ianssugar
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- Type of diabetes
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- Tablets (oral)
So I was diagnosd by accident on Dec 16, 2014 with Type 2 diabetes when an ED doc was going to treat my high blood pressure (also found by accident during an ED visit after I put a gash in my head by hitting it on the corner of an upper cabinet) and needed to run some routine blood work beforehand. My glucose was 185 and he suggested that that wasn't good and that I should follow up with my regular physician. I had aready set up an appointment for my regular Doc for a routine physical, so he saw the results a week later and said "Looks like you got type 2 diabetes". They ran an A1C. It was 9.8 which was much lower than he feared at the time. He put me on Metformin 500mg x 2 daily and had me talk to his office nurse for about an hour who explained how to eat to get it under control. They also prescribed some classes on diabetes, which I never took. It was a bit overwhelming and although she said I could continue to eat things like bread and pasta, (I just needed to cut my portions and add more vegetables), the complexity was not something I really felt I could deal with. I like simple. Simple to me was...cut out the carbs. Cut them in every way possible. Find out where they are and get rid of those rascals. Learn what has carbs and illiminate them until my BG was normal. This I felt I could do. Measuring the size of something on my plate was just not going to happen. So I cut th carbs. No pasta, no potatoes, no dessert, no beer, no bread, no milk, and no fruits. I cut out everything that had any sugar in it at all or at least that was my goal. It took a few days, but I started to see great progress and soon I got my first normal reading. I was so happy and relieved. I started to feel better in a way that was hard to describe. I was less irritable and seemed to have much more energy. I begn to loose weight and my clothes fit better.
It's been almost 3 months since my original diagnosis and I have lost 20 lbs and my BG is in the normal range on most every day. I have added a few "good" carbs back into my diet in moderation and I really don't miss anything too much. If I see something that just looks too tasty to pass up, I'll have a small bite and I find that is so much better than nothing at all and my curiosity will be quenced. I'll eat a piece of whole wheat toast now with creamed eggs, cheese and spinach made with cream or half and half (something I came up with myself that I now crave). I have found a beer that has only 3.2 grams of carbs per 12 oz bottle. I found some delicous wafer thin crackers that have very few carbs per serving and whose serving size is about 9 crackers. I look for foods that have more fiber to offset any carbs they do have. I eat a lot of fresh fish, chichen, pork and beef and a lot more vegetables and most importantly try to stay way away from "processed foods" I don't check my BG nearly as often as I used to, maybe twice a day.
I go back next week to see how I'm doing and that will tell the complete tail, but I already know I'm doing better and definitly on the right track. The guidelines they gave me were devised for the average person and ironically that person may not actually even exist. They intentionally have low expectations from you and don't think anyone could make such a drastic change in their diet or lifestyle, but with the proper motivation you can easily do much more than anyone would think. Good Luck.
It's been almost 3 months since my original diagnosis and I have lost 20 lbs and my BG is in the normal range on most every day. I have added a few "good" carbs back into my diet in moderation and I really don't miss anything too much. If I see something that just looks too tasty to pass up, I'll have a small bite and I find that is so much better than nothing at all and my curiosity will be quenced. I'll eat a piece of whole wheat toast now with creamed eggs, cheese and spinach made with cream or half and half (something I came up with myself that I now crave). I have found a beer that has only 3.2 grams of carbs per 12 oz bottle. I found some delicous wafer thin crackers that have very few carbs per serving and whose serving size is about 9 crackers. I look for foods that have more fiber to offset any carbs they do have. I eat a lot of fresh fish, chichen, pork and beef and a lot more vegetables and most importantly try to stay way away from "processed foods" I don't check my BG nearly as often as I used to, maybe twice a day.
I go back next week to see how I'm doing and that will tell the complete tail, but I already know I'm doing better and definitly on the right track. The guidelines they gave me were devised for the average person and ironically that person may not actually even exist. They intentionally have low expectations from you and don't think anyone could make such a drastic change in their diet or lifestyle, but with the proper motivation you can easily do much more than anyone would think. Good Luck.
