Cantin ketogenic diet

I will start with a link to a previous post I did last summer when I ended up in the hospital with type 1 treatment induced diabetes.

Treatment Induced Diabetes-The price I pay for my dances with Ned.

Since then I’ve been doing 40 units of long acting insulin every morning and about 10 units of fast acting insulin with every meal. Even with that amount of insulin my last A1C was 10.6. For those of you that don’t have a good understanding of diabetes, that’s a really bad A1C! Injecting this much insulin into my body was frightening to me. My research leads me to believe that insulin and cancer don’t go well together. Seeing an A1C of 10.6 was even more frightening. I decided to try and do something to get myself off insulin and get my blood glucose levels to where they needed to be. My research led me to this book:

I read the book in one night. All the research I had done matched everything I was reading in this book. It was impressive and gave me the push I needed to give it a try. Living with metastatic breast cancer has made me a skeptic when it comes to simple cures. I wasn’t completely sold on the idea of a diet allowing me to be insulin free as a type 1 diabetic. I found the author, Elaine Cantin, on Facebook and accumulated a wealth of information from her and her past posts. I went shopping for “yes” foods and supplements from her book and began a three day fast. I love food! I was concerned about my ability to not eat for three days. My Javiee was afraid he may not make it out alive! 😀 It was surprisingly easy! My blood glucose was better than it had ever been. I was extatic with the results but figured I would still need insulin once I started eating again. Wrong! I followed Elaine’s food recommendations and 15 days later I am still off insulin! Not only am I off insulin, my blood glucose has never been better! I never saw 90 when I was on insulin! The change in the way I feel is amazing! My energy level is high and my pain pill count is at 1 a day. That’s down from 5! I am amazed and so glad that I found this book! If your having issues with diabetes you owe it to yourself to read this book and give it a try!

As far as cancer goes, I can’t really say much about that right now. Here’s where I’m at with that…

My last scan showed active cancer in my hip. Scary and not what I wanted to hear! I haven’t had “active” cancer in 2 years. I still consider them good scans because the cancer hasn’t spread anywhere else ( this is life with metastatic cancer). Our plan is to stay on the treatment I’m on (Zoladex and Femara) and do new scans in 3 months. With those results we will make a decision on treatment. It will be interesting to see the new scans and what kind of impact my diet has on them. I will update you with the results.

Of course I have to end with pictures! We’ve been living life and making memories! I am so blessed to be feeling good!

Snow Day with my Javiee! You don’t work in North Carolina when it snows!