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[radiumhead]

1. I have diabetes. I havent tested my blood sugar in a long time because i couldnt draw enough blood, and the tester would only give me an error message. Finally, this past saturday i got a reading-my blood sugar was FUCKING 400.

If you dont know anything about this-average/good/normal is between 90 and 120. I looked up 400, and results were "you

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[franklanguage]

I see doctors at two separate clinics in Lower Manhattan, and at one, when they took my bloods for a physical and the results came back, the doctor-and he was an MD-and he yelled at me: "Your blood glucose is one point below diabetic!" This was last spring, and my total sugar came in at 99

[radiumhead]

wow, so have the opposite problem as me. I had 4 timers your blood sugar level on saturday.

[radiumhead]

i dont think i can ever give it up 100 percent-its much harder for me to give up sugar than booze-ill decrease it a lot, but i doubt ill ever stop completely.

[andrewducker]

Holy Shit!

Good luck with that - it's usually taken me about a week to get used to a reduced sugar diet, feeling crappy all the way.

[franklanguage]

That's wild; I feel great being off sugar, and never knew I was eating too much.

[andrewducker]

Once I'm off it I definitely feel much better, but the cold turkey means I spend all of my time feeling low on energy and craving carbs for the first while.

[franklanguage]

Nobody ever said complex carbs were bad! Because I'm vegan, I don't eat animal products so I fill the hole-so to speak-with high-protein plants in addition to the green leafies.

It's also soup season, so it's great to start a pot of vegetable soup right about now.