Evelyn wrote:
>
> I finally convinced my husband that we both need to eat a little lower
> carb.
>
> This guy is a carb hound who absolutely must have his sweets and heavily
> carb-laden foods. It will be a good thing for both of us. He is also
> now a diabetic, but for some reason he was of the mind that you aren't
> being "naughty" until your A1C goes over 7!!!!! Every time I told him
> that was wrong, he denied that it was so.
>
> He always has a stash of candy around, and he doesn't test often at all.
> He takes his januvamet and thinks that is all he needs to do besides go
> for a blood test a few times a year.
>
> Fortunately neither one of us is in bad shape, but I have definitely had
> some issues. Only when he heard from another diabetic on Sunday that
> under 6 is what is to be aimed for, did he realize that I was right.
> As for testing after meals and seeing what various foods do to his BG's
> that will have to be another battle.
>
> So every day I am trying to make just meat and vegetables and salad,
> with perhaps a piece of fruit later on.
>
> This is a guy who has always been extremely healthy, active, and any
> sort of illness or weakness is not included in his definition of
> himself. I am doing my best to convince him to go for tests when the
> doc orders and he just procrastinates about it and somehow he just
> doesn't go. Nagging makes it worse.
>
> But eating just meat and veggies and salad for dinner seems to satisfy
> him and wasted no time in pointing out to him that he isn't into the
> chips and cookies and who knows what all else after dinner when he keeps
> his carb intake down.
>
Hell Ev - he voted for Obama.
How many life changing measures do you expect the guy to make without
some resistance ?
Tell him how truly NASTY neuropathies are, and how they can be
avoided if he............................behaves.

D