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Post by Paws on Mar 18, 2012 0:10:42 GMT 12.75
Got some broccoli and a salad for supper tonight to go with my grilled pork chops and I'm heading to the grocery store tomorrow for some more roughage. I'm sorely missing apples! I get a bad sweet tooth moment I can always grab a big red delicious and take the edge off it. Don't worry Paws, I ain't gonner over do it on the proteins. If you run short of proteins you can always eat milk bottles. I keep on the direction I'm headed I'll be blind in another year. (Looked good on Ray Charles!)
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Post by OLKoot on Mar 18, 2012 4:53:48 GMT 12.75
Just read the last couple of posts....A couple of things I picked up on and a couple Phil already addressed about fat and protein....Another thing that I picked up on is processed food....Dangerous ,dangerous, dangerous.....Thats why the wife and I started doing our own cause we know what we're putting into it....Also, volume too many chops too many steaks ....Yah don't need it....I know your hungry, and your eating volume to satisfy the need to be full....You have to reduce the portion size of your meals as well.....
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Post by brittonfaith on Mar 18, 2012 20:22:34 GMT 12.75
I'm one to chime in after that post about the cheeseburgers and cheesecake pig-out.... Another thing that I picked up on is processed food....Dangerous ,dangerous, dangerous.....Thats why the wife and I started doing our own cause we know what we're putting into it....Also, volume too many chops too many steaks .... I think ya just hit the nail square on! Mom started an anti-processed foods campaign at her church after "experimenting" on dad. He was diagnosed diabetic at 72 yrs old. They wanted to start him on insulin, but couldn't afford it. They went round and round for nearly two years. So mom finally yanked all his lunch meat, chewing tobacco, and anything else that comes in a box or can. So now basically, they just hit the produce, fresh meat, and dairy section at the store and pass up everything else. At church they had 3/4 of the congregation who were diabetic and on shoe boxes of meds. Two years ago, mom challenged them to try what she did to dad, and within two months, a forth of them who were on insulin were off it with daily monitoring. The rest came back with "diabetes free" reports from their doctors and have remained so (as long as they stick to basic "real" food) for two years. They filled a 13 gallon trash bag with all the meds they no longer need to take. Most are now only on a one-a-day Sr. multivitamin. But, mom found that one of the hardest things to teach a hilligan is "Yes - a turkey breast sandwich on whole wheat is a nice lunch. But buy a real turkey breast and bake it." Mind you, she's not practicing medicine. Rather common sense eating.
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Post by OLKoot on Mar 19, 2012 4:10:29 GMT 12.75
Exactly Faith, while I was doing my low carb diet a few years ago, I found the same results and I immediately posted the results here at OCC....I came off insulin quite fast and all my other numbers started to fall in place also...I sort of stopped and in a really short period of time, I had to start insulin treatment again...I've found that any food in moderation is a better life style then anything eating processed Foods...Good for your Mom...She started something good...On a side note, eating more at meals is all mental ...Its the stomach thats demanding more and more and nothing else...When the stomach mass reaches critical, you have to eat more to fill the cavity....The stomach in reality should be no bigger then your fist.....You need to reduce volume and everything else will fall in line....My youngest son has had a gastric bypass, and has lost over 230 lbs this year....He's a new man and he loves it.....In his case , he was found to have sleep apnea, well since the weight loss, its gone away....
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Post by Paws on Mar 19, 2012 6:43:35 GMT 12.75
NO PROCESSED FOODS!!! How the hell will I get any Ice Cream?? Well, I gruess I subjected this shell to everything else so I guess this won't6 hurt. By the way. I been fuggin' with my meds, more of them, less of them, etc.. Seems like everything makes my glucose go up now. Yesterday I hit 300 fasting. Today was 306 after breakfast of corn flakes, strawberries and links. I may not go blind after all; die of fuggin' stroke or heart attack before I can make blind!
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Post by brittonfaith on Mar 19, 2012 8:26:39 GMT 12.75
Middle of the night cross the road and milk a cow. Then MAKE your ice cream. Read the ingredients on ANY carton of ice cream. Since when does guar gum, pectin, HFCS or even corn starch make ice cream. All you need is some milk, eggs (if you're making a cooked "custard" style), a little sugar or other sweetener and what ever ingredient you want to flavor it with. Key is cut out all the ingredients that don't go into a basic homemade recipe. Think on this....The government (through the USDA) controls farmers AND what we are "suppose" to eat through things like price supports, agricultural subsidies, crop disaster relief, Cooperative Extension, the food pyramid, WIC, pantry commodities, school lunch programs, and even meals on wheels. They control how it is produced, manufactured, marketed, prepared, and what inspection standards are 'acceptable'. The government (through the FDA, Medicaid/Medicare) also controls the pharmacutical and health care industries. Now, in order to warrant government funding of the drug companies research and development, you have to have patients needing that particular type of medication or treatment. How better than to "create" them through a government prescribed diet of food produced under government guidelines?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 19, 2012 13:41:24 GMT 12.75
Ya'll make a ton of sese about fresh foods versus packaged/processed foods...
I'm really guilty about the canned and preprocessed crap cause it's so much cheaper and much more convenient. I have lost a goodly amoun of ewight and my glucose numbers are all encouraging, but yeah...it'd be a lot easier on me and a ton more healthy to get back to REAL food.
I suspect that once I get settled in Montana, Donna and I will be able to eat a lot healthier out of necessity. not gonna be able to just run into town for groceries at every turn of the clock, so we'll be putting upa lot of our own fresh produce and our diet is going to be based on wild game and fish. Monies will be tight... Beef, chicken, and pork at the grocers isle will not be an option.
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