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I'm watching part one online right now!!

I didn't see it, but I'm am totally curious about it!

I completely agree! At first my doctor said once a day! Really? How am I supposed to know what foods are doing what if I can only test once a day? My Mother-in-law was just diagnosed this week and her doctor said twice a day. I told her to test, test, test, and just buy the strips. Her doctor also told her that she'll…

I was originally put on Metformin, then switched to Glipizide and Victoza. I'm on my 3rd month without Glipizide right now, waiting for the next doc appointment to see how my A1C is. So nice to find someone else on here taking Victoza!

That is awesome, congrats!!

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Congratulations!!!

I'm the exact same way. The less carbs I have the less I crave them, and boy to they have a lot of calories! I used to never be able to resist a nutty butty bar or something like that in the middle of the day. It was a really weird and awful compulsion. Now, I don't even bat an eye at them (we have them in the house for my…

I completely understand how you feel. When I was diagnosed with diabetes it was a tremendous blow, because not only do I have to count calories, I have to measure carbs to keep my sugar in a good range. I can't eat carbs without making sure that it's exactly one serving, limit my fruits so I don't spike my sugar. It's…

Our fruit is spotty at Aldi's also. Today I was there, the price on strawberries went up to 1.99 a package and half of them were moldy!! Sometimes it's okay, like the oranges or kiwi, but the strawberries, most of the time are already rotten.

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Honestly, I wish the OP good luck. People are complicated therefore the answer is complicated. Being that you aren't married, you have time to figure out the reasons behind his behavior. There are many things that would effect my opinion on the matter, not so much as cheating, but as a betrayal of trust. Is this his first…

Mines about the same as SherryRH. I feel low in the low 80s and high above 140. I used to drop into the 60s a lot with the glipizide but the doctor took me off of that. Now that I'm not on the glipizide I don't get those extreme lows so my body isn't used to it, and at the other side of the pendulum I don't eat a lot of…

best - For the first time as an adult I don't have an obese BMI (huge accomplishment that I just hit!!!) worst - My heaviest was 281ish so loose skin is a problem, along with making my daughter's feel bad because I'm losing all this weight and they haven't. I try really hard to encourage them, but I can't control what they…

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Like another poster said, you can't spot reduce, you just have to burn the weight off and eventually it will come off from your stomach.

This!!!! Oh, oh, and I got to buy a size Large top and size 10 pants!!!!!! First time as an adult, EVER!!

Hi there! Last year I was on both of those, and Glipizide didn't give me any side effects except for making me go low but the Metformin on the other hand, oh my, that was rough. I took it for about a month and couldn't handle it anymore. It made me very ill and I was only on 500mg X 1. After that the doctor put me on…

Hi everyone! I'm 32, and from Michigan. I've been married almost 16 years, and I have 3 kids, two girls ages, 16 and 10, and one boy who's 8 years old.

Before I was diagnosed I got sick all the time, I mean ALL the time. Strep throat 2 or 3 times a winter, the flu, colds, etc. Little did I realize that my crazy sugar was causing it, however, since I've been diagnosed and gotten my sugar under control I rarely get sick now, but I do eat A LOT healthier and my A1C is 5.8.

I think Phentermine was one part of the Fen-Phen diet mixture, not saying whether it is safe or not. Personally, I've taken Phentermine years ago, but gained all the weight back after stopping the drug. I found that it definitely increased my heart rate, and suppressed appetite, but it doesn't teach a person how to eat or…

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Congratulations, that is a rocking A1C. I was diagnosed last year at 31...one of the most devastating yet action invoking diagnosis I could get. I'm currently only on Victoza, and hoping to be off that soon, though my A1C isn't as amazing as yours. 5.8 here. I'm curious how you handle carbs, always wanting to learn how…

My highest was 282 and that was rough. This time the weight loss journey started when I was diagnosed with diabetes. Staying healthy so I don't suffer the repercussions of that disease is a huge motivating factor, however, it's one thing to eat healthy and another all together to exercise. I still need to find my motivator…

I have the lower case lambda symbol on my wrist. It stands for the decay constant of a radionuclide, and the light of knowledge shining into the darkness of ignorance.

Nice!! At my original diagnosis I was at 10.9, got it down to 7.8 at my 3 month checkup, then 5.8 at my last two visits. I'm not quite at a year, 2 more months for that, but most of my meds are gone too. Congrats on your continued success and good luck!

Hi everyone, I was diagnosed with diabetes in June of 2011 and at the time my diet was pretty much whatever was fast and easy. I have 3 kids, lol. After that I really had to learn about carb counting and the difference between good carbs and bad carbs. I was originally put on meds to control the diabetes, however, after…

Thank you, that's what I was thinking. I'm still losing plenty of weight and it is mainly good fats (still trying to find a type of dressing that I like besides ranch, lol). But besides that it is from nuts, eggs, or lean meats.

That's an awesome poem, and really strikes home for me. When I was pregnant with my second I got huge, 282 lbs huge. There is no coming back from that for my body. No matter what weight I lose or how fit I become, I will always, always have skin reminding me of how big I've been, but also reminding me of where I've come…

Count me in too! I've lost a lot of weight but it's mainly due to me being a diabetic and just not being able to eat the things I used to eat. The last 20 lbs have been from on this site in the last couple of months. I'm trying very, very hard to eat healthy and as clean as possible, but hard to know what to do without…