Pleas for help come too late as half-ton man dies in Mexico

CNN ^ | October 7, 2008 | CNN Story Monkey

[Nathan Zachary]

You can always chew on “free” foods, basically all the vegetables you want, just don’t forget to add some carbs to keep your blood sugar levels normal. That should keep your hunger at bay.

[Nathan Zachary]

I'm completely opposite. I have no appetite at all. I have to force myself to eat 3 meals a day. One meal a day, and not a very big one was the norm for me for years. I went from 175 to 260 that way.
Mind you, that was after an accident which left me immobile for a long time. When I was active I ate normally, but those days are long gone. I walk now, but only barely. Exercise is breathing, LoL.

[Nathan Zachary]

I tried the salad for a meal thing for a while. I just got fatter faster, Exhausted all the time. Now I know it was because my blood sugar was so low. Explains why I slept alot.

[GoSarah]

yup...

the way you’re “supposed” to eat is to have protein with salad, very little else... but that has never worked for me either. Hi-sugar makes you feel crappy, but so does low-carb.

When I started adding mashed potatoes with my protein & vegetable (made with chicken broth and fat free sour cream), it improved my outlook greatly. Totally contradictory but there you go.

[Nathan Zachary]

The thing that really woke me up so to speak, was that after a nights sleep, I'd wake up and my blood sugar would be through the roof. But instead of realizing what was happening, my Doc thought at first that my pancreas was failing again,(had some trouble with that before) that I turned into a type one diabetic.

So he put me on pills to make it work even harder, meanwhile it was already working overtime trying to get rid of all the sugar my liver was making.
So finally he just sent me to a dietitian who figured out what was going on.

[Nathan Zachary]

Protien and salad is ok, except for one thing- NO carbs! Add 60g of good carbs to that,say some rice or a baked potato, with a little desert, and you have a good healthy meal.

[wintertime]

Chew on vegetables?

I do that. It doesn’t help.

Please remember that people who are normally thin don’t think about or do any of the “tricks” that us formally fatties must do. Their metabolism and hunger drive are in normal balance. Mine never will be. It will be a constant and daily fight with hunger until I die.

If there is food in heaven, I am turning around and going to hell. Hell couldn’t be worse.

[WVKayaker]

the first two are southern, with PA mentioned to throw off the xfactor.

[ViLaLuz]

“Yea, but who’s cleaning this guy? Certainly he’s not going to the john. I don’t even want to think about . . . I mean, I know what happens to me if I eat too much salad. I can’t imagine what happens to someone who consumes ungodly amounts of fat and calories per day. Yuck. Who could do that?”

It must have been very difficult. Imagine the bathing difficulty, too.

[End Times Sentinel]

the first two are southern, with PA mentioned to throw off the xfactor.

So if I'd put PA first or second, then I wouldn't be a bigot, but because I put it third, I am.

MMmmmmkay.

Owl_Eagle

There are people who are surrounded by bigots
and know it is wrong, but are afraid to be vocal against it.
These people are going to pull the lever for Obama
and they are not being polled.
angee_is_mad, DUmmy

[gura]

I've never seen a more factually wrong post on FR, even from DU trolls.

If you want to learn about what happens on a low-carb diet, I suggest this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Ketogenic-Diet-Complete-Dieter-Practitioner/dp/0967145600

It's fully referenced from start to finish.

You might even want to read this first: You are not different

[AuntB]

But, but...I thought everyone in Mexico was starving!

[End Times Sentinel]

But, but...I thought everyone in Mexico was starving!

They were! This jerk ate all the food!

Now that he's gone to the feed trough in the sky, they can all head back.

Owl_Eagle

There are people who are surrounded by bigots
and know it is wrong, but are afraid to be vocal against it.
These people are going to pull the lever for Obama
and they are not being polled.
angee_is_mad, DUmmy

[Judith Anne]

I agree with low carb approach, most especially for those with a metabolic problem, or prediabetic condition; good for diabetics, too.

I just wasn’t quite clear on a couple of things you said about liver/pancreatic function. Not important, you’ve got the right idea with low carbs.

[rewrite]

I’ve had a liver transplant.
Top that...

There is NO EXCUSE for ANYBODY to be that fat.
It takes work.
It takes disipline.
I was on a diet for 23 yrs prior to My transplant, with no problems sticking to it.
Change Your mindset-You can change Your life.
The foods I couldn’t have(due to a low copper diet from a Wilson’s Disease diagnosis) I didn’t worry that I couldn’t have them.
I ate what I could have and enjoyed it.

I tricked Myself into not wanting these foods , because they could potentially kill Me.
Once You lay it out like that ....a diet becomes easier to stick to.

However. with the new liver, which was correctly set up by the other person that had it’s DNA...I no longer have Wilson’s Disease.
So no more diet.

I still eat with sensibility.....without restriction.

I know a little bit about diet and what it takes to eat right.

I guess that is what I’m trying to say.
There is no reason why anybody shouldn’t be able to use some sense and logic when they sit down to a table to eat.