graham64 said:
Trinkwasser said:
What I'd REALLY like to see is someone come onto a forum or newsgroup and say
"I followed what the dietician told me and my numbers improved, I lost weight and my lipids normalised"
Well I have seen that happen, but it all cases it was a dietician who recommended a low carb diet. Not the "official" low fat high carb diet.
That would almost be me be me then Trink, my Dietitian was in agreement with my carb reduction, and intoduced more dairy fats into my diet. As you know from reading my post weight reduction is not an option for me, but the extra fats I am now eating have only stabilised my weight, I have not piled on the pounds. I think ditching the carbs in favour of a low carb higher fat diet would benefit those with a weight problems.
My BG levels are now in the low 5s as opposed to the high 6s on previous diet, and I found it easy to adapt to the changes. Sorry can't comment on my lipids but hope to soon blood tests being done Friday.
Regards Graham.
Sensible dietician/dietitian!
I predict your trigs will be spectacularly low, your HDL will be well high but your LDL may be a bit iffy.
Here were mine on my original diet - meals centred around Healthy Whole Grains with many veggies and mostly beneficial fats
HDL 0.63 LDL 4.22 trigs 4.29
At this point I was sent to an NHS dietician to reduce what my GP called "weird" lipids. The D word was never mentioned since I'd previously been told I was "not diabetic" and presumably he'd never heard of "diabetic dyslipidemia"
She was a typical pusher of the "Heart Healthy" diet, and concentrated purely on restricting my fat intake and replacing them with carbs.
HDL 0.66 LDL 5.16 trigs 3.70
At which I was told that I was "failing to comply" with the diet and she started eliminating even more fats (eg. avocados and nuts) and replacing them with even more carbs.
It was only then that I actually started to put on weight and became too knackered to do anything much.
Now fast forward to today
HDL 1.40 LDL 2.40 trigs 0.70
purely through controlling the carbs and controlling the BG
http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/NewlyDiagnosed.htm
The most interesting bit was, I rediscovered the joys of eating beef since the local stuff is properly produced and properly hung and was about as different from the rejects from the shoe factory we used to have to put up with. I also said ******** to not eating the fat off my lamb chops, let alone the streaky bacon, in other words I stopped being paranoid about saturated fat and this had the result of turning my LDL down and my HDL UP by about the same amount.
I learned a lot especially about micronutrients from this guy
http://www.phlaunt.com/quentin/
and his posts on alt.support.diabetes
basically I returned to my previous diet but without all the excess carbs, lots of veg and salad, lots of fish, lots of real meat, few processed foods, just exactly what I used to eat minus the Healthy brown rice, muesli, wholemeal bread etc. etc.
It'll be interesting to see how your lipids compare.