poppycom's Journal, 20 Apr 17

Hi Poppy - on the app, tap on "more" down the bottom, tap on "calendar", then tap on the right hand column of the day you want to update. 

The simple carbs you ate in the morning triggered the hunger later. For me I avoid them, I hate being hungry, and by avoiding them I rarely am. I just have urges. They are much easier to control. For the most part have figured out what my hunger triggers are and have black balled them. It makes for a more pleasant journey. 

It was the Raisin Cinnamon Teacake my dear. Avoid them like the plague especially first thing in the morning. I know your daughter meant well and all, but does the rest of your family understand your mission? Do they understand what Diabetes entails? If not, make it clear to them. Giving a Diabetic a piece of teacake for breakfast isn't the best. That's why I am asking if they understand what Diabetes is or what that entails. It's too bad you can't clean the kitchen in regards to all the not-so-ideal food choices. Get a hot water dispenser. That way you don't have to wait for the water to boil on the stove. Keep going Poppy. You are doing great!   

Also, under Diary at the bottom! 

Thanks for the advice.. will enter my activity now.. enetering into the diary every few hours keeps my motivation up as I'm aware when I'm sitting on my backside 😊 

Adamegod and ccbabcock.. I've certainly learnt my lesson! The diffrence in my hunger was MASSIVE! Never again.. today I haven't eaten and feel fine.. Just firing up the barbie and the OH has been shopping for me, so there's a lovely variety of salad stuff to prepare and I'm really looking forward to it. At work we have an electric urn that takes a while to heat up if it's just been filled.. so today I went and made a phone call so I was away from the cakes and biscuits in the communal kitchen, that I have no control over. Cinnamon buns were bought by an Irish relative as a present and my daughter was up early studying and prepared breakfast for me when I came downstairs.. we definitely won't be having them again Thanks for the support 👍👍 Hope you're having a good day 😁 

Hi Poppy, I've always hated eating in the morning because it seems to wake up my stomach from where it's been perfectly happy sleeping all night! It will go on sleeping for hours, especially if I don't feed it any processed sugar or corn syrup, that always makes it crave more of the same in big doses until it's hard to turn off. I've discovered that my morning vitamins that my nutritionist wants me to take have sugar in them, bleh, but if I take my probiotic right after, I don't seem to have the same cravings. Food for thought. 😜And I use the iPhone App primarily, having it with me means everything gets entered as I go so I don't forget. It takes the place of the paper and pen food journal I've kept for 2 years. 

there is a fine line between hunger ans starvation mode watch for the body going into starvation as it will keep all the fat and you will not lose weight. for keto this is were fat bombs come in. in the past i grabed a handful of carbs now its fat. i find i cand go longer on fat then carbs. 

Thanks.. got a recipe for fat bombs from wannabehealthier yesterday.. gonna try them at the weekend 😁 

The world seems to throw all these carbs in front of us and sometimes it is hard to say no but for me, I am amazed at how much control I am feeling over temptations now. From what I read and understand I think it is that I have become fat adapted...at least that is my theory from trying to decipher what I read lol but in the end, I give thanks to God for giving me this way of eating that has given me some form of control. I haven't tried any fat bombs yet. I use the computer to log into fs so IDK about iphone access changes.  

I eat six times a day. I'm 5'-10" and weight 156. I consume 2,500-2,700 cals, and don't get hungry unless I miss a meal by about 2 hrs. It is what I eat that satisfies my hunger. I would never stare myself. It's counterproductive for weight loss, 

Great job! That's why I avoid sugar; it just makes me want to eat more. The food industry adds it to just about everything so we buy and eat more and then the health care industry charges us more money if we're over weight. It's all about the money. 

Jadsl: fat makes you full and sugar makes you hungry. So if you eat fat and avoid sugar, it's much easier to avoid temptation. 

Yourpissingmeoff, I agree! I wish I had found this way of eating long ago. I believe it would have helped me avoid a lot of health problems. I know not all of them because a lot was left after a problem during an emergency surgery for a hernia after having ovarian tumors removed (which I had battles at different stages of my life with the ovarian tumors so I figure that was from my genes and I couldn't do a lot to stop that. Many females in my family have had the same battle with tumors in ovaries and uterus) I had pulmonary edema during that emergency surgery and wound up on life support for 9 days and it left a lot of health problems. (if this comment doesn't make a lot of sense I blame it on early morning and only a few sips of coffee haha my brain is not woke up yet) 

Jadsl, WOW!!!!! That's horrible. I feel the same way! I would have been so much healthier if I had found Keto & IF earlier. I was headed for diabetes and my thyroid was really low but all that's in my rear view now. :-) 

Yourpissingmeoff, I am so happy for you! I hope to be able to control my diabetes with this. I know I will always be a T2D but I want to be in strict control to limit the damage this horrid disease does. 

I'm going to say something that a doctor "might" disagree with, but probably not, EVERYONE on EARTH could be a type II diabetic if they got fat enough. Type II is a function of your body having so much fat around the food molecule the insulin is trying to break down that it cannot get to it, thus it has almost been completely renamed "insulin resistant." Your body produces enough insulin, your pancreas is fine, in many cases you were, like me hypoglycaemic earlier in life (and that is partly where the heavy carb craving originated, having a body over producing insulin ALWAYS and being LOW on sugar EVERY time you ate something sweet, not full of sugar, sweet on the 👅 tongue. It set up a great condition to get heavy. And crave sweet to try to get nutrients to our organs.) This propensity to hypoglycaemia is what, in many cases, they call pre-diabetes. People who have problems regulating the amount of insulin produced by their pancreas correctly. Type I's can't ever correct, type II's who were hypoglycaemic can in most cases go back to being diet controlled hypoglycaemic/diabetics as I am with any damage that has been done, and the very lucky, the type II's who were never hypoglycaemic will revert and have the correct amount of insulin for the food they ingest, and just need proper training in exercise and portion control to stay slimmer to keep fat cells from blocking insulin from being able to break down what they eat. At least this is the way I came away from diabetic education classes understanding it. 😜 

smprowett: I agree completely! Type 2 can definitely be turned around; Dr Fung does that with his patients. We just need to eat whole foods and limit sugar. I'd rather eat fruit instead of processed sugar. 

I agree YPMOff, I prefer whole foods to refined, as a hypoglycaemic, child of diabetics, I grew up eating sweeteners, so keep with small amounts of saccharine, stevia and occasionally sucrose in tea and for baking when I can't totally flavor with fruit. 😕 But I'm always aware that there is an insulin release with either if there is a sweet taste. I prefer to have the fruit and fibre since it is sp much healthier in our diets. 

the problem is type 2 is on the rise and there are many people that are being diagnosed type 2 that is not overweight. I think it is the crazy amount of carbs eaten that has something to do with triggering the disease.