Why must we always start at the beginning?

This blog will be my ruminations on my quilting projects, progress with my diet, and other observations in my life.

I went bold by starting this blog and the diet on the same day. Bold or silly, you pick!

Type 2 Diabetes is knocking on the door and I will have to let it in if I don't do something. Since my body doesn't seem to be reacting to carbs appropriately, I have found a protocol that may help. It is a low carb, very low carb, extremely low carb plan. You can't live without carbs forever and this plan reintroduces more carbs as it progresses. Just remember that all carbs are not created equal. In this plan, most of the refined carbs have been verboten! You get to eat most any vegetable (no potatoes for now), lean meat, and other things. What this protocol is trying to do is retrain your pancreas to release insulin appropriately. With type 2, when you eat carbs, the pancreas panics (in effect) and releases too much insulin. The insulin attacks the carbs, but there are not enough carbs for the insulin released. So your brain says that you want more cake, chips, crackers, etc. Then the pancreas panics again. It's a never ending cycle. Let's see if this protocol will end this cycle and help me get to a more normal place.

I have just recently started quilting. My first project was rebuilding a quilt my grandmother made. This was at the request of my second son.


I liked it so well, I made a quilt for my oldest son.

I have four sons and have made each one what I call a car quilt. These were rag quilts made out of old jeans. In hindsight, I would have put flannel on them too. My youngest son got one made of camouflage material, denim on the rag side and flannel on the flat side.