Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Diabetic?

Thursday, April 1, 2010

[fast5] Re: Diabetic?

this article on PCOS might help
http://www.westonaprice.org/Polycystic-Ovarian-Syndrome-PCOS.html

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "afwitmer" <afwitmer@...> wrote:
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> Ellen, I am not doing anything except fast-5 and trying to lose wieght. My doctor has prescribed Metformin for my Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome, and she said it also could stave off diabetes for a while. I do not want to take that stuff, I am scared of it.
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Ellen Ussery <ellen.ussery@> wrote:
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> > What else are you doing about your blood sugar? IMO you will have to be low
> > carb and high fat. Track your PP for a while to see your patterns and which
> > foods "work" for you and which do not.
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> > I found I had high blood sugars after being on Fast-5 for 6 months . I was
> > even eating low carb at the time. It has taken me two years to get my blood
> > sugar to stay below 100. During that time I tried a number of things and was
> > on and off Fast 5 several times, experimenting with various approaches. Am
> > doing Fast-5 again now and so far blood sugar is still good. I eat very
> > low carb and high saturated fat and take something called Insulow (R Alpha
> > Lipoic Acid and Evening Primrose Oil). Everybody is different, so you will
> > just have to experiment and also understand that healing your liver, which
> > is usually the problem in early blood sugar dysregulation, takes some time.
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> > I started a yahoo group for this issue
> > www.bloodsugarthinktank@yahoogroups.com
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> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:52 PM, afwitmer <afwitmer@> wrote:
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> > > I am back on fast-5 again after a break. I did not know that I had
> > > diabetes. My doctor took my A1C in January and it was 5.9 However, I have
> > > had gestational diabetes 3 times in the last 6 years or so. I am not
> > > pregnant now.
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> > > This morning I took my blood sugar, after fasting for about 11 hours or so
> > > and it was 129 !!!!!!! And that was fasting!!!! I took it another time
> > > before that and it was 119!!!! Whoa! Does anything change for me with this
> > > diet/lifestyle if I have diabetes OR pre-diabetes?
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