To paraphrase an old poster: Today is the first day of the rest of your training. It doesn’t matter where you started or how far you’ve come. Today is the day. Your training didn’t start 6 weeks ago. Your training started the last time you hit the road. John “the Penguin” Bingham Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire
Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end. (RF)
I seem to be eating closer to a Vegan diet only because I feell it is healthy but I don't believe that all animals are sacred as Peta does. It's too complicated for me to figure out how to conbine carbs to get a complete protein so I do eat meat. I do go to extremes to only eat lean meat though. Interesting that Dr. Bernstein also slams the ADA for the opposite reason PETA does. It is interesting about fat though. I read that combining fat with your meals will slow down BG increases (apparenttly explaining why diabetics can eat high fat brands of ice cream)yet they now say that fat screws around with your insulin resistance. Who is a person to believe?
Hey guys. Be sure you are eating breakfast!! My dr chewed me out for not doing so a couple of years back. By eating breakfast you are kick-starting your metablolism (which actually contributes to weight loss), alertness, and all round better health and vitality. John
Forrest, I undersand exactly where you are coming from and what you mean. I dropped down from 285 in Nov 04 to 208 by Jun 05 and was starting to wonder what I was going to have to add back to my diet AND still have good numbers. Then I had emergancy surgery and it took me a long time to recover and start power walking again. By the time I was walking again I got promoted and the walking REALLY stopped as I realy don't use break time although I have it coming and should. I bounced back up to 240 before I started running and dropping the weight again. I eat more fats than I should and had to cut back on that too as my cholresterol was too high. For a diabetic that is. My bad chol is below a 100 now but my good needs to double up. My running should help a lot with that. Your numbers are low for FBG or they are for me. My doc wants me to be no lower than 80 in the am. And not above 100. Sometimes when I get low I have a Liver Dump and find myself playing catchup. I'll test low, and while am getting some snack to get back into range my liver will dump sugar into my system and I end up testing high. Had that happen after the Indy Hafl Marathon. I went from about 105 to 161 and I didn't eat that many carbs to account for that much of a jump. We are on the same sheet of music here. Just different in how we make it all balance out