Healing Type 1 Diabetes

Friday - Why Can't I Eat Junk Food Like Everybody Else?

Do you sometimes get jealous and wish you could eat junk food like everybody else? Occasionally that happens to me. Eating out with friends, picking up Taco Bell for the family, looking at the junk food in the breakroom... Sometimes self-pity hits for a minute and I wish I could be carefree about what I put into my mouth like everybody else seems to be. Some even seem to get away with it and stay slim and look happy.

But then I realize that it will catch up with everyone eventually if it hasn't already. Why else are chronic diseases on the rise - like diabetes (type 2 mostly), cancer, obesity, allergies, etc. I even read an article recently about how the high starchy carb diet is the main cause of macular degeneration. Most people my age are taking statins or betablockers or some other legal drug. I am taking insulin, true. But my doctor wanted to put me on statins also at one point, no longer.

So, then I snap out of my momentary self pity and realize as a raw foodist (being lucky enough to discover and enjoy this lifestyle) I am enjoying life as a whole and the tastes of 'real food' much more than most people.

• 6:40 am - 259 - 2 units
• 10:00 am - 3 1/2 bananas - 7 units
• 12:00 pm - green salad with olive oil & lemon - 2 units
• 3:45 pm - 136
• 7:20 pm - 234 - raw bar & fruit smoothie - 8 units
• 10:00 pm - 10 units lantus

Monday - Missing Cooked Food, My Old Friend

Sometimes I miss cooked food like an old friend. But then I realize that this friend wasn't kind to me. In the past when I would give in and revisit my old friend, I would always regret it. Raw food is my new friend and it is much nicer to me.

Saturday & Sunday - I know these numbers don't look great, but when I eat cooked foods it is even worse with numbers in the 300s and higher. That's how unkind cooked food is to me. I ate salads, green smoothies, 2 raw bars, some raw peanuts, a couple squares of raw chocolate, a few raw olives, and 2 bananas dipped in raw chocolate. I do need to cut back on the raw chocolate and it is getting less appealing to me. It is mostly a transitional food.

• 9:30 am - 213
• 1:00 pm - 95
• 3:30 pm - 43
• 7:00 pm - 201
• 9:15 pm - 218
• 1:15 am - 210
• 10:30 am - 149
• 11:30 am - 167
• 5:30 pm - 213
• 9:45 pm - 244

Today - The kids are out of school today for Veteran's day so I slept in a little. But it threw me off my schedule & I forgot to test this morning or take my meter to work. I went home during lunch and got my meter.

• 12:00 am - 155
• 1:00 pm - 122 - 2 1/2 bananas - 5 units
• 4:15 pm - 159 - 1 apple - 2 units
• 8:00 pm - 75 - smoothie made up of young coconut water & meat, 2 1/2 frozen smoothies, 3 frozen strawberries, 1/3 package of frozen mango, small container of fresh pineapple - so yummy!! - 5 units
• 11:50 pm - 291 - 2 units - 10 units lantus