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Good news - good chance you can get off insulin once you find a way of eating that works for you and your weight comes down. Gotta be a "forever" choice, though!
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Everyone's a unique science project - keep your eye on the prize, and good things will happen! Time + Knowledge + Dedication = Success!
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Low carb makes it necessary to snack? In my case, it makes it easier not to. (Different strokes....!)
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Meanwhile... There are many OTC digestive enzymes available for both general use and also for particular types of food.
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Amen, @Vladaar. I look forward to future conversations with my farmer friends and relatives on whether humans should be messing with nature for better yields and lower labor costs. (The answers have tended to folliw two lines: "everything is here for man's use, including chemicals"; or "we won't be able to feed the world…
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So .... it may be necessary to add additional enzymes. That should help with GI issues, absorption of vitamins, meds, food, etc. But it may take careful tweaking of your insulin dosing and timing in sync with your diet to get your glucose under control, with the pancreatic issues you've experienced... :frowning:
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@ConleighS , my understanding of digestive enzymes is that they don't stop working - they're just necessary to provide what your body isn't making in sufficient quantity to handle your diet.
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Dangedest things the devil makes us do. >:)
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Wow! :p
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Whew, that's some tough sledding! I wonder if Creon could use help in supplementing whatever your pancreas is able to contribute in digestive enzymes.
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If you need any help finding diabetes specialists, please don't hesitate to holler. I have a pretty good endocrinologist attached to a university clinic & medical school, and she seems to know people everywhere!
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Ah! Un'impurista... :p
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PURIST - Someone who dresses his random tastes in moral clothing. >:)
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I wish I could be of help, but I'm not familiar with Next Advanced Medicine. That sounds like a pretty stiff price tag.... My armchair sense of your condition is that it's more like Type 1 (or advanced 1.5, aka LADA), than Type 2, since you seem to require a fair amount of insulin. Here's my thought (which may be worth…
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Madonna mia! If that were how Italians think, the Renaissance would never have seen the light of day....
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@AlexandraCarlyle, sí puo incontrare non solamente americani negli Starbucks in Italia... Hmm?
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I'm in @anglyn's camp, except that I add a few chocolate stevia drops from a bottle I keep in a keto rescue kit in my glove box (which also has a little olive and sesame oils, hot sauce, and a few other tricks).
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@ConleighS - Do I recall correctly that you had serious pancreas issues recently? FYI, here's something I picked up on FB: "A newly-identified type of diabetes, type 3c, occurs from damage to the pancreas from pancreatitis, tumors or surgery. Researchers concluded that type 3c diabetes is frequently misdiagnosed type 2,…
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@Bonny132 lamented: WTF I eat plenty veg but this flatulence from the peas is like death creeped up my backside when I did not look and set up residence. :mrgreen: There is no way I can go outside without killing someone. >:) Go back to cabbage soup diet? (Turn pants inside out?)
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:s
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Reasonably close, but last time I checked, they were a bit pricier than Costco. I am running low on $2 3 Chuck, though!
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@kpk54, nice! I believe any form of magnesium (with the possible exception of magnesium imodium, which causes and cures simultaneously) will work a, cough, cleansing effect if taken in sufficient quantity. Same with a sudden increase in sodium. :s
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@trish55011, good points about logging what you eat and being wary of random MFP entries in the food database. If you want to get a better estimate of the macro- and micro-nutrients you're taking in, Cronometer is vastly better for logging. (Unfortunately, you can't import/export between Cronometer and MFP. :o)
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Here's Cornucopia's Yogurt Scorecard: https://www.cornucopia.org/scorecard/yogurt/ Kalona is among the top-rated brands. (Dannon, Yoplait not so much....)
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Tips? Ha! You've come to the right place! Best tip - Take a few moments and skim the LCD group's great and growing collection of resources at: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10103966/start-here-the-lcd-launch-pad (Then set aside a couple hours and start reading the parts that grab you the most, of course!)
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Woo hoo! How much are the roasted ones with sea salt? The only ones left where I go are coated in rat poison... :/
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Nuts! (... and whisps..) I bought a case of the latter when they were on sale earlier this year and haven't checked to see if they've also become obsolete. :cry: That makes a hat trick, with the big bags of dried broccoli florets also having vanished. The nearest Costco finally got the big jars of Wildbrine Sauerkraut, so…
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Dãmm
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Oh, your question - is it possible? Well, first off, there are people doing it who are not only not dead, they actually seem to be enjoying life. :p And some of them are getting up there in years. So, yes, of course it is! *** In fact, despite all the tiresome hand-wringinng and doom-saying :'( in the unsolvable…
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