Insulin is a hormone, everyone needs it to live. People that don't have diabetes are usually unaware of it's going on inside of their bodies. Every time a non diabetic person eats, their pancreas secretes insulin to help facilitate the absorption of glucose into their cells to be used or stored as energy. It is like a key that opens the cell wall to allow passage, without it, people can't clear glucose from their blood.
Type 1 diabetics don't make insulin. This is typically due to an autoimmune response or pancreatic damage. So, type 1 diabetics have to supplement their natural insulin production and essentially start doing all of the calculations their pancreas would normally do via checking their blood glucose and using insulin injections, insulin pumping, and now there are even inhale-able types of insulin, to clear the glucose from their blood and allow it to be utilized by their bodies. Type 1 diabetics are encouraged to eat a well balanced diet to avoid other health problems and to keep them from also becoming insulin resistant, but no amount of diet and exercise will "cure" type 1 diabetes.
Insulin resistant individuals still make their own insulin but their cells become stubborn and don't want to allow the insulin to work effectively. Normally insulin resistance will also accompany other hormone imbalances that may in turn make the resistance worse, making the hormone imbalance worse, and so on in a vicious cycle. Insulin resistant individuals will continue to make more and more insulin until their cells finally give in and allow the insulin to work. When this happens, the person's blood glucose levels will typically go from the highest peak, which can be in a normal range or can be in a high range depending on the level of resistance and the speed of insulin production of each individual; and then drop rapidly causing low blood sugars after eating meals that are high in sugar or starch content. Eating a balanced diet and exercising can help this condition in most people. It may not "cure" it but if a person changes their lifestyle it can be controlled most of the time via healthy food choices and less sedentary lifestyles.
Type 2 diabetics typically start with insulin resistance and work their way up to type two diabetes, this is not always the case but it seems to be a going trend. Type 2 diabetes usually develops if a person doesn't take the necessary steps to better their eating and exercise habits while in the insulin resistant stage. Type 2 diabetics still make insulin but have become so insulin resistant that they need medications to make their cells more sensitive to insulin. In some cases type 2 diabetics will become so insulin resistant that the medications alone won't work, and may require extra insulin on top of the naturally produced insulin to help keep blood sugars under control. Eating a balanced diet and exercising can help this condition in most people. It may not "cure" it but if a person changes their lifestyle it can be controlled most of the time via healthy food choices and less sedentary lifestyles.
Double diabetes develops most often when a type 1 diabetic becomes so insulin resistant that they are also considered a type 2 diabetic. Less frequently type 2 diabetics could also develop type 1 diabetes also resulting in double diabetes.
A well balanced diet isn't only encouraged for people that already have health issues. It is the first defense we have against eating our way into poor health.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Plexus is a Tool
Plexus has done so many wonderful things for so many wonderful people. I would like to talk about it for a little bit.
Everyone starts their quest for better health with different goals and at different stages in their lives. Some people are completely dependent on prescription medications to keep their bodies from turning against them, some people have changed some things in their lives but aren't sure how to obtain the things they are looking for, and others still are looking for a way to be able to get even healthier despite their appearance being flawless.
I am in the middle group, only because I was in the first group and decided I couldn't live that way any more. I changed everything I knew to change and it wasn't enough, it wasn't easy, but it was something. I heard about Plexus and decided to use it to help me feel better. Little did I know how much better I would feel. I currently only use three products, Slim, ProBio 5 and Bio Cleanse, but these products make me feel a little more like I suspect normal people feel. My stomach and muscles were once stiff and unwilling, now the pressure in my stomach is gone, I am able to move about more freely and I don't get winded as easily as I once did. I want to get up and fill the day with adventure, but my body doesn't know how to keep up with the the want to. So that is the incentive I was looking for to start exercising a little bit to get my body back to a functioning state.
Plexus is a tool. Advertisements may accidentally lead people into believing that this is a miracle cure all. It has helped people get out from under some pretty terrible health conditions. Those people in the center of themselves wanted to so they did. When your health is on the line there is no trying, you can only do. Even if it is a small effort, you have to start somewhere and somewhere can be anywhere.
One question I have gotten several times since starting to promote Plexus..."Will the weight come back once I stop using the Plexus." well the answer is just brutally honest - but, if the only change you make in your life is adding plexus then you take it away, yes, if you lose weight, it will probably come back. Why? Because Plexus may help you to curb your appetite and it could motivate you to have more energy, both of which can help you to lose weight and feel better, and if you don't have something there to keep that going, you can slip into the rut you were in before.
This is why dieting is a big no no. Going on a "Diet" implies there is an end in sight, a going off the diet and back to what you were doing. This was hard for me to grasp for so many, SO MANY, years. If it wasn't working the first time, and I had to try the diet, why would it work if I went back to it?! DUH it sounds so silly in writing. If the changes that you make help, the changes need to be kept. The trick is finding the changes that help, that you can live with and doing it at a pace that will make it easier for you to transition to. Some people can just flip a switch and go from full on eat everything in sight mode to eating perfectly healthy and be fine, I am not one of those people.
Plexus helps give me the push I need to move on to the next step, I don't know if or when I will stop using Plexus products, but I don't see a time in my near future that I would want to. It helps people in different ways, if you use it how does it help you? If you don't use it, what do you think it could do for you? What are some other things in your life that help you keep yourself on track and give you the push you need to keep yourself healthy?
py.myplexusproducts.com
Everyone starts their quest for better health with different goals and at different stages in their lives. Some people are completely dependent on prescription medications to keep their bodies from turning against them, some people have changed some things in their lives but aren't sure how to obtain the things they are looking for, and others still are looking for a way to be able to get even healthier despite their appearance being flawless.
I am in the middle group, only because I was in the first group and decided I couldn't live that way any more. I changed everything I knew to change and it wasn't enough, it wasn't easy, but it was something. I heard about Plexus and decided to use it to help me feel better. Little did I know how much better I would feel. I currently only use three products, Slim, ProBio 5 and Bio Cleanse, but these products make me feel a little more like I suspect normal people feel. My stomach and muscles were once stiff and unwilling, now the pressure in my stomach is gone, I am able to move about more freely and I don't get winded as easily as I once did. I want to get up and fill the day with adventure, but my body doesn't know how to keep up with the the want to. So that is the incentive I was looking for to start exercising a little bit to get my body back to a functioning state.
Plexus is a tool. Advertisements may accidentally lead people into believing that this is a miracle cure all. It has helped people get out from under some pretty terrible health conditions. Those people in the center of themselves wanted to so they did. When your health is on the line there is no trying, you can only do. Even if it is a small effort, you have to start somewhere and somewhere can be anywhere.
One question I have gotten several times since starting to promote Plexus..."Will the weight come back once I stop using the Plexus." well the answer is just brutally honest - but, if the only change you make in your life is adding plexus then you take it away, yes, if you lose weight, it will probably come back. Why? Because Plexus may help you to curb your appetite and it could motivate you to have more energy, both of which can help you to lose weight and feel better, and if you don't have something there to keep that going, you can slip into the rut you were in before.
This is why dieting is a big no no. Going on a "Diet" implies there is an end in sight, a going off the diet and back to what you were doing. This was hard for me to grasp for so many, SO MANY, years. If it wasn't working the first time, and I had to try the diet, why would it work if I went back to it?! DUH it sounds so silly in writing. If the changes that you make help, the changes need to be kept. The trick is finding the changes that help, that you can live with and doing it at a pace that will make it easier for you to transition to. Some people can just flip a switch and go from full on eat everything in sight mode to eating perfectly healthy and be fine, I am not one of those people.
Plexus helps give me the push I need to move on to the next step, I don't know if or when I will stop using Plexus products, but I don't see a time in my near future that I would want to. It helps people in different ways, if you use it how does it help you? If you don't use it, what do you think it could do for you? What are some other things in your life that help you keep yourself on track and give you the push you need to keep yourself healthy?
py.myplexusproducts.com
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
The Beginning
Time to make it official, I am starting the "Journey" I've found the path and I am looking at the goal.
That goal is not to weigh a certain amount, it is not to lose a certain amount of inches or gain a certain amount of muscle. I simply want to feel better. I want to live better. I want to enjoy my life. That is how I am going to gauge my main success, weight loss and what not will just be extra credit.
So lets begin:
I have PCOS, ADD, SMMD, PTC, and I am allergic to my own progesterone. Most people on here know that our 5 year old daughter has type 1 diabetes, some people know that my husband has type 2 diabetes, and almost no one knows that my 11 year old son has type 2 diabetes and ADD.
My goal is to manage and eliminate as many of these as possible.
I know the type 1 isn't going anywhere, but management can always use improvements. I hope that by the end of my daughter's life people can say with confidence that she was not taken because of complications with her diabetes, but by living her life despite her diabetes.
We have already changed our diet, but I talked about this in another post. We are adding things to help ourselves every day. Notice the lack of I in the last sentence, we as in the whole family are changing things every day, we ARE changing, we are not trying, we are doing.
Getting more active isn't easy if you feel like a consumer. Start feeling like a human again, find whatever it is that makes you feel great and stop just consuming anything that doesn't help you. For us, it is better food choices, and living our lives according to us. Plexus happens to be one of the tools we use to help ourselves with this. If you want to know more about Plexus I will link you to my pages at the end of this post.
No one wants to exercise, just because it is called exercise. Don't exercise, just do! Something, anything, wave your arms up and down if that's all you feel like doing. Don't try...Just do!
py.myplexusproducts.com
PoshRaz Plexus Portal on Facebook.
That goal is not to weigh a certain amount, it is not to lose a certain amount of inches or gain a certain amount of muscle. I simply want to feel better. I want to live better. I want to enjoy my life. That is how I am going to gauge my main success, weight loss and what not will just be extra credit.
So lets begin:
I have PCOS, ADD, SMMD, PTC, and I am allergic to my own progesterone. Most people on here know that our 5 year old daughter has type 1 diabetes, some people know that my husband has type 2 diabetes, and almost no one knows that my 11 year old son has type 2 diabetes and ADD.
My goal is to manage and eliminate as many of these as possible.
I know the type 1 isn't going anywhere, but management can always use improvements. I hope that by the end of my daughter's life people can say with confidence that she was not taken because of complications with her diabetes, but by living her life despite her diabetes.
We have already changed our diet, but I talked about this in another post. We are adding things to help ourselves every day. Notice the lack of I in the last sentence, we as in the whole family are changing things every day, we ARE changing, we are not trying, we are doing.
Getting more active isn't easy if you feel like a consumer. Start feeling like a human again, find whatever it is that makes you feel great and stop just consuming anything that doesn't help you. For us, it is better food choices, and living our lives according to us. Plexus happens to be one of the tools we use to help ourselves with this. If you want to know more about Plexus I will link you to my pages at the end of this post.
No one wants to exercise, just because it is called exercise. Don't exercise, just do! Something, anything, wave your arms up and down if that's all you feel like doing. Don't try...Just do!
py.myplexusproducts.com
PoshRaz Plexus Portal on Facebook.
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Getting on Track
We have recently changed everything about the way our family lives. We started with small things, like shopping, if you don't buy junk you can't eat it, right? By junk I do mean obvious junk but also all the hidden junk that looks like it should be healthy. *diet food* We did eat what we had left in the house despite what all the books said. We didn't throw away all our food and start over, we gradually transitioned to better shopping habits which lead to better eating habits. Doing this didn't shock our systems so badly and it didn't make feel like we went on a "diet." Now we see how much better we feel...it's hard to stop! Even our 3 year old likes salad now and asks for celery instead of chips.
With my husband working only as a call in at the post office and me being out of work, things are tight and we thought that it would cost too much to buy the fresh produce and meats...it doesn't cost more...it's actually costing less. The fresh foods keep us full longer so we don't graze as much as we did before and it is heavier because of it's water content so our stomachs have shrank.
It isn't as convenient to grab fresh foods to graze on because some of them take time to prepare and store so we are more conscious of it and waste less. Since they don't keep on the shelf for extended periods of time we go to the store more often and that helps with not getting stuck in the same old same old rut.
I don't have to make a huge shopping list, there are just so many things that we just don't need to worry about forgetting...we aren't eating bread or pasta due to some wheat sensitivities that we have discovered that we didn't know we all had so we don't use near the amount of ketchup/mustard/mayo that we once did, we do buy more salad dressing so we can have a variety but we can just pick out what we are in the mood for when we go to the store instead of having to "remember to get the ketchup or else the next family dinner would surely be a failure." We also don't have to remember to get all the ingredient's for recipes unless we just really want something special. What we have is what we eat and when it is almost gone, we go get more. It sounds so simple as I type it out, but, before we changed to buying fresh foods, I would scour through all of the sales bills and coupons, making list after list of what was on sale at what store and make sure we got every item we needed for the recipes we wanted to have that week or I would buy what was on sale and try to come up with meals from that...but a person can only eat so much hamburger helper...the hamburger isn't what needs help...I'm just sayin'.
Oh the room...the storage room I have in the pantry now...it is wonderful! No more dusty boxes of just in case macaroni and no more odds and ends of crackers and bread loaves shoved between the mystery cans that lost their labels...ahh...this is freedom. A deep freezer for the "yay it's on sale lets buy five" packs of meat, a fruit bowl, and a nicely stocked refrigerator full of all things salad and vegetable related.
No more packing soda, no more hoping the bread doesn't get squished, no more potato chip bags crinkling, no more feeling guilty for feeding the kids junk... no more worrying about portion control since it sort of takes care of it's self.
Some of the other things we have changed just came naturally, less packaging means less trash, more fresh produce scraps means less food to buy for the rabbit and guinea pig, being more active ... so on and so forth.
So after looking for something that I could do from home for work (I have a lot of health issues that keep me indoors most days) I was introduced to Plexus by a friend of mine, I was a skeptic, and I didn't think much of it, but she sent me a sample and I did some research, then I signed up to become an Ambassador without even really being able to try the products because I just knew this is what I had been looking for. Something that will help our health and it could help with out bills?! Seriously?! After starting as an ambassador I found a way to buy our first set of products and now my husband who has type 2 diabetes and is generally a couch potato because his sugars kept him feeling sluggish, is out walking with the kids as we speak! I feel so much better that I am able to get up and do the housework and it's not just that I can...it's that I want to! If your want to is broken...there is no amount of willpower that will help you...and I think you would be hard pressed to find any prescription medications that would help you with it either. Stimulants just make you do it, Plexus makes you want to. I have a long way to go, and I don't think I started where I was supposed to, but at least I started and I am getting somewhere. So can you.
py.myplexusproducts.com
https://www.facebook.com/pyplexus
With my husband working only as a call in at the post office and me being out of work, things are tight and we thought that it would cost too much to buy the fresh produce and meats...it doesn't cost more...it's actually costing less. The fresh foods keep us full longer so we don't graze as much as we did before and it is heavier because of it's water content so our stomachs have shrank.
It isn't as convenient to grab fresh foods to graze on because some of them take time to prepare and store so we are more conscious of it and waste less. Since they don't keep on the shelf for extended periods of time we go to the store more often and that helps with not getting stuck in the same old same old rut.
I don't have to make a huge shopping list, there are just so many things that we just don't need to worry about forgetting...we aren't eating bread or pasta due to some wheat sensitivities that we have discovered that we didn't know we all had so we don't use near the amount of ketchup/mustard/mayo that we once did, we do buy more salad dressing so we can have a variety but we can just pick out what we are in the mood for when we go to the store instead of having to "remember to get the ketchup or else the next family dinner would surely be a failure." We also don't have to remember to get all the ingredient's for recipes unless we just really want something special. What we have is what we eat and when it is almost gone, we go get more. It sounds so simple as I type it out, but, before we changed to buying fresh foods, I would scour through all of the sales bills and coupons, making list after list of what was on sale at what store and make sure we got every item we needed for the recipes we wanted to have that week or I would buy what was on sale and try to come up with meals from that...but a person can only eat so much hamburger helper...the hamburger isn't what needs help...I'm just sayin'.
Oh the room...the storage room I have in the pantry now...it is wonderful! No more dusty boxes of just in case macaroni and no more odds and ends of crackers and bread loaves shoved between the mystery cans that lost their labels...ahh...this is freedom. A deep freezer for the "yay it's on sale lets buy five" packs of meat, a fruit bowl, and a nicely stocked refrigerator full of all things salad and vegetable related.
No more packing soda, no more hoping the bread doesn't get squished, no more potato chip bags crinkling, no more feeling guilty for feeding the kids junk... no more worrying about portion control since it sort of takes care of it's self.
Some of the other things we have changed just came naturally, less packaging means less trash, more fresh produce scraps means less food to buy for the rabbit and guinea pig, being more active ... so on and so forth.
So after looking for something that I could do from home for work (I have a lot of health issues that keep me indoors most days) I was introduced to Plexus by a friend of mine, I was a skeptic, and I didn't think much of it, but she sent me a sample and I did some research, then I signed up to become an Ambassador without even really being able to try the products because I just knew this is what I had been looking for. Something that will help our health and it could help with out bills?! Seriously?! After starting as an ambassador I found a way to buy our first set of products and now my husband who has type 2 diabetes and is generally a couch potato because his sugars kept him feeling sluggish, is out walking with the kids as we speak! I feel so much better that I am able to get up and do the housework and it's not just that I can...it's that I want to! If your want to is broken...there is no amount of willpower that will help you...and I think you would be hard pressed to find any prescription medications that would help you with it either. Stimulants just make you do it, Plexus makes you want to. I have a long way to go, and I don't think I started where I was supposed to, but at least I started and I am getting somewhere. So can you.
py.myplexusproducts.com
https://www.facebook.com/pyplexus
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