human guinea pig....

right now....  eye have turned myself into a human guinea pig....

eye have type two diabetes....

it has taken me five years to get my a-one-c under control....  when eye discovered that eye had type two diabetes.... around five years ago....  my a-one-c was at a seven....  

when my doctor told me the news....  she told me that she wanted to put me on metformin....  eye am very much against using modern medicine to control an illness....  eye would much rather fix my illness naturally....  if possible....  eye would rather find out the root cause....  and then fix the root cause....  so....  eye asked my doctor....  what if eye changed my diet....  what if eye lost the weight....  and....  she said....  that would work to....  so....  eye began my long journey....  with the goal of CURING my diabetes in mind....  

it took me five years....  to lose the wieght....  it took me five years....  to get my a-one-c under control....  eye am on an antipsychotic medicine....  which slows my metabolism....  eye can only eat fourteen hundred calories per day....  if eye want to lose weight....  so....  that is what eye have did....  eye started eating around fourteen hundred calories per day....  and....  working out twice a day....  at first....  eye would ride the eliptical for twenty minutes.... twice a day....  and....  then....  eye started working out even more....  and....  slowly....  over time....  eye lost the weight....  over a three to four year period....  eye lost eighty five pounds....  eye went from two hundred and forty five pounds....  to....  one hundred and sixty pounds....

eye also changed the types of foods eye ate....  eye sugar out completely....  eye cut out alcohol completely....  eye cut out almost all processed foods....  and....  eye ate a whole foods diet....  eye even was vegan for a while....  

over this period....  by losing the weight....  and....  cutting out simple carbohydrates....  eye was able to bring my a-one-c down to five point two....  which is well within the normal range....

so....  eye HAVE figured out how to manage my diabetes....  without help....  from pharmeceuticals or insulin....  eye have brought my a-one-c down....  and....  eye have gotten rid of my my diabetic neuropathy....  eye used to have significant diabetic neuropathy....  and it has gone away.... 

however....  my blood sugar levels still rise too high....  if eye stop managing my diet....  the neuropathy reappears....  if eye eat too many carbohydrates....  even complex carbohydrates....  eye am able to keep my fasting blood glucose around one twenty....  and....  my post-parandial blood glucose around one hundred and forty to one hundred and sixty....   IF....  eye watch what eye eat....  however....  when eye try to add more carbohydrates into my diet....  my blood sugar levels start to rise to too high levels....  and....  my neuropathy starts to return....   so....  eye have learned how to MANAGE my diabetes....  but....  eye have not CURED by diabetes....

this is where eye find myself today....  my diabetes is under control....  but it is NOT cured....  so....  NOW....  eye am taking the next step....  now....  eye am trying to cure my diabetes....

what does cured mean to me....  it means....  having a fasting blood glucose below one hundred....  it means....  being able to eat sugar and simple carbohydrates....  without my blood sugar rising too high....   it means....  not worrying....  about what eye eat....

will eye be successful....  eye do not know....  but....  eye am going to give it my best shot....  eye have been trying to cure my diabetes for over five years now....  and....  eye am going to continue to focus on trying to CURE my diabetes....  eye am NOT going to give up....  until....  eye have either....  cured it....  or....  eye am in my grave....  whichever comes first....