bajacalifornian
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For personal reasons, I find myself on a new mission.
Easter, I turned off the alcohol. Kinda Monday I turned to buying cigarettes suelto.
Yesterday, I did my first training walk through my Colonia.
On this walk, I determined to do two things:
With camera, share some of what brings peace, with living here.
And, . . . more importantly,
Plan a training camp for diabetics, likely in Lopez where we will train together. Beginning about October.
I'll be in shape to train.
Be there if you are not in balance. Meet here.
Practicing, following are views from my next walk
American by birth, Mexican by choice.
Signature addendum: Danish physicist — Niels Bohr — who said, “The opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Jeff Petersen
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DENNIS
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Interesting self portrait.
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mcfez
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Just a excellent shot here.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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BornFisher
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Great pictures of life. We love to b-tch so much about loud parties, and small complaints, but life goes on all around us. Good luck on your new
journey!!
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EnsenadaDr
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Mood: Move on. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book- just turn the page
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what exactly will this training camp entail?
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Mulegena
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I applaud you, BajaCalifornian, and support you wholeheartedly in your endeavor towards personal health and wellbeing. Your wish to share this journey
of discovery with others is generous and fortifying.
Fine photos that not only capture the soul of Mexico but directly reflects and reveals the depth of your own love of Baja and of life in all its
everyday preciousness.
"Raise your words, not your voice. It's rain that grows flowers, not thunder." ~Rumi
"It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle
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shari
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Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
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What Mulegena said!!!
suerte on your new mission Jeff...we look forward to your insights and your wonderful photos of la vida en tu pueblo...animo amigo!
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wessongroup
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Dittos on carrying a camera when "out" ........ look what we would have missed
Thanks much for the "view" ....... really like the "black & white" 
Dennis ...... your bad 
[Edited on 4-6-2013 by wessongroup]
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Mula
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Congratulations, Jeff . . . . proud of you!
Taking Indio on the walks with you?
He might like it.
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bajacalifornian
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Participants will "fill in the blanks" of questions unanswered by health care too busy and expensive to provide understanding necessary to live well
with the diagnosis. Group discussion will unravel the mystery of hemoglobin A1C*, what the test reveals, when and why.
Participants best friend will become their blood sugar monitors. From dawn to bedtime, results will become understood based on specific food intake
and individual response. Effect of exercise . . . the same.
Weight management will be heavily explored. Beginning with foot and joint care, walking will be the primary tool of this exercise. With diet and
walking combinations explored, participants will return to their homes continuing their training programs proving their "numbers" seemingly are
similar to their healthy neighbors. They understand important numbers regarding limits . . . . .the numbers on the lab result their physician
orders. They will return home not as endocrinologists or even internal medicine specialists, but knowing their body well . . what it is saying and
what it is doing. When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it.
Ya gotta learn what the hell's goin on.
Coming with meds, socks and clothing to walk, fish, photograph, ride horses and mules and walk and test and meet their body, participants will adopt
guidelines of walking, using walking time to think through issues. Stress and an inherent impact on numbers, will be jawed about.
*same as MMESDr & A1C make no sense and we pass over it without understanding, MMES is the ICAO airport of Mexico, in Ensenada. Learn a little
language and things make sense.
Footnote. I am not a physician. Before careers of animals and planes and boats and fish . . . I was a hospital trained pediatric dentist. It means
I can answer stuff about your baby teeth if you have them in a drawer or something.
I did manage my numbers 10 years when pills and diet could do the trick. After my pancreas crapped out . . . when I produced no insulin or what it
did eek out was no longer working I continue to manage my numbers with insulin, now 12 years.
Monday with help, I intend to upload a sample discussion handout.
ON THE TRAIL
ON THE TRAIL
[Edited on 4-6-2013 by bajacalifornian]
American by birth, Mexican by choice.
Signature addendum: Danish physicist — Niels Bohr — who said, “The opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Jeff Petersen
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bajacalifornian
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Cher . . . walked alone this morning. Will take both boys this afternoon.
Grill, smoker and 18 foot center console ARCA. Signs of a good life.
American by birth, Mexican by choice.
Signature addendum: Danish physicist — Niels Bohr — who said, “The opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Jeff Petersen
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vgabndo
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Good job, and kudos on helping others. I went only as far as oral meds for my 6+ A1c, but everything changed when I had to start a renal care diet.
(low protein) The Mexican diet is high carb. the same as a renal diet. It is tricky business. Weight loss helped a very great deal. If I were to
suggest one thing that works for me and may for others is that I eat whenever I feel hungry. I have few planned meal times and few sit-down meals. By
spreading the carbs over a longer period they tend to spike the glucose less. I got my size down to where my pancreas could make enough insulin. Now
with an A1c of 5.4 it is a LOT easier to eat for my remaining kidney and the taste of a fish taco! 
I realize that it is different if you've lost the pancreas, but I believe that frequent tiny meals present less problem in controlling glucose swings
even for the insulin dependent diabetic.
Hang in there everyone. I proved it is a treatable disease.
Here's from a brisk pre-sunrise walk in Bahia Asuncion.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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bajacalifornian
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vgabndo
Great post and refreshing to hear from you. I call it the parking meter principle. Normal folks can fill the meter with all the change in their
pocket. Like a Thanksgiving meal. We add a couple coins at a time avoiding the spikes as you prescribe.
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Signature addendum: Danish physicist — Niels Bohr — who said, “The opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Jeff Petersen
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shari
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Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
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and dont forget about those fantastic nopales...a natural insulin!
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woody with a view
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i lost my first Best Friend to diabetes when he was in his early 30's. i lost my Mother to diabetes when she was 45.
your fotos of life on the rancho are one of a kind and i look forward to seeing more as you train both yourself and the Colonia.
Suerte Compa!
[Edited on 4-6-2013 by woody with a view]
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bajacalifornian
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Indio walked same as a well trained dog this evening. Other than weight of his leash on my fingers, wouldn't know he was there.
He's a kid magnet.
and variant
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Jeff......Have you repaired across the peninsula? I think I saw you walking past my house in Loreto a few days ago, but am not sure.
I don't recognize the subjects of your photos from either Loreto or Lopez, although I probably should.
I'm already looking forward to the fall season on the Pacific.
Stay healthy. That clock is tickin'.
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bajacalifornian
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Hey Bill . . . been walkiing only in Loreto.
I don't know these folks either. Mostly backroads, caves and alleys, and only in the Colonia I've been covering.
Be in Lopez soon, and walking.
American by birth, Mexican by choice.
Signature addendum: Danish physicist — Niels Bohr — who said, “The opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Jeff Petersen
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