Hi Mrpaulgee. Thank you for sharing your general daily eating pattern. You seem to be falling into the trap that the NHS advocates and which medics are obliged to follow. Type 2 diagnosis, prescribe Metformin and low-fat carbohydrate based diet. When this doesn't work add in additional medications. When these also begin to fail recommend a move to insulin. This is the equivalent of putting an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff instead of a fence at the top and is clearly stated in the NICE guidelines for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes!
So the alternative is to cut the carbs and increase the healthy fats in the diet to prevent hunger. Using this approach I have been able to lose weight, give up medication and put my diabetes into remission. At the moment the porridge, bread, crackers egg are doing you no favours. What is a healthy diet for many people is not a healthy diet for someone who is carb intolerant or a person with Type 2 diabetes.
Thank you for your response. I haven't really taken advice directly from NHS but diabetic information available. I have had great success in the past on low carb eating plans (not diets specifically). I was one of the first to try out the Michel Montignac regime. After self-doubting for months, this began to work and weight absolutely flew off. Not only that I enjoyed what I ate. What soured it for me was when Atkins became popular, and I saw how people cherry picked and abused it. Montingnac never commercialised the way Atkins did.
When I tried to go back on Montignac years later, I wasn't successful. It was only more recently when I started losing weight for no apparent reason that I started to worry. It was a bit like finding unaccounted for money in your bank account. While it's a nice feeling, you're also feeling some unease. Its come from somewhere and there may be consequences. In the case of the weight loss it was diagnosed finally as diabetes. I have a strong history of it in my family and it seemed fairly inevitable I would end up suffering.
I would gladly return to low carb to be honest. The issue I have is that the diabetic medication seems to suppress ketosis, and this is how I lost weight in the past. So my dilemma is to find alternatives or to dump the diabetic medication, at least temporarily. I am also now questioning whether I am indeed diabetic. I should be experiencing a positive reaction to the medication, and a negative from not taking it. But it's like a placebo. Well, all except the complete inability to lose weight now.
I do have to agree with your observation about the NHS approach to diabetics. I'm very guarded over the advice I receive, particularly when it comes to nutrition. There is still this obsession with calorie theory, an outrageous over-simplification of nutrition, and negligence in treating each person as different. A great failing in my opinion. I cannot believe they even advocate Weight Watchers! Are you serious?! That has to be the biggest lie and scam on earth.
The reality is my bloods are all over the place. If I don't see results I stop believing. I'm absolutely not going to start on insulin and would rather try alternatives. I'm hoping to get another HbA1c in Feb. I did one a couple of weeks ago, but they didn't give the blood glucose results for some stupid reason (why the hell wouldn't you?). But I'm feeling a horrible tingly feeling all over and constant pain, just like completely out of control blood sugars causes. Getting more than a bit fed up with this myself