Don't ignore your health, if you have the money go see a doctor if you haven't......



heavyt said:
Going to the diabetes clinic today and I'm getting a fasting blood test done.
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Good luck with your test, and let us know how it turned out.

This thread has given me food for thought (pun), and I realized that sometimes the people we hang out with can be a bad influence. For example, a friend of mind who is now morbidly obese and diabetic encourages me to gorge along with her when we eat out. This was funny when we were kids, but now it's scary and I don't want to wind up like her. How am I supposed to react when she orders four courses for herself and two desserts while diabetic?

This thread has inspired me to buy a treadmill. Been checking on Craig's List for a used one.
 
Step 1: Go to Bodybuilding.com - The Future Of Bodybuilding! Huge Bodybuilding Site.

Step 2: Go to "Super Site"

Step 3: Go to "Nutrition"

Step 4: Grab a gallon of water and start reading every article that is there.

I use to weight 260 pounds at close to 20% body fat.

I am now at 180 and 8% body fat.

Just knowing what you put in your mouth and how it effects your physiology will do wonders for your new eating plan as well as your overall mental / physical well being.

You will have more energy, be in a better mood, and develop a new found excitement for life that will translate into higher earning for your internet business.

I wish you the best of luck with your new found illness and I hope that it will actually be a blessing in disguise in some form or another.

Take care and you will be in my meditations :-)

-Ryan
 
rawservices said:
Just knowing what you put in your mouth and how it effects your physiology will do wonders for your new eating plan as well as your overall mental / physical well being.

You will have more energy, be in a better mood, and develop a new found excitement for life that will translate into higher earning for your internet business.
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This!!! ^^^^^^^^
 
So with all these suggestions heavyt, what exactly do you plan on doing?

Did you lay down some basic plan to restore your health? Complex procedures with doctors? Diet change? Lifestyle change?
 
My dad was diagnosed with type 2 at 62 yrs old. He just hit 63, and within half a year, he has it under control. He was insane though, he would literally drink at least 6 ginger ale's a night, a ton of beer, and had a poor diet. With replacing ginger ale with water, and not eating a shitty breakfast, and slowing a bit down on the beer, he's improved big time and has no signs of diabetes (although you always have it).
 
went to the doc today and my sugar was 242 from fasting for 18 hours so I def have it. Went to see the dietitian and the nurse and I'm changing the way I eat and some of the things I eat.
 
heavyt said:
went to the doc today and my sugar was 242 from fasting for 18 hours so I def have it. Went to see the dietitian and the nurse and I'm changing the way I eat and some of the things I eat.
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Hi T, I would ask that you read this article and then study up on Hypoglycemia along with the Diabetes. This should keep you balanced when controlling the diabetes & your blood sugar levels so that they stay steady and not too high or low.

Hypoglycemia Causes, Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatment on MedicineNet.com

I will bullet point what others have said that have helped me:

1.) REGULAR exercise of some sort EVERYDAY. Shit, get an MP3 player and listen to business stuff on whatever topic you need to learn more on to help with your campaigns so that you don't feel like you are "Losing Money" or "Wasting Time" by taking time away from the computer while out walking or running.

2.) EAT your 3 squares a day with healthy snacks in between.

I use to eat just 1 or maybe 2 LARGE meals a day. I was rarely hungry, but once I did start to eat I just kept on for like 20 minutes. It was insane.

I had to FORCE myself to eat. I would look at the food and think, "I AM NOT HUNGRY!! I do NOT want to eat!! SHIT!!"

I started by fixing a regular sized meal and then eating only half at the sitting and then saving the other half to eat 3 hours later. I started eating 6 times a day by doing this. My calorie intake stayed the same but I had fuel in my body constantly and my metabolism sped up. No more of that "Sleepy" feeling after a large meal or the inevitable HEARTBURN.

It took about 2 weeks to get used to. I started by like just cutting a Tuna sandwich in half for meal one and the other half was for later. I did that with burgers and Steaks as well. I started just eating ONE PIECE of with some veggies instead of say 3 pieces and potatoes & gravy.

3.) Water and NATURAL FRUIT juices are your friends. I have always liked getting the unfiltered apple juice or the orange juice with a lot of pulp form the store if I was unable to make my own.

4.) Complex carbohydrates are better than simple sugars.

5.) SLEEP!!!!!! This IS the tough one here!! In our Industry money never sleeps and neither does the Internet. But "YOU" absolutely HAVE TO SLEEP!! When I first started IM I would go 28 to 40 hours straight without sleep using Mt. Dew & Copenhagen Snuff to stay awake and to also keep hunger at bay. (No time to eat, I'M BUSY damnit!! Lulz) When I did finally crash it could be for just 2 hours (If interrupted by something.) or 9 hours and I would repeat the cycle again. I did this for YEARS and it finally started to wear on me.

Our body repairs itself as we sleep "AND" it is during REM sleep that our BRAIN stores INFORMATION PROPERLY so we can retrieve it later when we need it. You need to get into PROLONGED REM sleep. Which means "NO TV ON" to go to sleep by!! This was VERY tough for me at first. I found a pretty good CD to help me get to sleep and stay there [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Ebb-Flow-Gordon-Hempton/dp/B000003IMS/ref=pd_sim_m_3]Amazon.com: Ebb and Flow: Gordon Hempton: Music[/ame] . I bought it years ago when I was in outside sales and traveling to help me sleep in a different bed & place with unfamiliar sounds every night. Having the SAME nature sounds each night at bed time helped program me to sleep when I heard it.

They say to find out just how long "you" need to sleep, you need to take a couple of nights where you can sleep without setting an alarm and see how many hours you sleep before waking up NATURALLY. Use this as a guideline for setting up a REGULAR time each day to go to sleep so that you can plan you next day's activities around it.

It took me awhile to learn to "NOT CHECK THE COMPUTER ONE LAST TIME BEFORE SLEEPING"!!! Man, I could be dead dog tired and heading for bed when I would think, "I'll just check on things on last time before going down." It never failed, there would be some problem or message that needed attention, then before I knew it a couple of hours had passed by and I was now WIDE AWAKE again!!

It's a vicious cycle and tough to get out of. You have to though. Yes, I'm still guilty of checking on things "One Last Time" to this day, but it is now the exception and NOT the rule anymore.


I wish you & your wife well with this.

May you Live LONG & be Prosperous!!

Peace Out!!
 
Best of luck in dealing with your diabetes man; put your mind to it and you can get better. I'll be seeing a doctor sometime soon at your recommendation.
 
and wasting some bucks to give it to a doctor ???? <--- that's how pple thinks , and they won't move their ass's except after they get screwed up , and then pay tons of money for what they have while they could treat it before for much less costs
 
If you don't have time for excercise then you have to make time. As this should be high on the priority list.
 
heavyt said:
Yesterday was the first time I had been to the doctor in a couple years, long story short I found out I have diabetes...... You can read more about it here Wall Of Monitors don't ignore your health like I did.
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wow, people on here that know me , know I went through the same thing. I was extremely thirsty, and weak, went to the doctor and found out my blood sugar was 1000 and almost died! Thank god found out intime. Glad to hear your alright and cought it in time.
 
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