[Sca-cooks] dr checkup results - just want to share good news

[Elaine Koogler]

nickiandme at att.net wrote:

>Okay, had my checkup this morning and I just want to share the good news!  Many of you may or may not know that I was diagnosed as a diabetic 3 months ago. I had gone to spend the night in the hospital because I thought I might be having a heart attack - the left arm went numb while I was driving home from a particularly bad day at work - so I started to panic - I didn't really know what was going on.  Brought on a full-blown panic attack.  Anyway - got diagnosed with really high blood sugars.  Had an A1c of 9.3 at the time.  This morning - my A1c was 5.6! And I have lost 4 more pounds - the hard way (through diet and exercise.)  I'm on the right track.  I have to increase my exercise level again and the weight might come off at a pound a week instead of half-pound, but coming off it is.  
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>So, just wanted to share my good news with the world.  I know that I have been looking at the existing medieval recipes and looking for more that are low carb or low-GI index based when I am designing menus and trying to redact new recipes.  And there are a lot more of them out there than I thought at first.  So, that's the good news.  That also means my future feasts will be designed with extra attention paid to the carb-count so that I can eat of it safely, not just cook it for others to eat!
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>Anyway - just wanted to share good news with everyone.  
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>Kateryn
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Congratulations!  That's wonderful news.  We have a household member who 
was diagnosed as diabetic and placed on a regimen of insulin.  He was 
also told to lose weight...so he tried the South Beach diet.  He's lost 
lots of weight and has brought his blood sugar down to a point that 
they've taken him off of the drugs!

Kiri