- Messages
- 16
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Hello Everyone,
I was diagnosed with type 2 at the end of January. Fasting glucose level 7.2, glucose tolerance test with 250g glucose: after 60 min glucose: 13,1 insulin: 103,8; after 120min: glucose: 11,1 insulin:113,1.
What my doctor only said to me was to take my medication /metformin/, exercise and contact a dietician, and go back with my new bloodwork after 3 months.
My mom has type 2 too, I know the protocol about diet. I started eating 5 times a day more fruit, more veggies, complex carbs etc... and I checked my blood glucose level, fasting /every day/, before a meal, after a meal /once a day/.
Nothing really changed.
But I searched the internet as well. (I know it can be very dangerous.) And I found dr Lustig lecture about sugar. That was my first push toward the low-carb road.
I gave it a try. I cut sugar completely and reduced my carb intake.
I'm shocked now, my fasting glucose is between 5-4,7 and lost 10kg already. I'm more energetic, sleeping better /maybe exercising more helping that too /, and I'm somehow calmer.
I'm so happy to find this forum and learn that NHS approve this diet, so I can tell my doctor.
I hope I can reverse my diabetes. I never thought it is possible.
I was diagnosed with type 2 at the end of January. Fasting glucose level 7.2, glucose tolerance test with 250g glucose: after 60 min glucose: 13,1 insulin: 103,8; after 120min: glucose: 11,1 insulin:113,1.
What my doctor only said to me was to take my medication /metformin/, exercise and contact a dietician, and go back with my new bloodwork after 3 months.
My mom has type 2 too, I know the protocol about diet. I started eating 5 times a day more fruit, more veggies, complex carbs etc... and I checked my blood glucose level, fasting /every day/, before a meal, after a meal /once a day/.
Nothing really changed.
But I searched the internet as well. (I know it can be very dangerous.) And I found dr Lustig lecture about sugar. That was my first push toward the low-carb road.
I gave it a try. I cut sugar completely and reduced my carb intake.
I'm shocked now, my fasting glucose is between 5-4,7 and lost 10kg already. I'm more energetic, sleeping better /maybe exercising more helping that too /, and I'm somehow calmer.
I'm so happy to find this forum and learn that NHS approve this diet, so I can tell my doctor.
I hope I can reverse my diabetes. I never thought it is possible.