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….
Category: NEWSTART®
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…
May Conference Call
What follows are notes that I took in real time during the NEWSTART® conference call today. I’m presenting my notes pretty much as I took them, except for making two observations: First, it is totally erroneous to describe low-carb approach as “low-carb, high-fat, high-protein.” Dr. Atkins may have been high-protein in the beginning, but a true…
Easter Sunday
I still have frozen shoulder. I still get migraines approximately 15 days out of every 30. My biggest challenge is still exercise. I only averaged 21 min. daily, where it should be a minimum of 30 minutes. Now that the days are longer, I really have no excuse! Except today when it is raining. In…
More About NEWSTART®
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…
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…