ANOTHER VERY SPECIFIC UNINTERESTING YOU MAY WISH TO SKIP

 I was chatting with my sister yesterday.  She mentioned that she had been reading a nutritionist's opinion about low carb/keto diets.  And as usual the nutritionist was saying that the diet, I prefer 'way of eating' usually, was not sustainable.  True.  I agree with that statement.  It's a tough way to eat forever! 

So I got thinking about it in the night.  Nutritionists put such a negative spin on low carb eating.  I was up before dawn this morning and decided to find a positive report on low carbing from a nutritionist.  I didn't find even one written by an actual nutritionist.  Not one.  They all concentrate on the fact that it isn't sustainable and make it sound like you're nuts if you are going to try it.

So I abandoned nutritionists and skipped to medical professionals and specialists.  What a difference!!!  I ended up reading an in depth report from Harvard.  I learned even more about this way of eating.

The one that came out on top after many many group tests done by various universities was the low carb keto diet.  Second was low carb diet.  The next group were general diets like low carb Mediterranean, paleo etc...and at the very bottom of the list, in fact they were ineffective, were Low Fat and the American diabetes diet.  hahahaha!!!  Think Trump will fix it?  Just possibly Canada's diabetic diet isn't any better.

But everyone, including the above, know that it isn't easily sustainable, not even when your life depends on it. Can you imagine a whole life (I started this type of dieting to control my weight at 24...successfully I might add til I was forty plus) not ever eating a potato or a banana or gravy and Yorkshire puddings, or pancakes or bread of any kind etc...for the rest of your life?  Not likely to happen. 

 When I made the decision that Dr. Atkins was second only to Ohm, I read all the medical details and launched into a pretty successful way of eating til having a baby or two around 38, having all things female removed throwing me into menopause, and then quitting smoking, kinda sunk me for a while.  Even then though I got back on the carbless train and lost a lot of weight. Then got type 2 diabetes which I have learned causes weight gain in some of us.  I gave up.  I chose being happy over strict deprived eating 100% of the time. I consciously made an exception or two. If we are making a trip to Nanaimo Costco I am going to eat hot dogs and gravied fries thank you very much.

Now that Monte has moved permanently upstairs, he and I are going to share this upstairs bathroom.  And, after a severe scary cleaning, Ange will have the downstairs bathroom.  She is very excited!  I didn't realize having to share the upstairs one bothered her so much.  I should have figured that out.  Poor girl!  But holy hell..I won't even begin to describe what needs doing down there before that can happen!!!

Well I am HUNGRY!!!  Around five thirty this morning I sliced up a third of a pepper (5 carbs), one medium zucchini (5 carbs), 3 eggs (3 carbs), 3/4 cup of cheese, one tablespoon sugar free ketchup (2 carbs) and made an omelet.  And there is the 15 carbs of the twenty I eat every day before my sugars start to go up.  I ate half.  Now I shall eat the other half for lunch.  Supper will be fish and broccoli.  No carbs in fish and five in the broccoli.  Blech!!!!!

Well there you go...way more than you ever wanted to know about low carbing and my way of eating meal of the day.  

I must now go and get dressed and do my hair.  Ange and I have a busy afternoon.  Coffee at the Steampunk, pharmacist for new diabetes stuff, another pharmacy for Ange's sharps container switcheroo, a life lab appointment for her then the dollar store!!  Exciting!!!

TFL & TTYL

'Maybe psychopaths are just people on a low carb sugar free diet.'  anon

ps:  I was reading that women's personal hygiene stuff were going to be free.  Given how many millions of us are type two it would sure be nice to get a little help there.  I sure as heck didn't give myself diabetes!!!  As the doctor says some people have smaller livers and they are like sugar canisters, when they get full boom!!!  Type two!!!  My test strips cost me 150 per month and my pills for diabetes are 250.   400 per month.  I know people personally that skip pills and don't check their blood sugar levels often enough because it is so danged expensive.