Reversing T2 Diabetes

I'm Jackie and you can find out about me from my about me page on another blog.  Since this blog will be almost entirely about me, and my journey to attempt to reverse diabetes, I didn't bother with an "about me" page here. Why does a post about diabetes have a Pacman? The reason is autophagy, a word which means self-eating.  Autophagy is the process by which lysosomes within a cell eat malformed proteins and/or damaged organelles, bre…

I received my JumpStart book today and was inspired to write this post about the ELAB content Amanda has produced and how it has changed my life. The Beginning... The first bit of content Amanda produced was The Bear Bones Manual , which is about ketogenic dieting and intermittent fasting in a sort of generic sense. I'm a bit jealous of the folks who were here then as they had a year headstart on me and I can't even *imagine* where I'd be toda…

This bright idea was first proposed in the ELAB group by my friend Jennifer; this is my version. If you made my corned beef and cabbage recipe , you've got 8 packs of corned beef in your freezer now. If not, you can just buy some deli pastrami to enjoy this salad! I recommend choosing fermented sauerkraut and dill pickles (in the refrigerated section of the store), but honestly, they're too rich for my blood; I make my own for the sake of frug…

I'm not Irish, but I'm from Massachusetts where what we call "New England Boiled Dinner" is sometimes made with ham, sausage, pork shoulder/butt or kielbasa. But for St. Patrick's day, it has to be corned beef and cabbage! When St. Paddy's approaches, one of my local groceries has it on sale dead cheap. I'll buy two packages, around 6 lbs total, to cook up. 2 pounds will get used in the traditional way, and the other 4 lb…

I've known Denise for 7 years, she began as a home health aid for me, and later became a good friend. She wrote an essay about what she has seen me go through; this final installment is about how I changed from a patient into a real person. I couldn't even *walk* when I began, but have shoveled my way through two winter storms on my own! The New Apartment: With all her health improvements, toward the end of 2019 Jackie decided she wanted to move i…

I've known Denise for 7 years, she began as a home health aid for me, and later became a good friend. She wrote an essay about what she has seen me go through; this second installment is about how I began to recover through the twin tools of fasting and eating like a bear. Enter determination: A couple of years before the fast in August 2019, Jackie decided it was time to start walking, even if her body was not going to cooperate and she could not fee…