Hay to you who are new to the list.

[Guest guest]

Hi! I'm the gentlemen pig as I enjoy referring to me self. I at this time of

my life weigh in at 302 last week, so I figure half of me is a gentlemen and the

other half is a pig with piggish ways. I mean I am a man right? well I know

plenty of men who aren't pigs and certainly not saying that. now I got a kind of

different way of expressing my self in post. I certainly hope and Pray I don't

offend any one or embarrass any one either. If I do step on your toes or cause

you to wish to plant your foot up my pig butt, then please email me off list or

let Dave know so he or you can fill me in on what I said wrong. I do in a way

make fun of my self and make a joke about my diabetes. I do this because for me

it is much easier to laugh at one self. crying about my problems never has

helped me, but laughing about them has. I've been a part of this list for many

years, but hardly ever posted much until just the past few months. grate advice

on the list and these guys know what they are talking about when they try to led

you in the right direction. the problem with me when I heard there advice was I

made the choice to ignore it and think like most people do that the bad health

issues only happens to the other guy. this was a very stupid choice in my case.

I've had nothing but bad health issues over the past 5 years do to mainly bad

sugar control. I was a over eater for most of my life and eating was my biggest

enjoyment in life so I thought at the time. I bet I tried every silly diet out

there that said take this pill and lose pounds with no exercise and no giving up

what you dig eating. well all these kind of diets are lies and out to make a

dollar.

well now I'm on the right track after 5 years of trying to kill my self at a

young age. had a heart issue a few months ago that finally got my attention. you

would think the past heart trouble would have done the trick, but some pigs like

me are also hard headed like a mule. maybe I'm really half mule and half pig?

now I'm going to have to figure out which half is which? Ok any way, I weighed

in at 317 the need of February of this year during the last hospital stay for my

A Fib heart condition and to day I weigh in at 302 last Friday. I weigh in every

second Friday and I post my weight here on the list for all to see. I think of

it as a journey that I'm on for the rest of my life. not just until I get down

to 185, but from each day I continue to live on this earth in this body God gave

me. Now I will admit to you all the good book said for me to treat my body as

God's temple and I done it a different way by ignoring good advice once again.

but the truth is I can't change any of my yesterday's. I can how ever make good

choices to day and to morrow when it gets here of course. I can control to day

and I will make better choices to day one meal at a time. to morrow will as well

be a success for me simply because of good choices to day. yesterday and all the

bad choices that was a part of them are long gone and now only a bad memory.

I make a game out of losing weigh and controlling my sugar. now every one

can do this or will do this, but I'm serious when I need to be. I know I got a

lot of extra weight that I have to run off. so I look at it as evicting the

pounds I don't want. I serve them a eviction notice to move out. they way I

serve this notice is through eating right all day long and doing some kind of

exercise each day. I'm not losing more then 2 pounds a week, but I look at this

as a 4 pound swing for me. losing 2 and not gaining 2 is a 4 pound swing. I only

weigh every second Friday because I know from my past that you can weigh to much

and lose your focuses if the pounds aren't falling off as fast as you think they

should. some times our bodies won't lose pounds as fast as another time. my A1C

2 months ago in the hospital was over 13. my numbers have been grate the past 2

months. I will know in June how low my new A1C is going to be. I've been testing

six times a day for 2 months. out of the last 4 weeks I haven't had but 2 test

be more then 120. the rest have been under 120. this can't happen with out

eating right at every meal and not skipping exercise daily. It is simply a

attitude change that I have come too. maybe when I'm a older man and can spell

better, I will write a book. going to name this book The peace diet. or maybe

the diet of peace.

Now I know you new guys who haven't been here on list long is just holding

your breath waiting until I tell you what the word peace means? well I'm

certainly not going to ignore this question because most people can't hold there

breath to long or they will pass out. P stand for Prayer. I strongly believe in

Prayer and I do it every day and it is through Prayer that my attitude has

finally got to where it has to be in order to achieve the control that I now got

over eating and diabetes. Then the E stands for exercise. I'm here to tell you

guys right now this pig is lazy by nature and getting out of any kind of

exercise is ok with me! however, eating right goes hand and hand with exercise.

they work together and can't do the job with out one another. Then the letter A.

this stands for attitude. if your attitude isn't where it needs to be you won't

do what ever it is you set your mind on to get done. thinking of what you will

do and knowing what needs done, isn't the same thing as your attitude. then we

got the letter C. this stands for choices. how many of us have different choices

we must make in daily life? all of our choices will have some thing to do with

the out come of to day and to morrow and those day's will be come our

yesterday's very soon. if we make good choices to day, then this means your

yester's will be made up of good choices. nothing happens to us in life that a

choice of some kind was involved. then we got the last letter of E. this stands

for eating. we all have to eat to live, but none of us got to live to eat. all

over eaters live to eat and this is backwards. eat right to day and yesterday to

morrow will be a good day of eating, which was made from a good choice made. we

each control how much and what we eat at every meal. eat right and increase your

chances of life. eat wrong and decrease your chances of living. it is just this

simple. so as you can see if you follow these five small words that make up the

word peace, you will live a life of peace.

I don't understand why they always call it a diet anyway? your diet is how

you eat all the time. everything we eat is our diet. most what they call a diet

is only a bandade anyway. it isn't fixing the real problem. you got to get your

attitude right and then make good choices if you plan to increase your chances

of a quality life and good over all health. this goes on for the rest of your

life on this earth. a diet as they call it has a end, but a life style change

has no end until you pass from this world.

Well as you new comers can see I love to ramble. don't blame any of you when

you see my name pop up if you just hit the delete key. my feelings won't be hurt

even if you tell me you did this. I just can't help my self. I guess when I

retired from 33 years of working I now have no life? well I do hope you all go

with me on my journey of controlling my T 2 diabetes and drop only 132 pounds by

June 25'th of 2013. this is the day when my wife wishes me to get in front of

the minister again and tell him again what I told him I would promise to do 24

years ago. I didn't say I do! I said I will! not sure what I will have to

promise this time, but knowing that I will be standing in front of God and my

fellow man making the same promises and weighing in at 185 is just to cool for

words! I've been over 300 for way to long. the highest I ever got that I can

recall was 337 and this is way to much pig!

It's really been nice talking to all you to day and especially you new guys

on the list. these old timers here like Pat and Dave for example, well better

add Harry as well know there stuff. most of them are T 1 and have to be very

careful, not like a T 2 who can slip from time to time and get away with it. I

believe I joined the list in maybe 2005 or sooner. can't be sure. if I would

have listened to them and took there advice way back then, well I may not have

had a heart attack in 2007 and all the problems I have had since then, but this

no one can know or prove. Only God knows for sure and I plan to ask him when he

takes me home some day. I don't figure I will be as hard for him to carry when

that day comes because I plan on losing 132 pounds of me that I don't really

need or desire to keep.

[Guest guest]

I think you're a sweett pig.

Becky

Hay to you who are new to the list.

> Hi! I'm the gentlemen pig as I enjoy referring to me self. I at this

> time of my life weigh in at 302 last week, so I figure half of me is a

> gentlemen and the other half is a pig with piggish ways. I mean I am a man

> right? well I know plenty of men who aren't pigs and certainly not saying

> that. now I got a kind of different way of expressing my self in post. I

> certainly hope and Pray I don't offend any one or embarrass any one

> either. If I do step on your toes or cause you to wish to plant your foot

> up my pig butt, then please email me off list or let Dave know so he or

> you can fill me in on what I said wrong. I do in a way make fun of my self

> and make a joke about my diabetes. I do this because for me it is much

> easier to laugh at one self. crying about my problems never has helped me,

> but laughing about them has. I've been a part of this list for many years,

> but hardly ever posted much until just the past few months. grate advice

> on the list and these guys know what they are talking about when they try

> to led you in the right direction. the problem with me when I heard there

> advice was I made the choice to ignore it and think like most people do

> that the bad health issues only happens to the other guy. this was a very

> stupid choice in my case. I've had nothing but bad health issues over the

> past 5 years do to mainly bad sugar control. I was a over eater for most

> of my life and eating was my biggest enjoyment in life so I thought at the

> time. I bet I tried every silly diet out there that said take this pill

> and lose pounds with no exercise and no giving up what you dig eating.

> well all these kind of diets are lies and out to make a dollar.

> well now I'm on the right track after 5 years of trying to kill my self

> at a young age. had a heart issue a few months ago that finally got my

> attention. you would think the past heart trouble would have done the

> trick, but some pigs like me are also hard headed like a mule. maybe I'm

> really half mule and half pig? now I'm going to have to figure out which

> half is which? Ok any way, I weighed in at 317 the need of February of

> this year during the last hospital stay for my A Fib heart condition and

> to day I weigh in at 302 last Friday. I weigh in every second Friday and I

> post my weight here on the list for all to see. I think of it as a journey

> that I'm on for the rest of my life. not just until I get down to 185, but

> from each day I continue to live on this earth in this body God gave me.

> Now I will admit to you all the good book said for me to treat my body as

> God's temple and I done it a different way by ignoring good advice once

> again. but the truth is I can't change any of my yesterday's. I can how

> ever make good choices to day and to morrow when it gets here of course. I

> can control to day and I will make better choices to day one meal at a

> time. to morrow will as well be a success for me simply because of good

> choices to day. yesterday and all the bad choices that was a part of them

> are long gone and now only a bad memory.

> I make a game out of losing weigh and controlling my sugar. now every

> one can do this or will do this, but I'm serious when I need to be. I know

> I got a lot of extra weight that I have to run off. so I look at it as

> evicting the pounds I don't want. I serve them a eviction notice to move

> out. they way I serve this notice is through eating right all day long and

> doing some kind of exercise each day. I'm not losing more then 2 pounds a

> week, but I look at this as a 4 pound swing for me. losing 2 and not

> gaining 2 is a 4 pound swing. I only weigh every second Friday because I

> know from my past that you can weigh to much and lose your focuses if the

> pounds aren't falling off as fast as you think they should. some times our

> bodies won't lose pounds as fast as another time. my A1C 2 months ago in

> the hospital was over 13. my numbers have been grate the past 2 months. I

> will know in June how low my new A1C is going to be. I've been testing six

> times a day for 2 months. out of the last 4 weeks I haven't had but 2 test

> be more then 120. the rest have been under 120. this can't happen with out

> eating right at every meal and not skipping exercise daily. It is simply a

> attitude change that I have come too. maybe when I'm a older man and can

> spell better, I will write a book. going to name this book The peace diet.

> or maybe the diet of peace.

> Now I know you new guys who haven't been here on list long is just

> holding your breath waiting until I tell you what the word peace means?

> well I'm certainly not going to ignore this question because most people

> can't hold there breath to long or they will pass out. P stand for Prayer.

> I strongly believe in Prayer and I do it every day and it is through

> Prayer that my attitude has finally got to where it has to be in order to

> achieve the control that I now got over eating and diabetes. Then the E

> stands for exercise. I'm here to tell you guys right now this pig is lazy

> by nature and getting out of any kind of exercise is ok with me! however,

> eating right goes hand and hand with exercise. they work together and

> can't do the job with out one another. Then the letter A. this stands for

> attitude. if your attitude isn't where it needs to be you won't do what

> ever it is you set your mind on to get done. thinking of what you will do

> and knowing what needs done, isn't the same thing as your attitude. then

> we got the letter C. this stands for choices. how many of us have

> different choices we must make in daily life? all of our choices will have

> some thing to do with the out come of to day and to morrow and those day's

> will be come our yesterday's very soon. if we make good choices to day,

> then this means your yester's will be made up of good choices. nothing

> happens to us in life that a choice of some kind was involved. then we got

> the last letter of E. this stands for eating. we all have to eat to live,

> but none of us got to live to eat. all over eaters live to eat and this is

> backwards. eat right to day and yesterday to morrow will be a good day of

> eating, which was made from a good choice made. we each control how much

> and what we eat at every meal. eat right and increase your chances of

> life. eat wrong and decrease your chances of living. it is just this

> simple. so as you can see if you follow these five small words that make

> up the word peace, you will live a life of peace.

> I don't understand why they always call it a diet anyway? your diet is

> how you eat all the time. everything we eat is our diet. most what they

> call a diet is only a bandade anyway. it isn't fixing the real problem.

> you got to get your attitude right and then make good choices if you plan

> to increase your chances of a quality life and good over all health. this

> goes on for the rest of your life on this earth. a diet as they call it

> has a end, but a life style change has no end until you pass from this

> world.

> Well as you new comers can see I love to ramble. don't blame any of you

> when you see my name pop up if you just hit the delete key. my feelings

> won't be hurt even if you tell me you did this. I just can't help my self.

> I guess when I retired from 33 years of working I now have no life? well I

> do hope you all go with me on my journey of controlling my T 2 diabetes

> and drop only 132 pounds by June 25'th of 2013. this is the day when my

> wife wishes me to get in front of the minister again and tell him again

> what I told him I would promise to do 24 years ago. I didn't say I do! I

> said I will! not sure what I will have to promise this time, but knowing

> that I will be standing in front of God and my fellow man making the same

> promises and weighing in at 185 is just to cool for words! I've been over

> 300 for way to long. the highest I ever got that I can recall was 337 and

> this is way to much pig!

> It's really been nice talking to all you to day and especially you new

> guys on the list. these old timers here like Pat and Dave for example,

> well better add Harry as well know there stuff. most of them are T 1 and

> have to be very careful, not like a T 2 who can slip from time to time and

> get away with it. I believe I joined the list in maybe 2005 or sooner.

> can't be sure. if I would have listened to them and took there advice way

> back then, well I may not have had a heart attack in 2007 and all the

> problems I have had since then, but this no one can know or prove. Only

> God knows for sure and I plan to ask him when he takes me home some day. I

> don't figure I will be as hard for him to carry when that day comes

> because I plan on losing 132 pounds of me that I don't really need or

> desire to keep.

>

>

[Guest guest]

ok how much do I need to send you in the mail? I certainly don't mind

sending you some cash for nice sweet words like that. just don't say it to much

or I will fall in love!

Hay to you who are new to the list.

> Hi! I'm the gentlemen pig as I enjoy referring to me self. I at this

> time of my life weigh in at 302 last week, so I figure half of me is a

> gentlemen and the other half is a pig with piggish ways. I mean I am a man

> right? well I know plenty of men who aren't pigs and certainly not saying

> that. now I got a kind of different way of expressing my self in post. I

> certainly hope and Pray I don't offend any one or embarrass any one

> either. If I do step on your toes or cause you to wish to plant your foot

> up my pig butt, then please email me off list or let Dave know so he or

> you can fill me in on what I said wrong. I do in a way make fun of my self

> and make a joke about my diabetes. I do this because for me it is much

> easier to laugh at one self. crying about my problems never has helped me,

> but laughing about them has. I've been a part of this list for many years,

> but hardly ever posted much until just the past few months. grate advice

> on the list and these guys know what they are talking about when they try

> to led you in the right direction. the problem with me when I heard there

> advice was I made the choice to ignore it and think like most people do

> that the bad health issues only happens to the other guy. this was a very

> stupid choice in my case. I've had nothing but bad health issues over the

> past 5 years do to mainly bad sugar control. I was a over eater for most

> of my life and eating was my biggest enjoyment in life so I thought at the

> time. I bet I tried every silly diet out there that said take this pill

> and lose pounds with no exercise and no giving up what you dig eating.

> well all these kind of diets are lies and out to make a dollar.

> well now I'm on the right track after 5 years of trying to kill my self

> at a young age. had a heart issue a few months ago that finally got my

> attention. you would think the past heart trouble would have done the

> trick, but some pigs like me are also hard headed like a mule. maybe I'm

> really half mule and half pig? now I'm going to have to figure out which

> half is which? Ok any way, I weighed in at 317 the need of February of

> this year during the last hospital stay for my A Fib heart condition and

> to day I weigh in at 302 last Friday. I weigh in every second Friday and I

> post my weight here on the list for all to see. I think of it as a journey

> that I'm on for the rest of my life. not just until I get down to 185, but

> from each day I continue to live on this earth in this body God gave me.

> Now I will admit to you all the good book said for me to treat my body as

> God's temple and I done it a different way by ignoring good advice once

> again. but the truth is I can't change any of my yesterday's. I can how

> ever make good choices to day and to morrow when it gets here of course. I

> can control to day and I will make better choices to day one meal at a

> time. to morrow will as well be a success for me simply because of good

> choices to day. yesterday and all the bad choices that was a part of them

> are long gone and now only a bad memory.

> I make a game out of losing weigh and controlling my sugar. now every

> one can do this or will do this, but I'm serious when I need to be. I know

> I got a lot of extra weight that I have to run off. so I look at it as

> evicting the pounds I don't want. I serve them a eviction notice to move

> out. they way I serve this notice is through eating right all day long and

> doing some kind of exercise each day. I'm not losing more then 2 pounds a

> week, but I look at this as a 4 pound swing for me. losing 2 and not

> gaining 2 is a 4 pound swing. I only weigh every second Friday because I

> know from my past that you can weigh to much and lose your focuses if the

> pounds aren't falling off as fast as you think they should. some times our

> bodies won't lose pounds as fast as another time. my A1C 2 months ago in

> the hospital was over 13. my numbers have been grate the past 2 months. I

> will know in June how low my new A1C is going to be. I've been testing six

> times a day for 2 months. out of the last 4 weeks I haven't had but 2 test

> be more then 120. the rest have been under 120. this can't happen with out

> eating right at every meal and not skipping exercise daily. It is simply a

> attitude change that I have come too. maybe when I'm a older man and can

> spell better, I will write a book. going to name this book The peace diet.

> or maybe the diet of peace.

> Now I know you new guys who haven't been here on list long is just

> holding your breath waiting until I tell you what the word peace means?

> well I'm certainly not going to ignore this question because most people

> can't hold there breath to long or they will pass out. P stand for Prayer.

> I strongly believe in Prayer and I do it every day and it is through

> Prayer that my attitude has finally got to where it has to be in order to

> achieve the control that I now got over eating and diabetes. Then the E

> stands for exercise. I'm here to tell you guys right now this pig is lazy

> by nature and getting out of any kind of exercise is ok with me! however,

> eating right goes hand and hand with exercise. they work together and

> can't do the job with out one another. Then the letter A. this stands for

> attitude. if your attitude isn't where it needs to be you won't do what

> ever it is you set your mind on to get done. thinking of what you will do

> and knowing what needs done, isn't the same thing as your attitude. then

> we got the letter C. this stands for choices. how many of us have

> different choices we must make in daily life? all of our choices will have

> some thing to do with the out come of to day and to morrow and those day's

> will be come our yesterday's very soon. if we make good choices to day,

> then this means your yester's will be made up of good choices. nothing

> happens to us in life that a choice of some kind was involved. then we got

> the last letter of E. this stands for eating. we all have to eat to live,

> but none of us got to live to eat. all over eaters live to eat and this is

> backwards. eat right to day and yesterday to morrow will be a good day of

> eating, which was made from a good choice made. we each control how much

> and what we eat at every meal. eat right and increase your chances of

> life. eat wrong and decrease your chances of living. it is just this

> simple. so as you can see if you follow these five small words that make

> up the word peace, you will live a life of peace.

> I don't understand why they always call it a diet anyway? your diet is

> how you eat all the time. everything we eat is our diet. most what they

> call a diet is only a bandade anyway. it isn't fixing the real problem.

> you got to get your attitude right and then make good choices if you plan

> to increase your chances of a quality life and good over all health. this

> goes on for the rest of your life on this earth. a diet as they call it

> has a end, but a life style change has no end until you pass from this

> world.

> Well as you new comers can see I love to ramble. don't blame any of you

> when you see my name pop up if you just hit the delete key. my feelings

> won't be hurt even if you tell me you did this. I just can't help my self.

> I guess when I retired from 33 years of working I now have no life? well I

> do hope you all go with me on my journey of controlling my T 2 diabetes

> and drop only 132 pounds by June 25'th of 2013. this is the day when my

> wife wishes me to get in front of the minister again and tell him again

> what I told him I would promise to do 24 years ago. I didn't say I do! I

> said I will! not sure what I will have to promise this time, but knowing

> that I will be standing in front of God and my fellow man making the same

> promises and weighing in at 185 is just to cool for words! I've been over

> 300 for way to long. the highest I ever got that I can recall was 337 and

> this is way to much pig!

> It's really been nice talking to all you to day and especially you new

> guys on the list. these old timers here like Pat and Dave for example,

> well better add Harry as well know there stuff. most of them are T 1 and

> have to be very careful, not like a T 2 who can slip from time to time and

> get away with it. I believe I joined the list in maybe 2005 or sooner.

> can't be sure. if I would have listened to them and took there advice way

> back then, well I may not have had a heart attack in 2007 and all the

> problems I have had since then, but this no one can know or prove. Only

> God knows for sure and I plan to ask him when he takes me home some day. I

> don't figure I will be as hard for him to carry when that day comes

> because I plan on losing 132 pounds of me that I don't really need or

> desire to keep.

>

>

[Guest guest]

As much as you would want to send, LOL!

Becky

Hay to you who are new to the list.

>

> > Hi! I'm the gentlemen pig as I enjoy referring to me self. I at this

> > time of my life weigh in at 302 last week, so I figure half of me is a

> > gentlemen and the other half is a pig with piggish ways. I mean I am a

> man

> > right? well I know plenty of men who aren't pigs and certainly not

> saying

> > that. now I got a kind of different way of expressing my self in post.

> I

> > certainly hope and Pray I don't offend any one or embarrass any one

> > either. If I do step on your toes or cause you to wish to plant your

> foot

> > up my pig butt, then please email me off list or let Dave know so he or

> > you can fill me in on what I said wrong. I do in a way make fun of my

> self

> > and make a joke about my diabetes. I do this because for me it is much

> > easier to laugh at one self. crying about my problems never has helped

> me,

> > but laughing about them has. I've been a part of this list for many

> years,

> > but hardly ever posted much until just the past few months. grate

> advice

> > on the list and these guys know what they are talking about when they

> try

> > to led you in the right direction. the problem with me when I heard

> there

> > advice was I made the choice to ignore it and think like most people do

> > that the bad health issues only happens to the other guy. this was a

> very

> > stupid choice in my case. I've had nothing but bad health issues over

> the

> > past 5 years do to mainly bad sugar control. I was a over eater for

> most

> > of my life and eating was my biggest enjoyment in life so I thought at

> the

> > time. I bet I tried every silly diet out there that said take this pill

> > and lose pounds with no exercise and no giving up what you dig eating.

> > well all these kind of diets are lies and out to make a dollar.

> > well now I'm on the right track after 5 years of trying to kill my self

> > at a young age. had a heart issue a few months ago that finally got my

> > attention. you would think the past heart trouble would have done the

> > trick, but some pigs like me are also hard headed like a mule. maybe

> I'm

> > really half mule and half pig? now I'm going to have to figure out

> which

> > half is which? Ok any way, I weighed in at 317 the need of February of

> > this year during the last hospital stay for my A Fib heart condition

> and

> > to day I weigh in at 302 last Friday. I weigh in every second Friday

> and I

> > post my weight here on the list for all to see. I think of it as a

> journey

> > that I'm on for the rest of my life. not just until I get down to 185,

> but

> > from each day I continue to live on this earth in this body God gave

> me.

> > Now I will admit to you all the good book said for me to treat my body

> as

> > God's temple and I done it a different way by ignoring good advice once

> > again. but the truth is I can't change any of my yesterday's. I can how

> > ever make good choices to day and to morrow when it gets here of

> course. I

> > can control to day and I will make better choices to day one meal at a

> > time. to morrow will as well be a success for me simply because of good

> > choices to day. yesterday and all the bad choices that was a part of

> them

> > are long gone and now only a bad memory.

> > I make a game out of losing weigh and controlling my sugar. now every

> > one can do this or will do this, but I'm serious when I need to be. I

> know

> > I got a lot of extra weight that I have to run off. so I look at it as

> > evicting the pounds I don't want. I serve them a eviction notice to

> move

> > out. they way I serve this notice is through eating right all day long

> and

> > doing some kind of exercise each day. I'm not losing more then 2 pounds

> a

> > week, but I look at this as a 4 pound swing for me. losing 2 and not

> > gaining 2 is a 4 pound swing. I only weigh every second Friday because

> I

> > know from my past that you can weigh to much and lose your focuses if

> the

> > pounds aren't falling off as fast as you think they should. some times

> our

> > bodies won't lose pounds as fast as another time. my A1C 2 months ago

> in

> > the hospital was over 13. my numbers have been grate the past 2 months.

> I

> > will know in June how low my new A1C is going to be. I've been testing

> six

> > times a day for 2 months. out of the last 4 weeks I haven't had but 2

> test

> > be more then 120. the rest have been under 120. this can't happen with

> out

> > eating right at every meal and not skipping exercise daily. It is

> simply a

> > attitude change that I have come too. maybe when I'm a older man and

> can

> > spell better, I will write a book. going to name this book The peace

> diet.

> > or maybe the diet of peace.

> > Now I know you new guys who haven't been here on list long is just

> > holding your breath waiting until I tell you what the word peace means?

> > well I'm certainly not going to ignore this question because most

> people

> > can't hold there breath to long or they will pass out. P stand for

> Prayer.

> > I strongly believe in Prayer and I do it every day and it is through

> > Prayer that my attitude has finally got to where it has to be in order

> to

> > achieve the control that I now got over eating and diabetes. Then the E

> > stands for exercise. I'm here to tell you guys right now this pig is

> lazy

> > by nature and getting out of any kind of exercise is ok with me!

> however,

> > eating right goes hand and hand with exercise. they work together and

> > can't do the job with out one another. Then the letter A. this stands

> for

> > attitude. if your attitude isn't where it needs to be you won't do what

> > ever it is you set your mind on to get done. thinking of what you will

> do

> > and knowing what needs done, isn't the same thing as your attitude.

> then

> > we got the letter C. this stands for choices. how many of us have

> > different choices we must make in daily life? all of our choices will

> have

> > some thing to do with the out come of to day and to morrow and those

> day's

> > will be come our yesterday's very soon. if we make good choices to day,

> > then this means your yester's will be made up of good choices. nothing

> > happens to us in life that a choice of some kind was involved. then we

> got

> > the last letter of E. this stands for eating. we all have to eat to

> live,

> > but none of us got to live to eat. all over eaters live to eat and this

> is

> > backwards. eat right to day and yesterday to morrow will be a good day

> of

> > eating, which was made from a good choice made. we each control how

> much

> > and what we eat at every meal. eat right and increase your chances of

> > life. eat wrong and decrease your chances of living. it is just this

> > simple. so as you can see if you follow these five small words that

> make

> > up the word peace, you will live a life of peace.

> > I don't understand why they always call it a diet anyway? your diet is

> > how you eat all the time. everything we eat is our diet. most what they

> > call a diet is only a bandade anyway. it isn't fixing the real problem.

> > you got to get your attitude right and then make good choices if you

> plan

> > to increase your chances of a quality life and good over all health.

> this

> > goes on for the rest of your life on this earth. a diet as they call it

> > has a end, but a life style change has no end until you pass from this

> > world.

> > Well as you new comers can see I love to ramble. don't blame any of you

> > when you see my name pop up if you just hit the delete key. my feelings

> > won't be hurt even if you tell me you did this. I just can't help my

> self.

> > I guess when I retired from 33 years of working I now have no life?

> well I

> > do hope you all go with me on my journey of controlling my T 2 diabetes

> > and drop only 132 pounds by June 25'th of 2013. this is the day when my

> > wife wishes me to get in front of the minister again and tell him again

> > what I told him I would promise to do 24 years ago. I didn't say I do!

> I

> > said I will! not sure what I will have to promise this time, but

> knowing

> > that I will be standing in front of God and my fellow man making the

> same

> > promises and weighing in at 185 is just to cool for words! I've been

> over

> > 300 for way to long. the highest I ever got that I can recall was 337

> and

> > this is way to much pig!

> > It's really been nice talking to all you to day and especially you new

> > guys on the list. these old timers here like Pat and Dave for example,

> > well better add Harry as well know there stuff. most of them are T 1

> and

> > have to be very careful, not like a T 2 who can slip from time to time

> and

> > get away with it. I believe I joined the list in maybe 2005 or sooner.

> > can't be sure. if I would have listened to them and took there advice

> way

> > back then, well I may not have had a heart attack in 2007 and all the

> > problems I have had since then, but this no one can know or prove. Only

> > God knows for sure and I plan to ask him when he takes me home some

> day. I

> > don't figure I will be as hard for him to carry when that day comes

> > because I plan on losing 132 pounds of me that I don't really need or

> > desire to keep.

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Mark,

Congratulations on the weight you have lost so far. I don't mind

reading your posts. I have only been on this list for a few months, but I

have learned a lot. In fact, because of the posts I read here, I want to

keep my blood sugars under control.

I have been a diabetic since 1979. At the time I was 19 years old.

After returning home from a weeks stay in the hospital, I kept a tight reign

on my diabetes. In my mid to late twenties, my control really slipped. In

1992 I started to have trouble with my vision. An eye surgeon fought for

two years to save my vision, but lost the battle in 94. I appreciated all

he did and told him so.

Anyway, because of this list and everyone on it, my diabetic doctor says

I am taking care of my diabetes better now, than when I first seen him in

1995, when I had my kidney transplant. I will see him when I go to

transplant clinic in May. I will give credit to all of you and this list

for my good blood sugars and A1C, when he lets me know what it is.

Also, it is time for me to receive a new meter. It has been sent and I

should get it on Monday. It is a Solo V2, I believe I said it right. Any

thoughts on this meter? I am totally blind, so will it be easy for me to

use?

Thanks,

Hay to you who are new to the list.

Hi! I'm the gentlemen pig as I enjoy referring to me self. I at this

time of my life weigh in at 302 last week, so I figure half of me is a

gentlemen and the other half is a pig with piggish ways. I mean I am a man

right? well I know plenty of men who aren't pigs and certainly not saying

that. now I got a kind of different way of expressing my self in post. I

certainly hope and Pray I don't offend any one or embarrass any one either.

If I do step on your toes or cause you to wish to plant your foot up my pig

butt, then please email me off list or let Dave know so he or you can fill

me in on what I said wrong. I do in a way make fun of my self and make a

joke about my diabetes. I do this because for me it is much easier to laugh

at one self. crying about my problems never has helped me, but laughing

about them has. I've been a part of this list for many years, but hardly

ever posted much until just the past few months. grate advice on the list

and these guys know what they are talking about when they try to led you in

the right direction. the problem with me when I heard there advice was I

made the choice to ignore it and think like most people do that the bad

health issues only happens to the other guy. this was a very stupid choice

in my case. I've had nothing but bad health issues over the past 5 years do

to mainly bad sugar control. I was a over eater for most of my life and

eating was my biggest enjoyment in life so I thought at the time. I bet I

tried every silly diet out there that said take this pill and lose pounds

with no exercise and no giving up what you dig eating. well all these kind

of diets are lies and out to make a dollar.

well now I'm on the right track after 5 years of trying to kill my self

at a young age. had a heart issue a few months ago that finally got my

attention. you would think the past heart trouble would have done the trick,

but some pigs like me are also hard headed like a mule. maybe I'm really

half mule and half pig? now I'm going to have to figure out which half is

which? Ok any way, I weighed in at 317 the need of February of this year

during the last hospital stay for my A Fib heart condition and to day I

weigh in at 302 last Friday. I weigh in every second Friday and I post my

weight here on the list for all to see. I think of it as a journey that I'm

on for the rest of my life. not just until I get down to 185, but from each

day I continue to live on this earth in this body God gave me. Now I will

admit to you all the good book said for me to treat my body as God's temple

and I done it a different way by ignoring good advice once again. but the

truth is I can't change any of my yesterday's. I can how ever make good

choices to day and to morrow when it gets here of course. I can control to

day and I will make better choices to day one meal at a time. to morrow will

as well be a success for me simply because of good choices to day. yesterday

and all the bad choices that was a part of them are long gone and now only a

bad memory.

I make a game out of losing weigh and controlling my sugar. now every

one can do this or will do this, but I'm serious when I need to be. I know I

got a lot of extra weight that I have to run off. so I look at it as

evicting the pounds I don't want. I serve them a eviction notice to move

out. they way I serve this notice is through eating right all day long and

doing some kind of exercise each day. I'm not losing more then 2 pounds a

week, but I look at this as a 4 pound swing for me. losing 2 and not gaining

2 is a 4 pound swing. I only weigh every second Friday because I know from

my past that you can weigh to much and lose your focuses if the pounds

aren't falling off as fast as you think they should. some times our bodies

won't lose pounds as fast as another time. my A1C 2 months ago in the

hospital was over 13. my numbers have been grate the past 2 months. I will

know in June how low my new A1C is going to be. I've been testing six times

a day for 2 months. out of the last 4 weeks I haven't had but 2 test be more

then 120. the rest have been under 120. this can't happen with out eating

right at every meal and not skipping exercise daily. It is simply a attitude

change that I have come too. maybe when I'm a older man and can spell

better, I will write a book. going to name this book The peace diet. or

maybe the diet of peace.

Now I know you new guys who haven't been here on list long is just

holding your breath waiting until I tell you what the word peace means? well

I'm certainly not going to ignore this question because most people can't

hold there breath to long or they will pass out. P stand for Prayer. I

strongly believe in Prayer and I do it every day and it is through Prayer

that my attitude has finally got to where it has to be in order to achieve

the control that I now got over eating and diabetes. Then the E stands for

exercise. I'm here to tell you guys right now this pig is lazy by nature and

getting out of any kind of exercise is ok with me! however, eating right

goes hand and hand with exercise. they work together and can't do the job

with out one another. Then the letter A. this stands for attitude. if your

attitude isn't where it needs to be you won't do what ever it is you set

your mind on to get done. thinking of what you will do and knowing what

needs done, isn't the same thing as your attitude. then we got the letter C.

this stands for choices. how many of us have different choices we must make

in daily life? all of our choices will have some thing to do with the out

come of to day and to morrow and those day's will be come our yesterday's

very soon. if we make good choices to day, then this means your yester's

will be made up of good choices. nothing happens to us in life that a choice

of some kind was involved. then we got the last letter of E. this stands for

eating. we all have to eat to live, but none of us got to live to eat. all

over eaters live to eat and this is backwards. eat right to day and

yesterday to morrow will be a good day of eating, which was made from a good

choice made. we each control how much and what we eat at every meal. eat

right and increase your chances of life. eat wrong and decrease your chances

of living. it is just this simple. so as you can see if you follow these

five small words that make up the word peace, you will live a life of peace.

I don't understand why they always call it a diet anyway? your diet is

how you eat all the time. everything we eat is our diet. most what they call

a diet is only a bandade anyway. it isn't fixing the real problem. you got

to get your attitude right and then make good choices if you plan to

increase your chances of a quality life and good over all health. this goes

on for the rest of your life on this earth. a diet as they call it has a

end, but a life style change has no end until you pass from this world.

Well as you new comers can see I love to ramble. don't blame any of you

when you see my name pop up if you just hit the delete key. my feelings

won't be hurt even if you tell me you did this. I just can't help my self. I

guess when I retired from 33 years of working I now have no life? well I do

hope you all go with me on my journey of controlling my T 2 diabetes and

drop only 132 pounds by June 25'th of 2013. this is the day when my wife

wishes me to get in front of the minister again and tell him again what I

told him I would promise to do 24 years ago. I didn't say I do! I said I

will! not sure what I will have to promise this time, but knowing that I

will be standing in front of God and my fellow man making the same promises

and weighing in at 185 is just to cool for words! I've been over 300 for way

to long. the highest I ever got that I can recall was 337 and this is way to

much pig!

It's really been nice talking to all you to day and especially you new

guys on the list. these old timers here like Pat and Dave for example, well

better add Harry as well know there stuff. most of them are T 1 and have to

be very careful, not like a T 2 who can slip from time to time and get away

with it. I believe I joined the list in maybe 2005 or sooner. can't be sure.

if I would have listened to them and took there advice way back then, well I

may not have had a heart attack in 2007 and all the problems I have had

since then, but this no one can know or prove. Only God knows for sure and I

plan to ask him when he takes me home some day. I don't figure I will be as

hard for him to carry when that day comes because I plan on losing 132

pounds of me that I don't really need or desire to keep.

[Guest guest]

Hi , It is good to see you here. I hope to hear more from you in the

future. My name is Harry, and I became a type2 diabetic in 1987, when I had my

first heart attack. The emergency room doctor mitted me to the intensive

cardiac care unit came up to visit me there the next day to give me the news.It

was something besides the heart attack I just had. He said he hated to inform

me that I was also a diabetic.who add

Sixteen years later I was told that I am no longer a type2 diabetic, but a type2

insulin dependent diabetic,

As a general rule of thumb a type 2 diabetic will often become an insulin

dependent diabetic in fifteen or sixteen years after first being diagnosed as a

type2 diabetic unless they really master and practice glucose level control.I

urge you toquestion your doctor, especially if he has not taken a detailed

history of your daily food and drink consumption.I know that high glucose levels

is the cause of practically every diabetic complication, and without a detailed

history of your consumption and along with several glucose monitorings per day,

one is doomed to repeat further diabetic complications.Of which I have had three

heart attacks, and I do not desire another.I know you must be on antirejection

medications, since you have another person's kidney or kidneys.What other

medications do you take daily? I don't know what is the upper limits of your

glucose level your cdoctor seeks, and I doubt he or she has never told you what

it is, even though they should. I believe the key to limiting diabetic

complications is avoiding high peaks in your blood glucose levels, which can

only be determined byglucose monitoring, the diabegtics best friend.You have to

know how each food or drink affects your glucose level in your blood, and

testing once or twice a day will not tell youwhat you need to knoI believe you

have todo a blood test two or three hours later after the consumption of food

and drink consumption to relly .know how your blood is being affected.I urge

you to be on guard and test toknow how food anddrink no matter what it is to

know how you are being affected. Old habits need to die, especially since you

have already lost some kidneys and possibly your eye sight.Hang in there and let

us know how it goes by posting frequently. We will have some encouragement and

sometimes some good suggestions.Like you I am proud to read Mark's posts, since

he also makes me laugh.

[Guest guest]

Hi Harry,

I do believe this is a great list. I too love reading Mark's posts,

along with everyone else's. At the current time, my doctor has me testing

four times daily. I test at eight am, eleven am, four pm and ten pm. I

also test more for high readings and again after a low is treated.

I do take anti rejection medications, along with high blood pressure

meds. I see the transplant team for my yearly clinic on May 7th, and I will

see my diabetic doctor right after that. I will see the cardiologist I saw

last year. When I saw him a year ago, he did a few tests to see where I was

at and he told me he didn't find any problems, but since I have been a

diabetic for over thirty years, he will see me every year from now on.

I am totally blind and I attended the Iowa Department for the Blind in

Des Moines. While doing my training there, I went through a lot of lows, in

fact, on two different occasions I was found on my bed half out of it due to

lows. Both times I hadn't shown up for class, so they started looking for

me.

Harry, it's nice meeting you. I look forward to your posts and all the

great information, you and the others post here.

Re: Hay to you who are new to the list.

Hi , It is good to see you here. I hope to hear more from you in the

future. My name is Harry, and I became a type2 diabetic in 1987, when I had

my first heart attack. The emergency room doctor mitted me to the intensive

cardiac care unit came up to visit me there the next day to give me the

news.It was something besides the heart attack I just had. He said he hated

to inform me that I was also a diabetic.who add

Sixteen years later I was told that I am no longer a type2 diabetic, but a

type2 insulin dependent diabetic,

As a general rule of thumb a type 2 diabetic will often become an insulin

dependent diabetic in fifteen or sixteen years after first being diagnosed

as a type2 diabetic unless they really master and practice glucose level

control.I urge you toquestion your doctor, especially if he has not taken a

detailed history of your daily food and drink consumption.I know that high

glucose levels is the cause of practically every diabetic complication, and

without a detailed history of your consumption and along with several

glucose monitorings per day, one is doomed to repeat further diabetic

complications.Of which I have had three heart attacks, and I do not desire

another.I know you must be on antirejection medications, since you have

another person's kidney or kidneys.What other medications do you take daily?

I don't know what is the upper limits of your glucose level your cdoctor

seeks, and I doubt he or she has never told you what it is, even though they

should. I believe the key to limiting diabetic complications is avoiding

high peaks in your blood glucose levels, which can only be determined

byglucose monitoring, the diabegtics best friend.You have to know how each

food or drink affects your glucose level in your blood, and testing once or

twice a day will not tell youwhat you need to knoI believe you have todo a

blood test two or three hours later after the consumption of food and drink

consumption to relly .know how your blood is being affected.I urge you to

be on guard and test toknow how food anddrink no matter what it is to know

how you are being affected. Old habits need to die, especially since you

have already lost some kidneys and possibly your eye sight.Hang in there and

let us know how it goes by posting frequently. We will have some

encouragement and sometimes some good suggestions.Like you I am proud to

read Mark's posts, since he also makes me laugh.