1st step in regulating your blood sugar levels

When I was young I saw a commercial (haven't we all).

 A man in a blue cape, with a big "A" sewed onto his shirt, rested against a phone booth. Another guy was frantic, there was clearly emergency. The frantic man asked the super hero who he was.

The super heroes response?

"I'm super Apathy. I have all the powers of superman, just none of the desire to use them."

Sometimes  I feel like this. I majored in Biology and Physics for undergraduate and Molecular Biology for Graduate school. I have spent time studying  natural medicines and herbs. No one is more equipped to fight diabetes than I am.

And yet here we are. I would prefer to eat pasta than to eat my vegetables. I prefer my food fried that broiled. I prefer to stop at mcdonalds than to make a home cooked meal. I am super apathy.

Or at least I was, but yesterday I stuck to my diet. I did not cave to my cravings, I began my journey back to healthy.

And I welcome you to join me, by taking the first step.


Hydrate yourself.

Water is the reason that life exists on Earth. It is also the start of curing yourself of the majority of diseases on the planet.

Diabetes is a disease of excess sugar in your blood, blood that is made mostly of water. If you increase your water intake, then you can dilute the sugar levels. Your sugar levels are a ratio of sugar to blood volume. By increasing the volume of blood in your system you can help to mitigate some of the effects of diabetes.

Additionally, your kidneys, the bodies filtration system, are utilized excessively in diabetics. Water helps to dilute the urine, making it easier for the kidneys to filter. If you have already started to experience kidney failure then remaining hydrated is one of the best ways to restore your kidney to its original function. The average female shoud drink 9 glasses of water a day and the average male should drink 13 glasses of water a day. As a diabetic sticking to these standards will increase both the quality and the quantity of your life.

To your health

Folami

Not working out

So, clearly I haven't been posting, which means I haven't been dieting-- or readjusting my food choices.


Sigh...


This is hard.


Well let's start over. My name is Folami Morris and I am a foodaholic. Yes, a foodahoolic. It started when I was young. I had a great dad.. well I still have a great dad, I don't know why I said that in the past tense. Our family was a health food family. Every meal was home cooked and perfectly balanced. It was cooked with love and our bodies' best interest in mind.


I hated it.


It was such a nightmare. My friends got to eat fast food daily. They rarely had home cooked meals and their idea of a balanced dinner was fries with their hamburger of coke. Fries are potatoes after all.


Where does my father fit into this? I'm getting there.


When I was 12 I ended up attending this extremely prestigious high school. I went from the worst school in the state to one of the most prestigious schools in the country. I completely tanked. I was floundering. I had always been so smart and now it felt like I couldn't do anything right. A teacher took interest in helping me and slowly my grades began to rise.


And every time I got an A my wonderful father would take me to Mcdonald's.


When I was sad because I didn't do well, my dad would take me to Mcdonald's.




And that's how it started. Bad food was my reward. It was a reward for doing well and it was my mental booster when I was down.


Food is literally my everything. And not just any type of food, but bad food.


It is time for class, but my next post will be about making a change, because this is not working out. I know how to cure my body. I just need the willpower to do it.




Folami Morris

5 things to do to control your High blood sugar levels

Today's morning psot will be REALLY short. It turns out there is only one thing I love more than fatty foods and it is hitting my snooze buton. So today I am literally running late for work. So Here is what you need to do on a daily basis.

1. Get a  good night's sleep (8 hours is ideal) it is important to return your body back to optimal conditions and your body can't do that if you'r starving it of sleep.

2. Drink 9 glasses of water daily if you're a female and 13 if you're a male. Your body uses water for everything and your blood is made up of, guess what, water. In order to dilute the sugar you can't be dehydrated. When you're feeling thirsty it is already too late.

3. Incorporate blue berries. They are not only a healthy snack, but they normalize blood sugar levels and keep you from reaching for the bad carbs if  you ahve them handy.

4. Start your day with cinnamon. End your day with cinnamon. Intersperse your day with Cinnamon. It has been called the natural insulin. It is not, but it does help to lower blood sugar levels, supposedly by enhancing the efficacy of you receptors

5. And use Cayenne Pepper.

Really late more on your health later.

So the plan...

Starting tomorrow (my favorite date to start everything) I'll be starting my new rigorous healthy lifestyle. Hopefully, my willpower will follow suit, so I don't fail in front of an audience. I'll post my diabetes numbers in the morning, my daily regimen and the results by the end of the day. To kick off my long road back to healthy, I' ll be posting the top things to do to manage your diabetes. They work when I use them consistently. Some are easier to use than other methods, but I'll explain the best ways to use them and the best places to buy them, although most of these can be bought at your local whole food store.

In a bit of honesty, I was supposed to start today with my new healthy lifestyle, but unfortunately I succumbed to the call of my favorite candy

 , a breakfast sandwich from Mcdonalds,

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and a large coke.

Why did I start my day this way? Because I made the mistake of opening a site that showed pictures of all the things I shouldn't be eating. I read a great article about the 15 greatest carcinogenic (cancer-causing) foods, but they proceeded to show images of the foods, which of course made me crave the foods. Smh. So why did I choose to include pictures? To show you the power of imagery. For all future posts the only images, I'll show will be healthy ones. I promise.  I'll also be minimizing my involvement online which will be interesting since I am trying to promote my book. 

Anyway stay tuned and feel free to comment to keep me motivated. And any help you need on your diabetic journey, I'm here. Remember we're in this together. 

High blood sugar levels and fighting back

A1C and blood sugar levels mean nothing to people who aren't diabetics. Two years ago those terms were as insignificant to me as all the other information I read in my bio text book. They were conditions that were used for diagnosis, not conditions to explain my own life.

I used to have dreams about mhy teeth falling out. Every morning  I would wake up, believing that maybe it was a dream. Maybe I could eat whatever I want and my body would digest and process it like normal. But it wasn't a dream. I was and am diabetic. I was at war. My body was at war and my favorite foods, my  very lifestyle was and is the enemy.

When  I was first diagnosed, I searched for a solution. I was sure that my master's degree in Biology could provide me with the research mind necessary to beat this disease. And I did. I found out how to beat it naturally. Unfortunately, it isn't the knowledge I need, but the willpower. I have spent a lot of time researching natural ways to keep my blood levels down. It's a lot of work and its better than craving to insulin, a drug in and of itself that worsens the condition of diabetes, but more on that later.

This site is designed to help me through this transition. I am transitioning from foods I love to food I've always hated. I'm supposed to cut out candy, carbohydrates, and fast food. On the same day I found out I was diabetic I found out I suffered from high cholestrol too.  Yeah, my genetics sucks. My sister got the good genes and I got the gentic toilet bowl.  Anyway, this site is my step by step path back to health. It's my motivation to stay on the course and hopefully, to motivate you to claim your health too. I'll tell you all that I've learned and hopefully we'll reach health together.