Yeah, I'm not as thrilled with the results as I probably should be. I do tend to be all or nothing, sigh. But yes, overall, this is a good start. I've lost 3 pounds and my blood sugar dropped 95 points in a week even though I got rid of 2 out of 3 pills. I started out completely med free but added one back on the third day because it wasn't dropping at all.
It really hasn't been all that difficult to stick to. There have been a couple small moments when someone was eating something horrible and delicious and I thought, oh I wish, but I didn't and it passed quickly so no big deal. Having substitutes has really helped; for the most part, I don't feel like I'm on a diet or anything. If I'm wanting a little something bread-like, I have a few of my garlic cheese crackers, which, by the way, are more like flat little biscuits but they taste wonderful. I did go ahead and order some xylitol (birch sugar, doesn't raise glucose levels) and a "cooking with coconut flour" cookbook since my baking experiments with almond flour haven't been great. The zucchini bread I made tasted good but was so soggy by the second day, I couldn't bring myself to eat any more of it. It looked like canned dog food, yuck. So I should have my orders in by next weekend and I'll play around with a few recipes and review. If I can get several different substitutes for true bread-y items like muffins and pizza dough that actually taste somewhat like the real thing, staying on this should be a breeze. Woohoo! Healthy, thin and diabetes-free, here I come!
No comments:
Post a Comment