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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
I was diagnosed type 2 on Monday. I had very bad gestational diabetes x 2 and was on 110 units of insulin a day by the end. So I should have seen this coming and done something. We can’t change our past choices but I can change the future.
I’m 35 and have a HbAc1 of 51. So I know I can put this into remission. I’m also a hefty weight so dropping pounds will be so helpful too!
I had that gut feeling of sick when the nurse told me, but since then I’ve been positive to put into action what I know.
My diet when I was pregnant was strict LCHF. I kept my babies both safe. So I know what to do. But obviously tolerances for things are completely different now rather than during pregnancy. I have a meter and strips, been testing. But thought I would do a month with a freestyle libre to get me used to foods, trial and error ect.
Purchased one online which will not be here till next week. So popped into Asda to get one from the pharmacy. The woman next to me in the queue asked me why I didn’t get it on prescription because I should do if I need one. I just said that I can’t. Then she asked me why again so I told her that I was type 2 diabetic. And the ‘oh...’ I got was a stab in the stomach. I just wanted the world to swallow me up. First time I’d said out loud that I had type 2 and that reaction killed me. I was so upset.
I struggle days anyway as I’m on antidepressants for postnatal depression (my baby is 15 months old).
I just wanted a vent. Hope you don’t mind.
I know I can do this.
Plan is to control the sugars with some intermittent fasting and LCHF and hopefully the weight will follow too.
I’m 35 and have a HbAc1 of 51. So I know I can put this into remission. I’m also a hefty weight so dropping pounds will be so helpful too!
I had that gut feeling of sick when the nurse told me, but since then I’ve been positive to put into action what I know.
My diet when I was pregnant was strict LCHF. I kept my babies both safe. So I know what to do. But obviously tolerances for things are completely different now rather than during pregnancy. I have a meter and strips, been testing. But thought I would do a month with a freestyle libre to get me used to foods, trial and error ect.
Purchased one online which will not be here till next week. So popped into Asda to get one from the pharmacy. The woman next to me in the queue asked me why I didn’t get it on prescription because I should do if I need one. I just said that I can’t. Then she asked me why again so I told her that I was type 2 diabetic. And the ‘oh...’ I got was a stab in the stomach. I just wanted the world to swallow me up. First time I’d said out loud that I had type 2 and that reaction killed me. I was so upset.
I struggle days anyway as I’m on antidepressants for postnatal depression (my baby is 15 months old).
I just wanted a vent. Hope you don’t mind.
I know I can do this.
Plan is to control the sugars with some intermittent fasting and LCHF and hopefully the weight will follow too.