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[Deespee23]

Thank you for the strawberry idea with cream. Sounds great

Make sure you only have about 3 or 4 strawberries though - I could happily eat a whole punnet if I wasn't so self-disciplined (!).....but after a time on LCHF, you will find your desire for sweet things should massively reduce, so 3 strawberries is actually enough.

 

[Ishi]

Make sure you only have about 3 or 4 strawberries though - I could happily eat a whole punnet if I wasn't so self-disciplined (!).....but after a time on LCHF, you will find your desire for sweet things should massively reduce, so 3 strawberries is actually enough.

Thanks for the suggestion...I love strawberries

 

[lowedb]

We have a couple of things in common. First is the diagnosis in December 2016. Second is the coldness. It seems its not common because I asked exactly the same and didn't find much in the way of people who'd experienced it. As seems to be common as well as being T2 I also have high Blood Pressure. So I'm on medication for that as well as diabetes. Since changing to low carb and taking the BP and BG medication, I have been generally colder, but particularly hands and feet. I used to be that person in the office who was always too hot when most other people were complaining how cold it was. I haven't figured out what the cause of the change is, but its not as severe or uncomfortable now. That could be just the weather of course. I can't really help much except to say, it's not just you.

 

[Resurgam]

I've been eating a fair amount of fat along with low carbing - and I feel warm most of the time.
I ate chicken thighs for dinner and now feel very cosy indeed despite following them up with frozen berries and cream.

 

[Ishi]

I remember being cold and wrapping up in blankets and staying near the woodstove in December. My nose got cold a lot, it seems like that was the first thing I really noticed and at night I slept with extra blankets. My guess is my calorie intake wasn't high enough. The body needs fuel (like my woodstove) and you probably had a dependence on glucose for internal heat generation. When I switched to LC my muscle cells didn't have enough of the required enzymes to break fat into ATP for energy. As a result I took in more glucose/carbs and took the process slower. Weight and BG came down pretty fast and, besides the cold, I felt like my system was out of whack, that something was very wrong. So I stopped trying to lose weight and stayed at the same weight for about a year. I was careful about what I ate and kept my blood sugar in an acceptable range. The main thing was to be healthy. Recently I've changed my regimen and am dropping weight again to get to an ideal BMI.

So to summarize: your body may be used to burning glucose but it needs to change over to fat burning and that will take time to build up the right enzymes.

In regards to your other question "How long have I been diabetic?" My definition of diabetic is more stringent and based on insulin resistance and not glucose levels. Therefore my guess is this problem has been developing for the last 10 years until it was bad enough to be acknowledged by doctors.

If you stay on your present course everything will work out well and you won't have any diabetic complications.

Thank you so much for the tips