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Not sure of my plan now as I'm regaining my lost weight.
I have a few ideas but I welcome suggestions from people.
What would people do? Or have done?
 
I guess it's likely useless as losing 50 pounds has not helped me in any way.
I'm still very tired, I still have high blood sugar, my blood pressure actually got worse and my legs still hurt as much and my feet still swell painfully. I see no discernable difference in my health. Or the way I feel.
So im not very motivated to keep it off.
 
I do think getting to a healthy weight is still optimal but we are all struggling to find what works for us, Blue. I know I am. It's not easy. I still have health issues (which can't go away) but I know I would be much better off carrying less weight around. I won't give up trying & I hope you don't either xo
 
I don't feel like there's much hope. With medication side effects that alter a person's metabolism and make them excessively hungry and not be able to exercise.
What does that leave for a person to get anywhere?
 
Going to be fasting my high blood sugar down . It's way too high. I don't seem to have another choice at this time.

I'm not getting the help I need from my dr. There is an insulin that helps me but he only uses the newer ones that don't help me.
And in oct.( my next phone appt.) I'm asking once more for the insulin that helps me and if he won't then I have to use a walk in dr to request it.

So when im able to eat again however long that takes-- I will post it.
Looking forward to that.
Thanks.
To my supporters especially cate. :)
 
Can you go to a walk-in doctor soon, Blue or get an earlier phone ap't with your current one? I know very little about Diabetes but the little I know tells me that fasting could be dangerous. Please try again to talk to your doctor :grouphug:
 
Cate said:
Can you go to a walk-in doctor soon, Blue or get an earlier phone ap't with your current one? I know very little about Diabetes but the little I know tells me that fasting could be dangerous. Please try again to talk to your doctor :grouphug:
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It will be faster to go to see a walk in Dr. as I can get in the same day.
I do have to wait as
we aren't sure about things going on with our apt. (If we can stay or have to live in a tent city).
 
Something is causing my stomach some distress so I have to put something in it. Maybe just 1 nutritional drink.

My blood sugar isn't going down. It's too high and setting my high alarm off a few times a night and several times a day.
Nothing ever seems to go well in my life.
 
I may try next week to get in to see the camera dr. That's the options where I live for ppl without their own dr or a 12+ hour er room wait.

In the meantime I need to be deciding my intake amount.
I have conflicting dietician advice tho. So idk who to try to follow in terms of calories. I've gotten advice to eat no less than 1500 and advice to eat 1300 and advice to eat 1600 accepting whatever weight my body chooses.
That's 3 different pieces of advice. Then when I look online my age and activity group states 1600. Other sites much more.
I need a calorie amount because I can't trust if I'm truly hungry or not.
How on earth do I decide?
 
When you get a phone appointment check with the doctor, but I think 1500-1600 would be close with your activity level. I am not a doctor or a nutritionist. I have my calories set to 1570 a day.
 
I'm going to try to be brave and post my food today.

Foods-
2 cups elbow noodles
1 cup pasta sauce
2 tbsp parmesan cheese
3 nutritional drinks
500 grams cooked cauliflower
Sprinkling of shredded cheese on top

I feel like that's alot.
I don't think I can continue on all that.
 
Thoughts and possible consequences of seeing a Dr outside of my specialist dr (endocrinologist).

Firstly, it took many years to find one. Secondly, it's possible that I lose him if I see another Dr. for a medication switch even if he isn't helpful. Thirdly, it was recommended to me not to use the er for 'normal' diabetes treatment (said by a different professional) that they don't give good diabetes care there. Fourthly, a walk in Dr may not want to change meds as they can't 'follow ' me. Meaning that the walk in always has a different Dr on call and your not allowed to know who is working that day to request the same one. So they can't find out how you are doing I guess.
Lastly, there isn't anyone who can check my doses.

So I must think hard before I see another dr. Do I want to lose the one I have after so many years of having to see a different dr everytime I needed a non emergency medical thing?
 
Decided to call my pharmacy before I risk losing my dr about a med. switch.
They aren't making anymore of the kind I used that worked so well for me.
Nor any similar. He said (the phamacist) that ppl are all being pushed into the 2 I have to use. (Insulins).
So at least I'm not the only 1 anyway.
But it makes me very sad because it's proven that we only have a 40% chance of no complications no matter how hard we try.
Now I don't even have a med that helps.
So off to the drawing board again to see what I can do still.
That drawing board is bending in half.
 
One more thing than I let it go about that topic I guess.

So the worst things about the new meds. is the--- ravenousness it causes me and the awful foot cramping it causes me and the fact that it's a multiple use per day routine. ( you can use the 1 every 4 hours if u do it right and eat enough). So bad for me because I sometimes figure that if I have to suffer with it (side effects)
I'm darn well eating food I
REALLY like. As in the sweets and chips.

Whereas the other med. kept me in line so to speak.
Not perfectly but better.
As it was only a twice a day routine at a set amount. Helping me to better choose foods that it would cover.
O well.
Back to the drawing board.
 
OK so some ideas I've come up with.

Adf-- true adf not that 500 calorie one

Omad

4 cups a day food plan

1500 calories

A mono diet


So omad will require me to try to slowly stretch my stomach bigger to hold more than just 2 cups at 1 time. But you do get 1 hour to eat everything so maybe.

1500 calories will mean at least 3 meals to get that much in at 2 cups at a time. And more frequent med doses.

Adf will be very hard given the level of hunger side effects from the 1/day med.

A mono diet sounds OK being that I'm always limited in funds so often am eating the same 1 thing for a long time sometimes (if it was a food sale).

The 4 cups a day plan kind of suits my routine in that I can eat 2 cups at a time and thereby only need to eat twice.

but the one thing is that I have needles (tips that go on them) for 2 injections and 1 is a 1/day every day leaving 1 tip for a meal(s).
and im bruised from reusing it.

I have to do something. I hate this. y cant i just be normal?

From everything ive said and experienced-- what plan does anyone think would suit me best?
 
And the other side of health may be some exercise.
I like 3 but can only do one in my home with no equipment or cost.
And that's the songs I was doing.
So I guess I try to do as many as I can on my fat painful swollen feet.
For no other reason than that I like to.
 
So new goals:

Weight-
Wherever it goes.
Exercise-
Build up to 10 songs daily.
Foods-
Omad and
try to have some vegetables.


Goals give a person something to work toward, something to look forward to.

What happens once a persons goals are met?
 
Foods-
2 cups of oj
2 may west cakes
2 cups carrot soup
( family made)
 
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