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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
When I was first diagnosed in December 2014 I had an HBA1c of 7.3% or 56 mmol/mol. I told the DN that I would lose weight, change my eating habits and exercise more. I didn't do any of these things and carried on eating bread, chips, pies, cakes and biscuits (head in the sand/it's not happening to me syndrome) so by about April when I was tested again I had gone up to 7.4% or 57 mol (not a huge amount but I knew it wouldn't stop there if I didn't change something).
As it says in my signature, was put on Metformin but I didn't give it much of a chance because I didn't like the nausea even on the slow release ones. Then I was given Gliclazide and a monitor. Didn't like the thought of hypos so didn't take them but luckily I stumbled on this forum and decided that lchf was the way to go, spurred on by all the success stories and helpful advice I got here and determined to stay off the pills.
I threw myself into it whole-heartedly, and although I struggled with the weight loss due to not being very active (age and a back problem) the numbers were coming down and although I didn't get the dramatic losses in either it was slow but steady. Weight went down from 12st8 to 10st8 and I was getting readings of mostly 5-6 with occasional spikes.
While I was seeing the GP for something unrelated she remarked that I wasn't taking the meds (could tell by lack of repeat prescriptions obviously) so I told her about the lchf diet and she was very interested but said she would like me to have an interim blood test just to see how it was going.
I was just over 3 months into low carbing by then and my test result was 7.0% or 53 mol which I found a bit disappointing but knew it would take time and my DN was delighted with it.
So (if you're still awake ..lol) that's the background information.
Now to get to the point. Just lately I haven't been feeling very good. According to MyFitnessPal I haven't been having enough calories a lot of the time. Now I know all you dedicated followers of lchf say "how can you get fed up with lchf when there's so much you can have" but that's what's happened. I am fed up and I can't face a lot of the allowable stuff - I've done courgette spaghetti and cauliflower rice til it's coming out my ears.
Anyway, I've read the "What have you eaten today" thread and some people on there seem to have quite a lot of things that I wouldn't dream of having but I've been trying different things and getting really high readings for anything like even 1 slice of Nimble brown bread (9 carbs a slice) or a roast potato or a few carrots (up into the 11s still after 2 hours).
So what I am wondering is, does low carbing make you super-sensitive to normal carbs if you try to re-introduce them? I am just thinking about the marginal difference in my lst and 2nd HBA1C results when I was stuffing all and everything on a daily basis. What the heck were my readings after a Burger King and fries plus milkshake and half a packet of biscuits dunked in tea with sugar???? And why does it just take one small amount of carbs to push my figures up so high now? I'm dreading my next test because my monitor keeps telling my I've been out of range a lot just for minor indiscretions. Considering the marginal drop I had when I was being totally dedicated and being told I was in range by my monitor it's not going to be good.
I'm seriously thinking about trying the Metformin again. Now I'm more carb conscious and certainly wouldn't be going back to my old bad habits I am just wondering if these would help me to have a little of what I fancy now and again.
I'm sorry for the length of this post and I won't blame you if nobody reads it. xxx
As it says in my signature, was put on Metformin but I didn't give it much of a chance because I didn't like the nausea even on the slow release ones. Then I was given Gliclazide and a monitor. Didn't like the thought of hypos so didn't take them but luckily I stumbled on this forum and decided that lchf was the way to go, spurred on by all the success stories and helpful advice I got here and determined to stay off the pills.
I threw myself into it whole-heartedly, and although I struggled with the weight loss due to not being very active (age and a back problem) the numbers were coming down and although I didn't get the dramatic losses in either it was slow but steady. Weight went down from 12st8 to 10st8 and I was getting readings of mostly 5-6 with occasional spikes.
While I was seeing the GP for something unrelated she remarked that I wasn't taking the meds (could tell by lack of repeat prescriptions obviously) so I told her about the lchf diet and she was very interested but said she would like me to have an interim blood test just to see how it was going.
I was just over 3 months into low carbing by then and my test result was 7.0% or 53 mol which I found a bit disappointing but knew it would take time and my DN was delighted with it.
So (if you're still awake ..lol) that's the background information.
Now to get to the point. Just lately I haven't been feeling very good. According to MyFitnessPal I haven't been having enough calories a lot of the time. Now I know all you dedicated followers of lchf say "how can you get fed up with lchf when there's so much you can have" but that's what's happened. I am fed up and I can't face a lot of the allowable stuff - I've done courgette spaghetti and cauliflower rice til it's coming out my ears.
Anyway, I've read the "What have you eaten today" thread and some people on there seem to have quite a lot of things that I wouldn't dream of having but I've been trying different things and getting really high readings for anything like even 1 slice of Nimble brown bread (9 carbs a slice) or a roast potato or a few carrots (up into the 11s still after 2 hours).
So what I am wondering is, does low carbing make you super-sensitive to normal carbs if you try to re-introduce them? I am just thinking about the marginal difference in my lst and 2nd HBA1C results when I was stuffing all and everything on a daily basis. What the heck were my readings after a Burger King and fries plus milkshake and half a packet of biscuits dunked in tea with sugar???? And why does it just take one small amount of carbs to push my figures up so high now? I'm dreading my next test because my monitor keeps telling my I've been out of range a lot just for minor indiscretions. Considering the marginal drop I had when I was being totally dedicated and being told I was in range by my monitor it's not going to be good.
I'm seriously thinking about trying the Metformin again. Now I'm more carb conscious and certainly wouldn't be going back to my old bad habits I am just wondering if these would help me to have a little of what I fancy now and again.
I'm sorry for the length of this post and I won't blame you if nobody reads it. xxx