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Hi everyone ,I’m 58 and been quite active since I was 25. The last 2 years I have diagnosed with T2.i dint take it seriously for the first 1 yr but kept seeing readings of 6.5 + and it wasnt going down. So I needed to do something about it. I have had office jobs and in the car mostly so during work hours. Not a lot of activity.

They prescribed metformin 500 mg and increased to 1000 mg taken twice a day .

So I did my own research .

2 hours after food no exercise, it’s around 7.
In the morning if I fast , it’s round 7.
If I exercised daily , walking , light jog for about 10-15 minutes. At home on stationary bike, the readings all started going down to low 6’s . At night , eat lightly and mostly protein, and vegetables. Cut out at much carbs as possible but if your going to eat them, have low carb bread , and go for a 15-20 minute walk . Drinking 2l per day water . If I experienced tired day , I had no Option but to eat bananas or apple .
I hope this helps others but keep going and you will get on top of T2. Get 7-8 hrs sleep , get rid of stress and pray to God to give you strength each day but after a while , the lifestyle becomes fairly normal! I have tried losing weight which isn’t easy but increase the work rate if you can .
 
Hi John and welcome. You'll find quite a few of us here have been able to both reduce BG and lose bodyfat through low carbing.

Have a good read round - the Success Stories section hidden near the bottom of the forum lists shows you what's worked for others - and ask as many questions as you like.
 
faraz9 said:
Hi everyone, can you please guide me if it's possible to reverse sugar which is borderline in tests?
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Hi @faraz9 ,

You're posting in someone else's thread, you might get more responses to your question if you start your own. I'm a T2 diabetic whose blood sugars were very high. And I got my numbers back down to the normal range fairly quickly. This is roughly how I did it, https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html , and many here have followed a similar path using mostly keto or LCHF diets, often combined with intermittent fasting. So yes, it can be done, but it's basically a forever kind of thing. Go back to carbs, and blood sugars creep up again.

Hope that helps,
Jo
 
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