I feel so upset with myself and not really sure where to start and what to do next.
I had gestational diabetes 8 years ago and after I gave birth I was still diabetic, type 2. At the time of falling pregnant my BMI was 28 so overweight but not obese. For a long time I was insulin controlled as wanted (and had) another child. However my weight was slowly increasing. My HB1ac was always good, anything from 33 (my best) to 40 (my worst). I came off insulin after my second child and went onto Metformin (4 tablets a day). I was pretty fit and active doing a lot of running (marathons). My weight did steadily increase.
At the start of the year I hurt my knee and stopped running, although still swim three times a week and walk 8-10k steps most days. With lockdown I was very stressed with work and was binge eating on stuff I never normally ate including cake, white sliced bread as toast, pasta most meals, more cake, biscuits with ever cup of coffee...
I avoided my last two diabetic reviews and stuck my head into the sand. Then last week I had a blood test with an HB1ac and it was 87. I’m shocked.
Since then I’ve come off carbs and started testing. I have another HB1ac in 6 weeks time. My blood sugars aren’t coming down though. When I woke up it was 13.7 so I skipped breakfast and went swimming. We had a Sunday roast at lunchtime and I had pork, cabbage, broccoli and carrot. We then went for an hours walk and two hours after eating I tested and it was 14.1.
I just don’t know how I’m going to get it down.
I now need to lose 4 stone to get to a BMI of 25 so I’m very overweight at the biggest I’ve ever been. I just feel I’m facing a mountain.
I’m just not sure why my blood sugar readings are not showing any sign of shifting.
I had gestational diabetes 8 years ago and after I gave birth I was still diabetic, type 2. At the time of falling pregnant my BMI was 28 so overweight but not obese. For a long time I was insulin controlled as wanted (and had) another child. However my weight was slowly increasing. My HB1ac was always good, anything from 33 (my best) to 40 (my worst). I came off insulin after my second child and went onto Metformin (4 tablets a day). I was pretty fit and active doing a lot of running (marathons). My weight did steadily increase.
At the start of the year I hurt my knee and stopped running, although still swim three times a week and walk 8-10k steps most days. With lockdown I was very stressed with work and was binge eating on stuff I never normally ate including cake, white sliced bread as toast, pasta most meals, more cake, biscuits with ever cup of coffee...
I avoided my last two diabetic reviews and stuck my head into the sand. Then last week I had a blood test with an HB1ac and it was 87. I’m shocked.
Since then I’ve come off carbs and started testing. I have another HB1ac in 6 weeks time. My blood sugars aren’t coming down though. When I woke up it was 13.7 so I skipped breakfast and went swimming. We had a Sunday roast at lunchtime and I had pork, cabbage, broccoli and carrot. We then went for an hours walk and two hours after eating I tested and it was 14.1.
I just don’t know how I’m going to get it down.
I now need to lose 4 stone to get to a BMI of 25 so I’m very overweight at the biggest I’ve ever been. I just feel I’m facing a mountain.
I’m just not sure why my blood sugar readings are not showing any sign of shifting.