Day11
August 16, 2011
Wt. 257.6
Blood Sugar (first thing in the morning) 163
Blood Pressure 142/94 61 bpm.
Elk or Corn-Fed Angus Beef
That’s more like it. Still too high but more in line with the numbers from previous days, but, as I was saying yesterday-it needs to be a lot lower. I would like my first test of the day to be somewhere between 90 and 105. 80 to 90 would be even better, but for now I’m keeping it to the slightly higher target. Your doctor would be thrilled at these numbers after seeing lots of 140 to 300s. He or she might be a little miffed that you did it without drugs because if you don’t need drugs to fix this then the entire paradigm of modern western medicine begins to look like it’s on shaky ground.
What if you didn’t need drugs for depression or high blood pressure, or insomnia or even drugs to mask the side effects of the drugs you took for other things? Oops-I digress, I was going to talk about making our muscles hungry.
The reasoning, besides 90 to 105 being healthy people numbers, is that when you start out low at the beginning of the day it is easier to keep your glucose in check the rest of the day, but because our bodies are no longer working as well we need to help that along a bit.
Surprisingly it doesn’t take much. Half an hour to an hour of brisk walking can do it and the more in shape your body gets the better it works. Odd about that.
Walking works well because it uses the largest muscle groups in the body, gets the heart rate up and gets blood moving all through the system at a good rate. That means the glucose is getting delivered right to those muscles that are needing fuel to keep on trucking and when the body needs energy it goes looking for what is in the blood first. After that it goes looking for fat stores. That’s a good thing because those of us with T2 in residence usually have more than a bit of it hanging around. Some of it is pretty easy to identify when we stand in front of a mirror. We can even grab hold of nice chunks of it but there’s more, and it is pretty well hidden.
Just like the infomercial guy says, "but there’s more." There is also fat deposits within our muscle tissue as well. If you’ve ever eaten an elk steak or venison you know that the meat tastes drier and tougher than a nice corn-fed cow. The reason is both fat and exercise. Before that meat is cooked you can both see and feel the fat content of the muscle tissues. Your friendly neighborhood butcher will hold up a cut of meat and show you the marbling-striations of fat-in the meat. Or he would have before all of our meat came on little plastic trays covered with a window of clear plastic and we never saw the guys who whacked up and wrapped it.
Our bodies are the same. There has to be some fat there because it is the second place the muscles look for energy once they’ve depleted what is in the blood. They can’t use up all of the glucose in the blood or the rest of the body would starve, so it goes looking first to the fat within the muscle tissues and then to that stuff we can grab on to when we’re looking in the mirror with that look of total dismay on our faces.
The wild game had to work for its food and the food was not usually troughs of high energy corn. That elk had to walk up and down hills, swim lakes, run for its life, chase its mate and so on. It got a 24-7 workout every day until someone plugged it and put it on the dinner table. The feedlot cow, on the other hand, stood around all day. Entertainment was corn in the trough in the morning and evening. Not much work other than ambling over to the water and then back over to the corn-sound familiar? The result was meat with a lot more fat content. It is juicy, tender, sweet.
We would be a cannibal’s delight. No stingy dry old explorer for dinner tonight. Nice corn-fed couch potato. Mmm mmm, good eatin’ there. Silliness aside, our goal is to become elk. Use up the muscle fat, get rid of the fat roll and help our bodies do what they were designed to do. Reducing and controlling the quantity and quality of food is part of that. Making our muscles work harder and get hungrier is another part. Doing both will make T2 go find someplace else to live.
Gotta go to work again,
More to come.
Jim
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