| Hey, does anybody out there have
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| | vegetables, fruit and no bread! Gone were
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| diabetes?Well, if you're shaped like a
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| | the days of freedom where I could eat
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| pear and you're from the South where the
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| | fried pork chops, biscuits and gravy,
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| three main food groups are flour, sugar
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| | mashed potatoes, wash it all down with a
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| and lard, (pronounced shortening for you
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| | huge glass of sweet tea (with real sugar)
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| Northern folk) then you have a good
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| | and finish it all off with an entire
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| chance of developing it.It ain't no
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| | chocolate cake topped with a half gallon
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| picnic, and about as aggravating as a
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| | of vanilla ice cream.No! I even had to
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| loose tooth.I wasn't always round. I was
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| | eat my weeds and fruit from a small plate
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| a very skinny child, all hair and
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| | about the size of a silver dollar. Gone
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| eyeballs. I have naturally curly hair
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| | was the macaroni and cheese, the
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| and my mama refused to let me cut it
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| | cornbread and beans, the fried potatoes,
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| until I was thirty or there abouts. You
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| | the overflowing plate and the sweet,
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| could have drawn big round eyes on a rag
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| | sweet tea (with real sugar).If you need a
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| mop and stood us up side by side and we
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| | good laxative, try Splenda. The first
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| would have been twins.I ate what everyone
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| | time I tried it I was amazed. My stomach
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| else ate, but I stayed skinny, all the
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| | started to make noises that sounded like
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| way through school and up until my fourth
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| | a volcano was getting ready to erupt.
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| marriage. I've always felt that fat
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| | And talk about flatulence! I tooted with
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| people were happy people. My sister
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| | each step I took. And these weren't quite
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| remarked on my weight gain and told me to
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| | little poots either. It sounded like
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| get miserable for a change. "I swear , if
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| | thunder. It rattled the windows. My
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| you get any happier you won't be able to
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| | poor Hubby. He was so patient through it
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| fit through the kitchen door."Well, turns
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| | all.However, since I was feeling a lot
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| out she was right. I was pushing against
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| | better after the medication started
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| 200 pounds this time last year. I kept
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| | working and my glucose levels were
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| feeling sick, and short of breath. My
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| | beginning to return to normal, I have
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| eyes didn't work right and I had about as
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| | stayed with the diet. It hasn't been
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| much energy as a dead house cat. All of
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| | easy. Sometimes I get so hungry I could
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| this combined was a pretty good sign that
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| | eat a pile of dirt...if it was mixed with
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| I needed to see a doctor. I did. He did
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| | lard and sugar and shaped like a
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| the blood work. He told me I had
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| | biscuit.Oh, and I don't look extremely
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| developed type 2 diabetes.The normal
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| | happy anymore. I weighed this morning and
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| range for the hemoglobin A1c (a simple
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| | I am down to 129 pounds. I look like my
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| lab test that shows the average amount of
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| | rag mop once again.Think I'll get us both
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| sugar (also called glucose) that has been
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| | dressed up, draw her a pair of big round
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| in a person's blood over the last 3
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| | eyes and go have our pictures taken. I'll
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| months) should be around 7 or below. Mine
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| | be the one on the left with the short
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| was 14.3. My blood sugar had been at a
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| | hair.Leeuna Foster is a Marketing
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| constant level of 400 for the past
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| | Strategist, Author and Poet. She has been
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| several months.I was immediately
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| | writing for two decades and her short
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| handcuffed, taken into custody and
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| | fiction and poetry have won several
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| sentenced to a life of green weeds,
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| | national and regional awards.
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