For the past two weeks I have been having a constant dry mouth/throat. It goes away when I drink a couple glasses of water then comes back. I just started a 80% raw diet last week..can this have anything to do with it? I eat lots of raw fruits and veggies, legumes and nuts. I don’t eat any processed food and go through 2-3 gallons of water trying to get the dryness to go away but it doesn’t Sometimes it even makes my mouth more dry. Im not diabetic..I was just recently checked
Filed under Diets for Diabetics by on Aug 4th, 2009. 4 Comments. 
I have a very serious diet soda addiction.
It is to the point where I keep a 2 liter bottle on the night stand at night. I will seek out diet soda even when I’m not thirsty. My boyfriend knows that the way to win my affection is a bottle of diet coke on Valentines.
I grew up in an unhealthy diabetic household. All I drank growing up was diet coke, and I feel like I am now, at the age of twenty, hard-wired for drinking the stuff.
I don’t even enjoy the taste to be perfectly honest. I don’t understand why I continue to consume it in such great quantities.
I have tried countless times to quit, but every time I feel like I go through withdraws, to the point that I am shaking, with throbbing headaches, and every other thought revolves around getting a diet coke.
I dunno, I feel like something is wrong with me. How to can quit once and for all? Where do I get the willpower?
So update:
I poured all the diet down the drain. I have a stock pile of tea ready to go and I’
So update:
I poured all the diet down the drain. I have a stock pile of tea ready to go and I’
So update:
I poured all the diet down the drain. I have a stock pile of tea ready to go and I’
Filed under Diets for Diabetics by on Aug 3rd, 2009. 8 Comments.
I got tested during a physical last month. I have normal blood sugar levels, according to the doctor, and am nowhere near being diabetic yet (as my diabetic-for-20+-years-father assured me).
The thing is, I realize that even though I’m doing everything I can to avoid getting the dreaded disease (I’m not obese, monitor my diet and get regular excersize), diabetes still very much runs in my family. Right off the bat I can name about seven (immediate and distant) relatives who have it.
If there is much of a chance I could still get it, I’d like to hold it off as long as I can (having a chronic health problem is no good when you’re in college, and I do intend to enlist in the military after I graduate, but that’s beyond the point).
How much of a risk do I still have?
I’m not diabetic now and have no symptoms, also, I’m not going to be in the military for life, but for 8 years.
Filed under Diets for Diabetics by on Aug 3rd, 2009. 5 Comments.