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 love all the alliums, but some can be rather carby as the table below shows. Net carbs (total carbs minus fiber) and calories per 1 cup of various raw alliums. net carbs calories scallions 4 35 leeks 11 55 onions 14 65 shallots 27 120 garlic 42 200 This explains why I grow scallions (bunching onions) in my garden, as they give me the most allium flavor bang for the carb/calorie buck. I grow garlic too as that also gives a LOT of flavor for the *actual* serving size, whic…

This post is not going to be about traditional keto Thanksgiving meal ideas; you can google and find tens of thousands of recipes for keto Thanksgiving dishes. Rather, it is about strategy. In my opinion, it's extremely important to plan for holidays or other special occassions in advance. Nothing screws you up as rapidly as not having a plan. Anna reminds me regularly that we don't need food to celebrate and I agree with that wholeheartedly. …

The scale weighs everything: bone mass, muscle mass, fluid, fat, the contents of your GI tract and bladder. My experience in the group is that the person who's weight just goes down all the time is rare indeed. I joke often that the scale is a lying liar that lies. My 16 week weight loss wasn't exactly a transformation since my 12 week chart; only an additional two pounds down. The slope of my graph was going the right way, but my fluid issues…

Last November, I posted about having gotten sick, back in the pre-covid days when it was significantly less scary. If you have a short-term illness and don't have "keto flu" (which is primarily caused by electrolyte issues ), and also can exclude feeling sick from cheating on keto, then you likely have either a respiratory illness (cold or flu) or a bout of vomiting and/or diarrhea (stomach virus or mild food poisoning). Mine was a respira…

Image credit: from Grey's Anatomy via Wikimedia [public domain] Though I've previously posted about my reversing my adrenal insufficiency , I really wanted to provide as much information as possible on this topic. Overview of Adrenal Function The adrenals are two small organs located just above the kidneys, consisting of an inner part (cortex) and outer part (medulla). Overall, the adrenal glands produce 3 types of hormones: glucocorticoids (hor…