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Hi my name is Marilyn and I have been a diabetic for about 12 years now. Along with that came cellitus on my legs, and now Chronic Kidney Disease. On May 11 I had my last blood work done - cholesterol was to high and the kidney function had dropped. The normal GFR number is 60 and 2 years ago mine went down to 40 but with making some change I brought it back to 45. Well this time it has gone down to 34 which puts me into Stage 3 of Chronic Kidney Disease. And because of that I am having to make serious changes as the next thing to go could be my eyes unless I lose a limb before that. Not nice.
I got these result on May 18. In this length of time (3 weeks 3 days) I have lowered my weight by 11.5 pounds and on Tuesday I will get officially weighed so it looks like it might be able to say that in 4 weeks I will have lost 12 pounds. Hard work - very. Worth it - yes. Buy the way I am also obese so that doesn't help the situation either.
Thankfully with MFP food tracker I have been able to make the changes that the doctor wanted me to do. What he has told me to do (and I think this is good advise for anyone with diabetes ) is to (1) make sure I get in 8 x 8 oz of water a day (2) absolutely no salt = meaning no processed or fast food at all, anything with a label I am not now allowed to have as all processed food has to much salt in it. So am back to the basics of 50 years ago with respect to eating. (3) Am to limit animal protein to no more than 2 oz per day and preferably do not have animal products daily therefore going more whole food.
The number of nutrients with respect to our kidneys it 2500 mg but if you have diabetes should be lowered to 1500 mg. It can be tricky as salt is in pretty much everything - all fresh vegetables have some salt in it and all your animal proteins also have salt in it. By the way animal protein (including eggs and other dairy products) are high in cholesterol so if you want to make sure that number stays in line either limit those items to 1x a week or even less would be best
When he told me these 3 things to do I immediately cleaned out my pantry - hubby and daughter might not have been all that happy but they are now. Have been able to keep the sodium (I do not add any to my food) to 500 - 800 mg per day so when I have my next blood work done (will have it done on Monday) it should show some improvement.
By the way my A1C in May 2022 was A1C6.4 and I take one pill daily = trajenta 5 mg
As you might have noticed I have been added as one of the leaders - therefore I started up this chat room. Would really l like to see if there is any general conversations that we can have on this thread in order to help each other. Not to sure home many of this group are actually still active here on MFP or on this group but it would like to see lots of encouragement through this chat room - personally I find it difficult to post through pages of new threads - must be my OCD coming out
