"Cage Phase"

Cage Stage Calvinism is a humorous term used to warn Christian believers recently converted to Calvinistic Theology. It suggests that the new Calvinist would be best placed in a cage rather than cause undue offence due to their zealous promotion of a Calvinistic theology.

No, this really isn't a religious post.  It's a post about people.  People who have a (probably) new and amazing outlook on a particular area of life.

Cage Phase Calvinism...I've been there, done that.  And I've learned to see that the term "cage phase" applies to other areas of life.

The Diabetes Connection

I have come to believe that LCHF (low carb/high fat) is the absolute best way for people with Type2  diabetes to manage their disease (with or without medication.)

Many other people have come to that conclusion as well.

What does "cage phase" have to do with that?

If you hang around on-line support groups long enough (some days, "long" means a few minutes) you'll bump into a "cage phase low carber."

It is very likely that this "cage phaser" has grown an attitude that medication is 1) unnecessary and 2) outright bad for you.

(see also - the most annoying anti-smokers are ex-smokers.)

If somebody asks a question about medications, the answer will be "all medications are bad."  Or "get off those med!" Or some variation on that theme.

For a while...

Right after my dx, when I joined a great facebook group...

There were a few that were so insistent, so consistent in the way they were speaking at, and to people about LCHF and "all meds are bad" that people were leaving the group.

That's why I started this blog (notice the title) and my (very little) group.  I would like it to grow, because I would like it to serve a different purpose than the large group -  the big group is much more active, and questions get lost.  Recipes are files and organized differently.  I wanted to have a place where people don't have to worry about the "this is the only way to do it" attitude.

We each have our own path, and we need to be able to find it.  That path may, or may not...include medication.  We may, or may not...come to the LCHF path.  In fact, the HF might be BAD for some people.

Until we can look into the other person's mind, heart and medical history...we simply don't know what that other person's path is going to be.

Get out of the cage.