Hiitsme
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Yes, I accept what you're saying, my daughter is morbidly obese and cannot lose weight either.
I am also guilty of believing that diabetes only happened to people who ate all the cakes and couldn't say no.....
We live and learn, especially when I expected to be the last person to ever have BS issues because of my stereotyping in the past.
I also find that most of the dietary advise and weight loss advise for diabetes isn't applicable to me as I can ill afford to lose any more weight now.
I did however get my BMI from 25 to 20 with 2 stone loss very quickly in about 4 weeks and have maintained it.
It has also only had negligible effect on my fasting levels.
So, I still look for answers and learn.
Quit I will never do.
Sometimes things that are typed are taken literally as emotion cannot be conveyed, of course it's not applicable to all and was never meant to come across that way.
It is however highly relevant to the majority, present company excluded.
@Jamesuk9
My BMI was 25 when diagnosed although GP put it down as 24.9 and told me I wasn't overweight. Nurse told me my diet was too good (ie very close to eat well plate) to do it with diet. I wanted to do the Newcastle diet but that said you need medical supervision and neither my GP or nurse would support me. I set about losing weight by eating 500 cals less per day than I was burning so often about 1000 cals a day. I had been given a meter (as GP was convinced I would be going straight onto insulin) and told to test. Testing showed me that the carbs were pushing up my blood sugars so those carbs I cut out. So I was doing a mixture of the 2 ways people have had success. Low cal and low carb. At first I was disappointed and felt it wasn't working as next HbA1c was 50. Carrying on for another 3 months I think did work. I had reduced my BMI to 19.6 and my HbA1c to 33. I did then need to put some weight back on as I was showing signs of being malnourished. Yes my HbA1c has gone up but only to 35 so still happy with that. I am female and don't have other health issues and I'm late 60's. I do a lot of walking for exercise. I am not convinced that any one approach will work for everyone. I'm still learning and only 2 years into this so not sure if I will be able to keep it up long term.