Reversing diabetes ( about my Dad)

About a month ago I believe it was, I wrote a post about an up-coming post I was going to write about my Dads experience on reversing diabetes.

Well here is that post!!
The problem is that last night when I spoke to my mom getting the last minute details, she told me she felt it it was a bit premature to share his experience since he hasn't reversed his diabetes yet. He is still in the process. In fact it has kind of come to a stand still with him. And it looks like for him it will be in a long process.

But I will still share abit of back ground on him, where he is at with this, and tell others about the diet plan.

My Dad has had diabetes for many, many years and has been taking insulin to keep it under control. Over those years his health has gone up and down. Some days he would feel great with lots of energy and then other days he would feel very rough. He as also been over wight. All of that combined effected the way he felt.

But even so he would not watch what he ate. He would he sweets, starch, anything. Tryed to keep it in moderation though. But he said he would rather die than not get to eat and enjoy the foods he loved! So that's the way it went for years and years. And over those years he had to keep increasing his insulin intake. And he was having way more bad days than good days.

Finally the last couple years has been his worst. Never feeling very good, and low in energy. He was finally getting desperate and ready for a change, yes even a diet change!

We had heard about how healthy a raw or almost raw diet was for diabetes. He certainly had not been interested in raw at all. But Mom started putting raw vegetables in their daily diet as much as possible, in the form of salads or just vegy sticks.

Then this spring I was sent this news letter thing by e-mail that talked about reversing diabetes. There was a link on that to the web site www.deathtodiabetes.com . I checked it out and seen there was a book called Death to Diabetes, written by a man that had reversed his diabetes by controlling his diet.

In the book he shares his experience , what kind of diet he went on, and the end results. And encourages others that they can do this too!! I believe he had his completely reversed in 4 months.

So i bought that book and sent it up to my Mom. They started reading it and started changing my Dad's diet. The first thing the book instructed was to start with changing breakfast. He said that was the most importian meal of the day, and that made the most effect. The main focus was to be on breakfast and then slowly change with the other meals as well.

Do they did. Dad started eating broccoli and brussell sprouts for breakfast!! He also would have eggs and fruit, but no starch. ( no toast, no fryed potatoes)

Right away he started noticing a difference. He soon felt better and had more energy. With in a week we was able to to started reducing his intake of insulin. Before that he was taking 50ccs morning and evening of insulin. Right now i think he take 25ccs of insulin.

But right it seems he has come to a stand still on his progress. For some reason his sugar levels are staying the same. He is not able to go down anymore on the insulin. He has gotten a little discouraged because of it.

But he still feels good on the most part and still is strict on the diet. In fact my mom told me they have no starch at all for any of the meals now. But that he can have brown rice. That should be very good.

I do hope he continues to stick to the diet though he is not having any more changes. It is suppose to work at completely reversing diabetes. For anyone that has diabetes or knows anyone that has it, i would highly recommend they check it out for them selves. It is so worth it.

You may try finding that book ( Death to Diabetes) on e-bay as well.

Have a blessed day, Mae