Author: huskerdan25

Got my blanched almond flour and the cookbook "The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook" by Elana Amsterdam and I made my first set of cookies today. Ate 3 cookies and my BG went up just 6 points. I am sooooo happy! Before diagnosis, I regularly ate my chocolate chip cookies and milk every night. Now, I can still have them with a glass of almond milk and not have to worry about spiking.

I really can’t wait to make my first loaf of bread made from almond flour. Will be nice to have a sandwich again and also to be able to make pancakes with DaVinci syrup on them.

I really have missed not being able to eat bread, cookies and deserts and now I can have those things again. I was worried about the use of nectar agave in the recipes but like I said, I ate 3 large cookies with barely a movement in my BG so I’m not going to worry about replacing the agave nectar with stevia or something else.

If you are interested in checking out adding these goodies made from almond flour to your diet, I got the almond flour from Powdered Dried Whole Eggs – Freeze Dried Fruit – Blanched Almond Flour – Steel C – Home and I bought the book through Amazon.

Anyone else enjoying these incredible eats?

Dan

I ended up getting some blood work done sooner than I had expected because I had to change doctors (my old family doctor is moving to So. Cal) and my new doctor (a low-carb advocate) decided he wanted to see my current A1C and lipid panel to see how the low-carb diet is working for me. I was diagnosed on 10/8/09 with an A1C of 11.1. So basically, these results are after about 7-8 weeks of making the diet changes immediately after diagnosis.

Here are my new numbers:

A1C: 7.2 (I find this to be excellent after such a short period but once my September readings are removed in another month, I expect to be below 6%)

NOTE: Just about a week earlier, I used the Bayer A1C home test and got a 7.1 so that gives me a lot of confidence that the home test is pretty darn accurate. I’ll be using it again to compare against my next set of blood work.

Triglycerides: 191! I have always been in the 300-400 range and had developed fatty liver. I am thrilled with this reading. Got to get it below 150 but I am confident I will.

HDL: 37 (Much improved though more work needed to get it over 40)

LDL: 161 (Again, much improved though more work needed to get it under 100; may consider taking a statin but my doctor may recommend supplements first)

C-Peptide: 4.1

My understanding from reading that I have done is that normal c-peptide for a non-diabetic is usually between .5 ng/ml – 3.0 ng/ml. So, mine is slightly elevated (though some non-diabetics see slightly higher as well).

So, am I correct to interpret my c-peptide to mean that I am making a bit more insulin than the non-diabetic and that could mean I still have some insulin resistance? I would imagine that had I had a c-peptide test done at diagnosis that it would have been quite a bit higher definitely confirming insulin resistance. Anyone understand this test sufficiently to evaluate my interpretation? It’s pretty clear that I am type 2 and I believe this confirms it but I wonder if a few months from now, with my continued improvement in BG control if my c-peptide could move back into the normal range.

Appreciate your thoughts. I am a victim of bad genetics and have been fighting the risk factors all of my life and it feels good to see my lipids returning closer to normal levels after 48+ years of being abnormal.

My new doctor feels that my numbers have improved significantly and that we thinks I can get all of them back to normal range with my current WOE and exercise. That sounds good to me. I would prefer not to have to take any medications if I can control this without. I have another appointment in a month and will have blood work done then as well. My hopes and expectations are that my A1C will be in the 5% range.

Dan