Grazing All Hours, Scheduled Punctual Meals Are Recent Development

What you can figure out on your own is that your body was not made to handle all this sugar and milled flour and essentially quit putting up with your "modern" diet and your obesity and much of it now refuses to work in the traditional manner... Your body went on with this as long as it could and has now gone on a "strike" so to speak. Your body refuses to go back unless you make some considerable changes in working conditions...

Your body has given up on trying to maintain normal glucose levels to protect your susceptible body organs and has succumbed to being overwhelmed. What ever comes in now essentially runs amuck since the body no longer assumes much of any responsibility for its control.

One of your choices is to settle for a treatment where you precisely measure, record, and try to parcel out exactly how much you can get away with on the continuing the consuming of your modified conventional diet with out your body's adverse reaction. Your diabetic deterioration continues, and if you do everything perfect, matching medications, glucose and timing, at best you only slow the diseases progression down.

Your doctor will give you medications to get your bodily organs under drugs to do more then they want, so that you can continue to eat at least some of your "modern foods" and treats. These prescription drugs give you new problems you never had before (often worse then the illness) that are a direct result of the medication often administered solely so you can continue closer to your old life style.

Your doctor knows you are likely too obstinate and set in your ways and are not going to change your lifestyle as much as necessary to correct the problems for your body on your own. Therefore his only alternative is to try to help you extend your life with drugs as you continue on the life style that gave you diabetes.

The other alternative which we tell you about here is the major change of lifestyle, something you will resist because you absolutely do not want to change.

Well, there are a lot smokers that are just like you. They liked pleasurably puffing away on their cigarettes even though they well knew it was killing them. Many refused to take action right away and we continue to bury them every day. Many went down to two or three cigarettes a day.

They said maybe later they would quit. It was "just too hard to quit". So far so good....no harm yet....Or they joked you have to die of something, They knew no one else could change their smoking for them. They had to do it themselves but would just not or could not get the self discipline to get around to make the needed major effort necessary.

When you are still just cutting down on your old life style, you are like the two or three cigarettes a day, you are just delaying it or slowing it down.

To be affective you have to totally get off your old life style, your only chance to totally stop the progression of damage and then enable you to be able to start to work to undo the damage already done.

Making this major life change is painful, expensive, inconvenient, time consuming, hard work, distasteful, makes you less popular and ruins your life plans. We call it "a hard sell".

He has 15 minutes tops to write you a prescription, convince you your illness is bad enough that you definitely need to fill it and take it timely and come back in a month or two to see if he needs to write you a different or additional prescription.

Your doctor will likely order some tests to see if you are making progress in getting your diabetes runaway blood sugar levels under control.

Nobody in the medical field would ever think of or mentions the words "stopping the progression" or "curing your diabetes".

We have been discussing the Hunter Gatherer diet system that worked (and still works for Aborigines, and other remnants of that type of "caveman" hunter gatherer civilizations still found around the world.)

One diabetes book explains the story of a study on ten Aborigines (Australia's pre white man natives) who moved to town and after a period on the western diet had developed diabetes.

Switched back in a study to their hunter gatherer native diet, they had all ten recovered from diabetes within a year.

You and I have inherited a body system developed from their type of lifestyle for hundreds of thousands of years.

With Effort we can learn and adopt it to our modern life and super market. Your author and publisher here never invented this. Tens of thousands have already found this solution. Recipes and suggestions abound. We call it to your attention because you may not hear of it unless you hear it here. Our mission is to educate and motivate.

The idea of man eating three punctual meals daily did not even originate until the Industrial Age.

Looking at the Caveman's diet, he went looking for something to eat whenever he was hungry. He did not sit down to eat because it was "time to eat". Finding food was a lot of work so he likely quit or slowed the effort whenever he took the edge off his hunger

A diabetic needs to know that the old habit of "stuff yourself at the evening meal particularly has to stop." You have to deal with something as a diabetic called the Chinese Food affect. It simply means that a diabetic that stuffs himself (even with sawdust) gets very high blood sugar. The STUFFING causes the high blood sugar, all by itself, Add in some big carbs and you can go off the charts. So merely eat to the point to quench hunger, no more scheduled stuffing yourself.

We need to look at and consider (at least temporarily until you whip this thing) looking and not only eating (diet) what the caveman ate, because we know your body is equipped to easily handle that, but using the same method of determining when and how much to eat.

The Caveman used something called "grazing". Simply means he just ate as he went along all day long whenever he could and was hungry no matter about time of the day etc..

Therefore here is my grazing system as I have developed it which is not perfect and will work on it further but is what I use for now and may give you some starting points to develop your "grazing system."

Boil a dozen eggs. They keep for days un-refrigerated when hard boiled. Now caveman likely never boiled his but I boil mine. I eat four or five eggs a day many days.

By the way, Caveman did little cooking which is also part of your "modern man" problem. Modern man figured out you could quickly absorb more of the calories from food if it was cooked. So skip cooking when you can....boiling eggs keeps them from spoiling....

These boiled eggs come in handy when on the road particularly. Get hungry, peel and pop one in while you drive. You can even carry hard boiled eggs in your pocket. Satisfies your hunger for some time. (Caveman obviously ate lots of eggs, he could readily climb a tree and steal those from many birds, reptiles etc.)

(if you are still hung up on the "eggs are bad for you myth", you better get that idea out of your system if you want to work thru your diabetes.)

Note: A US citizen captured and held for ransom for six months in South America was fed almost nothing but eggs for the six months. When he was captured his Cholesterol was 250. When he was released after six months of almost nothing but eggs it was 125.

No records of anyone dying from eating too many eggs. Lots of records, of people dying from too high and too low blood sugar. Eggs digest relatively slowly and level your blood sugar unlike other sugary snacks you have been eating.

Next comes nuts. I have about ten varieties, many un-roasted. On the road almonds travel the best. Cashews and peanuts do not technically fit the caveman list of nuts. (probably still far better then most other snacks you have been eating.) A very small handful of nuts will hold your hunger for a while. Never mind the fat...it is what is filling and lasts...nothing compared to the carb calories you have cut out.

Also the pistachios that you have to shell...great to stave off hunger. Also seeds like sunflower seeds. etc. etc. You can snack on these all you want.

Remember unsalted. Cave man had little or no source of salt. Most every prepared food has salt added. Avoid it. That is what the caveman diet is all about. Avoiding this stuff your body was not designed to handle.

Caveman ate very little fruit because it was not in season very much of the year. Part of my health formula was to eat grapes every day and worked very well for me (except this onset of diabetes aberration) Cavemen likely found a few grapes out of season dried on the vine...(I do not like raisins)

Some moderns find the same health stuff is in wine and drink wine to extend their life expectancy to obtain what is in grapes....but most say alcohol and diabetics do not go together well, (and besides cave man never had wine) That leaves me grapes... essentially I pretty much cut fruit out of my diet except 15 grapes a time or two a day...that's all the sugar I can handle at once. If necessary will cut them out, but milk was a big big cut for me, and I still do the whole pulp orange juice daily because I take vitamins and supplements in powdered form...(can not swallow pills because of a Hiatus Hernia Esophogitus, you do not want to know.) and it is an easy way to mix, (shake up) and take this stuff. I have also been a great believer in orange juice and it is on my cut off list here if necessary.. No, I do not eat berries. allergic to berries...dam

Next for mixing in some terrible tasting supplements....(powder) I make a bowl of Jell-O non sugar fat free chocolate pudding. Makes four servings of 35 calories each chocolate pudding, mostly food starch and cocoa. I even throw in some whole milk and extra unsweetened cocoa. Caveman didn't eat that either but he ate enough insects so he did not need supplements and beside he did not have diabetes that depletes a lot of nutrients so I have to supplement vitamins etc. A half serving of this Jell-O helps the old chocolate urge and I can tolerate taking these stirred in powdered supplements. Dark chocolate is supposedly very good for you. I can cut this one out easily too if necessary. No sweat.

Apple Sauce and Cinnamon

Next I buy these cardboard things that have six little cups of unsweetened apple sauce. (my other fruit concession) I use this for powdered mixing in supplements (i pull the capsule apart to dump the powder) but mainly I use apple sauce as a reminder to get my 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon a day. Actually I only add 1/6 teaspoon 3 times a day to these concoctions and get it that way. Studies show 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon a day lowers your blood sugar as much as 30%. Maybe more lowers it more who knows...but I settle on the half teaspoon. Makes for another snack when I get the hunger creeping up.

For lunch I poach or fry (virgin olive oil) 3 eggs for lunch. Nothing else but a glass of water with a teaspoon of Metamucil because you need extra fiber with each major eat fest to slow down your digesting process and that's all this is.....fiber. They claim this addition of fiber will cut your sugar peaks 20% to 30%

Also try to drink another glass of water with the meal etc.

One Small Wing All By It Self Will Hold You For Quite a While Usually have one of those supermarket roasted chickens in the fridge and one wing or something when hunger strikes...will get me out of the fridge and forget it for a while. I do not use a combination of these snacks. If it is a chicken wing that is it.

Also I try to open a 98 cent can of sardines once a week and eat a few of those as snacks during the day. I Also take a portion of a teaspoon every few days of emulsified Cod Liver Oil. (Caution...fish oil tends to raise you blood sugar reading). Learn how much you can take without affecting your readings. Caveman caught (grabbed or speared likely) a few fresh fish...but not convenient for me right now... Retire and fish later....

The secret is just eat one of these things each time you get hungry and by normal evening meal time I am not really all that hungry. A small grazing snack will do there too almost. Actually when eating meals it is recommended you mix fiberous and meat or other slow digesting food with fast digesting foods to slowdown the whole operation.

Another sit on your desk item for a snack is 3 or 4 baby carrots, celery, etc and a whole milk yogurt dip. Add a little garlic or something to the yogurt. (garlic gets credit for lowering your blood sugar by a few points) Since I am now semi on the Caveman formula as I see it.. (there are several caveman eating diets you can buy on the net, in books etc) this dip trick helps me get a few veggies and more fiber. The little bit of yogurt may help with my calcium.

By the way every time you eat (graze etc.) something, drink at least one full glass of water. Do not forget to add Metamucil or Citracil to your glass of water before meals for the fiber. I keep forgetting it....

This is just another thing that helps lower your blood sugar and to be able to get off the meds that are bad news.)

Actually I cut my meds in half eventually and when I got things under control (losing weight and diet) enough I found I could test and find my blood sugar within limits without the meds.

Basically, I guess I probably eat something every two hours, or if busy go four hours, etc. You just eat (graze enough) to take the edge off of hunger. You never have as a result any big rises in sugar and you never hit the skids completely either. Your system never gets these crash needs to handle huge amounts of sugar etc. just like the caveman never had these problems either.

So far, I have lost over two pounds a week.. (down from 250) goal is to get down to 200 eating this way.

Found it impossible to lose weight on the double medication I warned about. (got off all medication) From all my reading up on the subject and talking to diabetics, losing weight by at least ten per cent is crucial to your success in controlling your diabetes. When I lost ten per cent of my body weight is when it became easier to control my blood sugar without medication.

Yes, I work seven days a week and used to out last all employees... Now I have to slow down in the afternoon and let them do most of the physical effort. (since diabetes). I am 77 which was not the reason for the slow down, diabetes is. Not going to be able to do much about the 77, and I am seriously working on dumping the diabetes.. On the medications when things were not in control as well as now I used to have to go home about 3:30 I was starting to get so tired I felt I might fall over. On medications I also had my blood sugar go dangerously low three times. Getting off medications stopped hypoglycemia, I had enough problems without that safety hazard.

Exercise is absolutely essential to your success (more self discipline and work) and we will take that up elsewhere. Future Issue.

If you have managed people all your life, you will now find yourself the hardest person to manage and motivate of your career. Getting Yourself to Do What Needs To Be Done

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