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Back on the Atkins Diet after a long hiatus.
Last time I lost 35 lbs in 90 days, took my A1C number from 9.5 down to 6.1. All other numbers were better than before the diet.
This time my weight is back to what it was when I started the diet the first time at 260. My new A1C is 12.8. Donuts, cookies, brownies and pouring bags of sugar down my neck, (or so it seems).
Have never had health insurance so doctor visits were infrequent. Like once every 3 months. $80 a visit for my doctor to spend 5-7 minutes with me.
A month ago I was approved by the VA Clinic for health care. What a great place with great people. My doctor is a Nurse Practitioner who spent over a half hour with me at each of my 2 visits so far.
All my medications were tweaked by a Hospitalist outside the VA when I spent a 3 days as an in-patient. I had chest pain but everything checked out fine except that my electrolytes. They were out of balance but were set right during my stay. My heart is functioning normally, (other than having an EF of 35%), and my enzymes are good.
The VA Clinic has changed my statin medicine from Previstatin to Lipator. They also gave me a blood glucose meter and a target range for my number. In addition, they prescribed and provided me with insulin to inject every evening. I've had it a week but have not used it yet. I have a reason for that.
I stopped eating sugar, bread and other carbs not on the Atkins Induction Phase 1 list On Monday the 14th. Checking my blood glucose twice a day it has been 240-260, 242-230, 192... I'll check it later today hoping for and even lower reading. My average glucose number has been 321 so it's getting better here in the short run.
My goal is to get my glucose numbers down to the 130 range without insulin. That would put at an A1C around 6.2. I've done it before.
I think the problem, and the thing I don't like about the the medical profession as a whole, is they give you nutritional guidelines which included fast carbs and sugar and then prescribe you insulin to counteract the high blood sugar which results. My goal is stop eating sugar forever and follow the Akins guidelines completely.
At any rate, my challenge now is to eat 5 times a day which I'm not used to doing. Typically I eat nothing until dinnertime and then gorge until I hate myself. I didn't eat breakfast this morning unless you count about 4 oz. of cheese as a breakfast.
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260.0 lb
Lost so far: 10.0 lb.
Still to go: 90.0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 16 July 2014:
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1177 kcal
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Fat: 86.98g | Prot: 83.86g | Carb: 10.58g.
Lunch: Slim Jim Beef 'N Cheese. Dinner: Lipton Diet Iced Tea with Lemon, Mozzarella Cheese, Ground Beef (80% Lean / 20% Fat, Patty, Cooked, Broiled), Italian Salad Dressing, Italian Salad Dressing, Iceberg Lettuce (Includes Crisphead Types), Iceberg Lettuce (Includes Crisphead Types). Snacks/Other: Ground Beef (80% Lean / 20% Fat, Patty, Cooked, Broiled), Sugardale Hard Salami. more...
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losing 0.0 lb a week
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