Not likely.  I am careful to get proper nutrition.  And I WAS the size of
Paris Hilton for many years.  Yes, people tend to poke fun at you when
you're that thin.  However, when I was thin like that, I ate like a pig in
an attempt to gain some weight.  It simply didn't happen no matter what I
did.  I was also a dancer and that body type was necessary for ballet, at
least in those days.  The dance school my daughter attends does not expect
the girls to be underweight, although many are.

I finally got to a normal size in high school, aside from one really bad
stretch of time when I was violently ill and had lost so much weight that
the Dr. threatened to hospitalize me if I didn't gain something.  I then
shot up from 85 pounds to 145 pounds very quickly!  At that weight, I felt
grossly obese after having been so thin for so long.  But when I look back
at pictures of myself, I can see that I was not overweight.  In fact,
according to my Dr., that weight would be about right (low end of normal)
for my height.

But ever since then, I've had trouble keeping my weight down.  As a young
adult, I had very little money so my diet was very limited and sparse, but I
made sure to try to get proper nutrition.  And I had a job where I was
physically active.  I was managing a garden center and hefting heavy bags of
concrete, potting soil, bark, etc. every day.  Due to the physical activity
and very limited food, I maintained a normal weight.

But as my income increased, so did my weight.  I didn't eat a lot of food or
take in a lot of calories.  And I don't eat a lot of food today.  My Endo.
said that I am just one of those people who will always be fat and never be
able to eat much.

Here's what I ate today.

Breakfast:  Three very thin slices of polenta topped with tomato sauce and
Italian herbs.  1 T. raw pumpkin seeds.  Also, 1 T. unsweetened coconut
flakes.

I then went to get a tire fixed.  Had a flat.  Turns out I needed two new
front tires.  The tire place had free popcorn and coffee.  I had brought a
large bottle of water with me.  I drank that.  The popcorn looked tempting,
but I didn't eat any.

Lunch:  Small whole wheat tortilla topped with scant 1/2 cup refried beans
and white onion slices.  4 baby sweet peppers and assorted olives.

Dinner:  Taco salad made with lean ground beef, 1/2 cup dark red kidney
beans, white onion, yellow pepper, chopped tomato, black olives, red leaf
lettuce, 1/4 cup freshly made hot salsa and a few small shreds of Veganrella
(oat and rice based).  I also had a small handful of tiny corn chips.  These
are organic and made with no transfats.

My bedtime snack will probably be 1/2 a grapefruit and celery stuffed with
peanut butter.

I've seen three dieticians and for the amount of calories I'm eating, they
say I need only 1 oz. of protein per meal and another oz. for snack.  I
personally feel that I need a little more, so often I will eat 2 oz. at
lunch and/or dinner.  I've been skipping lunch when at home, but I did eat
it today.  BG is running in the 150's.  This is higher than I'd like, but
that's better than the 200's and the one 324 that I had last week!  And yes,
both of the Drs. I saw know of these numbers.  Seems that getting the
allergens out of my system and not having the chronic stomach upset is
getting my numbers down.  So even though my numbers are still higher than I
like, they have been very stable today.

I have a liver ultrasound scheduled on Monday.  So I will find out about
that.

Now I realize that I probably ate more olives today than I should have.  But
other than that, I don't see anything glaringly nutritionally lacking in
what I ate.  If you do, please let me know.  I do try to eat a nutritionally
sound diet.  And I take supplements for those things that are lacking.  Like
calcium.

Julie, if you keep to your severely restricted diet, you will either be
terribly deficient nutritionally, or will be the size of Paris Hilton.
You need to be more flexible.  But then again, it's all up to you.

Mary

I'm allergic to feathers.  I can eat poultry, but I don't like it.

I don't really know what a Western Food diet is.  And I probably don't eat
it.  I love Mexican food and I eat a lot of that.  I generally don't like
the seasonings of Asian food.  I do like Humbow but it's loaded with carbs.
And I like tomato beef, but it too is loaded with carbs and when I do eat
it, I like to have a lot of rice or noodles with it.  I also eat around the
beef.  I like the vegetables and the sauce but not the meat.  I tried eating
this twice as a diabetic, and it was not at all doable even though I ate
only one bite of rice.  When we lived in NY, I could eat fried wontons with
no problem, but they're rather low in protein and then there's that  "fried"
factor.  Not the most sound thing to eat, nutritionally speaking.

As for Indian foods, I've looked at recipes and most of those things do not
sound at all appealing.  I do like Naan, but again, that's carbs.  I tried
Puppadums and while I did like them, they made me burp very badly and for a
long time.  So no more of those.

I'm deathly allergic to eggs, bird sh.t, feathers, birds, and I cannot
handle raw poultry, BUT I can eat cooked poultry. What's up with
that????  At least that gives me a little more choice for meat.

I hope you find things that you can eat. Are there foods that you can
experiment with that maybe aren't in the Western Food diet? I eat a lot
of Asian food & experimenting with some Indian foods.

Cheers,
Trinity

Sorry to hear that.  When my husband's grandma died, people brought all
sorts of food.  They are Italian so there was a ton of pasta and also
pastries.  My sister in law had GD at the time.  I had not been diagnosed
back then.  I knew nothing about diabetes, except I thought diabetics
couldn't eat sugar.  She kept getting sick because she wasn't eating right
with all the running around we were doing.  So I kept trying to feed her
pasta because that was all that was in the house  We were staying at my
inlaws and my mother in law was disabled at that point.  They normally had a
caregiver for her but since I was there, they gave the caregiver some days
off.  I hadn't cooked or bought any food because people kept bringing it
over.  Must have been hard for my sister in law then, being pregnant, with
GD and a small child to look after and then all those carbs!

Well, that's good.  Nobody died here, but Angela has been sick and two
teenagers nearly killed us the other day with their reckless driving.
Luckily my husband was home and he went to investigate.  The idiots were
still there when the sheriff arrived.  I don't know what they were doing
other than driving fast and badly.  Came very close to hitting my van, then
they spun off the other side of the road, flipped the car, bouncing it
through my neighbor's yard and taking out a couple of bushes before landing
in the driveway.  And then they had the nerve to get out of the car and
laugh about it!  My husband said their car wasn't damaged, but I highly
doubt that.  The sheriff did call me for a statement and said he was
charging them with reckless driving.  He also said that they were very sorry
for what they did.

I'm not allergic to chicken, but my mom is allergic to both.  Angela showed
a slight reaction to chicken but not enough for it to be considered an
allergy.  So for that reason, I limit how much chicken she eats.  I don't
care for chicken at all  I did make some tonight mixed with rice noodles,
carrots, celery, onion, green beans and a few peas.  I can handle it like
that.  But to eat a piece of chicken, even with the bones out, disgusts me.
My grandma had a farm and I saw her butcher the chickens.  I get memories of
that every time I try to eat a piece of chicken.  I'd be a vegetarian for
sure if it weren't for the anemia I get when I don't eat a bit of red meat
now and then.

Mine goes beyond sensitivity.  I was very, very ill the last 4 times I ate
eggs.  So ill that I would never eat an egg again even if I hadn't had it
confirmed by the allergy test.

Thanks!  I see my GP tomorrow.  Maybe he can make some sense of my labs.
The liver thing is really worrisome.

Julie, I am so sorryto hear of these issues.  I thought that the new
year would bring "the best is yet to come", but since New Years, it has
been downhilll for me and my family. I hear you have these health
issues. People are dying and the year is 8 days old.  I pray tomorrow
brings a better one.

Last thursday, my mother in law died.  We were talking on the phone when
she was crying and collapsed.  

I see that in one second your life is over.  I have decided I have to
live life fuller, happier and a much better diabetic.

I am afraid that all the food that is brought in for sitting shiver, (a
one week period of mourining) is doing me in.

I have experienced things in the past four days that I never knew people
experience.  and still have their sanity,  At least I hope I am sane.
lol

There may not be things you like, but there have to be substitutues.  If
you are allergic to the eggs are you allergic to the chickens.

Three years ago I took a flu shot and was very very sick  I too have a
sensitivity to eggs.

I hope you get answers Julie

Loretta

--
In tribute to the United States of America and the State
of Israel, two bastions of strength in a world filled with strife and
terrorism.

I got my labs back from the Naturopath today.  I have a severe egg allergy!
So for all of you who said I couldn't possibly have gotten sick from the flu
shot, now we know why!  The shot was making me sick because of the egg.  I
am also allergic to dairy and almonds, but to a lesser degree.  Now I must
find new foods to eat, especially for breakfast.  I had stopped eating eggs
around Thanksgiving because the last 4 times I ate them, I became violently
ill.  Why 4 times?  Because the first 2 times I really thought it was food
poisoning from some egg salad I bought.

My normal breakfast had been eggs and more recently cottage cheese.  The Dr.
said I might be able to tolerate goat's milk cheese.  I think I'll wait a
while before trying that.  I tried the goat's milk cheese with Angela and
she got sick from it.

I am going to have a problem finding sources of protein now.  I really don't
like most meat.  I do sometimes eat sausage or bacon, but I wouldn't want to
eat this every day.  The only other meat I can really tolerate is ground
beef.  I despise fish and shellfish with the exception of occasional tuna.
I do like peanut butter, but I wouldn't want that every day either.  *sigh*

Now for the bad stuff.  My phosphorous was elevated.  It was 5.1 with normal
range being 2.5-4.9.  And two liver enzymes elevated.  ALT (GPT) was 86 with
a normal range of 24-65, and AST (GOT) was 39 with a normal range of 12-37.
The Dr. has no clue what all this means.  But he doesn't think it's good.  I
see my GP on Monday.  Perhaps he can make something of all this.  The
Naturopath is also consulting with a retired Dr. who is a long time friend
of my family on Wednesday.  So hopefully it will all get sorted out.  At any
rate, these findings would explain why I have felt so rotten these past
months and my well explain why my BG has shot up higher despite my attempts
to bring it down.