The Good Doctor is in for a lifestyle change.
No, not that kind of lifestyle change, silly ... although there is a rather interesting blog post there which will wait for a day down the line.
I have been diagnosed as pre-diabetic.
Here are some numbers for those of you with a frame of reference: my A1C was 6.2 (depending on your scale, "normal" is below either 6 or 7) and my fasting blood sugar was 105 ("normal" is between 60 and 110). Because those numbers are borderlinish, and because my mom and dad both had adult-onset diabetes, he went ahead and diagnosed me.He wants me to see a diabetes dietician (which I will be doing) and start taking metformin (which I am not going to do -- not yet, anyway.) Regardless, my diet is going to have to change, and in researching the dietician's likely suggestions, I was thrown for a nasty loop.
Donuts? Gone. (Actually, all sweets are, for that matter, but the loss of donuts is the only devastating one for me.) Gravy? Gone. White rice? Gone. Pasta? Gone.
And here's a biggie. Alcohol? Gone.
Now, I'm not what I would consider close to being an alcoholic. But every week or two, I want to get shit-faced. So this part of the diabetic diet really, really, REALLY sucks. I sit here wondering how I will fill my own party prescriptions now? And what of biscuits and gravy?
2 comments:
I guess I don't know as much about diabetes as I thought I did. Does the consumption of carbohydrates play a large role in the progression of the disease? Pasta, rice, etc., would not normally occur to me when diabetes is mentioned.
Yes. Carbohydrates -- especially complex carbohydrates -- are hard to break down, and in a diabetic, it's even more difficult. Thus, the need to stay away from bread, potatoes, pasta and rice.
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