Books by a Happy Hippie (Robin Lewis)

Navigating conflicting information about Diabetes Type 2 and what is healthy for diabetic food choices. Includes a Beneficial Herb Guide with a list of supplements and herbs that are helpful for blood glucose management. With tables of recommended foods based on a combination of Glycemic Index, Insulin Index, nutrition factors, as well as the content of magnesium, Omega 3 fatty acids, and Vitamin D.

Diabetes Type 2 diagnosis doesn't have to mean a slowly progressing decline of health. There are things that you can do to slow the progression and even REVERSE diabetes. New evidence and thousands of people are actively proving it!

The information shown here is a compilation of many, many hours of work gathering and organizing information from various sources. This book was intended as a way of bringing together and making sense of some of the tips and data that is found in a sea of confusing and sometimes conflicting information about the care and maintenance of Diabetes Type II.

This book was written from the view of an herbalist as well as someone who was given the diagnosis of Diabetes Type 2 but has since brought blood sugar levels down to non-diabetic levels by following the information compiled for this book. Nutritional information, balancing conflicting viewpoints, and information on medicinal herbs that can help you take control of your diabetes and reverse those numbers! Includes information on what to track and how to track it to best understand how your body is operating and fine tune your actions to bring about the change you need.

Includes a guide to the most notable medicinal herbs discussed in medical studies for diabetes type II research and traditional herbal medicine. Get control of your blood glucose and A1c numbers, learn how to manage and even reverse the numbers, plus how to slow down or even avoid the effects of this debilitating disease.

Finally, a weekly health log that provides the ability to track an abundance of information that can help us understand our health in relation to how different foods, exercise, water intake, and general activity all impact our health, blood glucose, blood pressure and our weight.
This tracker incorporates many aspects of our lives because - as we are learning - Diabetes is not just about insulin resistance or our blood glucose levels, but this disease and it’s complications are impacted by so many other aspects of daily life. Enough pages to log 1 full year of healthy goals!
Take control of your disease and your health now! Track and understand:

• Fasting blood glucose readings as well as blood sugar levels before, 1-hour after, and 2-hours after meals
• Supplements and medications taken
• Foods eaten
• Carbs, Proteins, Fats consumed
• Blood pressure
• Inflammation
• Daily totals
• Calories
• Weight
• Muscle Mass
• Fat-free weight
• BMI
• Body water %
• Glass of water drank per day
• Steps (pedometer)
• Cardio excercise performed
• Plus information about the "Dawn Effect"
• Blood glucose goals
• Best food choices / worst food choices
• Feelings/Emotions
• Challenges to health
• Medicinal herbs and supplements and how they impacted health
• Understand what was different each week, what worked and what didn't
• Satisfaction with progress - weekly and overall
• Physical symptoms and their severity
• Physical challenges as well as emotional/life challenges
• Types of exercise
• And thoughts for the week
• Doctor visits - including Specialists and next visit information
• Labs / test results tracking
• Blood Sugar Graph to track progress over time

This is a very comprehensive yet easy to use health tracker that can be used for diabetics and non-diabetics to get control of their health. Bring this to doctor's visits to log questions and show progress.

A COMPANION MEAL PLANNER for the book, “An Herbalist's Guide to Reversing Diabetes Type 2” which goes into detailed explanations of WHY the following foods and meal plan are recommended for reversing diabetes. It also explains what it means to reverse diabetes, and provides references and studies to support this way of eating. The Guide also compares and breaks down some of the conflicting advice that is given to diabetics to better understand what is and is not relevant.
DO use this planner to help make healthy eating choices.
DO use this planner to select foods from the recommended list to create a variety of healthy, tasty, and colorful meals.
DO use this planner to organize your meal prepping for the week and create your shopping list based on the recommended foods lists and using the Mix and Match plan.
This planner includes:

• 6 months worth of pages to mix and match foods from the recommended foods list, create meal plans for individual meals or for meal prep
• Recommended foods list with hundreds of tasty, highly nutritious foods
• Checklists for ensuring weekly foods are from a variety of color groups with varied nutrients
• Recommendations for trying a new food each week
• Weekly shopping list
• Carb/protein/fat tracking for each meal
• Weekly review pages to make notes of what worked and didn't work for the previous week
• Areas to record new herbal teas and remedies
• Ratings for weekly review of meal plan satisfaction for troubleshooting and suggestions for meaningful thought and input to evaluate progress