Tonight is New Year’s Eve, and we’ve just come back from an early party at the senior citizens’ group. I was lucky that there were big bowls of green salad on the buffet table, so I filled my plate. Then I topped the salad with 1/4 c. of potato salad, just to see what would…
Author: Jacquie
I am a wife, mother, grandmother, pet co-parent, web designer, copy editor, type 2 diabetic, migraineur, and chronic pain warrior. In seeking to reverse diabetes, I have become in search of healing for myself and my family.
A Look Back at the Year
Tonight is New Year’s Eve, and we’ve just come back from an early party at the senior citizens’ group. I was lucky that there were big bowls of green salad on the buffet table, so I filled my plate. Then I topped the salad with 1/4 c. of potato salad, just to see what would…
Two Months to Go
I still have my ups and downs. Some days I’m ecstatic to have blood glucose readings–even fasting–under 100 and to see the scales show less than 150 lbs.! Other days I’m distressed and discouraged to see blood glucose spikes too far above 140 and the scales again over 150. At the moment, I do not…
Another Milestone
First ever “normal” FBG. This is in spite of cutting my metformin dosage in half at the beginning of this month. (I was getting tired of the daily diarrhea!) Also, I’m aiming for 80% fat and 25g carbs. I’m putting up with the resulting migraines as long as I have migraine medication (sumatriptan). For now….
Weekend of Inspiration
My original intent for this blog was to post a minimum of once a month, at the beginning of each month, to report on my progress. After the disappointing lab test results in June, I was majorly bummed, not even wanting to post any more! I didn’t post in July, mainly due to vacation, nor…
Over Halfway
It’s been several weeks since my last blog post here, mostly because I’ve been on vacation, plus consumed with getting ready for vacation and then recovering from vacation once we got home! Also because things have pretty much leveled out on a plateau. A plateau that I’m not satisfied with, but have to accept nonetheless….
Is This Progress?
Today I got an email from a doctor in Dr. Chan’s office (who wrote to me in her absence) the following: “I’m Dr. Douk, covering for Dr. Chan while she is out. Your thyroid test showed that your levothyroxine dose might be a little high for you now. I have reordered a new lower dose…
Increasingly Disappointed with NEWSTART®
I’ve pretty much given up on NEWSTART® being any source of information on reversing diabetes. The admins of the NEWSTART® Insights Facebook group are totally clueless as to how to run a successful Facebook group and the members are just as ditzy. There was no mention of the supposedly scheduled conference call on the third Wednesday of June,…
Conversation on NEWSTART® Insights
Me: Tom, you said in a recent newsletter, “50% of type II diabetics who adopt the NEWSTART® Lifestyle are off their insulin and medications in as little as 18 days.” I’m wondering about the other 50%. What challenges did they face that prevented their success, and what advice and encouragement would successful Reversing Diabetes alumni…
NEWSTART® Insights Update
Three things have just happened with NEWSTART® Insights. The first was that the creator of the group and original admin, Spencer Freed, said he is getting off Facebook but he created a “fake” Spencer Freed account that he said could be used to contact him “only in this group.” I’m not sure how that was supposed…