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…

In November of 2019, I had a bit of a mishap with some chocolate. I'd been eating the "healthy" dark chocolate for years, as it generally has less sugar that the milk kind (though that's not always true) and mindlessly ate some from my freezer. The dark side of chocolate: my bG meter shot up to almost 200! Uh oh. I posted about my experience: November 24, 2019 So posting for accountability... I accidentally broke my shiny, new bG. …

In October 2019, I was simultaneously trying to reduce insulin and wean off prednisone . I had noticed that I had to take insulin to "cover" my morning prednisone dose, which actually was causing a larger bG rise than my evening meal. Partway through the month, I got a Libre CGMS, so I had daily graphs on the Libre reader rather than discrete bG readings to record in my printable monthly blood sugar log ; thus my my diabetes record book began rec…

One zucchini plant produced 8 1/2 pounds last week. Yesterday, I saw 2 new blossoms on it as well as 2 more on it's smaller sibling that hasn't produced yet. They're ganging up on me! What to do? Anyway, like I was sayin', zucchini is the fruit of the garden. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's uh, zucchini-kabobs, zucchini creole, zucchini gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineap…

I was planning to do salad last week, but my garden presented me with entirely too much zucchini to ignore, so I needed to do something about it. I wanted to do a cheese-based lasagna, but had a few quandaries. First, my "normal" cheese lasagna recipe is *way* too caloric. But if I cut the cheese significantly, would this vegetarian casserole have enough protein for a meal? A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation indicated it would. Foll…

I believe there is much to be learned by being open-minded, but as Terry Pratchett says in "Diggers," The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. My own thought on this topic is one ought not be so open minded that one's brains fall out. Unfortunately, it seems to me that much of the "natural foods" community is on the brink of this. I can generate a…