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Hi Omalani,

I'm not diabetic, but I have a friend who is, and she has been sticking pretty closely to LDL for about 3 years. At first, until she got used to eating more fruit, she ate a fairly significant amount of protein with the fruit. Beans, which I see you do some with your smoothie, eggs, or even some meat protein. She was gradually (and fairly quickly) able to back off of the protein for breakfast as her body got used to the fruit. It hasn't increased her insulin need, and her sugars are around 100 in the morning. Because of some other medications that she takes for seizures and manic depression, her body clings like glue to a lot of her extra weight. But she feels so much better on the LDL lifestyle, and her blood sugar is consistently pretty stable with a very low dose of insulin. She is pretty much able to eat as much fruit, any time of the day, as she wants to.

Another friend, who is also diabetic, and who doesn't stick to any kind of eating plan, has significantly higher morning blood sugar levels when she eats more fruit for breakfast when she stays with the first friend. If she would choose this plan and stick with it, we're sure she would soon find that her blood sugar is stable in the morning, and a good level.

I think, as your doctor mentioned, that once the excess sugars and glucose are flushed out of your system safely, your blood sugar levels will stabilize.

Years ago when my grandmother lived with us, my mother switched her to a whole foods diet (years before LDL, so there were plenty of whole grains included, but all whole foods), we gradually reduced her insulin by more than half. So I know good, healthy, whole food works, and now even better without the grains.

Best of luck and success to you!
Terri

Thanks Terri, I'm still awaiting theresults from my lab work. Just being off sugars is the best thing I can do for my health. I don't have the cravings and I'm learning to adjust. I am finding some extra benefits from the program. Beans are very filling and very economic. When I was growing up my parents had some financial problems and Mom cooked a lot of beans. They say when you get older you tend to like the foods you ate as a child, and I noticed many of my geriatric patients like sweets.  So for me the beans are a treat and I have cooked them in so many ways. The fresh fruit was always something we had around. My parents were both from North Dakota and Mom told us the only fresh fruit they had in the winter was an apple and orange in their Christmas stocking. My Uncle Art said he would trade the home baked sweets (he grew up on a poor farm) with the rich kids from town who had fruit in their lunches. Mom and Dad met in Calif. and that was where I grew up. Mom would buy a flat of strawberries or cherries and let us eat as much as we wanted. When my Dad went to lodge meetings on Friday night, Mom would take us to the drive-in movies and we would stop at Greater Central market and get a bag of plums, grapes or whatever was in season. She would bring popcorn sometimes too. Anyway this WOE is not new to me but I'm going back to the future. Thanks Mom, RIP see you in a little while.

I went to the doctor and my HbgA1C is 7.2 which is about the same. We adjusted my meds again so I'll see how it goes. I lost another lb. after stuffing at 2 Thanksgiving dinners and eating out on a 2 day trip to Dallas. I did a lot of walking, and I'm sure that helped. I feel so good, with more energy than I've had for a while and my 70th birthday is coming up on Thursday.  I find it helps to journal my food 1 day ahead so I know what I'm getting out of the frige and don't spend a lot of time deciding what to eat. If I change my mind, it lets me modify my menu, which keeps me accountable. I love this program!! 

For those of us who have been around for awhile, it is so fun to share your excitement as you discover just how wonderful this program really is!  Keep posting.  It helps you- and the rest of us.  Your meals sound yummy!
Pam

Omali, LDL is a youth renewing way of eating.  I honestly feel better today than I did many years ago.  I'm glad that you are finding it that way as well.    JF

Hi Linda,
        No I don't need it. When I had menopause I never knew it just one day I was free from Aunt Flow. Ha Ha!  At the time we had 15 kids at home to take care of and my mom who was very ill.. I didn't have time to think of anything else.  Now oh well I am free from that.  Thank you so much for telling me about these items. Very interesting.      Judie

I'll say LDL is youth renewing, just like Joyful Friend said! I started LDL in May of 2009, and I hadn't seen "Aunt Flow" for quite a while. I was glad to be through with that, because like Judie, I never felt any bad effects of menopause (or much pms, for that matter, for which my hubby is duly grateful! My mother really blessed me with those good genes). Imagine my surprise when Auntie showed up again! And it has taken 3 years for her to leave again, but I think she's finally gone. 

That has been the only "drawback" of LDL. I'll take it and be grateful! 

Terri