Ahhh. More gooder. Thanks for the alert on the coming updated Oxmoor House book. I shall pounce upon it with great glee, when the time comes.
The thing I found most annoying and least useful in the two other cookbooks I bought was their attempt to "simplify" the standard ADA & Natl Institutes of Health diabetic Exchange Lists. Which lists are the soul of simplicity, fer pity's sake! Thus, by trying to create their own new!improved!simpler! methods, all these other cookbooks really accomplished was to foster a gimmick, not anything useful. Disappointing. I fervently hope that Oxmoor sticks to their plain, straight-forward, trust the cook to have a working brain, thanks, nutritional analysis method. Sheesh. Just gimme the numbers; honest, I can do the third-grade math from there. Really. *schnort*
As Type-II, we probably don't have to be as obsessively precise in our measurements as a Type-I does, except in the initial phase of getting stabilized (where your niece is doubtless still at in the learning curve). Then you move into discovering what all the numbers, measurements and readings actually mean, how all the puzzle pieces and cause-and-effects fit together. And finally, you achieve a sense of "routine maintenance" about the whole thing--gradually it comes, but it does come, please be reassured.
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Date: 2005-12-27 07:39 pm (UTC)The thing I found most annoying and least useful in the two other cookbooks I bought was their attempt to "simplify" the standard ADA & Natl Institutes of Health diabetic Exchange Lists. Which lists are the soul of simplicity, fer pity's sake! Thus, by trying to create their own new!improved!simpler! methods, all these other cookbooks really accomplished was to foster a gimmick, not anything useful. Disappointing. I fervently hope that Oxmoor sticks to their plain, straight-forward, trust the cook to have a working brain, thanks, nutritional analysis method. Sheesh. Just gimme the numbers; honest, I can do the third-grade math from there. Really. *schnort*
As Type-II, we probably don't have to be as obsessively precise in our measurements as a Type-I does, except in the initial phase of getting stabilized (where your niece is doubtless still at in the learning curve). Then you move into discovering what all the numbers, measurements and readings actually mean, how all the puzzle pieces and cause-and-effects fit together. And finally, you achieve a sense of "routine maintenance" about the whole thing--gradually it comes, but it does come, please be reassured.
Good luck!