"Todd" > wrote in message
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> On 02/02/2013 06:21 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>> He may rather be dead than be without his carbs. It breaks
>>> my heart to see him walking around on his mechanical legs.
>>> Especially knowing it was self inflicted and was under
>>> his control not to have this happen to him.
>>>
>>> -T
>>
>>
>> Obviously, it wasn't under his control or he would have done whatever it
>> takes. Some people fall into the category of addicted when it comes to
>> carbs.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Hi Cheri,
>
> He told me he just wouldn't put up with the restrictions. He
> said he moved to insulin so he could eat whatever he wants. The
> addiction thing makes sense. It also may be one of those "different
> strokes for different folks" things. Freedom is an awesome thing.
>
People who are on insulin can NOT eat whatever they want and I really wish
you would quit saying that. Your posts here are soo full of misinformation
that they are ticking me right off. I would just kill file you but I fear
that what you are saying is potentially dangerous information to a newcomer
and/or someone who doesn't know any better.

You have mentioned these "restrictions" several times but haven't said what
they were. Did someone tell him to eat a specific diet? If so, what was
it?

My dad, brother and I all take insulin. None of us can ever eat whatever we
want or even necessarily *when* we want. Yes, I am eating less carbs than
before. My favorite meal used to be a pinto bean burrito with a side of
pinto beans and rice! No way could I eat that now. Once in a while I will
get a burrito with meat and eat some of the tortilla but those restaurant
tortillas are huge and I know that it is too many carbs for me. But I don't
eat meat much so I usually eat something else. Today I had black bean soup.
BG was fine before and after.

> And, since I love my feet right where they are, I do have to
> remember not to judge unless one walks first in someone else's
> shoes, or in this case, someone else's prosthetics.

Please provide a cite that eating carbs cause you to lose a limb. If they
did, then we'd all not be walking around? Right? Or typing with a pen in
our mouth due to lack of arms. I know two diabetics who lost toes. One was
a type 1 and the other was type 2. I don't know the particulars of the type
1 but she died soon after. I suspect there were a lot of other medical
things I didn't know about. The type 2 was elderly, couldn't understand the
diet he was put on which at the time was the Exchange plan and didn't seek
medical care when he should have. People where I worked did try to feed
him the right diet when he was there but he took some meals elsewhere. And
was clearly not in good medical shape besides the diabetes. Not sure his
cause of death but the removal of the toes started with an infection. Not
from eating carbs.

There was an amputee named Guy who used to post here. He claims his problem
started with a fungal infection. Not from eating carbs.
>
> I am also very blessed by a wife that got so angry that
> the food I was eating did this to me, that she insists that
> we both are on the same diet. I have the greatest family
> support anyone could ask for. She is a delicate, sweet,
> famine thing that turns into a fierce mama bear when one
> of her loved ones is in danger. I am very blessed.
>
The food that you ate did not give you diabetes. More misinformation. I
don't think you are blessed if your wife is in famine.
> -T
>
> It has been said about the western diet that we are consuming
> vast quantities of food like substances and starving at the
> same time because of it.

Said who? Oh I probably don't want to know. You very much remind me of a
former poster here. He left. Got annoyed with us I guess. Because we
weren't buying what he said.