto and cancer research. It's interesting to me that the researchers more and more talk about not just keto but also calorie restriction as part of the protocols being tested.
There's several videos on his channel, below is only one of those I found very enlightening.
https://youtu.be/gIKVsHbW1yQ
Good luck on the maintenance part, it's a game of seesaw, IMO.1 -
Foamroller wrote: »If it is of interest to you, the new channel by Dom D'Agostino Epigenix Foundation has lectures with all the latest within keto and cancer research. It's interesting to me that the researchers more and more talk about not just keto but also calorie restriction as part of the protocols being tested.
Thanks! My daughter's disease carries a risk of quite a few cancers (liver, gall bladder, bile duct, and colon are the biggies). When we went to the international summit for her disease this year, the researcher who presented at the cholangiocarcinoma (bile duce cancer) session, mentioned keto in connection with cancer. Since it was shortly after I'd been diagnosed I took the opportunity to talk with her afterword about keto and breast cancer - and the fact that my doctors all insisted I needed to stop eating at a calorie deficit during treatment. She said that she wouldn't worry about it, as long as the calorie deficit was also ketogenic because of the anti-cancer effects they are discovering in connection with keto. At that point I was coming from the busiest quarter of the year (when I was diagnosed and saw 3 different treatment teams while working 80 hours a week), heading into surgery, followed by the second busiest quarter of the year, followed by radiation (during what should have been my break month). I didn't have time to follow up - or even do my normal advance research to see if radiation was my best option.
But this is a good reminder to pick that dropped thread back up again.1 -
FYI, you may have seen these, but here are a couple cancer/keto vids w Dr. D'Agostino.
https://youtu.be/4b7_e7i0pRk
https://youtu.be/sgsLx9IG40o
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Wow! Just Wow! If you can handle the last year (decade), you can handle anything!1
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Thanks! My daughter's disease carries a risk of quite a few cancers (liver, gall bladder, bile duct, and colon are the biggies). When we went to the international summit for her disease this year, the researcher who presented at the cholangiocarcinoma (bile duce cancer) session, mentioned keto in connection with cancer. Since it was shortly after I'd been diagnosed I took the opportunity to talk with her afterword about keto and breast cancer - and the fact that my doctors all insisted I needed to stop eating at a calorie deficit during treatment. She said that she wouldn't worry about it, as long as the calorie deficit was also ketogenic because of the anti-cancer effects they are discovering in connection with keto. At that point I was coming from the busiest quarter of the year (when I was diagnosed and saw 3 different treatment teams while working 80 hours a week), heading into surgery, followed by the second busiest quarter of the year, followed by radiation (during what should have been my break month). I didn't have time to follow up - or even do my normal advance research to see if radiation was my best option.
But this is a good reminder to pick that dropped thread back up again.
From my understanding, some cancer types are so devious they not only feed on glucose, but can also shift their metabolism to feed off of glutamine and lactic acid (?). Which could possibly be why keto alone is not enough vs very resistant cancer cells. A caloric restriction is needed on top of Keto for those instances. Possibly it's only the protein that needs to be limited. Starve the cancer, so to speak. BUT, Ofc if someone is already very slim the CR needs to be carefully monitored.2 -
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Wow!! What a year, and to have persevered this much and taken such care of yourself despite so many challenges is incredible.0
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Incredible!0
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@neohdiver, you're a rock star!0
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This post was before my diagnosis as a T2 diabetic in October 2016. I wish I had seen it, and I am glad it got bumped to put it at the top of the feed again. I had lost 40 pounds through CICO, but at my September appt., I had a fasting BG in the 300's. I went back in October for an A1C, and it was 12.8. I got the diagnosis and started metformin. I tried the Diabetes Association diet, and numbers were terrible. I tried The Zone and they improved. Looking online for something better I found LCHF, and within days, my glucose numbers were in the 100's. I have lost another 30 pounds since October, and I really want to be down another 10 by my July appt. I want an A1C under 6.0 in July as well.
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This post was before my diagnosis as a T2 diabetic in October 2016. I wish I had seen it, and I am glad it got bumped to put it at the top of the feed again. I had lost 40 pounds through CICO, but at my September appt., I had a fasting BG in the 300's. I went back in October for an A1C, and it was 12.8. I got the diagnosis and started metformin. I tried the Diabetes Association diet, and numbers were terrible. I tried The Zone and they improved. Looking online for something better I found LCHF, and within days, my glucose numbers were in the 100's. I have lost another 30 pounds since October, and I really want to be down another 10 by my July appt. I want an A1C under 6.0 in July as well.
You are an inspiration!
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So are you, dear fellow.
Thanks! I am going to kick the butt of T2D, if it is possible for me to do it. I am just not interested in being consigned to a life of increasing meds and complications. I have been making subtle corrections along the way as I have learned things, and I am getting better at all this.
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Thanks! I am going to kick the butt of T2D, if it is possible for me to do it. I am just not interested in being consigned to a life of increasing meds and complications. I have been making subtle corrections along the way as I have learned things, and I am getting better at all this.
You're obviously on top of it. As you have discovered there are fresh surprises, good and bad, round every curve, and an experimental mindset is a major plus. Fortunately, you got on board that train early on!0 -
Congratulations, what an amazing job!0
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You're obviously on top of it. As you have discovered there are fresh surprises, good and bad, round every curve, and an experimental mindset is a major plus. Fortunately, you got on board that train early on!
My wife and I were talking about this and my determination today. I told her I think the trick is to check glucose levels and pay attention. She asked what my doctor had recommended, and I reminded her he had said to check one time a week on rising and one time a week before going to sleep just to make sure nothing was going crazy. He wanted an A1C of 7.2 I think, but said lower was better. The 7.2 was "aspirational" anyway, and was just the direction I was supposed to be heading.
I remember thinking this sounded stupid to me. How was I supposed to know what was going on with only two checks a week? It could be sky high after meals or I could have just had some unusually low or high reading on some morning and not have any feel for the rest of the week.
I was a teacher for 32 years and taught math most of that time. I retired from the classroom to full-time parish work. I am a man who likes to make data-driven decisions. I was going to need to collect some data.
My July appt. will be 9 months after my diagnosis. I am making progress, and goals seem within reach. Even if I don't meet them, I will have made a lot more progress than the doctor anticipated.
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My wife and I were talking about this and my determination today. I told her I think the trick is to check glucose levels and pay attention. She asked what my doctor had recommended, and I reminded her he had said to check one time a week on rising and one time a week before going to sleep just to make sure nothing was going crazy. He wanted an A1C of 7.2 I think, but said lower was better. The 7.2 was "aspirational" anyway, and was just the direction I was supposed to be heading.
I remember thinking this sounded stupid to me. How was I supposed to know what was going on with only two checks a week? It could be sky high after meals or I could have just had some unusually low or high reading on some morning and not have any feel for the rest of the week.
I was a teacher for 32 years and taught math most of that time. I retired from the classroom to full-time parish work. I am a man who likes to make data-driven decisions. I was going to need to collect some data.
My July appt. will be 9 months after my diagnosis. I am making progress, and goals seem within reach. Even if I don't meet them, I will have made a lot more progress than the doctor anticipated.
Aha! now I'm getting it. My dad was a math teacher, too, and his favorite line was a mischievous, but cheery, "and how do we know this?"
If it weren't for patients like you, many docs would never learn anything new. Hope you can teach that old-school GP of yours a trick or two!
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