First of all don't be a hard ass and do like I did and try to tough it out. About 120 days ago I was diagnosed with diabetes. I thought I was bullet proof. 63 years young. Very active and never any inkling of any serious sickness other than a common cold. Over the past several years working all over the country and sitting behind a desk 12 hours a day you guessed it, I gained a lot of weight. Stepped on the scales last year about this time of year and I weighed 249. I'm 6'1". I said to myself, no way in hell I am going to weigh 250 so I stopped eating a giant bowl of ice cream every night, stopped the 3 or 4 beers a night and started eating for 1 instead of 3. Started loosing weight right off the bat. That lasted for a couple of months and before you know it yep, you guessed it. Big bowl of ice cream every night, eating to much but never started back with the beer. I continued loosing weight for months at a fairly rapid rate. I wrote it off to high stress job working 12 hours a day 7 days a week rarely taking a day off. I had dropped from 249 to around 210 in just a few months. I started to get concerned the BIG C? That was my first thought. When I starting to take a leak every 2 hours and my feet went numb with needle like shooting pain and I had lost down to 192 I knew what it was but I resisted going to the Doctor. Johnny hard ass I guess. When I got down to 192 pounds 120 days ago I went to see the Doctor. They pulled enough blood to kill a horse! AIC was 14 which he said was the highest it could be. He said something about sugar was 500. He said I could have fallen into a coma and zip, that's all folks. He told me what to do and come back in 90 days. I did exactly what he advised along with the medication he prescribed. Changed my habits and after 90 days I went for a check up. A1C is now 7 and sugar level consistently 102 to 104. The Doctor was shocked. Me too. He said keep doing what I am doing and come back in 90 days. My only issue is the numb feet with the stinging shooting pain in the bottom of my feet. That is something I will deal with from now on. I post a lot of my meat smoking. I eat very little of it. Cooking it for family and friends. Kinda getting used to living and eating healthy. I have no choice. I will be asking for recipes for diabetics from time to time. Take care and keep on smokin!!
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