Today i learned a horrible truth. You can eat all the barbecue brisket, ribs and chicken you want, but it's zero carbs. Zero carbs + insulin = destroyed diet as you try to candy your blood sugar back up to normal.
::sigh:: Fifty-some years ago, a fella I worked with, Crazy Louie, knew this: Type I diabetic, and he jiggered his insulin shots according to how many carbs he consumed. Not recommended by the medical community, and I don't think he made it past 50, but at least he was aware of it. Nowadays pretty much anyone familiar with low-carb diets (Banting/Howe/Atkins/paleo/Dukan etc.) would know that insulin is only needed if one consumes carbohydrates.
Why are you taking insulin anyway? While necessary for Type I diabetics, it would seem that there are alternatives for Type IIs: some meds that increase the power of the patient's own insulin, and newer ones that (at least according to the ads I see daily on TV) pull sugar from the blood directly into the urine.
(Oh, and since your software flags anything with a URL as spam, may I suggest you check YouTube for a cartoon named "Geraldine?" French, funny as hell, and starts out "Un matin, Gerald se reveilla metamorphose en femme..." which is about all the French I know, or needed to understand it.)
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Date: 2016-06-28 03:45 am (UTC)Why are you taking insulin anyway? While necessary for Type I diabetics, it would seem that there are alternatives for Type IIs: some meds that increase the power of the patient's own insulin, and newer ones that (at least according to the ads I see daily on TV) pull sugar from the blood directly into the urine.
(Oh, and since your software flags anything with a URL as spam, may I suggest you check YouTube for a cartoon named "Geraldine?" French, funny as hell, and starts out "Un matin, Gerald se reveilla metamorphose en femme..." which is about all the French I know, or needed to understand it.)
Heather Jean