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Susanna77 · 04-27-2009, 09:41 PM

Update:

Today is the first day my mind feels sharper. Yesterday I hit rock bottom. No energy, depression but no brain fog as such, just sleepiness. I'm not sure if today's improvement is due to medication - "metformin" - or because I haven't been eating sugary foods. (I always feel very low when I come off sugar).

I'm a very big believer in synchronicity and law of attraction and the day after I went to the doctor I put a book on diabetes on my shop's counter to read later. A client that had been in the day before came in again to ask something and noticed it. She apologised for being nosey but she'd would like to know why was I going to read that book. So I told her and as it happened she was a retired nurse and diabetic. I got lots of good advice and she offered to send me a glucometer from the UK! (I was going to buy one...no such thing as freebies in my country).

Also, a lot has been said about raw food/veggies vs protein in this thread. I'd just like to throw this into the discussion:

I'm from the south of Portugal where we have a mediterranean diet. I was always fat (well from age 3). So was my dad. My childhood friends always ate far more than I did and their parents were already taking on bad food habits, such as fried food, sugar drinks and lots of white bread. Not to mention sweets, including sugar in breakfast cereal and yogurts. Yes some had rotten teeth but they were slim. I was fat and my parents were careful with what they gave me (saying that I had a huge appetite, but then again, so did my friends).

My dad sometimes used to comment how his thin as an insect friends could devour so much food without putting weight on...(my dad loved salads and fruit more than a plate of chips, a rare thing in our house).

My dad was a farmer. Everything that entered my house was organic: meat, fruit and vegetables.

I think the trend nowadays is to blame today's eating habits, but that doesn't explain everything. I am 32 and until the age of 20 my diet was probably 85% organic (if not more). Maybe sometimes our bodies have these "faults" and need to be corrected (either with medication or food choices...and maybe some healing using the power of the mind).

04-27-2009, 09:41 PM	#18 (permalink)
Susanna77 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 273	Update: Today is the first day my mind feels sharper. Yesterday I hit rock bottom. No energy, depression but no brain fog as such, just sleepiness. I'm not sure if today's improvement is due to medication - "metformin" - or because I haven't been eating sugary foods. (I always feel very low when I come off sugar). I'm a very big believer in synchronicity and law of attraction and the day after I went to the doctor I put a book on diabetes on my shop's counter to read later. A client that had been in the day before came in again to ask something and noticed it. She apologised for being nosey but she'd would like to know why was I going to read that book. So I told her and as it happened she was a retired nurse and diabetic. I got lots of good advice and she offered to send me a glucometer from the UK! (I was going to buy one...no such thing as freebies in my country). Also, a lot has been said about raw food/veggies vs protein in this thread. I'd just like to throw this into the discussion: I'm from the south of Portugal where we have a mediterranean diet. I was always fat (well from age 3). So was my dad. My childhood friends always ate far more than I did and their parents were already taking on bad food habits, such as fried food, sugar drinks and lots of white bread. Not to mention sweets, including sugar in breakfast cereal and yogurts. Yes some had rotten teeth but they were slim. I was fat and my parents were careful with what they gave me (saying that I had a huge appetite, but then again, so did my friends). My dad sometimes used to comment how his thin as an insect friends could devour so much food without putting weight on...(my dad loved salads and fruit more than a plate of chips, a rare thing in our house). My dad was a farmer. Everything that entered my house was organic: meat, fruit and vegetables. I think the trend nowadays is to blame today's eating habits, but that doesn't explain everything. I am 32 and until the age of 20 my diet was probably 85% organic (if not more). Maybe sometimes our bodies have these "faults" and need to be corrected (either with medication or food choices...and maybe some healing using the power of the mind).