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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Hi everyone, I haven't had the audacity to post much on the LC forum ecause any attempts before have been laughable.
I do however firmly believe that low carb is the way to health for me, so I haven't stopped thinking about it and wanting to do it.
Yesterday I had a little breakthrough- I found myself without food on a day at work when I'd decided to do low carb. Options at work are always carby, yesterday was something in pastry served with two portions of carbs (peas and sweetcorn and tater tots) or burger and chips. I couldn't just have the burger because it was an undefined vegetable one, not meat. The salad bar is reserved for those who bought the main meal to have as a side, and even if I'd chosen to ignore that protocol there was no lettuce left, and precious else there anyway.
Now usually on an exceptionally stressful day like yesterday I would have given up and had a baguette or worse, but even though I was stressed and grumpy (BG still over 5 by the way) I ate a couple of emergency walnuts and gave everything else a miss.
That has never happened before, literally never, so I'm heartened that maybe I can eventually achieve low carb as my way of eating. I would never have believed I could fast over 24 hours, but I can, and do.
What i thought may be utterly out of reach was making better food choices consistently, but now, thanks to staying around here, reading Jason Fung and learning to fast, I have some hope.
I'm posting this really to reach out to anyone feeling as I did that low carb makes so much sense for diabetics, but despairing of ever being able to actually do it.
Will I stumble over future food choices? Yes, most certainly. But something about staying around here on the forums even in relapse has helped.
I do however firmly believe that low carb is the way to health for me, so I haven't stopped thinking about it and wanting to do it.
Yesterday I had a little breakthrough- I found myself without food on a day at work when I'd decided to do low carb. Options at work are always carby, yesterday was something in pastry served with two portions of carbs (peas and sweetcorn and tater tots) or burger and chips. I couldn't just have the burger because it was an undefined vegetable one, not meat. The salad bar is reserved for those who bought the main meal to have as a side, and even if I'd chosen to ignore that protocol there was no lettuce left, and precious else there anyway.
Now usually on an exceptionally stressful day like yesterday I would have given up and had a baguette or worse, but even though I was stressed and grumpy (BG still over 5 by the way) I ate a couple of emergency walnuts and gave everything else a miss.
That has never happened before, literally never, so I'm heartened that maybe I can eventually achieve low carb as my way of eating. I would never have believed I could fast over 24 hours, but I can, and do.
What i thought may be utterly out of reach was making better food choices consistently, but now, thanks to staying around here, reading Jason Fung and learning to fast, I have some hope.
I'm posting this really to reach out to anyone feeling as I did that low carb makes so much sense for diabetics, but despairing of ever being able to actually do it.
Will I stumble over future food choices? Yes, most certainly. But something about staying around here on the forums even in relapse has helped.