type 2 -change in bowel habits

[))Denise((]

@nybrid - Have you started drinking diet coke? This makes me bunged up.

 

[Amanda61]

Chia seeds i

Chia seeds is something I have not treid yet but I do get through about half a kilo of spinach in a week and believe me you don't even want to get to the colour part of business after so much spinach couldn't increase this more. But I get through almost 5 cucmbers 2 small packs of radish 1 to 2 lettuce 2 to 3 tomatoes few carrots 2 to 4 avacados so I eat a lot of salad to maintain the bowel movement. But your suggestion of Chia seeds is nice I will definitely give that a shot.

Remember if you put the chia seeds in water. Drink quick otherwise when
you get to the bottom its like gloop. Not nice swallowing gloop
Chickpeas keep me regular

 

[nybrid]

Hi Denise,

I have only had a couple of glasses of diet coke in the last 2 weeks. I am now going for a number 2 once every 2 days whereas before I was diagnosed it was twice a day. This started before I took 1 Metformin tablet per day.
I have started eating nuts and this has helped I think. to be honest I am just a bit worried whether something else might be going on(cancer)(which it probably is not). I am seeing the specialist Tuesday for the first time so will mention it.
thanks again

 

[Amanda61]

Hi Denise,

I have only had a couple of glasses of diet coke in the last 2 weeks. I am now going for a number 2 once every 2 days whereas before I was diagnosed it was twice a day. This started before I took 1 Metformin tablet per day.
I have started eating nuts and this has helped I think. to be honest I am just a bit worried whether something else might be going on(cancer)(which it probably is not). I am seeing the specialist Tuesday for the first time so will mention it.
thanks again

Nuts are good also flaxseeds. A tsp over you food.
Fingers crossed that all is well. Good luck for Tuesday.

 

[nybrid]

rapid response thank you Denise

 

[donnellysdogs]

Flaxseed and chia seeds a teaspon a day of each speinkled over any food has completely reversed my pretty much paralysed stomach.

They can be sprinkled iver salads, put in berries, yogurt, over veg etc. they don't really taste of anything but the chia seeds especially can get stuck inbetween teeth...

 

[nybrid]

I saw our local dietician yesterday. I was well aware I was substantially overweight and need somehow to drop about 4 - 5 stones - hence the dietician. I was hoping for some advice on how to lose weight by diet since I am no longer able to exercise. About 6 weeks ago I was at the same clinic and was given a diet sheet for weight loss. I commented at the time that the new diet was more than I eat normally but I was told to try it anyway. Well, I did but put on half a stone in the first 3 weeks so gave up on that and decided to try my own ideas with thoughts of low carbing. I cut out potatoes, rice, oats, pasta and drastically cut down the bread to one, or at most 2, slices of home made wholemeal bread in the morning. I ate more fat (despite no gall bladder) and cut down on meat - just bacon for breakfast and vegetables for the rest of the day. I put on another half stone in the last 3 weeks! For years now I have had to get up a minimum of twice a night for the loo - usually 3 times and quite often 5 times. I take Furosmide to shed the fluid and although I can't go far from the loo, it doesn't reduce the swelling. My legs and abdomen are swollen and I have some sort of rash on my lower legs which I am sure is something to do with fluid. My doctor recently said he thought it was eczema but it isn't reponding to his treatment.

Anyway, back to the dietician with a food diary covering the last week. Not eating enough, she said. Calories are well below the recommended 1400 per day. But my 7 or 8 cups of tea is too much. Not so much too much fluid but too much caffeine (I take my tea like dishwater) and my small bottle of sparkling water per day is a no no - it should be plain tapwater. Can anyone explain to me why 8 cups of weak caffeine should be so bad, or my minor indulgence in fizzy water?

I know the powers that be don't like talking about LCHF and will not advise on it, but why my fluid intake and output should be of so little interest and why there seems to be no connection to the 4 stone of extra weight I m carrying, I can't make out.

thanks for the reply.

Have you had your thyroid checked for being under active as when I was diagnosed under active I lost loads of weight?

 

[Rillum]

Annb, have you read up on lymphedema? It sounds a bit like lymphedema. A lot of doctors don't know very much about it. I have it in my legs, especially thighs and crotch after an operation for cervical cancer, but you can also get it for no reason.