Omniguy,

I used to have blood Sugar problems as well. When I was in my teens and 20's, I ate HUGE amounts of food in order to gain weight. I was always tired, but never realized there was anything wrong with me, physically.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I developed gestational diabetes. I was so bad off that I would litterally put my head down on my desk at work every morning and pass out/take a nap. A few times I would get to work not even remembering the drive in. I called the nurse and they told me I probably had low blood Sugar and that I should eat more! Until I tested + for gestational diabetes.

A normal woman's blood Sugar generally returns to normal a few weeks or so after birth, but 6-months post-partum, I still had a fasting blood sugar over 110, which is considered "pre-diabetes".

Well, I have mostly corrected the way I eat, and the last time I checked my blood sugar in the morning, it was 85; that was almost a year ago.

I have been doing this Warrior diet for a few weeks now. I find that I actually do better having a little fruit during the day, as I tried totally fasting all morning and was just too hungry. I was doing some raw honey for a few days in the morning, but that was too much sugar for me.

I also found that eating so much at night was making me extremely exhausted, so I have returned to a more raw nightly meal with veggies, seeds, nuts and/or raw eggs and salmon. I feel good now.

Do you have a blood sugar monitor? If you are going to experiment with different diets and such and are worried about your sugar level, it may be worthwhile to get one. If you keep checking the advertisement flyers for drugstores like walgreens and cvs and such, you will eventually find a coupon to get a free monitor if you purchase a certain number of test strips, or drugstore.com may have a good deal on one. The one I have in called OneTouch Ultra, which uses just a tiny drop of blood which you can take from your finger or arm. I've had it for 4 years or so; there may be better ones on the market now. I think I paid about $50 for 50 test strips and the monitor was free with it. Your medical insurance may even pay for the test strips, then you would need to buy some lancettes, which are not very expensive but for some reason aren't usually covered by insurance (I guess they want you to use a rusty needle so they can tell you to get a tetanus shot as well). Since you seem to have been through some testing already from an MD, he/she should write you a prescription if you want to be reimbursed, but you don't need a prescription to buy the stuff if you are going to pay out-of pocket.

Tina.

I am sorry that your Mother passed at such a young age. My aunt, whom I loved dearly, had suffered many mini-strokes due to her diabetes and was in a home for the last four years of her life, in and out of reality quite a bit.

So, you may have inherited a predisposition toward diabetes (ultimately), but you have control of your habits which will help you tremendously, if you can change the eating patterns and you seem keen to do this. I also was prediabetic with my first son, but not my second. The first fellow had a real decade of drinking too much which has eased off considerably this year. This would seem to be similar to my own addiction to Sugar but which came out in a different way. Since my flirting with AV's diet, my Sugar cravings have dropped considerably.

I think that you will find a veritable treasure trove of information in AV's books -- the Recipe book is loaded with information that is not in his first book.

AV is not a proponent of fruit for anyone. For diabetics, he feels that 'no more than 4 - 7 ounces of fruit, depending on a person's size, once every 2 - 3 days. ...high-carbohydrate fruit should always be eaten with a raw fat(raw cream, raw coconut cream, unsalted raw butter, avocado or a combination of unsalted raw butter and no-salt added raw cheese.)" He feels that too much fruit causes over emotionality due to the blood-protein and blood-fat levels and Sugar levels which result.

On the unheated honey, AV says the raw, "unheated honey contains an insulin-like substance that is produced by bees when collecting nectar. That insulin-like substance converts 90% of the carbohydrate in nectar into enzymes that help digest, assimilate and utilize protein. Unheated honey is a wonderful sweet food that helps digest all types of meat.

The insulin-like substance begins detrimental alteration at 93 degrees and is detroyed at 100 degrees. Diabetics, hypoglycemics and some infants cannot utilize honey if the insulin-like sustance is destroyed. Honey that is heated above 104 degrees F is a radical sugar that often causes slow deterioration of membranes in the body." This honey is a creamy texture, not clear. It must be RAW, unheated honey.

He also says that pasteurized milk causes diabetes while raw dairy reverses it. Raw milk causes me no problems.

You will find a recommended eating schedule for those with glycemic problems, including diabetes.

He is also against a lot of carbs.

The main problem is finding the food. Can you get your hands on raw milk? free-range eggs, raw, unfiltered honey? I think that you will have to try the honey to see what happens.

I have no labelled illnesses and I have not been to a doctor for 16 years, other than an emergency visit a couple of years ago. So, I do not have the various numbers that I would like to have to gauge where I am on the various scales. I am in the process of weaving my own tapestry of food which will allow me to live without guilt and be able to tackle everything that I want to tackle for a long time.

When I do raw and use some of the various recipes that I have, I feel guilt-free when I eat -- especially when I am enjoying my raw ice cream! We both like eating raw but like it in meal form, rather than an apple here, some nuts there -- this is fine for through the day because we have our noses to the grindstone, but in the evening, we like a meal. We do like the lighter feeling and more energy but I am rebelling in the kitchen! That is the crux of my own problem; how do I get back into the kitchen?

That being said, it is tough to change a lifetime of eating meat. I do the reading, etc., and as the Barefoot Herbalist says, it is necessary for the person to read about the changes that they are implementing because this allows the brain to educate the cells; this gives intention and the cells prepare for the changes. My husband does not have this preparation going into these changes and so really just follows directions. Hence, we don't last long. One can push a peanut up the hill with one's nose only so long. But, I get moments of discipline and we are trying the Warrior Way at the moment. However, I will be putting AV's work into the Warrior Way.

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