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Climbing back on the wagon is hard and depressing.

LittleGreyCat

LittleGreyCat

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Location
Suffolk, UK
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Dislikes
Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
I've been comfort eating this year after a bladder cancer diagnosis.
Thankfully all clear at the moment, but understandably I was filling my boots in case I got a serious or terminal diagnosis.
Eat, drink and be merry because tomorrow you die is something of a mission statement.
Anyway my latest Hba1c is 8.7, up from 7.0, so I need to take steps.
I've fitted a libre 2 and am looking at the readings sideways with one eye shut.
Urgh.
Now eating a cheese omelette and drinking white wine and contemplating the glories left behind me.

I know that you can eat a satisfying and varied low carb diet because I've been at this game a long time.
However I also have a 60+ year history of indulgence which was a whole lot more fun.
I've had a self indulgent splurge, and ever since the "all clear" I've been waiting for my next Hba1c to see how my body is coping.
Not well is the answer.
So back on the wagon, slapped wrists from my DSN, and a big bucket load of grim determination.

How was your day?
 
Just by chance I have a colonoscopy scheduled for Saturday.
This involves fasting and emptying the bowels.
Strangely, my numbers are suddenly good.

I think that wagon remounters could be advised to start with a fast to show that the numbers will come down.
That in turn can motivate to stay on the wagon.
 
LittleGreyCat said:
Just by chance I have a colonoscopy scheduled for Saturday.
This involves fasting and emptying the bowels.
Strangely, my numbers are suddenly good.

I think that wagon remounters could be advised to start with a fast to show that the numbers will come down.
That in turn can motivate to stay on the wagon.
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Good luck tomorrow, LittleGreyCat. You're back on the horse. Stick with it.
 
LittleGreyCat said:
I've been comfort eating this year after a bladder cancer diagnosis.
Thankfully all clear at the moment, but understandably I was filling my boots in case I got a serious or terminal diagnosis.
Eat, drink and be merry because tomorrow you die is something of a mission statement.
Anyway my latest Hba1c is 8.7, up from 7.0, so I need to take steps.
I've fitted a libre 2 and am looking at the readings sideways with one eye shut.
Urgh.
Now eating a cheese omelette and drinking white wine and contemplating the glories left behind me.

I know that you can eat a satisfying and varied low carb diet because I've been at this game a long time.
However I also have a 60+ year history of indulgence which was a whole lot more fun.
I've had a self indulgent splurge, and ever since the "all clear" I've been waiting for my next Hba1c to see how my body is coping.
Not well is the answer.
So back on the wagon, slapped wrists from my DSN, and a big bucket load of grim determination.

How was your day?
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Your HBa1C’s a great level, mines 51!
 
Thanks for all the good wishes.
Now in NZ visiting family and climbing back on the wagon yet again.
Long haul flights and airline food don't make it easy.
However numbers are looking acceptable again.
Also, it is sunny.
 
I'm hitting good numbers by restricting my diet to mainly protein and fats.
My Libre 2 says that my average at the moment is 5.7 mmol/L which is outstanding, all things considered .
Last time I checked it was reading a bit low, still it is in a reasonable range.

I am in ketosis.
Haven't tested yet but my partners says I smell different when I am in ketosis, which is a lot less pain than testing.

Only problem is that I feel dog rough and queasy.
I assume this is low level carb flu plus my guts adjusting to the change in diet.

Now having a comfort beer in Whangarei to check if my body can cope and also because the pizza bar was here on previous visits and it almost feels like coming home.

Reading about the incoming snow back home so can't complain about a little rain with the temperature in the low 20s.

Hang in there.
I'll be thinking of you as I slap on the sun screen.
 
@LittleGreyCat I wonder if you might be overdoing the fats. It could be the reason for feeling queasy.
After going low fat for some time before diagnosis, when I began to eat normally (for me) once more, I craved fatty things, but then my insides began to feel uneasy. I had a few sharp pains - I suspect gall stones departing was the cause, and I found that was overdoing the butter in scrambled eggs and two large mugs of coffee with cream was too much. On half rations all settled down very well in a couple of days.
 
Back home from NZ and back on the wagon.
Last HbA1c (recent) was 7.2% so things are going in the right direction.
Diet on holiday was relaxed, but not as relaxed as my "eat, drink and be merry" phase.

Thanks for all the good wishes and advice.
 
Interesting what you said about fasting, as a heads up about the impact of food and drink, and no food on our blood glucose. That if you can lower it by fasting, you can lower it by a way of eating, and intermittent/fasting. Wise words indeed.

Best wishes on the continued downward trend.
 
Off the wagon then back on again.
In some ways the Libre 2 leads to temptation.
I discovered that after a reasonably vigorous (me worn out at the end) cycle ride I could tolerate baked potatoes and also cheesecake with cream.
Cheesecake is, allegedly, not that bad as it is mainly fats.
Anyway, the cope lasted for a while and then didn't, by which time I had succumbed to temptation.
The most tempting was the baked potato as it provided bulk and satisfaction.
I'm now back on the wagon, protein and fats, Libre graph all in the green (apart from a tiny touch of red).
I now have to see how long I can stick to this before another lapse.
At the moment I can walk past all the temptations with head held high, and not worry about crumpets, cakes and bread n the house.
This seems to be the way; purity of resolve for a week or so and then something (such as going on holiday) disrupts the routine and a sandwich and a beer when out for the day walking seems a reasonable choice just this once.
 
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