Sometimes little things can be really big.

uh huh or as the astronaut put it one giant leap for mankind. lol lol but anyway I am not afraid now to show my blood glucose readings to my doctor for my diabetic check up. maybe this is my leap for my diabetes lol hey Orson just be sure not to step on HEG;s heels in right bheind you

Another way to put it the way I meant it above. Small steps amount to big leaps.

If small steps lead to big leaps, then I am right behind you on that one! :P

hi thefarmersson I was just thinking of a poem a teacher read to us back in grade school. If you cannot be the biggest grandest tree on the top of the hell, just be the best prettiest little bush on the side hill you can be. IN other words little things canalso be really big if you just do your best.

I think that I am doing better now than I have been My hubby and I try to have a cup of coffee on the porch in the early morning.

hi garden gerty that sounds lovely and my husband and I used to do that too. He was the coffee drinker for sure but I loved my morning coffee.

hi garden gerty thats exactly what my doctor told me, just take one change at a time and you will find you really stick to them. I am so guilty of not getting enough fresh air and sunshine. I stay in my room on my computer typing like mad, my tablemate at lunch Steve asked me if I had been outside as it was a lovely day. I had to admit I had not and he shook his head. I know I should take a little time off and get some sun and breathe some fresh air too.

Hatley, try some lemon juice on your food if it is available. It is better than salt.Of course drinking water will help flush the salt from your system. I hope that they will help you with less salty foods as well.

hi rich odd you should say that as day before yesterday we had veal parmesahn with a too sweet tomato sauce on it for lunch and a hour later I felt really ill so then at dinner we had barbeques pork on a bun with mnore too too sweet tomato sauce and by nine that night after talking to my son on the phone I had to run to the bathroom and heaved the whole tomato mess up all over the floor. Now I am leery of any of their dishes with that too sweet tomato sauce. I love tomatoes. I am thinkng maybe a little vinegar or even lime juice might cut that cloying sweet taste a bite. I used Barellis tomato sauce with garlic and basil weh I was still cooking for my self as it was tangy but not sweet. some manujfactured are full of brown sugar and molasses which makes it too too sweet. Barellis contains no sugar at all.

hi stephcjh oh yes indeed and I found out that my friends seasoned salt jus t did a number on my legs again. there is way too much ordianry tagle salt in this stuff l. I have quit using it as now I have puffy legs from holding fluid. I so have high blood pressure and am not to use salt at all.

hi celticEagle a vacation can really just recharge you like crazy.And for me that doctor that upped my metformin sure knew what he was doing as iam now excited at the prospect of seeing my doctor with these lower readings now.

hi celticeagle OH dear I have not seen my doctor yet as first I have to go get my blood work done, I have never been a procrastinator until lately but moneymatters have had me adding this subtracting that' and trying to fit in the half dozen bills I must pay with the amount I have to work with, and having to leave some for August now I am being told that our president is claiming we might not get our August Social security checks, what the H? come on Prez I have to have that check to pay myroom and board.

Hi ya. Yes, the vacation was great. I am saving for next summer. Glad to hear you have good news for the doctor.

hi simplyd in other words you are adding a little extra to your housework to make a good exercise scheme out of it.More power to you for not letting yourself get big. So many women do not realize a lot of diabetics got that way when they let themselves develop a middle aged spread around the tummy. overweight seems to keep our natural insulin from guiding the sugar into our muscle cells where we' need it for energy and instead leaves too much sugar in our blood which is not good for any of our organs.I think if the American Diabetes Assoc. would inform young women that letting themselves gain too much wait can easily lead to getting diabetes. so losing even fiftee percent of overweight the doctors claim will help control the blood sugar. I do wish I had never let myself get heavy in my fifties.little things like 15 percent weight loss c an control blood sugar and on those who are not diabetics can prevent a woman from getting diabetes.

hi simplyD thats a great way to think as staying slim and healthy is much easier in the long run than trying to lose weight and get'rid of a large tummy. the weight around the tummy is according to nmy doctor the one for worry as that's usually where diabetes starts as the fat cells interfere with the insulin herding the sugar into the muscle cells where it is needed so the sugar ends up in our blood and makes various organs ill. so do keep your medium body build slim and avoid diabetes completely. that's the way to go.wish I had done that. also I wish my mom had told me she had type 2 diabetes as then I think I would have learned I had a big chance of getting diabetes from inheritance but by losing weight could have by passed it. I guess then diabetes was thought by her to be shameful.Now our diabetes educators tell us that moderation is the key in the way we diabetics eat. few foods are really forbiddenbut some must be in real moderation. by using my meter to check my blood sugar often i can know what foods cause my own body to shoot up my blood sugar and what foods I can eat in moderation that do not raise my blood glucose level at all. rice is one I can only eat a few teaspoonsful as anymore and my blood sugar level will be much too high.

I think, in my wish to more or less maintain my medium built body, i do the chores as an exercise. In addition, i try to eat in moderation . BUt when it is inevitable that i eat what's more than what is moderate, i would compensate it with vigorous exercise. I want to be healthy so i maintain my body and avoid getting big.

hiu ambie pam I think my doctor is going to be happy for me this time evenh when I te ll him my left hip is hurting.its just arthritis I am sure but still is hurting lol.

hi rich oh my goodness now I have this picture of orson with a handful of fruit dashing down the sidewalk with a stout little man in a grocer's apron right on his heels. could be for health either way as if the grocery man catches him he might get a black eye. lol lol lol

God loves those that help themselves...and I have been helping myself to a piece of fruit (or two) from the local market stall every day for the last week. I am feeling so much healthier, what with the running and stuff. :)

yeah, and my doc is amazed I'm not diabetic because I am over weight - as in "morbidly obese"

yes elicbxn it is just small stuff but it sure makes a lot of differene. I have never had a cholesterol problem which is unusual as most diabetes also have high cholesterol but Ihave been watching my fat intake and only using good fats.

hi elic bxn and my doctor wants me to losw weight too but only six pounds a month and oh my thats slow going. I am also very overweight at 205 and was so happy when I had hurt my leg and was in the rehab hosptital they weighed me after a week and I was down to 194 so I was thrilled at that.now I have gaine it back here. but their food there at the rehab was really a diabetic diet with smaller portions and less starchy stuff too. here they use a lot of rice and pasta. I have been halving portions lately and am hoping that helps some.

PS im rather addicted to sodas....drink way too many of them and i know if i cut them out of my diet id do WAY better. But i tend to turn to them alot more with stress...and with allergies. My throat itches and some how water doesnt cut it...and adding citrus to water just makes it worse for me.

hi saundyl I have read that shell fish are one allergen that a ton of people are allergic to.also plain old peanuts too. Me I am allergic to something over here around my desk as I will sit down here and start typing and then I sneeze. go for an hour and sneeze again and again. after so much of this I just get up and take some benadryl .it stops the sneezing. I think it is dust mites and dust.I saw a child that someone had given a sandwich to start to wheeze and her mom got out an apparatus for asthma and handed it to her. Her mom said she is allergic to peanuts and she would bet that whoever made that sandwich had it next to peanuts or peanut butter.I advised them to go to Western Medical center as they were just a block away and go to the ER as peanut allergy is noting to fool around with.they did as I suggested. my bus came so I had no idea how the little girl fared.

Food allergies honestly make travelling and eating out VERY scary. Its scary to see people who dont have allergies just shrug them off like its no big deal!

hi no I have not asked a care giver to help; me shower and as I have a balance problem I do get scared of falling in the shower. there are two steel bars no three but one is a hard plastic and a shower hand held nozzle that I am getting used to using . the things that bother me are no bath math non slip thing in the tub and no bath mat on the floor in the bathroom.so I have improvised with a big bath towel on the floor and in the shower I am hanging onto that bar. I would feel safer with 'a rubber bath mat like we had in our old room. My pride will not let me ask for a care taker to help me but maybe I should.Oh that shower chair will really help you a lot.I think the hand held spray thing is going to be great once I hold it correctly so I do not get the towel I hung on the top of the glass door wet. I kept it there to wipe water out of my eyes. I admit i am scared while showering alone.My roomie gets help as when she first came here she had a broken back operated on. they asked meif I want a caretaker to give me a shower but no not really if I can just make it safer.

hi paula why are some men like that ,as if they think a mom ahnd housewife does not do a damned thing. my dad jused to do that to my mom.so when my dear hubby would grab the vacuum cleaner and started vacuuming I was shocked. I even said: "what the hell are y ou doing?" He laughed and told me he was going to help me with the house work as two babies only 11 months apart were dragging me down.I was thrilled as i had not even suggested that he helped. having grown up with a dad who did not coo k and never ever offered to do anything around the house as that was women's work I did not know some men would help their wives. He also loved to bathe and put the babies down in the evening. He told them bedtime stories. A man if he helps even just a little bit can save a woman so much energy.Little things but they mean a lot to a tired overworked woman.I think you need to have a firm talking to said hubby and perhaps get him to a marriage counselor too. It would not hurt him a bit to help you around the house a bit.

"small things come in big packages" How disappointing is that? You receive a large package and after unwrapping it, find a small thing inside. I know you can't expect to get a large thing in a small package, that would be too hopeful. Unless you could shrink it and then make it bigger when exposed to the right conditions. You think?

lol I don't mean it in the literal sense as you see something little means a great deal to me. I am not a materialistic type girl as something really small can mean something really big for me. Therefore, something like substituting Mrs. Hatley's dietary intake means small stps in which will amount BIG!

"something little means a great deal to me" I'll remember that if I ever get the opportunity to show you my credentials :)

fitriadi21 that remind me myhusband often would say lets go for a drive and do something different. then gas preices were cheap.so a little grip landed us once at a flower farm with acres of the most gorgeous and sweetest smelling stock.we ended up with huge bouquest of stock for next to nothing and our whole house smelled just heavenly. little trip with big ending. once we ended up in an all Negro churcdh where we were warmly welcomed and they made the hyms they sang come alive with their penchant for rhythmn. we really enjoyed that Sunday and now I am making myh blood sugar reading go normal andit a biggie for me too.

Keep on taking healthy and nutritious foods which are beneficial to your health dear I do in this way as well but I still like to take a little those tasty junk foods occasionally to fulfill my appetite. I hope it does no or less harm to my health overall Seems like quite gluttonous eh...

hi lkbooi yes indeed a tiny spark has caused so much grief in wild fieres in my state of Calif. one fall so many people lost their homes because a man was driving an old car that was sparking and dropping spark sin tinder dry brush. It was accidental b ut still deadly. I have learned now what is safe for me to enjoy and what is not and to ignore well meaning peo ple who want to treat you with the wrong foods. just say no so simple if one just does it.

hi lkbooi y es its so ironic that the heavenly tasting foods are usually very bad for us but I do like fresh fruits which are good for me and love most veggies too. But once I started feeling so much better when I was seeing my blood glucose go down to where it should be I enjoyed eatinh the food that was actually good for me. lol lol lol

savak03 oh yes they are mostly Mexicans who know some english but not a whole lot but the one whose been serving me mostley is well educated and she had helped me a lot.so I now am watching for myself and being upfront in my health care and I feel much better for it too.

sa just that.vak oh i love your avatar. yes really when it comes down to it we have to speak up for our health's sake in a place like this. with some 90 odd people here one has to take care of ones self and now i am doing

Well, ultimately we do have to look out for ourselves.

hi beingwell oh yes but it does not work for me. A lot of diabetics also cannot use honey as it just shoots up our blood sugar really bad although others have no problems at all.But I am using cinnamon and my reading are now in normal range so hip hip hurrah.

hi beingwell I remember reading that rose apples have a lot of vitamin C so thats also good for us. I need to buy some more cinnamon as it makes the wallpaper paste looking oatmeal taste good for you and its so good for my blood glucose.

Good for you! Cinnamon's also good in regulating our sugar level. It's good for our colons as well. Do you have roseapples there? It's another healthy treat which is good for diabetics, Hatley! We always have those for dinner. My hubby's parents have a history of diabetics so we are always watching what we eat to stay fit and healthy!

hi ravisivan wow oats are really so good for us, and with a little nuts or raisins they are delicious. a small change for good big health too.some changes are indeed good. lol lol

hi yes sometimes we diabetics do have to watch raisins as a few are okay but too many can raise ones blood glucose. I think most people can digest oatmeal pretty well.hugs from hatley lol You have the happiest avatar. love it. lol

Madam: You reminded me of walnut and badam. yes. I took them now. 3.50 pm. raisin - i cannot take because of anticipated diabetes. as u rightly said this change has improved my digestion system considerably and am comfortable. good day.

hi rittersport I remember those days of getting up ,fixing a quick breakfast and catching the bus down 8 blocks to the library then wrestling with the burglar alarm and hoping not to set off the fire alarm. Usually I was okay and was hard at work when the librarians and other pages came in, then is when I had a lot of walking at work shelving books so I belonged to the 10000 steps club then. wow now I am overweight and stove up and using a walker still need some way to really exercise even with the dratted walker.

thats not easy, having to use a walker and then needing a bit of exercise. Hope you come up with some nice ideas. I should walk more as well than what I do..... lol.....

unfortunately the weather has gotten colder and wet here and I have gone back to being an old slob when it comes to walking. Next week its back to normal routine with work so I try to set the alarmclock now as if to work to make sure I hear it. LOL