Benefits of a sugar free diet

[MegoMark71]

Heck yeah. The hardest thing for me was checking my levels every day. For some reason i could not get over that hump. Now i never forget. I get up, use the can, then prick my palm. I am also determined to have a better quality of life than the last 15 years. It has gotten easier and easier to leave the snickers at the store. I'm just over 300 and i want to get down to my hockey playing days around 210. Maybe not by the next mego meet but not long after. I don't want to go through another summer sweating my butt off.

[Random Axe]

Thanks Mark. Now that I'm a couple of weeks into this, it's all downhill. I look at that stuff as the enemy, so I'm not even remotely tempted. I'd rather have some beef jerkey than a Snickers. I have a goal and also have tunnel vision on the way there. I'm sitting at about 270 right now. Hopefully I can reduce that by fifty or so by June. My thai boxing weight was 205, so we'll see how close I can come.

[MegoMark71]

My friend i have been doing the same thing for the last 6 months. I was also told by my doctor i had type 2. I have lost 65 lbs in the last 6 months and feel better than i have in a long time. You ever need support or someone to talk to about it just hit me up. I miss the junk sometimes but i do reward myself here and there. I had a mini cupcake earlier..lol And i never eat anything with partially hydrogenated anything.
I wish you all the luck in this journey. And know you are not alone.

[Random Axe]

I will not tell anyone how to live eat or whatever. I simply want to share my own personal experience with something that has worked so well for me. Maybe it helps someone else, maybe not.

I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes almost two years ago. I initially took it very seriously and did everything I could to turn it around and I got my levels down and manageable. With impending stress with the wife and work I slowly fell back into the abyss eating crap. By this past Christmas I felt as bad as I ever have. Everything ached, couldn't get out of bed in the morning, no energy no nothing. My health and quality of life was pure crap.

Now I'm back on my diabetic diet and can't remember when I felt better. In two weeks, I have eliminated all sweets, no candy, donuts or anything like that. I have eliminated all pasta, white bread and white rice.

My energy level went through the roof, folks. When you get rid of the sugar and carbs that convert to sugar in the bloodstream, your body manufactures it's own energy. I am alert, in a better mood and just feel great overall. I'm also down twelve pounds just by doing this.

I'm not going to pretend it's easy to do the above, it sucks actually. But, if you discipline yourself for a week, you will feel the difference...big time. It's such a cliche, but seriously, if my fat *** can do this anybody on Earth can too.

Sorry to take up board space with this. I cannot stress how much better I feel. I'll be showing up to MegoMeet considerably smaller, but still devilishly handsome.