my husband did the same, and when he quit, he also got full blown diabetes back. He got a tick bite and he is on 4 shots a day....
but by going back to our all natural eating, I can even bake some really healthy bread for him to have for breakfast...1 piece is two carb points, but filling and no fructose corn syrup.
yes, food companies do not worry about our health. I wonder if they put stuff in to make us addicted like the tobacco companies do!
It isn't a rant when everything they offer us at the store is bad for us.

You know, I never even paid attention to the bread before I became aware of the sugar problems in America.

Now, I read the ingredients and a whole lot of bread do contain High Fructose Corn Syrup. Why?

I can totally tell the difference between regular bread and the bread with HFCS.

Also, my favorite for a long time was peanut butter with jelly. I now cut out the jelly and I use only the natural peanut butter. Ingredients? Peanuts, salt (nothing else). It's such an amazing taste. What was I before???? Well, HFCS... yes, they add it to peanut butter. I can't go back to peanut butter with HFCS.

we all get frustrated at times and yes once you learn to read labels you can get surprised. So when you look at one brand, check out other brands of the same item, such as bread, etc. I found a light version without the high fructose. I grew up some in the country, my grandma made from scratch, grand dad helped on the farm next to us and we ate fresh veggies, etc and I learned to make homemade bread and nothing like fructose was ever added, etc, so you learn to become a detective having this disease, once you develop it, it's there forever, doesn't go away - you just learned to control it.

we are eating really well..just not the same.
There are lots of sites with food ideas, and even without using much of any sweetener...I think we are still having good meals.
SO
the reason they use fructose is to make the product last longer on the shelves. in the colonial days sugar or salt were used to make our foods last, but they weren't in everything....

Yep, I'm a food detective now! haha

blueviolet: I watched a documentary. The documentary said that a long time ago, America was told to cut out the fat because a lot of people were dying from heart attacks. So, since the push was to cut out the fat, the food didn't taste as good. Therefore, to replace the fat, they added the sugar. So, they said to watch out for low fat foods because low fat foods usually means more sugar.

I don't know if that's true. Just saying what I heard.

yes. I read that too. and it really is up to us to read the labels...so if there aren't any- like with fruits and veggies and meats...less detective work. (I have a book I do look up our most common items in, and then I have a list up- so I don;t have to look the crap up all the time!)

I am with you. I am tired of always checking my blood glucose before every meal and anytime that I feel up or down. In fact these last few weeks/months I haven't gotten any signs when my blood glucose falls low. I just want to eat whatever I want, even though these days i don't have a taste for chocolates, coca cola or any of the thiungs that I use to love to eat which wasn't good for me. I really don't have a taste for food at all these days. I could live on liquids, especially tea, which lately I am not even liking tea that much. I am just tired of being a diabetic, tired of being sick and tired of listening to doctors tell me what is best for me, I check my toes which are swollen and hurt all the time due to another illness which no one can tell me anything about. Well it is time for bed and time to check my blodd glucose before taking my night time Levemir insulin. Why are there so many different types or names of linsuling if they all supposedly the same and why do we keep them in the fridge before opening but not after opening? Not a true question, just a thought. Have a good night and sleep well. Not proofreading may be errors.

yes frustrating, but we must keep going forward always, never go backwards

Well, I was in so much pain that I had to go on Lyrica and take cortisone shots into my feet. So I got a 30-Day Diabetes reversal
book. I have already lost my appetite from the paine so this wasn't too difficult.

Sugar is an addiction as compelling as I imagine cocaine is - and yet
I am so saturated that I have been able to do without it for most of the 30 days. The author doesn't even want you to have Vanilla yogurt as it has sugar in it. But I cannot afford to throw food out,
so I have had to eat that. It is a very extreme way to eat, but if you want to reverse your diabetic situation, I am sure this is the only way to go.

To Blue Violet, I am curious as to what book it is you are referring to, or if we can mention names of things like that, but this is supposed to be a support group, and if a commercial product, like a book helps, then it needs to be mentioned. Please let me know.
Thank you.

Talk about ancient. I am 76 and have had diabetes for 30 years. 20 years since I have known about it. Not sure what type I am, maybe
1 1/2. When I found out, I decided I could either get depressed or make a challenge out of it. Being depressed didn't appeal to me so a challenge it was. The result of my challenge is I have no diabetes complications and feel good all the time. I know that is a little weird
My diet is very simple and very satisfying. That is eat no combination foods unless you combine them yourself from single ingredients. No grains, rice potato or flour products. Eat only full fat foods no fat free. Eat all you want don't count calories or carbs.
You will lose weight and never be hungry. Soon you will forget the carbs and won't even care that you don't eat them. Try it you will see.

It doesn't have to get worse with age. The reason it gets worse is as we age we become more sedentary with age, use less carbs, our metabolism slows down again we use less carbs and we lose muscle and we use less carbs.

Those three things can be remedied with just a small amount of effort.
Is the rest of your life worth it to you. It really is worth it to me and I am already there really old!

Wow, you guys have it easier than I have it. I have a double whammy with all this. I have a genetic clotting disease that is reeking havoc on my circulatory system. I can't exercise at all due to damage in my right leg caused by DVT and possibly made worse - or didn't heal properly due to diabetes. I have modified my diet a lot, but I literally can't even walk through two supermarkets at this time. I've been pretty much sedentary - dangerously sedentary for three years now. Not only do I have to monitor my blood sugar, I also have to monitor my blood to make sure it's not too thick or too thin. I also have chronic pain in my leg that I take pain meds for. If I just had the diabetes alone I'd probably jump for joy. I don't see a good future for me, especially not being able to walk much. I can't even get up and down my stairs without a cane anymore. Any how, hand in there, you need to continue to fight this. I know this disease can never be reversed, but you can stave off a lot of the complications by changing your diet.

I have a question for those of you who are on strict diets - do you ever have a cheat day where you enjoy a pizza, or a burger with the buns on it? I'm just wondering!

That really sucks.. The guide I follow has kept me at pre-diabetic for years now and I don't have to diet or anything crazy like that! Are you sure you're not using outdated information? I found my method via http://help-with-diabetes.com/ if you want to try it for yourself?

ah yes another "buy my book" cure ROFL

Rosebarbara, I am with you. I am on the same food plan; no wheat, bread, potatoes, rice, barley, corn, etc. I eat protein, veggies and fruits. I have lite salad dressings sometimes, but sometimes I eat full fat salad dressings. Sugar is my addiction. If I don't have it for a month I feel great; if I eat one cookie, I can't stop. I will pig out for days before I can stop and go back on my food plan. It is not worth it. I am also lactose intolerant (great, eh?) so I eat lactose free cottage cheese and lactose free milk if I feel like having a little dairy. But I don't eat much.

When I eat properly I feel so much better. I am not saying it is easy; it isn't. We have so much crap on the store shelves. As a society we are killing ourselves years before we have to. I keep trying to do well because of my grandchildren. I keep plugging away, fall backward, but get up and go on.

Good luck to everyone out there. What a journey life is!!!!