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<blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 1439673" data-attributes="member: 19121"><p>Hi Glink, its completely normal to be confused when you are first given the news that you are or diabetic or pre diabetic and thousands of slim people are diagnosed with T2 its not just the fat lazy couch potatoes that the national press would have everyone believe all T2's are, in fact nothing could be further from the truth.</p><p></p><p>The fact is that 80% of T2's diagnosed are overweight at diagnosis but that means that 20% are not, you are just in that percentage. Being slim is no guaranty that you do not have visceral fat around your organs and it is this that causes insulin resistance and with that high blood glucose (bg) levels.</p><p></p><p>If you can lose that visceral fat it may be that you can reverse your pre diabetes as many have done, however it could prove to be that you are not T2 but LADA, that is <em>Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood </em>which is a form of T1 diabetes and can be usually diagnosed by having a blood test done to see if you have the antibodies to GAD - <em>glutamic acid decarboxylase</em> in your blood. <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_lada.html" target="_blank">http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_lada.html</a></p><p></p><p>As for diet not everyone excludes all carbohydrates, all fruit and all grains, I ate a 60g carb a day diet for 12 months following my T2 diagnosis and adding no extra fat to my diet what so ever and still managed to eat small amounts of fruits and grains. The key is to test every meal you eat and use the results of those tests to adjust the percentages and portion sizes of the carbohydrates in your diet.</p><p></p><p>Test before you eat and then again 2 hours after finishing your meal, and if your levels are over 2 mmol/L higher after eating that tells you you need to reduce the carb portions of that meal, cut them by 50% the next time you eat that meal again and again test before and after eating and if your postprandial (after meal) levels are still more than 2 mmol/L higher than your pre meal levels then reduce the carb portion again.</p><p></p><p>It will take time but after a while you will discover exactly what you can and can't eat and in what portion sizes, it is worth the effort and by keeping a food diary of every meal and your pre ad postprandial bg levels you will soon see what you can safely eat and and keep your bg levels in the safe zone and you wont have to stop eating every carb known to man you just have to find out what works for you.</p><p></p><p>Good luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sid Bonkers, post: 1439673, member: 19121"] Hi Glink, its completely normal to be confused when you are first given the news that you are or diabetic or pre diabetic and thousands of slim people are diagnosed with T2 its not just the fat lazy couch potatoes that the national press would have everyone believe all T2's are, in fact nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is that 80% of T2's diagnosed are overweight at diagnosis but that means that 20% are not, you are just in that percentage. Being slim is no guaranty that you do not have visceral fat around your organs and it is this that causes insulin resistance and with that high blood glucose (bg) levels. If you can lose that visceral fat it may be that you can reverse your pre diabetes as many have done, however it could prove to be that you are not T2 but LADA, that is [I]Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood [/I]which is a form of T1 diabetes and can be usually diagnosed by having a blood test done to see if you have the antibodies to GAD - [I]glutamic acid decarboxylase[/I] in your blood. [URL]http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_lada.html[/URL] As for diet not everyone excludes all carbohydrates, all fruit and all grains, I ate a 60g carb a day diet for 12 months following my T2 diagnosis and adding no extra fat to my diet what so ever and still managed to eat small amounts of fruits and grains. The key is to test every meal you eat and use the results of those tests to adjust the percentages and portion sizes of the carbohydrates in your diet. Test before you eat and then again 2 hours after finishing your meal, and if your levels are over 2 mmol/L higher after eating that tells you you need to reduce the carb portions of that meal, cut them by 50% the next time you eat that meal again and again test before and after eating and if your postprandial (after meal) levels are still more than 2 mmol/L higher than your pre meal levels then reduce the carb portion again. It will take time but after a while you will discover exactly what you can and can't eat and in what portion sizes, it is worth the effort and by keeping a food diary of every meal and your pre ad postprandial bg levels you will soon see what you can safely eat and and keep your bg levels in the safe zone and you wont have to stop eating every carb known to man you just have to find out what works for you. Good luck [/QUOTE]
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