I think being overweight played a big part in most of my mom's family having diabetes, but my mom was never overweight. In fact, she stayed really thin. She was on insulin last summer, but is off of it now. In fact, she is off of all diabetic medications. Watching her diet has been a HUGE part of it, as well as walking. I also think drinking a shot of organic, apple cider vinegar before bed has helped. No proof of it, so I offer it as just what we have had her do. I've had 2 diabetic friends that did this, and they too saw their glucose and cholesterol numbers improve. How much improvement? I don't know what the "before" and "after" readings were. One said his Fructosamine levels showed normal. I don't think he was on insulin before though.
I have long taken the Bragg's apple cider vinegar before bed. I take a couple of shot glasses of it. I think it gives me more energy. Maybe that is in my mind, but I do tend to keep my weight at ideal, much easier, if I take it regularly. Nothing besides water is ingested after taking the ACV in the evening. I can gain easily if I end up not taking ACV for more than a few days.
It may not help you at all. Maybe you will find it to be something you can't stand to drink. It might all be in my head, that it helps me feel better. I only throw it out there, as something else to think about.
I watched my grandmother lose her vision, then her kidneys and hearing failed, and finally she lost both legs. It is a wicked disease, if not kept under control. My grandmother had it for almost 40 years, and was on insulin that entire time. But, she would "cheat" from time to time. It was very hard to watch someone so independent, become a torso in a bed, undergoing dialysis 3 days a week, and having to be carried there by ambulance, due to being bedridden. Even after the diabetes had robbed her of her sight, she would get up and make biscuits, from scratch in the mornings, when I would be there visiting her. She knew by the feel of the flour and other items in her hands, how much she needed. Still the best biscuits I've ever had! How sad it was when the rest of the body began shutting down.
I only share this, hoping that those of you dealing with it, will use care in managing it, and will take it seriously. I also want y'all to know, that my grandmother didn't begin the downhill slide, until she had been on insulin for more than 30 years, so I wouldn't fret as much as some do, if you have to use insulin.
And yes, I will begin hunting for those recipes. If I can find them on Sunday, I'll begin posting on Monday. The dieticians gave a page or two, each visit, with my grandmother, many years ago. Hence, they never were in a bound book. I will bind them into a notebook, when I find them, so this will be a good project for me, while it is still triple digit temps here.
