Guest Guest Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Chocolate is a Vegetable Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar BEETS. Both of them are plants, in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable. To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So candy bars are a health food. Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want. Remember: "STRESSED" spelled backward is "DESSERTS" Quote Link to comment
logcabinmama Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Chocolate sounds good to me. How about some hot chocolate now. ------------------ Quote Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 I'll believe that any day, all day! I do love chocolate! I'm so glad it's counted as a vegetable . I think I'll go have some now! Enjoy some with me! Happygirl...very happy with chocolate! ------------------ Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, and His love endures forever! Quote Link to comment
Deblyn Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Good piece of advice I was given: At the top of your "to do today" list, write EAT CHOCOLATE. That way, you'll always get at least one thing done! Quote Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Not only do you always get one thing done but you also eat your veggies! LOL I do love hot chocolate, especally in the winter time. I don't think I'm hooked on chocolate though because I can go for months without having some. Which I think must be a good thing since I am still trying to learn how to live life as a diabetic. Could you imagine a chocolate aholic being diabetic? That would be a double wammy! Hill Quote Link to comment
logcabinmama Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Just read about you being a diabetic Hill. Just how bad are your numbers? Old Pine and I are both diabetics too. I take 1/2 a pill two times a day. Old Pine takes 1 1/2 pills two times a day. Are you on pills or do you have to have shots? ------------------ Quote Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 My DH's Dad is a diabetic, and I'm not sure if he takes any pills for it...he tries to watch what he eats, but is not too good at it. And the job he has is very stessfull...I'm not sure how long he is going to last! I wish I could talk about it more with him, but he just brushes it off...even though he has already had an operation done to unclog his arteries. Is that called "bypass surgery"? Well, I just hope you all do ok. I always figure its better to eat a little bit of something than to go out and binge on it...but if you can stay away from chocolate for months! I'm impressed...I think it's great! I wish Icould stay away from icecream like that! ------------------ Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, and His love endures forever! Quote Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 Mine is controled by diet at this point. I still need to get it down more but I feel really goos at 200. One thing that is really great for diabetics to eat is rhubarb. I ate a piece of pie in a moment of weakness and just knew my sugar level was going to go way up. It DROPED over 100 points! It was the only time I was able to get it down to around 100. Understanding the diet is very hard for me. My Dr.'s nurse gave me a diet and wanted me to be on a 1,400 calorie diet. Then i looked at the foods she wanted me to eat and I said, NO WAY! My adopted Dad (adopted by love), the one who died 2 months ago, was a diabetic, counselor (he mixed counseling with vitamin's and nutrition), parimedic specialist and we learned about natural everything together, swapping what we learned back and forth. I called him and discussed the diet with him and he agreed with me that 1,400 calories was way to low for me. He also said the same thing about the foods they wanted me to eat. NOT a good diet for a diabetic. So I have tryed to figure it out on my own. It is not easy and I am not sure a lot of the time. There are also times where I go through craving food, I never did that before. I want something but there is nothing I want so I climb the walls until it goes away. I am learning that I can not go all day without eating, a really bad habit of mine when I am working. When I get home I am ready to devour everything in site. Another thing I have never went through before. I used to run and forget to eat, sometimes for a couple of days before I realize I have not ate. Well no more. I have to work all day tomorrow and DH already told me I am not to leave this house without taking a sandwitch with me. One of the benifits is the weight I have lost. I love that part. If anyone has some tips, ideas or advice, I promise to listen. Hill P.S. The 4th of July I spent $2,000 that I have no way of paying off (at this point), had a really bad headache, A fever of over 104 (drank cold liquid a minute before temp was taken orally, so they don't know how high my temp actually was, but it registered 104.2 on thermometer), my left leg ached really badly and I had chills. After 4 hours of them sticking needles in my back (4 times) man handling me, yelling at me when I would say ouch, jamming their thumbs in my back, grabbing my ankles and jamming my knees hard aginst the bed railing and grabbing my arms and jerking me around, ogh and making fat comments to me (saying it was my fault they could not get the needle in my back)...... They get my temp down to 102.4, tell me they could not find a thing wrong with me, they don't know what brought me in there but by the way, this has nothing to do with what brought you in here but you are a diabetic. Then they sent me home with nothing, no medicine or anything to get the fever down. I had bruises and finger imprinted bruises on my ankles and upper arms form their rough gripping me. My knees were all black and blue and my back had a big black circle on it and hurt for me to sit, stand or lay down for two weeks. Two days later I was going to bed with my husband and felt, saw and could taste death. I knew I was dying. I told DH what I wanted him to do and everything I wanted when I died. I knew I was not going to live through the night and was afraid to go to sleep because I knew I would never wake up. DH wanted me to go back to the hospitol and I refused, knowing they would do nothing just like 2 days before. I asked him to pray for me. I felt a cool soothing feeling go through the leg I had the most pain with, then it felt better. I sat up for 1/2 hour more, then felt God tell me it was ok, I could go to sleep now and I would be ok. So I went to bed. Quote Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 Now that's a vegetable i could eat at every meal! But is it really a vegetable? Can vegetables grow on trees? Cacao is a tree....or else an awfully big bush with bark . I am borderline diabetic --- I take steroids for an autoimmune problem and they play havoc with your sugar metabolism. I know I would feel better if I would eat better but it is hard. Prednisone is a double whammy---it messes up your sugar/carbohydrate metabolism while at the same time making you ravenous! Argh. Good natural recipes for diabetics in the wood cook stove area might be nice. Quote Link to comment
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