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Hello everyone
Firstly I am not a doctor.
I am an ordinary person who for many years ate all the wrong stuff.
Sugary snacks, breads, rolls, wraps, rice. Sugar after sugar, carb after carb. Takeaways week after week and bought lunch out every day at work.
I ended up 5 - 6 stone over weight and then my body stopped healing cuts and bruises. Coughs and colds
were taking much longer to clear up and I was going down hill.
Eventually I was being tested and it turned out my HBA1C was around 110% and my MMOL was 16 ish.
I was type 2 and referred to a specialist and immediately offered the usual meds.
I decided that it wasn't how I wanted to treat myself and radically reset my lifestyle.
I'd read about certain doctors who have a lot of success in this and that gave me hope.
I had to immediately stop all the sugars and carbs. No ifs or buts. Not next week. There and then.
I had to exercise more.
I had to be really determined and committed.
I read about Dr Michael Mosley's and Dr David Unwin's findings and approaches which really motivated me.
The first 6 to 8 weeks were not fun. I had a lot of symptoms coming down. Infact it was Hell but I kept on.
Day after day, one day at a time and slowly I started to come through it.
After 15 weeks, I had a second HB1AC test and I was in the 30% range and a couple of weeks after that my MMOL was around 5.5
I want to:
a) Offer some inspiration to others that despite it sometimes seeing very depressing, there is always hope.
b) Provide some awareness: I've spoken to a lot of doctors and most of them can't understand that not taking meds and changing lifestyle will achieve this kind of result. They just don't get it.
c) Make others aware there are alternatives but it takes a lot of will power, just believe in yourselves.
d) Change the mindset of the default option of if patient has x then go to meds. Give the patient a choice.
Hopefully someone else will read this and try it for themselves. Hopefully I can inspire at least one person to change to healthy eating and losing weight.
There is no magical cure or fix, just will power and belief but read, learn and understand. Don't hide away from what you have. Don't be ashamed but I can be worrying and above all don't be afraid to try things even if the medical community may disbelieve you. It is possible. I have done it.
Good luck to all my fellow diabetics and I hope one day there is a proper cure.
Firstly I am not a doctor.
I am an ordinary person who for many years ate all the wrong stuff.
Sugary snacks, breads, rolls, wraps, rice. Sugar after sugar, carb after carb. Takeaways week after week and bought lunch out every day at work.
I ended up 5 - 6 stone over weight and then my body stopped healing cuts and bruises. Coughs and colds
were taking much longer to clear up and I was going down hill.
Eventually I was being tested and it turned out my HBA1C was around 110% and my MMOL was 16 ish.
I was type 2 and referred to a specialist and immediately offered the usual meds.
I decided that it wasn't how I wanted to treat myself and radically reset my lifestyle.
I'd read about certain doctors who have a lot of success in this and that gave me hope.
I had to immediately stop all the sugars and carbs. No ifs or buts. Not next week. There and then.
I had to exercise more.
I had to be really determined and committed.
I read about Dr Michael Mosley's and Dr David Unwin's findings and approaches which really motivated me.
The first 6 to 8 weeks were not fun. I had a lot of symptoms coming down. Infact it was Hell but I kept on.
Day after day, one day at a time and slowly I started to come through it.
After 15 weeks, I had a second HB1AC test and I was in the 30% range and a couple of weeks after that my MMOL was around 5.5
I want to:
a) Offer some inspiration to others that despite it sometimes seeing very depressing, there is always hope.
b) Provide some awareness: I've spoken to a lot of doctors and most of them can't understand that not taking meds and changing lifestyle will achieve this kind of result. They just don't get it.
c) Make others aware there are alternatives but it takes a lot of will power, just believe in yourselves.
d) Change the mindset of the default option of if patient has x then go to meds. Give the patient a choice.
Hopefully someone else will read this and try it for themselves. Hopefully I can inspire at least one person to change to healthy eating and losing weight.
There is no magical cure or fix, just will power and belief but read, learn and understand. Don't hide away from what you have. Don't be ashamed but I can be worrying and above all don't be afraid to try things even if the medical community may disbelieve you. It is possible. I have done it.
Good luck to all my fellow diabetics and I hope one day there is a proper cure.