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Coming up on five months now! Thank you very much for your comment -- I've been hoping based on research and talking to people I know that you do rewire eventua

Coming up on five months now! Thank you very much for your comment -- I've been hoping based on research and talking to people I know that you do rewire eventually, and you reinforced all of that. Appreciated. And yeah, caloric intake is a concern. The diabetes means I'm also changing my diet a fair bit which doesn't help; I haven't had ice cream in months. I am pretty sure I'm overcompensating and have recently pushed myself into more experimentation with food; the availability of real time glucose sensors is huge even if I feel weird walking around with a Bluetooth device plugged into my arm.

genocidicbunny 1y ago
Regarding the caloric intake, my GP suggested tracking calories, but also to use protein supplements. It's not the tastiest thing, but it's a fairly easy way to both manage your caloric intake to healthy levels, and to ensure that you're getting enough protein. Otherwise you might end up losing additional weight from losing muscle mass. That makes it even easier to stop performing physical activities, and also puts strain on your kidneys due to the breakdown of muscle mass. Diabetes definitely makes it more challenging since you have to avoid foods that are an easy source of additional calories to make up for the deficit, but it's doable. I don't know what your dosing schedule is, so this might not be as applicable. For me, it's weekly, so early on what I started doing was setting it up so that saturday or sunday would be the tail end of the week for the dosing, so that as the effects wore off a little I had more motivation for food. I would then use that to meal prep some easy freezable meals that I would use for the days when I had a longer or more stressful day, and would be even less inclined to cook. Soups and stews were especially good for that. So even if I wasn't feeling hungry, and had no real desire to prep anything, I could just throw something the microwave to heat up over like 30 minutes and I would at least have a good meal to eat, and avoid just skipping the meal entirely due to the lack of desire for food. And since I was cooking these myself still, it gave me some extra motivation to do it well, which eventually grew to the improvement of cooking skills I mentioned in the previous comment. And as far as the CGM, don't feel too weird about it -- as far as I am concerned you're helping pioneer continuous metabolic monitors that not only monitor glucose levels, but other metabolic and hormonal measurements. I'd love to have a little device I can stick on my arm that gives me continuous monitoring of various metabolic properties instead of needing to have regular blood tests performed for them.
lurking_swe 1y ago
> I haven't had ice cream in months i think over time you’ll find yourself getting excited about excellent _meals_ instead of deserts. It’s a journey, hang in there! The concept of a desert is also subjective. I always challenge people to ask themselves - why can’t our desert after dinner be a bowl of strawberries or an orange? Why must it be a brownie / cookie / ice cream? Food for thought. :)

genocidicbunny 1y ago

Regarding the caloric intake, my GP suggested tracking calories, but also to use protein supplements. It's not the tastiest thing, but it's a fairly easy way to both manage your caloric intake to healthy levels, and to ensure that you're getting enough protein. Otherwise you might end up losing additional weight from losing muscle mass. That makes it even easier to stop performing physical activities, and also puts strain on your kidneys due to the breakdown of muscle mass. Diabetes definitely makes it more challenging since you have to avoid foods that are an easy source of additional calories to make up for the deficit, but it's doable. I don't know what your dosing schedule is, so this might not be as applicable. For me, it's weekly, so early on what I started doing was setting it up so that saturday or sunday would be the tail end of the week for the dosing, so that as the effects wore off a little I had more motivation for food. I would then use that to meal prep some easy freezable meals that I would use for the days when I had a longer or more stressful day, and would be even less inclined to cook. Soups and stews were especially good for that. So even if I wasn't feeling hungry, and had no real desire to prep anything, I could just throw something the microwave to heat up over like 30 minutes and I would at least have a good meal to eat, and avoid just skipping the meal entirely due to the lack of desire for food. And since I was cooking these myself still, it gave me some extra motivation to do it well, which eventually grew to the improvement of cooking skills I mentioned in the previous comment. And as far as the CGM, don't feel too weird about it -- as far as I am concerned you're helping pioneer continuous metabolic monitors that not only monitor glucose levels, but other metabolic and hormonal measurements. I'd love to have a little device I can stick on my arm that gives me continuous monitoring of various metabolic properties instead of needing to have regular blood tests performed for them.

lurking_swe 1y ago

> I haven't had ice cream in months i think over time you’ll find yourself getting excited about excellent _meals_ instead of deserts. It’s a journey, hang in there! The concept of a desert is also subjective. I always challenge people to ask themselves - why can’t our desert after dinner be a bowl of strawberries or an orange? Why must it be a brownie / cookie / ice cream? Food for thought. :)