Thanks. Yes I am aware of the Newcastle diet, if fact that's one of the discussion points I have with the doc in a couple of week along with the fact that I stopped taking the metformin after just a week and refuse to be taking drugs the rest of my life.
When I got diagnosed she said if I had presented the same results 6
Months ago she would have said to me to diet and exercise only but due to new NICE guidelines she had to prescribe the metformin.
I gave 2 fasting blood tests both of which were border line. I don't know how important to the results this is but both my fasting tests were early on a Monday morning. During the prior weekends I had probably 15 pints of Stella, half bottle of brandy, two take always, biscuits, crisps and bags of sweets. That's pretty much been my weekends for the last year or so. Not great I know but just a routine I slipped into. I have over several years binged to excess then dieted to excess to get rid of the weight
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What you ate and drank the day before is likely to have had an impact on your fasting levels; particularly with the carb levels you described. Whilst I sympathise that these things will have impacted, if you are saying you'd been consuming in this way for a while, and regularly at weekends, then that was your lifestyle. Changing your lifestyle to a more modest regime is likely to significantly improve your scores, but I doubt you will get your diagnosis changed, if that's where you're aiming.
If your heavy lifestyle and underlying diabetes was relatively short lived, then you possibly stand a decent chance of achieving a good outcome - provided enough of your beta cells are still and remain functional. But, in the first instance, I would suggest you target achieving good blood scores, both daily and HbA1c ( which, on current evidence looks very do-able) and drop as much of your excess poundage as you can, and you'll be in a good place. Only by that, and monitoring will you begin to understand how you will cope longer term.
The tricky thing about this disease, and T2 in particular, is that there is no silver bullet solution we can sit back and rely upon. The work bringing the greatest rewards is done by us, not any drugs. T1s have different challenges that I don't want to trivialise, but for some "lucky" people taking insulin, and consuming a very "normal" diet is enough. Many also carb count to minimise their insulin usage and potential weight gain that can happen by feeding insulin.
At your stage of the game, I gave myself a bit of time and space to reflect and consider my long term plan, which I believe I largely have in place now. Of course plans require periodic review and sometimes amendment, but I am certain I need a life plan with baseline parameters laid out for myself.
Good luck with your way forward.
