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 case you haven't figured it out by now, I am infatuated with both Dr. Jason Fung and Amanda Rose, PhD. I am a sapiosexual and the two of them have *very* sexy brains; in addition, they're two of the most inspirational people I know. I credit them with literally saving my life: Dr. Fung taught me when to eat and Amanda taught me what to eat, so together they provided the motivation and inspiration that launched my journey from fat, weak and si…

Image credit: Created by Leah Jayne Hess of Jayne and Joy [Used by permission of Farmer's On The Square ] The amazing thing about the Ridiculously Big Salad concept is how easy it is. When I began, okra was in season here in central PA. First, you have to understand that a decade earlier, I couldn't buy okra anywhere. Finally, Wegmans began selling frozen okra, which was exciting enough. But all of a sudden, a whole bunch of my local farmers w…

I've done low-carb diets before. I had all sorts of tricks and tips up my sleeve for making favorite foods low-carb. One of those was Mission Carb Balance tortillas. Most low carb tortillas are kind of icky, but these were pretty good, if a bit small. For a fast snack, I could make just a plain old cheese quesadilla; done carefully, the pan didn't even need cleaning. I'd get a bit more elaborate when I needed a fast dinner after work…

I began this journey on August 2, 2019. On September 22, 2019, I took my last insulin shot. I didn't know it at the time. A while later, I donated my insulin to Insulin For Life , a group that provides insulin and disease management supplies free of charge to those with diabetes who otherwise would go without these life-saving provisions. . On September 30, I announced the following to the Eat Like a Bear! group on Facebook: I am off insulin! I …

As I examined my blood glucose data for August and September of 2019, I noticed something intriguing. I didn't need insulin at all during extended fasts, where my "need" was defined by bG over (or approaching) 200. I had set this as my top range, instead of the 140 used by most diabetics as top of the good range, based on the entire concept that elevated insulin was worse than elevated bG. If I could use less insulin, that might lead …