In memory of Shanny.

[skb]

Hello everyone,

We've lost a dear friend in Shanny. This forum came about because of the way the previous forum decided to treat her. We were 8 moderators who left that forum and decided to create a space on our own. Some drifted away, some remained. Finally, 4 of us came together and created The Diabetic Pub (our erstwhile identity).

Shanny was a kind soul who has guided thousands of diabetics to better management of their condition. In her honor we have decided to start this thread, which will be a collection of some of her notable posts. To go through her posts and put them up here, you will need to follow these steps;

1. Click Members in the Menu.
2. Then Search for Members
3. Search for Shanny by name
4. Click her name on the List that opens up
5. Under Profile Info, click Show Posts then Messages

The number of pages are chronologically listed starting from the most recent. Go to the post that you would want to see here. Click on Quote and then Copy/Paste everything that comes up in the text box to the text box here.

My next Post is an example of the above. This is her first public post on the forum. Most of her posts prior to this are a part of Pre-Operative Discussion that we had before opening up the Forum.

I hope my instructions are easy to understand, and would like to see more of her posts mentioned here.

[skb]

This was her first post here as mentioned above. If you want to go to the actual post, you can click the link in the Quote heading and the post will open up.

Sure is good to see you two!  8)

and on the same day, this one in the Fasting thread

Okay you guys . . . now I reckon I'm gonna have to start testing again of a morning.  Suffice to say it isn't usually a 'fasting', since I rarely go eight hours without eating or drinking something. But I'll buckle down & behave myself . . . I remember having a 114mg/dl a coupla weeks ago. That'll get me started. 

Or her Acronyms also on the same day

A1c or HbA1c: test showing the percentage of hemoglobin that has glucose attached

ADA/CDA: American Diabetes Association/Canadian Diabetes Association

BG or BS: blood glucose or blood sugar.
BGL or BSL: blood glucose level or blood sugar level.

BH: better half
OH: other half

BMI: body mass index

BMR: basal metabolic rate

BP: blood pressure

BPC: bullet proof coffee

CDA/ADA: Canadian Diabetes Association/American Diabetes Association

CDE: certified diabetes educator

CGM: continuous glucose monitoring system

CHO or carbs: carbohydrates

CO: coconut oil

CVD: cardiovascular disease

D: diabetes of any type

DH: dear husband
DW: dear wife
DD: dear daughter
DS: dear son
DIL: daughter-in-law
SIL: son-in-law

DKA: diabetic ketoacidosis. A condition of high blood sugar combined with low or no insulin, which can cause coma and even death

DP: dawn phenomenon

DM: diabetes Mellitus

Dx: diagnosis

Endo: endocrinologist

ER: emergency room
OR: operating room

FBG or FBS: fasting blood levels

GABA: Gabapentin

GAD: glutamic acid decarboxylase. GAD antibodies in the blood indicate type 1 or 1.5 diabetes

GI: glycemic index
GL: glycemic load

GP: general practitioner

GTT or OGTT: glucose tolerance test & oral glucose tolerance test

HbA1c, HA1c, HgA1c: glycosylated hemoglobin
See A1c.

HBP: high blood pressure/hypertension

HFCS: high fructose corn syrup

HWC: heavy whipping cream

JERF: just eat real food

KR: ketogenic ratio

LADA: latent autoimmune diabetes of adults

LC: low carb

LCHF or LC/HF: low-carb/high-fat way-of-eating (WoE)

MDI: multiple daily injections

mg/dl: milligrams per deciliter - unit of measuring blood sugar in the US.
mmol/l: millimoles per liter - unit of measuring blood sugar in most of the rest of the world

MODY: maturity onset diabetes of the young

N=1: And experiment with the subject size being one person - you. Normally used to describe anecdotal evidence.

NHS: National Health Service

OGTT: oral glucose tolerance test

OP: original post or poster - whoever wrote the original post in any given thread

PCOS: polycystic ovary syndrome

PCP: primary care physician

PP: postprandial

PWD: person with diabetes

RH: Reactive hypoglycemia

RLS: restless leg syndrome

Rx: prescription

SAD: standard American diet

SC: sour cream

WOE or WoE: way of eating

VLC: very low carb

YMMV: your mileage may vary

[bigskygal]

I miss Shanny more than I can say! Some of her biggest contributions were her recipes which she shared willingly  with us.

One of my favorites is from the beginning her Bacon Weaves... a great substitution for bread just search Shanny and her recipes.

Bacon is one of the best parts of eating LCHF, and bacon weaves are a wonderfully easy way to eat it, because they can be used to make sandwiches instead of carby bread & they're sturdier than a leaf of lettuce.

Because you can make up several at once, it means you have the option of having some on hand in the fridge without having to fry bacon each time you want some.

For a basic one-serving weave, take three slices of raw bacon and cut them in half. Then take three short strips & lay them on a parchment-paper-lined jellyroll pan (important to use a shallow pan with edges) with sides touching. The next three short strips are interlaced with the first three - like a lattice - again scooched together with sides touching so they bond together during baking & won't fall apart during eating. A pound of bacon makes five or six weaves, and that is just about what fills up a jellyroll pan.

Bake these for about 15 minutes at 350° (175°C); check for doneness, and maybe flip them over to hurry up the cooking process. Baking another 10 or so minutes usually does the trick, and I then drain them on paper towels before packing them in refrigerator containers for safe-keeping so they don't get broken bouncing around in the fridge. These freeze well too, and they're a godsend if you have a houseful of company coming!

Before they get too cool & crisp, they can be shaped around a dish to obtain a bowl-shape, or folded to obtain a taco-shaped form. And of course if you want to make them bigger, go for it!

[Sweety]

skb, i never thought i could follow the instructions you have given, but after 2-3 tries, i finally got it right. This is a post of Shanny that I liked. I don't think I was with the forum at that time. It is a good post worth mention

I had a conversation today with a friend whose husband has been diabetic for several years, and his blood sugar is what she described as completely out of whack. He seems to have adopted an adequate way-of-eating, lots of fish, a little red meat & lots of salads, but he doesn't TEST! Not at all. Says it's a waste of time. I asked how does he know his new food plan is working, and she said he just counts on it being right (a dietitian suggested it) and goes by his A1c tests. My god in heaven . . . is it any wonder people are going blind and losing their limbs?! And so much of it is placing trust in their doctors who know exactly nothing about it!

This guy might make it if he can stick to it, because his food plan sounds fairly decent, although he's still eating oatmeal for breakfast, and is not incorporating much fat. Plus he's ordered her out of the kitchen and now does all the planning, purchasing and cooking of their meals. I said if he thinks it was her cooking that got him diabetes, he's sadly & seriously misinformed!

[skb]

How can we ever forget the Eat to Your Meter article.

[skb]

IN our baby months a lot of the old forum folks had joined in and it looked like we might be going places. But most of them dropped off. Here's an interesting post from Shanny welcoming Sue (cdncatlover). Going through the thread reminds one of the old timers who have disappeared.

When the scales don't reflect any weight loss, the next move is a tape measure. Very often you're losing inches, even though the pounds haven't melted away quite yet. And I assure you, weight loss will come . . . our bodies just don't accept change very well, and they can be balky about adjusting! You seem to be doing it very well - I don't see anything wrong with what you're eating.

I'm no good at the computations either, but I have my goals plugged in at MyFitnessPal so all I have to do is enter what and how much I've eaten, and the software does the rest. Because I've told it what I want in terms of calories, carbs, protein & fat, it keeps a running total telling me how much I have left for the day, or in some cases, when I've gone over . . . 

I hope you don't continue feeling stupid or thinking you can't do it right. I'm just as bad and I also have a LOT of weight I could lose (b'lieve me, my avatar is a very accurate depiction!  ) I was really strict in the beginning, but just can't seem to summon the same motivation anymore. I just know LCHF works, so I keep plugging along, and as the others have said, that wagon keeps stopping to let me climb back on. We're all in this together, and coming here every day really helps me focus. And one of these days I'm gonna get tired of scuffing my arthritic knees every time I fall off the wagon, and stay on it! 

[skb]

Shanny on the Diet Doctor

For years we recommended Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt for his excellent site detailing the low-carb/high-fat way-of-eating which has been enormously popular in his home country of Sweden - so much so that there was a butter shortage! But in recent months Dr. Eenfeldt has branched out into claiming his program can cure diabetes, and this is something we have no truck with. We know without doubt that it controls diabetes right down to the ground, but it is NOT A CURE. For that reason, we've backed away from referring to his site.

Give us your thoughts about this . . . are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

I discovered something else that was a bit disheartening - another of my favorite resources has moved on in his professional journey. Dr. Peter Attia has left  the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI), the organization he founded with Gary Taubes. Looking forward to seeing what is to come, but as I get older, I seem to be much more resistant to change! 

[skb]

Look what I found;

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[Sweety]

Very nice pictures. It is always better when pictures are there to visualise.