Tracking Diet

I'm having kidney problems, so I need to limit my protein intake. Because of diabetes I need to be careful with my carbohydrate intake. I need to lose weight so I need to limit my fat consumption.

It's quite a juggling act to do all that and still actually eat enough to stay alive.

More exercise would help but I'm limited in that right now also because I have some arterial blockages that cause a lack of stamina, shortness of breath.

Teeth and Sugar

As I mentioned in another blog posting, I recently discovered that I wasn't going to have to get a payday loan to pay for some new teeth, I'm able to get the VA to pay for it.

My teeth got in pretty bad shape after I developed diabetes. The first step in getting new dentures is to pull all your teeth. Then it takes the VA a couple of months to get the new dentures fitted and made. In the meantime I'm eating a lot of soup.

I was making with mostly just vegetables (I'm having kidney problems and am supposed to keep my protein intake low) and I wasn't putting any potatoes, noodles, or rice in the soups because of carbs.

The result has been that I've had a couple of t hose diabetic low carb attacks I'd always heard about but never experienced. Since I don't take insulin I don't ever get too much insulin. But the soup diet caused me to end up unintentionally restricting my carb intake even more than usual. Too much it seems.

Learn the signs of low blood sugar.

Protein

I'm having some problems with kidney function (a side effect of my diabetes) and my K-doc told me to limit my protein intake.

The problem is that I don't really know what means and I didn't think to ask her at the time.

So how much protein should I eat?

According to this site someone my weight should eat about 75 grams. But I'm a little overweight, and somebody the weight I probably should be at needs about 55 grams per day.

So, does that mean eating between 55 and 75 grams of protein a day is about right?