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My journey will continue

July 11, 2011 by 20 Comments
Tuna Sashimi is delicious and nutritious

Today, I am going to once again get started on my journey. Actually, I have been thinking about it for a while now, wanting to be back on the road. It's been a few years now since I have seriously progressed on this journey, but I am ready to get it going again. I am talking about a journey down the road to better health.  Primarily, I am talking about weight loss. I have struggled all of my life with excessive weight, and in my adult life with obesity.  I have made progress in the past decade, though.  I first moved to the Philippines in May 2000.  While still living in the States, in the late 90's, I reached my maximum … [Read more...]

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Keeping it up!

May 12, 2011 by 5 Comments
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about getting my diabetes and diet under control.  As I said, I had seen some very nice results as far as my blood glucose readings went.  They were pretty close to normal, which made me quite happy. Well, that was a one day more than 2 weeks ago when I wrote that, and I am happy to say that my readings are holding.  My diet is still under control, and I am feeling very good.  Amazing what a little more exercise and living a reasonable lifestyle will do for you! When my diabetes was out of control, I had a big problem with infections.  Almost any wound that I got, be it a paper cut, or even … [Read more...]

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Doing the perimeter thing

April 16, 2010 by 18 Comments
mangoes1

What do I mean about "the perimeter thing"?  Just keep reading and you will understand. About 5 or 6 weeks ago, I happened to be watching CNN to catch up on the news.  It happened that they had more of a "feature" show on, rather than the news, Anderson Cooper 360.  I watched for a bit, and found that they had Jamie Oliver on.  If you don't know who Jamie Oliver is, he is a British Chef.  He is a TV Chef.  He has had a number of cooking shows on British TV over the years.  He's OK, I'm not a huge fan, but I have watched some of his shows from time to time, and my wife Feyma has picked up a few good recipes from Jamie's show over the … [Read more...]

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Learning about diet

April 6, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Eating Fish

In the past few weeks, I have been making a serious effort to get better control over my eating, because my diabetes has been out of control, and I need to do something about it.  So far, I've been very successful, and I've brought my blood glucose levels down to fairly normal levels.  A blood glucose reading for a person without diabetes is generally around 120 or less after fasting overnight.  My blood glucose lately after fasting is running about 140 to 145, and pretty stable at that reading.  A little higher than a non-diabetic, but that is quite a good reading for me. Considering that just a few weeks ago my blood glucose was … [Read more...]

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Reaping the rewards of a healthier diet

July 19, 2007 by Leave a Comment
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As I've been writing about, I've been trying to improve my diet over the past couple of weeks now.  I am starting to see benefits too!  My goal in this quest is not to lose weight, although that will be a nice side benefit.  The goal is to get my diabetes in check, get my blood glucose level down to near a normal level, and keep it there. A little over 2 weeks ago, when I started, I had allowed my blood glucose level to get to about 250 to 300 in the morning after I got up.  This is way above the 120 or so that would be normal, and it's not healthy!  For a week or so, I have not checked my glucose, but this morning when I checked it, it … [Read more...]

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Making good progress on diet

July 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
fruits

For almost a week now, I've been making some real nice progress on controlling my diet. For the most part, what I am doing now is eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a salad for dinner. I have found that I don't need the small meals in between like I mentioned in my last post. Sometimes I will have a handful of peanuts or something relatively healthy like that around 11am or so, and maybe at 4pm. But, actually for the most part, I don't need that even. Just my three meals do fine for me, if I really make a conscience effort to "just say no" to snacks and such. Having a salad for dinner has been good for me. The good thing about … [Read more...]

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Why is it so hard to control my eating?

July 8, 2007 by 15 Comments
hamburger

Over recent years, some of it told by this blog, I have had periods where I have done a really good job of controlling my diet.  In turn, this means keeping my blood glucose levels in check.  For me, I have already accepted that I am overweight - I'm fat.  I will probably always be fat to some extent.  But, I still want to control my eating, because my main goal is to keep my diabetes in check.  Keeping my diabetes in check will generally mean that I'd lose more weight, but losing weight is not my primary goal when it comes to eating in a healthy way. For the last 8 months or so, I have again let my blood glucose levels go out of … [Read more...]

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