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Hiitsme said:
Hi @13lizanne
I know LCHF works for a lot of people here but it seems that I may be malnourished so I have to see a dietician. My GP wants me to get my BMI up to 20 and I'm finding that difficult. I was happy with my weight loss and have been working on keeping my weight stable. I am trying different foods and testing and nothing seems to spike me any more which I assume is good. I just don't have any energy which concerns me whereas most people say they have lots of energy on low carb. I do feel a bit better when I have increased my carbs slightly so that might be the way forward for me. It's just against everything I read on here so I'm confused.
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@Hiitsme you must be delighted with your weight loss efforts.
I have not been in your situation but I've been close to anorexic when I was a teenager and had to force myself to eat a custard cream biscuit which started my eating again.
I know your not anorexic and I've heard maintenance is harder than dieting.
@Hiitsme is it only lchf diet which has helped you lose all your weight? Any medication or more than 3 days vigorous exercise?
I know you now have no energy but have you always had no energy on lchf?
What I'm really wanting to know is whatever your triggers for losing weight might need reducing to minimum to maintain.
Myself I wouldn't encourage high spike foods to add weight as that could rebound into bad diabetic control and all the badies which comes with it.
I'm confident you can increase your protein intake to give you healthier muscles but those muscles have to be used to be strengthened by your dietery protein.
I'll tag @TorqPenderloin to see if he can advise on a better weight maintenance diet.
He uses his diet and the gym to maintain his diabetes and weight.
I hope he can help more.
Let me know how you get on.
Please don't start bad carb eating again just low GI ones and in moderation. Best of luck. Vicky :-)
 
Well done @13lizanne, that is an amazing weightloss. You must be so pleased.

@liam1955 I hope the injections do the trick.

I am about to head off to the GP for an HBA1C test, the first since the diagnosis one when it was 97. I'm hoping for an improvement on that but am not sure how much it will have gone down as my readings are still not great. I'll get the results next week and am hoping it will be no more than 63 as that will show I'm going in the right direction and hopefully I can avoid meds for a bit longer.
 
Good morning to all! @13lizanne congratulations on your HbA1c result, well deserved for all your efforts :happy: @liam1955 I'm really hoping the new injections bring you decent pain relief, or at the very least afford you a good night's sleep - fingers crossed for you!
I've been to see the GP for a check-up following my fainting episode and we've reduced my BP meds a little further, she also wanted to discuss the possibility of 'undiagnosing' my T2 since my HbA1c is now well below the threshold for diabetes. I'm a little unsure about this, since psychologically speaking I feel like my T2 diagnosis keeps me on the straight and narrow diet-wise. She also told me that she's not sure what the process is for undiagnosing T2 since I'm the first person she's ever seen actually achieve 'reversal'. I've been asked to discuss it with my DSN at my annual check in the summer....
 
Alzebra said:
Good morning to all! @13lizanne congratulations on your HbA1c result, well deserved for all your efforts :happy: @liam1955 I'm really hoping the new injections bring you decent pain relief, or at the very least afford you a good night's sleep - fingers crossed for you!
I've been to see the GP for a check-up following my fainting episode and we've reduced my BP meds a little further, she also wanted to discuss the possibility of 'undiagnosing' my T2 since my HbA1c is now well below the threshold for diabetes. I'm a little unsure about this, since psychologically speaking I feel like my T2 diagnosis keeps me on the straight and narrow diet-wise. She also told me that she's not sure what the process is for undiagnosing T2 since I'm the first person she's ever seen actually achieve 'reversal'. I've been asked to discuss it with my DSN at my annual check in the summer....
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@Alzebra with you there on the "undiagnosing", once a DB always a DB in my mind at least... could be wrong and time will tell... though I think I have a ways to go yet....
Good to be in that place though! :)
 
TooManyCrisps said:
Well done @13lizanne, that is an amazing weightloss. You must be so pleased.

@liam1955 I hope the injections do the trick.

I am about to head off to the GP for an HBA1C test, the first since the diagnosis one when it was 97. I'm hoping for an improvement on that but am not sure how much it will have gone down as my readings are still not great. I'll get the results next week and am hoping it will be no more than 63 as that will show I'm going in the right direction and hopefully I can avoid meds for a bit longer.
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What weight loss my friend? I haven't lost any weight, that was Alzebra who lost 8 stones?
 
5.3 am, which is okay by me. Last couple of days they been a bit higher in the mornings and I was wondering... had 3 5.6 on the trot and then a 5.7, which made me wonder if the needle was stuck.
Did not eat quite so much dinner last night. Finding food in, exercise, weight balance a bit tricky at the moment, don't want to lose any more weight and struggling to maintain what I am without eating more...
Ho and Hum
Good walk yesterday to Tayport, spring full of birdsong, lovely.
Might go swimming today, though son might not be up for it.
Good day to all
Hj
 
13lizanne said:
What weight loss my friend? I haven't lost any weight, that was Alzebra who lost 8 stones?
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Apologies, @13lizanne, I'm muddled! Yes I meant @Alzebra. That's what happens when you read two days worth of threads in 5 minutes.
Was it you who had the excellent HBA1C result? Or was that someone else?
<hangs head in shame>
 
Alzebra said:
Good morning to all! @13lizanne congratulations on your HbA1c result, well deserved for all your efforts :happy: @liam1955 I'm really hoping the new injections bring you decent pain relief, or at the very least afford you a good night's sleep - fingers crossed for you!
I've been to see the GP for a check-up following my fainting episode and we've reduced my BP meds a little further, she also wanted to discuss the possibility of 'undiagnosing' my T2 since my HbA1c is now well below the threshold for diabetes. I'm a little unsure about this, since psychologically speaking I feel like my T2 diagnosis keeps me on the straight and narrow diet-wise. She also told me that she's not sure what the process is for undiagnosing T2 since I'm the first person she's ever seen actually achieve 'reversal'. I've been asked to discuss it with my DSN at my annual check in the summer....
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@Alzebra you have done fantastic.
Your lifestyle now is it sustainable?
In the past when I didn't know I had diabetes I lost 10stone and became a silly teenager. I'd always been a safe teenager due to my conscious very overweight body.
I have no evidence of sugar levels but I could concentrate more and excelled in my final school exams. With shock to our headmistress. I knocked them dead.
Over my adult years I've added weight, diabetes diagnosis and 2 kids later I'm needing that 10 stones off again.
I believe I've been diabetic since I was 6yrs old with symptoms.
There are a few threads about debating cure or remission.
It's just my own personal belief. Once a diabetic always one. I also believe it's in our genes. That's why some get it and others don't!
I'm proud to be a diabetic as I've found such a wonderful diabetic family. :-)
 
ickihun said:
@Hiitsme you must be delighted with your weight loss efforts.
I have not been in your situation but I've been close to anorexic when I was a teenager and had to force myself to eat a custard cream biscuit which started my eating again.
I know your not anorexic and I've heard maintenance is harder than dieting.
@Hiitsme is it only lchf diet which has helped you lose all your weight? Any medication or more than 3 days vigorous exercise?
I know you now have no energy but have you always had no energy on lchf?
What I'm really wanting to know is whatever your triggers for losing weight might need reducing to minimum to maintain.
Myself I wouldn't encourage high spike foods to add weight as that could rebound into bad diabetic control and all the badies which comes with it.
I'm confident you can increase your protein intake to give you healthier muscles but those muscles have to be used to be strengthened by your dietery protein.
I'll tag @TorqPenderloin to see if he can advise on a better weight maintenance diet.
He uses his diet and the gym to maintain his diabetes and weight.
I hope he can help more.
Let me know how you get on.
Please don't start bad carb eating again just low GI ones and in moderation. Best of luck. Vicky :)
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Thanks @ickihun
Not on medication, well I did start Metformin but my GP took me off it (severe reaction) after 3 days and that was over a year ago. I do walk about 7 to 8 miles everyday but this is slow walking and takes up a lot of my time. I don't think I've felt I had any energy since being diagnosed. I accepted that while I was trying to lose weight but it has continued since I stabilized my weight about 8 months ago. I think it is my very low trigs that is concerning my GP. Thyroid seems to be OK so malnutrition is a possibility. That might account for the lack of energy. As my HbA1c is fine at 33. Aug 2015 and again March 2016 my GP wants me to try some different foods. He knows I'm testing and would react very quickly if anything spikes me. Even a hot-cross bun didn't spike me. Thought I would try one this year. I've been trying rice which again doesn't spike me, though it used to. I'm eating about 2,000 cals a day which is what I think I need with all my walking and this has kept my weight stable. While I was trying to lose weight I weighed and recorded all my food for many months but I've stopped doing this but did just one day recently and found I was over eating. I don't really want to have to do this regularly but might do a few days before seeing dietician in May. I do think all I will be told is to eat lots of carbs, My blood sugars are fine except my fasting reading which is often a bit high. Probably because I need a boost to get going in the morning.
 
Hiitsme said:
Thanks @ickihun
Not on medication, well I did start Metformin but my GP took me off it (severe reaction) after 3 days and that was over a year ago. I do walk about 7 to 8 miles everyday but this is slow walking and takes up a lot of my time. I don't think I've felt I had any energy since being diagnosed. I accepted that while I was trying to lose weight but it has continued since I stabilized my weight about 8 months ago. I think it is my very low trigs that is concerning my GP. Thyroid seems to be OK so malnutrition is a possibility. That might account for the lack of energy. As my HbA1c is fine at 33. Aug 2015 and again March 2016 my GP wants me to try some different foods. He knows I'm testing and would react very quickly if anything spikes me. Even a hot-cross bun didn't spike me. Thought I would try one this year. I've been trying rice which again doesn't spike me, though it used to. I'm eating about 2,000 cals a day which is what I think I need with all my walking and this has kept my weight stable. While I was trying to lose weight I weighed and recorded all my food for many months but I've stopped doing this but did just one day recently and found I was over eating. I don't really want to have to do this regularly but might do a few days before seeing dietician in May. I do think all I will be told is to eat lots of carbs, My blood sugars are fine except my fasting reading which is often a bit high. Probably because I need a boost to get going in the morning.
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@Hiitsme I recorded everything when I was losing and, like you, stopped when I "flattened" out as it seemed pointless, I was eating the same things nearly on a weekly cycle, still am. It is hard to go back to where we were in terms of eating carbs, so not too sure what to recommend but if a hot cross bun does not spike you it might indicate your tolerance is better and could look to test a carb or three.

How are you with fruit? I've more or less given up on them and do wonder what I might be missing. I did have really solid stools for quite a long time and everyone said LCHF would sort it... and after 2 years it might be getting better... he writes with fingers crossed and a**e clenched...

7 to 8 miles a day must take quite a bit of time, do you enjoy it or is it a bit of a challenge? I must say I enjoy walking at the moment but it is 40 to 60 mins tops, I can't really afford any longer.

Sorry if this has rambled.....
 
@Hiitsme if I walked that much I would have low trigs too!
Can you reduce your walking a little bit but nothing huge?
Your walking will be doing so much good.
Reduce it a tiny bit and see how your trigs fare.
Everything in moderation is good.
Carb tolerance is brilliant. Your metabolism is running high so it's breaking down your food quickly. Low trigs due to just that.
I guess you just need a little tweek and dr will be happy.
I'm confident you can do it.
Protein is a good weight adder. Ask any good bodybuilder. They limit their walking/running. They even reduce their water intake near a competition for better muscle definition. They know how to get the best out of their body, when needed.
Some of the bodybuilding magazines have good tip bits.
 
hankjam said:
@Hiitsme I recorded everything when I was losing and, like you, stopped when I "flattened" out as it seemed pointless, I was eating the same things nearly on a weekly cycle, still am. It is hard to go back to where we were in terms of eating carbs, so not too sure what to recommend but if a hot cross bun does not spike you it might indicate your tolerance is better and could look to test a carb or three.

How are you with fruit? I've more or less given up on them and do wonder what I might be missing. I did have really solid stools for quite a long time and everyone said LCHF would sort it... and after 2 years it might be getting better... he writes with fingers crossed and a**e clenched...

7 to 8 miles a day must take quite a bit of time, do you enjoy it or is it a bit of a challenge? I must say I enjoy walking at the moment but it is 40 to 60 mins tops, I can't really afford any longer.

Sorry if this has rambled.....
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Thanks @hankjam
I've always been OK with strawberries and blueberries. Now I've reintroduced plums and they seem fine. Will leave it a few days and then try something else.

Walking is a challenge but I do like my food, so it's a question of balance.
 
TooManyCrisps said:
Apologies, @13lizanne, I'm muddled! Yes I meant @Alzebra. That's what happens when you read two days worth of threads in 5 minutes.
Was it you who had the excellent HBA1C result? Or was that someone else?
<hangs head in shame>
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Yes I was the HbA1c thingy one :) not to worry it's a shame it's not me losing my last stone yet
 
@ickihun I think my current lifestyle is sustainable, and that my weight loss will just plateau naturally when I reach a healthy point. I don't have any current desire to change my eating habits or go back to carbs, I really don't think of it as a 'diet' more just my new way of life. I eat about 1400 calories a day, which seems reasonable (but much different to what I was scarfing down a couple of years ago!!)
 
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