He's the one that said he was doing iceberg lettuce and milk.  Then he said
he wasn't.  I'm thinking troll.

Back in 2002, about 250 lbs and 6'1". I am now in the 225 lbs range now.
Although two years ago I was 195 lbs without treatment. And I have to
tell you that losing weight while taking insulin is a really hard.
Worse, the longer I am on it the harder it gets.

Yea my ex was on insulin 20 years before this so I knew what was good
and what was bad. She never seemed to go through lows, so I was
completely stupid in that regard. But she ate a lot, so what can I say?
And yes, I was stupid when it came towards lows and regardless what
anybody says, it can be very dangerous while driving. Even today I still
claim this as true.

Yes if I had some good advice, I may have got through it and managed it.
But that didn't happen and it doesn't take a lot of smarts to figure out
between feeling fine without medication and suddenly feeling like crap
while driving a 70,000 lbs vehicle on metformin isn't a good thing.

And while I have every BG reading since 4/2007, I only have a few weeks
of BG readings from 2002. And before I tell you, I have to tell you
something first which I truly believe is the absolute truth. I learned
this from my diabetes classes and it fits perfectly with my own
experience. It doesn't matter what your BG reading is in regards to what
is called normal. Meaning if it is low for you, then you can suffer from
hypoglycemic symptoms. And if it happens and your BG is say 200mg/dL,
you should have carbs to get it up some.

Okay having said that and taking just metformin back in 2002 and I
wasn't used to BG control and I wasn't very good at it at all. My
records showed that I was bouncing in the 100's to the 200's all of the
time. Bad I know. And on October 11, 2002 I hit 106 and that was really
low for me. Then on October 30, 2002 my records shows I hit 68mg.dL. And
my records stop. I am assuming that I gave up treatment somewhere after
this time. Nowadays 68 isn't a big deal and I have hit in the 30's about
6 times in the last year. Sadly I don't feel lows anymore, I just
suddenly collapse. As one second I feel fine and the next I have zero
energy.

Personally I believe I can control my BG without any medications at all.
And I am not picky of what I eat, nor how little I have to eat. As I
don't get hungry or full. Well the truth is that I can and have gone for
2 or 3 days before ever feeling the need to eat something. I only eat
daily because this is what I am told I am supposed too. And yes the
feeling of needing to eat is almost nonexistent to me since then. Better
I am told that eating a little bit throughout the day is even better. So
I try to eat more than 3 times a day and even sometimes just a tiny bit
every hour. It does seem to keep the BG readings pretty evenly for the
most part and I believe it maybe a good plan.

While I was in the hospital back in 4/2007, I swear they gave me a pound
of food three times a day. They told me I had to eat everything. I
automatically assumed that this was to adjust my insulin. Sadly I don't
think this was the reason at all. As my insulin was in the 150 range
anyway most of the time and the month after. So I don't know what their
real reason was and eating that much was very hard for me.

As for my meal plan? Well I try to eat like Alan does. But that is a lot
of food to me and it makes me feel ill. As much as I try, I can keep it
up for a week tops and that is it. As I get so discussed with food that
I don't want anything to do with it for a few days. I have GERD since
'92 and I used to eat a lot. And I still could until about 2002. But
since then, I just get really sick. And I feel so much better eating
very little. And the times I don't get sick, I get really sleepy from
eating more than say ½ lb of food in a 12 hour period.

There is something called in simple terms that some diabetics get is
called a lazy stomach. As diabetics can start to suffer from nerve
damage. For most of us, it starts at our feet. Yes me too. But a few
also suffer from nerve damage in the stomach. What I understand is that
the nerves in our stomach can't tell the brain if it has food or not.
And since the brain doesn't get the signal, it fails to start the
stomach into movements to start the digestive process. And what happens
is when you eat, it sits there for hours in the stomach and fails to be
digested like normal people. Thus instead of a BG increase after one or
two hours after a meal, it can last 4 or more hours. I have personally
seen this in my own BG readings. I don't know if for sure this is my
problem, but it fits very closely.

Pity that I resist the kind of advice given here? I keep trying to be
honest with you. The hardest part is eating like the rest of you do. As
to me, eating like that makes me really sick. And if you got sick from
eating you would stop too. I can handle liquids just fine, it is just
solid food that I have a problem with. Well anything more than 1 lb a
day anyway.

So how can I follow your advice? I just can't stomach all of that food.
And being in the 80 to 120mg/dL range I feel okay without exercising for
the most part. But If I start doing anything my energy drops so fast.
And my BG doesn't always show it. As I can be out of energy just because
I exercised and my BG reads 110. It isn't this way at all in the 150 to
180 range. As I never seen to run out of energy.

So I do listen despite what I think. And I can spend most days in the 80
to 120 range. And I do and try to eat like the rest of you. But it
doesn't take long and I get sick and feeling really weak. So I have to
resort to eating very little. And I do most of the time keep my BG in
the 80 to 120 range. But my goodness, sometimes I just need more energy
and going back to the 150 to the 180 range feels so good and I have tons
more energy.

I don't know if you understand, since not many feels the same way as I
do. And I eat so little, I amaze myself why I don't lose any weight. I'm
ok with it, as I am not gaining or losing. The only thing I can explain
it is my body is very efficient compared to most. So what do you think?