I was reading a news article on the BBC, last week. The article said that all too often doctors give medication to patients with type 2 diabetes rather than trying lifestyle changes. Often, a change of diet negates the need for medication.
That is the main reason why I changed my diet and eating habits. Watching my parents shovelling chips into their faces, eating cakes and biscuits made me realise that I would end up like them if I did not change.
My mother has joint problems and waddles around the house. She goes to bed at 9pm and wakes up at 8am, watches the television for 10 hours and throws some rubbish on the cooker whenever there is a commercial break.
Then there is my father with low blood pressure, heart problems and type 2 diabetes. The cause of his illnesses? Bad diet. Has his diet changed? Let me see... chips, cakes, biscuits, four fried meals per week cooked in LARD, yes LARD.
My weight is now down to 11st 5.5lbs (159.5lbs or 72.5kg). I am not really dieting any more. I eat when I feel hungry and keep active with vegetable growing, long walks and my renewable energy projects. I am losing excess fat through a healthy lifestyle and nothing more.
Off to Spain again in a few weeks. Either I plonk a deposit on anything half decent or I make a noose with some old sailing rope in the garage. Desperation? You bet! The idea of a canal boat on an English canal is no longer an option. This country is a political, economic and social mess and I would rather die of dehydration in Spain than stay here. If needs be then I will chance it as a gypo (sorry, member of the Diaspora) in a motor home in the Picos de Europa.
From Ireland with Lard by Fatt Monro
Posted by James on Friday, March 13, 2009
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I'm so glad for you it worked that way.
I got diabetes 2 when my weight was 55 kg.
I always eat healthy. I'm a former ballet dancer.
I was as healthy as could be. No cholesterol problems, nothing.
Now I'm 90 kg, my cholesterol is high despite medication (no family problems here), etc etc.
I think we're looking at more than one kind of diabetic obesity.
From the moment that I got diabetes my weight started to rise, my diet still is the same.
Telling my story to others often makes people react who do everything to loose their diabetic weight and it doesn't work.
I had to bicycle 5 days a week two times almost an hour, and had at least one to two hours ballet a day for 6 times a week, and a busy family.
I stopped ballet because of my weight and I still feel very sad about that and the misunderstanding in the media.
Such a thing happening to me is a worry.
That anything I do now, to safeguard my health, is irrelevant due to genetics or the industrialised food and lifestyle industry that I was a part of.
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