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Comment by Blackmajik Womban on April 23, 2009 at 10:55am

OH I forgot, what i was going to say too was that I found out that (or what I really think happened was) my body tricked me into a carb binge! I just didn't recognize it as such since my pre raw definition of a binge meant cake, cookies, cinnamon buns etc! I just had that revelation as I was eating my cereal that one morning (I have since thrown away the cereal and soy milk and plan to give the rest of the canned beans away to our food drive) and it was like these "happy feelings" were getting tripped in my brain and I recognized that feeling as one I used to get when I would indulge on junk! and this was supposed to be the healthy carb cereal it was 2 for $7.00 and everything! (expensive lol). It was so funny, as I was having that revelation I felt like Detective Kujan at the end of " Usual Suspects" when he just realized he had been talking to Keyser Soze the whole time lolzz. I had been had by my own body!

So I got on the scale today and although I am (now) more concerned about my blood sugar I am happy that when I started 3/31 I was 254 and today 4/23 I'm 236.4 and my doctor did say when I was 254 that if I lost about 50lbs I could possibly put my diabetes in remission so even though my weight loss is creeping now, I know that all I have to do is hang in there.

Thanks again everybody!

Comment by Blackmajik Womban on April 23, 2009 at 10:38am

Kim- thank you and Im glad I wrote this and got everyone's input cos Im back on track and I can reference this when I'm feeling unsure again!

Suvine- Yes Ma'am!! :)

RawTastic- the funny thing is that I did add cinnamon to it and it threw the taste off so I threw it away and opened another can. I think my body isn't ready for beans right now so Ive gone back to the basics, Thank you for the heads up on the high fiber foods! I only knew flax was good for fat I didnt think about its fiber properties. U really are Rawtastic! :)

Dan- supposedly the good carbs are the complex carbohydrates but I don't think they are very good for me-at this time anyway, and actually I didn't heat the beans at all, I just poured them from the can and ate them I threw my heating thing- a- majig away (thanks again Bettina lol) and yes Ive heard cooking raises glycemic indexes of food.

Menaka- yes I have "Green For Life" I didn't know she had experience with dealing with diabetes so I'm gonna check her out on that subject, thanks for the heads up. I don't know if its just me but I didn't think her book Green for life was very information dense, its like she talked about basic things then all thru pages 113- 158 were all testimonials... I ordered it online so i didn't know before hand but since I have it I guess it wouldn't hurt to rake thru the pages again...thanks for the heads up on her link!

Golden- LOVE the picture and thank you!

This:... " beans that are cooked (and i think canned ones are) are absorbed as carbs/starch, but uncooked soaked beans are protein....

I had NOT heard before, thank you for that! and I believe it because of the goo that comes along with the canned beans-in retrospect its gotta be carb filled goo which makes for carb filled beans. The thing is I stood in the store and weighed buying canned vs. bagged and I decided on canned since I threw my heating thingy away, but that is good to know for in the future! Yep I also have the Raw Food Detox diet book, I think I need to revisit some of my books :) Thanks for the encouragement and philosophy !! Its true I am learning more about me and what works for me. it wasnt too long ago that I felt helpless and powerless when it came to my health but Im getting there by golly!

Rawgini- Noooo I haven't heard of that book! Thanks for the heads up! and encouragement and Im going to check RJ out:)

Jody- you are so right I like to think Im this chill laid back type but in all actuality Im just a spaz waiting to happen lol I mean I already decided to either get there or die trying so all thats left is for me to chillax!
thanks!

WhoRaw- lolzz im glad my melt downs are entertaining :)

...."Hang in there and don't be too hard on yourself, enjoy the journey....

GREAT ADVICE! and Im am currently working on that as well! thank you for the support!!

Comment by AwesomeUniverse!!! on April 21, 2009 at 10:56am

Yeah I could have done a better job at talking about the raw way to treat diabetes considering I spent several months at the Tree Of Life in Patagonia where they can cure most cases of diabetes in 30 days with their diet.

But like I said you've got to start somewhere. A big part of it is imagination believe it or not.

For instance you can soak and rinse mung beans for a couple of days for nice mini-sprouts. They could be a new kind of baked bean for you if you blend sundried tomatoes, stevia, and cinnamon as a sauce and pour it over them.

. But you've really got to focus and think these are healing baked beans, these are better, thank you for THESE baked beans- etc. Then you WILL like them better and your old cravings will be gone. You can also make a cream sauce with macadamias, basil and garlic and red pepper and make a cheese sauce and put that over the mung beans if you are craving mac and cheese. If you buy dried whole shitaki mushrooms and rehydrate them- they have a really great texdture to me- better than fresh. They can help rebuild your pancreas\immune system. You can soak them in nama shoyu, braggs, garlic and some oil to make them super yummy. They are great over zuchini fettucini with the cream sauce!

But be prepared to have to eat it a few times before you really love it. It's like rewiring your brain.

There are a lot of tricks you can do to stay on the path and that is what we are all here for- to help each other celebrate the good days and deal with the bad.

Comment by Blackmajik Womban on April 21, 2009 at 10:36am

OMG i just wrote back to everyone then i clicked on something else and lost everything! so I gotta make a run and I'll brb....

Comment by WhoRaw on April 21, 2009 at 9:27am

your posts crack me up, keep on keeping it real. Hang in there and don't be too hard on yourself, enjoy the journey.

Comment by jody on April 21, 2009 at 12:16am

have a cup of tea and calm it down you'll get there! give it time..

Comment by goldendreams on April 20, 2009 at 11:27pm

it's ok. be better tomorrow, that is all we can ever do. i have heard that beans that are cooked (and i think canned ones are) are absorbed as carbs/starch, but uncooked soaked beans are protein. and either way you get fiber. hmmmm. still with the downs i am glad that you are learning more about yourself and your body cause you can't become a butterfly without spending time as a squashy mess in a cocoon! keep with your juicing as much as possible. have your read The Raw Food Detox Diet. I think you should. It is insightful and interesting and i think you would get a lot from it. Borrow it from the library if you can, totally worth it. Keep up with your pilates baby!

Comment by menaka dasi on April 20, 2009 at 11:12pm

i just went to a lecture by valerie Boutenko who has experience in eating raw and curing diabetics, namely her son, i second the GREEN SMOOTHIES< fiber and clorophyll, i'm no expert but i feel the Boutenko family is, i recomend their books, experience and research,, they also have a website http://rawfamily.com,
i love your sense of humor!for further comic relief, i couldn't help laugh along with my kids when during the Boutenko Green Smoothie Revolution lecture Valerie told us that she used to check her friends blood sugars for fun whent hey came over to compare her raw diet blood sugar and cured diabetic bro, with her cereal eating 'health food' junk food friends, it was soo super funny, to see kids having so much fun with blood sugar, i've become a green smoothie freak now and i highly reccomend them, totally cures my cravings and fills you with energy and fiber! But be sure to rotate your greens, like spinach one day, kale another, dandelion the next, then some chard, that way you don't over do one green ... there is a reason behind that because you may over load on some of the miniscule toxins in them, but it's also more fun! I'm readin Green For life right now and it's got a bunch of wicked recipes ....

Comment by AwesomeUniverse!!! on April 20, 2009 at 10:59pm

Add cinnamon to the beans to help control blood sugar. Also add cinnamon to anything else you can stand. Blueberries are high in fiber and so are pears. Flax is super high in fiber so flax crackers are great to eat. They also have anti-inflammatory omegas in them.

I hope this helps!

Comment by Kim Caldwell on April 20, 2009 at 10:33pm

GREEN SMOOTHIES GREEN SMOOTHIES GREEN SMOOTHIES
GREAT FOR CRAVINGS AND REGULATING BLOOD SUGAR.
BLUEBERRIES AND MANGOS GOOD FRUIT ADDITIONS AS THEY HELP WITH BLOOD SUGAR
YOUR BODY WANTS CHLOROPHYLL