Resurgam
Master
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- Type of diabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Your total cholesterol might go up, and it still be an improvement, as there are lots of things going on if you were to use low carb foods and start to lose weight, fat starts to move around - my waist is shrinking week by week. The important factor is, apparently, the ratio of HDL and LDL, not the total - and triglycerides indicate something too. (You can tell how eagerly I hang on those readings eh?)
If you avoid dense carbs and of course, sugar, there can be dramatic drops in Hba1c - mine gave me quite a shock, but you need to eat to your meter. It really doesn't matter about the actual number, more the trend. If I eat low carb I don't get a big jump from before to 2 hours after, so I fine tuned my carb intake. Then I saw that the numbers were gradually dropping. After a few weeks my numbers became more erratic and would drop lower sometimes - I think that was when my insulin was able to work properly once in a while, and now my numbers jump about wildly, but they are usually at least one whole number lower than for the same meal a while ago, so I count that as making improvements. Now, after 3 months I am using the meter as a guide to if I should eat grapes or not - it is a great help in making that sort of decision but I have got the confidence to eat most meals without the need to check as I know I'll be within normal limits.
If you avoid dense carbs and of course, sugar, there can be dramatic drops in Hba1c - mine gave me quite a shock, but you need to eat to your meter. It really doesn't matter about the actual number, more the trend. If I eat low carb I don't get a big jump from before to 2 hours after, so I fine tuned my carb intake. Then I saw that the numbers were gradually dropping. After a few weeks my numbers became more erratic and would drop lower sometimes - I think that was when my insulin was able to work properly once in a while, and now my numbers jump about wildly, but they are usually at least one whole number lower than for the same meal a while ago, so I count that as making improvements. Now, after 3 months I am using the meter as a guide to if I should eat grapes or not - it is a great help in making that sort of decision but I have got the confidence to eat most meals without the need to check as I know I'll be within normal limits.
