"High Miles" > wrote in message
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> 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


Been trying, D.

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Evelyn

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