Hi all,
Reporting back from my 3-months since diagnosis appointment with my nurse today.
She was really pleased and amazed about my latest HbA1c of 42, from a high of 72 at the end of December. I had typed up a few notes of what I'd done to show her (in a nutshell - 2 months of Blood Sugar Diet and the following weeks on more calories but still low carb high fat with some fasting - plus I mentioned the support I had from this site and forum). She was so excited - and wants me to write the details up again with an introduction as well, so they can put it into their magazine for other patients to read! She is so up on the latest research and totally agrees with me that low carb is the way forward and in her words that low fat diets are based on 'one piece of flawed research from the 1950s'. She says she has had one other patient reverse their diabetes using the Newcastle Diet and that they were just as evangelical as I was.
I showed her my copy of The Diabetes Code by Dr Jason Fung and she wrote down his name as she wants to read the book herself (whoop!
@bulkbiker @DJC3 - hopefully a new Fung fan is born!).
She totally understands that the current guidelines do not work, but it was heartening to hear that she feels the low carb message is really filtering through now as more and more research becomes available, and at some point the guidelines will catch up. She also agreed that my cholesterol profile, although the total has risen, has improved with higher HDL and low trigs and that the ratios are what counts. She said - "which means I won't be giving you a statin" - I responded, "that's good, because I wouldn't have taken it!"
I won't have my bloods taken again for another 6 months now.
She had another nurse sitting in with her and at the end she said, "thank you so much, you have really made our week!"
I hope this experience gives other members on here some encouragement that low carb is becoming more well-known and that times are changing - although at the same time I realise I am very lucky to have such an exceptionally forward-thinking nurse.
Edited to add: I forgot to say the most important point of all - THANK YOU everyone on this forum, without your support I wouldn't have had the confidence to stick with the LCHF lifestyle, let alone tell my nurse this is what I had done - most of the information I have found to help me has been from this site, you are all wonderful.
