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1 year ago

Almost a year since my last post.  I have lost a lot.  I lost a brother.  I lost a sister.  I lost a niece. They can not be replaced.  It has truly been sad.  These losses weigh heavily on my heart at times but good things have also happened.........  I am still thinking.

OH I know!  I lost 25 pounds and counting!  I was diagnosed with diabetes and then undiagnosed with diabetes.  How does that happen?  Well it doesn't.  And yet it does because my blood sugar is normal. So I don't have it?  Well I guess you can control the disease with diet and medication.  When I was told I freaked out. The only person I knew at the time with this disease is in a nursing home with kidney failure and every kind of bad thing that diabetes can do to you. So I really freaked out!  I read everything I could about it and I took control of it.

So, now I mourn my sister, brother and niece, it has been almost a year since my sister died and I will move on to take care of myself.  

Michael Pollan wrote a book of which the subtitle is "Eat food. Not to much. Mostly plants"  This is my mantra. Kraft macaroni and cheese is not food. Frozen dinners are not meals (to me).  I am a good cook and have learned to cook for my new lifestyle.  Cool!  I am also learning about food that I never ate before.  Like lentils! I bought them but not cooked them.  Yet.