Last week the admin of NEWSTART® Insights said he sent out an email to NEWSTART® program alumni, inviting them to join this Facebook group. He must have succeeded, because the group jumped from 30-something to way over 100 members. Well, a couple of weeks ago I asked about coconut oil and got this response: “Sorry…
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.
Facebook Drama
I have been following NEWSTART® Insights on Facebook for a couple a weeks now. I am careful not to express my own opinions but rather just to ask questions, to try to start (or add to) conversations. There was this person, Terri Gleadell Wallace, who posted, said she had never attended a NEWSTART® session but had…
From January to February
So…I’ve completed four full weeks of a food journal, with grams and percentages of carbohydrates, fat, and protein, and continuing with recording blood glucose readings and insulin dosages. I’m feeling more than a little depressed right now because I’ve gained weight instead of losing, even though my blood glucose numbers are coming down a bit….
NEWSTART® Insights
I need to just start this day completely over! Woke up with a migraine, could not get into computer for an hour and half, and then discovered that my trusty Joomla editor was not working and the rest of the day was consumed with that! The first re-broadcast of City Church Online failed, and the…
Stopped Glipizide
I have been uneasy about glipizide for some time, since glipizide stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas. I have come to view glipizide as something that is forcing my pancreas to produce more insulin when my problem is insulin resistance. Over the past several months, I have gradually decreased my dosage from 15mg/day…
January Health Status
I am an obese Type 2 diabetic. I am hearing-challenged and sight-challenged. I’m also a chronic migraineur. Like many diabetics, I have also been diagnosed with and am on prescription medication for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high triglycerides. I have nasal allergies. I also have frozen shoulder (right side) due to an injury I sustained in a fall…
A Short History
My Type 2 Diagnosis I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in September of 2000, just before going on a weekend campout with a group of women. I remember that when I told Dr. John Duge, our pastor, I bemoaned that I would never be able to have Almond Roca again, and he laughed, thinking…
Present Truth
Wikipedia defines “present truth” (in Adventist theology) as “a belief in truth as appropriate to any given time.” But it is the dietary approach to diabetes management that especially needs application of present truth as I continue to research and sort through the plethora of conflicting ideas. Eden diet? Clean meat? Vegetarian? Vegan? Weimar/NEWSTART diet? Atkins…
Year Without Carbs
Last year (2014), my ex-pastor friend Ryan Bell* decided to try “a year without God.” “For the next 12 months I will live as if there is no God,” he wrote. “I will not pray, read the Bible for inspiration, refer to God as the cause of things, or hope that God might intervene and…