xdunlapx
Sat, Mar-10-12, 18:19
Hi guys. My name is Brittany and I am new to low carbing. I was diagnoised in 2009 with diabetes, type 2. I have a pizza addiction and hot wings addiction that I need to break. I weigh 377 pounds currently. I'm at the higher end of my "normal" weight which is usually around 373 pounds. My highest was 381.
I have very supportive parents and that is certainly needed with the bad genes I have. I have bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and generalized anxiety disorder. Sometimes I can get a little obsessive/compulsive so I don't doubt I have that to some degree as well. I am on medications for my mental illnesses and so far I'm doing quite well. I was diagnosed in early 2006.
My weight has been an issue ever since I began puberty. I have Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome which makes me insulin resistant and infertile. But since I have so many illnesses/diseases whatever I do not ever want to have children. I will not allow myself to become so selfish that I want a child to bear my illnesses as they are all likely to carry on onto a child. So I have decided that I will not marry nor have children. My medications make me lack a libido of any kind so I doubt I'll ever marry. It's not something that I am interested in. I do have to live with my parents (if I don't have a husband to take care of me).
I started gaining weight around the age of 9 or 10. As far back as I can remember I've always been carb-driven. Candy, cake, sugar, white flour stuff, anything and everything that was sugary or sweet I always craved. So I am TRYING to avoid carbs now. But I have to get back into the routine of cooking... And to do that I need real food in the house.. So it's a struggle sometimes. My mom doesn't often cook for us since she works for a living and is too tired after work to want to cook. Dad has no idea how to cook anything but macaroni and cheese from the box. So it's left up to me and since I didn't want to cook or didn't feel like it a lot lately, we've had pizza A LOT lately. Not good.
I was on metformin for my diabetes for a year and a half and it did absolutely nothing for me. My fasting bg's were the same as they were at diagnosis and my spikes were only a tad lower than they were when I wasn't on it. And I was on the max dose of Metformin ER per day. 2000mg. So I decided at the beginning of the year that I would go off of metformin and see how I did without it. I was doing great without it, one problem though - I caught a virus that was going around and now my bg's are bad again. So currently my fastings are around 117 and spikes upwards of 175 or higher. So I'm back to square one. Before the virus hit me my fastings (on the low carb diet with no pizza) were mid 80's. Spikes no more than 130.
SO long story short, I am redidicating myself to low carbing. I have got to do it for my health and well being. I'll need encouragement along the way though. Tonght I'm going to cook fish and some veggie. No carb unless my parents want peas or something starchy. But I won't be eating a starchy veggie or any bread. And that'll be perfectly fine with me.
I have very supportive parents and that is certainly needed with the bad genes I have. I have bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and generalized anxiety disorder. Sometimes I can get a little obsessive/compulsive so I don't doubt I have that to some degree as well. I am on medications for my mental illnesses and so far I'm doing quite well. I was diagnosed in early 2006.
My weight has been an issue ever since I began puberty. I have Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome which makes me insulin resistant and infertile. But since I have so many illnesses/diseases whatever I do not ever want to have children. I will not allow myself to become so selfish that I want a child to bear my illnesses as they are all likely to carry on onto a child. So I have decided that I will not marry nor have children. My medications make me lack a libido of any kind so I doubt I'll ever marry. It's not something that I am interested in. I do have to live with my parents (if I don't have a husband to take care of me).
I started gaining weight around the age of 9 or 10. As far back as I can remember I've always been carb-driven. Candy, cake, sugar, white flour stuff, anything and everything that was sugary or sweet I always craved. So I am TRYING to avoid carbs now. But I have to get back into the routine of cooking... And to do that I need real food in the house.. So it's a struggle sometimes. My mom doesn't often cook for us since she works for a living and is too tired after work to want to cook. Dad has no idea how to cook anything but macaroni and cheese from the box. So it's left up to me and since I didn't want to cook or didn't feel like it a lot lately, we've had pizza A LOT lately. Not good.
I was on metformin for my diabetes for a year and a half and it did absolutely nothing for me. My fasting bg's were the same as they were at diagnosis and my spikes were only a tad lower than they were when I wasn't on it. And I was on the max dose of Metformin ER per day. 2000mg. So I decided at the beginning of the year that I would go off of metformin and see how I did without it. I was doing great without it, one problem though - I caught a virus that was going around and now my bg's are bad again. So currently my fastings are around 117 and spikes upwards of 175 or higher. So I'm back to square one. Before the virus hit me my fastings (on the low carb diet with no pizza) were mid 80's. Spikes no more than 130.
SO long story short, I am redidicating myself to low carbing. I have got to do it for my health and well being. I'll need encouragement along the way though. Tonght I'm going to cook fish and some veggie. No carb unless my parents want peas or something starchy. But I won't be eating a starchy veggie or any bread. And that'll be perfectly fine with me.