Hello All,
Being a newly diagnosed T2, I find the confusing and occasionally conflicting advice really difficult to deal with. (oh yeah and I love the "I can reverse or cure your T2 diabetes, just buy my book" snake oil adverts. Funny but don't you think these people would be famous and have the Nobel Prize for achieving this?)
Some say eat this or that, others say under no circumstances eat this, that or any combination of either. I love porridge, skimmed milk no sugar or sweetener, it’s my everyday breakfast, however it seems this might be bad for me. I'm also consuming a lot of salads which include tomatoes and carrots, and that may be killing me too.
I'm newly diagnosed and attempting to manage myself through diet and monitoring. I've lost nearly 3st and monitor regularly but my heart and mood really sink when I test myself and I find it’s in double figures, although I have never yet managed to get it as high as when I was first tested, even when I have fallen off the wagon. I've also had the situation where I have tested myself on two consecutive days having eaten exactly the same thing each day, I weigh my breakfast porridge, and got significantly different results, which is just bonkers and leads me to think control of this condition is an illusion.
I attended the Desmond clinic and found I was by a long chalk the person with the highest HBA1C numbers (93) which did nothing to improve my demeanour and really, really worried me. To be honest the Desmond thing was probably too much to take in on one sitting. I thought the correlation of foods with sugar cubes was probably the wrong tack as this reinforced a connection with sugar when its carbs which should be the focus, or am I wrong? The best thing I got out of the Desmond clinic was befriending a level headed bloke who I text every now and then when I feel very low and he picks me up and tells me to stop stressing.
I love my food; it is not only a joy to create but social and human to share. Am I / Are we condemned to gruel for the rest of our lives?
The trajectory for diabetics seems to me to only to lead to some pretty terrible outcomes. My mother has had two strokes which were probably down to diabetes and this fine woman who ran several businesses and managed a household now lives in a universe which is and will only ever be five minutes old and I see my future there with her and it bothers me intensely.
I wonder sometimes if I should just eat and drink what I want for a few more years and then head for the motorway bridge?
Being a newly diagnosed T2, I find the confusing and occasionally conflicting advice really difficult to deal with. (oh yeah and I love the "I can reverse or cure your T2 diabetes, just buy my book" snake oil adverts. Funny but don't you think these people would be famous and have the Nobel Prize for achieving this?)
Some say eat this or that, others say under no circumstances eat this, that or any combination of either. I love porridge, skimmed milk no sugar or sweetener, it’s my everyday breakfast, however it seems this might be bad for me. I'm also consuming a lot of salads which include tomatoes and carrots, and that may be killing me too.
I'm newly diagnosed and attempting to manage myself through diet and monitoring. I've lost nearly 3st and monitor regularly but my heart and mood really sink when I test myself and I find it’s in double figures, although I have never yet managed to get it as high as when I was first tested, even when I have fallen off the wagon. I've also had the situation where I have tested myself on two consecutive days having eaten exactly the same thing each day, I weigh my breakfast porridge, and got significantly different results, which is just bonkers and leads me to think control of this condition is an illusion.
I attended the Desmond clinic and found I was by a long chalk the person with the highest HBA1C numbers (93) which did nothing to improve my demeanour and really, really worried me. To be honest the Desmond thing was probably too much to take in on one sitting. I thought the correlation of foods with sugar cubes was probably the wrong tack as this reinforced a connection with sugar when its carbs which should be the focus, or am I wrong? The best thing I got out of the Desmond clinic was befriending a level headed bloke who I text every now and then when I feel very low and he picks me up and tells me to stop stressing.
I love my food; it is not only a joy to create but social and human to share. Am I / Are we condemned to gruel for the rest of our lives?
The trajectory for diabetics seems to me to only to lead to some pretty terrible outcomes. My mother has had two strokes which were probably down to diabetes and this fine woman who ran several businesses and managed a household now lives in a universe which is and will only ever be five minutes old and I see my future there with her and it bothers me intensely.
I wonder sometimes if I should just eat and drink what I want for a few more years and then head for the motorway bridge?
