IceMan
12-29-2003,
11:30 PM
posted earlier on the low carb board
I share your addiction. Carbs just flat TASTE good. I'm not on a strictly low carb diet yet but addiction is addiction and I recently went thru some life changes that caused me to examine how and why I do or do not do things.
With me it's a matter of accountability. For 4 years I was a diagnosed Type 2 diabetic living 900 miles from my doctor. I'd go to town, he'd run labs, say this doesn't look good, take this drug in this dose, check your blood sugar, don't eat as much, exercise and lose weight. I'd jump on a plane, fly back to the bush, take my meds faithfully but shine on all the other advice. I was accountable only to myself and it just didn't work. I didn't particularly care if I let myself down, I'd been doing it my whole life and gotten used to it.
My last trip to town the Doc sez, "I'm going to put you on insulin or you're going to start experiencing some terrible repercussions from your uncontrolled blood sugars. Amputation, blindness, kidney failure leading to dialysis, heart attack and/or stroke.
Time to suck it up and get serious. I spent time with him, a dietician and diabetic clinician learning the basics of insulin injection, carb counting and proper blood sugar ranges. Before I left I told each one of them I wasn't comfortable just going home and trying to do this on my own. I suggested a way to maintain weekly and instant contact with my health care team using the internet and email. I bought the stuff I needed, glucose meter w/ a computer interface, diabetes management software, etc. and set up a web page (link at bottom of this post) that I can update weekly. Each Monday I update the page and email it to each of the team. If I have questions I ask them. I get feedback and tips, advice and criticism in return. The main thing this does is make me accountable to those people who care about me, maybe more than I do myself. I've always been a man of my word and if I tell you I'm going to do something or provide you with something..you can take it to the bank..if I tell myself that you can take it to the dump.
The accountability to my health care team that I established has been miraculous in the results I've maintained. I'm under tight control, eating right, exercising and losing weight.
These boards can be a place of accountability and not everyone can nor would want to go the lengths I have to ensure success...but I'm a hard case totally incorrigable otherwise.
Once you establish accountability, creditability soon follows and whatever cause you are championing just falls in line behind everything else...
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong... --Thanks D.M.--
chow......d.
"all is energy...and energy follows thought"
My Diabetes Page (http://www.datainthehouse.com/diabetes/dwdiabetes.htm) -- updated weekly --
iceman@astacalaska.net
I share your addiction. Carbs just flat TASTE good. I'm not on a strictly low carb diet yet but addiction is addiction and I recently went thru some life changes that caused me to examine how and why I do or do not do things.
With me it's a matter of accountability. For 4 years I was a diagnosed Type 2 diabetic living 900 miles from my doctor. I'd go to town, he'd run labs, say this doesn't look good, take this drug in this dose, check your blood sugar, don't eat as much, exercise and lose weight. I'd jump on a plane, fly back to the bush, take my meds faithfully but shine on all the other advice. I was accountable only to myself and it just didn't work. I didn't particularly care if I let myself down, I'd been doing it my whole life and gotten used to it.
My last trip to town the Doc sez, "I'm going to put you on insulin or you're going to start experiencing some terrible repercussions from your uncontrolled blood sugars. Amputation, blindness, kidney failure leading to dialysis, heart attack and/or stroke.
Time to suck it up and get serious. I spent time with him, a dietician and diabetic clinician learning the basics of insulin injection, carb counting and proper blood sugar ranges. Before I left I told each one of them I wasn't comfortable just going home and trying to do this on my own. I suggested a way to maintain weekly and instant contact with my health care team using the internet and email. I bought the stuff I needed, glucose meter w/ a computer interface, diabetes management software, etc. and set up a web page (link at bottom of this post) that I can update weekly. Each Monday I update the page and email it to each of the team. If I have questions I ask them. I get feedback and tips, advice and criticism in return. The main thing this does is make me accountable to those people who care about me, maybe more than I do myself. I've always been a man of my word and if I tell you I'm going to do something or provide you with something..you can take it to the bank..if I tell myself that you can take it to the dump.
The accountability to my health care team that I established has been miraculous in the results I've maintained. I'm under tight control, eating right, exercising and losing weight.
These boards can be a place of accountability and not everyone can nor would want to go the lengths I have to ensure success...but I'm a hard case totally incorrigable otherwise.
Once you establish accountability, creditability soon follows and whatever cause you are championing just falls in line behind everything else...
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong... --Thanks D.M.--
chow......d.
"all is energy...and energy follows thought"
My Diabetes Page (http://www.datainthehouse.com/diabetes/dwdiabetes.htm) -- updated weekly --
iceman@astacalaska.net
