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Default Ellen's breakfast vis-?-vis morning readings


"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> On 9/6/2010 3:41 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> All you have to do with The Exchange Plan is read a label too. And it is
>> still being used.
>>

> Glad it works for you, Julie, but I know too many people who are diagnosed
> diabetics who get a sheet of paper with the exchange diet and a bottle of
> pills. They stop putting sugar in their coffee and drink diet soda and
> haven't a clue as to how they are supposed to eat because that diet *does*
> intimidate people.
>
> It is still used, but the diabetes publications we get here indicate that
> carb counting is becoming much more popular in the education programs.


Could be that they just left me on it because that is what I already know.
The last dietician I saw said there wasn't really anything she could tell me
that I didn't already know. Except that she told me I should eat lunch
every day. I have since spoken to my Dr. about it and no longer do on most
days. The only time I do eat something (and it's usually a snack) is if my
dinner goes beyond 8:00. I shudder to think of how much weight I would have
gained had I started eating three meals a day again.