Diario de Bubbles McBubble, 10 sep. 24

WELCOME BACK BUBBLES!!!! 

:) Thanks so much YOH. been a long way around the mulberry bush. Note to self: sugar addiction - just say no! :)  

It’s why i cannot have sugar in the house. Nor chips nor ice cream. Glad you’re back for sure. You really can do this. 

<3 @ YOH. Yes. I can. I just ate 800 cals for lunch, after fasting from 8pm last night (so 16 hrs intermittent fast)... My body feels comfortable, my puku (tummy) had got so big, non alcoholic fatty liver from all of the 'I'll start keto tomorrow, tonight I'll eat this tin of pineapple/bag of mandarins/bar of chocolate." such addictive thinking and I wasn't getting over the hump. Nothing like a doctor telling one one's a sitting duck for a heart attack. heh.  

welcome back !!! 

Why wait for disaster to happen with irreversible damage— you know you can’t really win at Russian Roulette. You are at least the third person this week to get a serious wake up call. See a dietician if you can. Let them help you work out a way of eating that is not punitive and that you can live with comfortably and enjoy. It can be done.  

Thanks @ Buenitabishop, it's going to be nice seeing all your yummy meals again. :D Thanks also to Kenna, for your straight up talk which I like. I know people think ketogenic diets are a fad, but they were designed for diabetics, and when I can stay off the sugar I am absolutely fine. no hunger, no tiredness. My war is against insulin resistance, and sugar. I've sort of added in heat pressed vegetable oils into that list as well - for now my aim is healthy, natural... meat, high natural fats, low sugar. esp fructose. It's an understood diet, not a fly by night fad. It's not punitive, it's delicious. dinner tonight was surloin steak fried in butter with salt and fried tomatoes. :) no carbs, so no insulin triggered, floating around in my blood doing crazy things to my cells. I'm eating the delicious foods, the only suffering I'm doing is having to plan and prepare and shop sensibly. :)  

Welcome back Bubbles. I hope you are able to get the medical issues under control. 💜 

Bubbles, keto is not a fad at all but for type II diabetics it just puts a giant bandaid over the underlying issue which is the insulin resistance. You can teach your body to process carbs in the normal manner by choosing carbs that are on the lower end of the glycemic index or that carry a lower glycemic load., good, unsaturated fats, fiber and good. proteins. Now that you are beginning to develop heart issues you have to think whether a high fat diet is in your best interests. If you can hook up with a dietician to get some help, that would be great.. I sure wish you the best in dealing with this. Keep us posted as to how your journey is going. 

Bubbles these weight loss drugs are a Two edged sword. Be sure to read the side effects and remember that these drugs are just another huge bandaid. Those 60 grams of sugar that they negate are not FREE. It does allow for you to learn to eat a lower carb diet than you might normally eat and then have the extra help from the medication . I recently had a discussion with my GI doctor who also has a weight loss assist program for his patients with fatty liver disease, etc. His take on these drugs is that the patients are using the meds as an excuse to eat more carbs than they are suppose to. Sad but apparently true. From the physician’s point of view he found it discouraging.  

Hi Kenna, don't worry about me too much. I've been following the science for maybe 10 yrs now, and the mechanics is clear. Eat a diet more likely to have been eaten before modern processed foods - before table sugar, before heat treated seed oils, before fruit bred up to be four times the size and five times as sweet. before meat patties and bread had sugar in them. Remember we would have eaten fruits and grains in autumn, as hunter gatherers. Most of the time we would have had access to animal products, and green plant leaves - without tubers because tubers form in late summer and are re-absorbed by the plant in spring. Fatty liver is created by fructose or alcohol. A fatty droplet is a byproduct of turning extra eaten fructose into a usable fat. So it makes good sense to use up the liver fat without creating more, and allow the liver to heal. As to using Jardiance to overeat sugar - that way lies thrush and a parade of UTI's. it's not good for the kidneys to have to flush out sugars, but it's incredibly hard when you are severely insulin resistant to lower your blood sugars without insulin, which I refuse to take because it adds to the insulin resistance. I have one friend who was measuring in the 30s, another in the high 20s - that one was on the strongest insulin they could find. It makes a lot more sense to resensitise and for most things in life, to resensitise one has to heavily reduce or indeed temporarily eliminate the problem to let the body reset. My insulin resistance is a total nightmare. It can take a number of days to process eaten sugar. Using a CGM I can track the day after day slow decline - only if I don't eat more than 20g carb a day. My experience is lived experience. Month after month I can fight, and still be only down to 7.4 or 7.5. A healthy non-diabetic level is anywhere between 3.5 and 5.9. Ketogenic diets are absolutely and entirely for type 2 diabetics. And I think ppl with epilepsy. I have no idea how it works on epileptics, but I do know how it works on diabetics. and I have 1000 times more energy reducing the galvumet and the metformin and the sugar, than eating all that glucose and fructose, and taking all that medication. Jardiance truly is a game changer. 20g carb a day was too hard to achieve. I was too ... buoyant? I would float up so easily, and have such a hard time going down again. That lunch I did in the picture had 30 g carbs right there, a day and a half's carbs for the old me, but only 1/2 day's carbs for the new Jardiance me. I would not have been able to have the handful of blueberries, the half a mandarin, the single strawberry without that jardiance. Nothing I do is happening in a vacuum. It's not jardiance or nothing - it's jardiance or insulin. I am enjoying this last week. I'm fasting maybe 14/10, maybe 15/9. Just gently, however it works best on the day. I'm eating mainly fat, because that is insulin neutral and also therefore ghrelin neutral, so no hunger other than tummy rumbles from a confused stomach. I've been successful and happy on keto before, it's amazing to experience the change in need for food where hunger is no longer calling the shots, it's now just a handbag you sometimes put food in when it is convenient. Energy is constant, unfluctuating. The doors to the fat cells are always just... open. very weird, and very challenging of one's beliefs. Sorry this is so long - I wish this text box had paragraphs. :( 

Bible, excellent information. Thanking for taking the time to write it. Definitely wish you the best. 

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