Well it's been about 6 months now since I was first told I had Type 2 Diabetes, some days at times have been a real pain in the butt, but most days have been easy to cope with and I have found I have adjusted and accepted what at first was unbelievable to accept. That this will not go away, it was tricky at first, but then through all my testing and eating the overwhelming evidence became apparent and conclusive to me.
The use of testing is a must if one wants to get to grips with Type 2, the mistakes and sometimes will-full eating of too many carbs clearly showed to me what had to be achieved by me, through what I ate. I have found that I cannot take my eye of the ball not now, not ever, if I want to try and avoid the complications that are eager to ravage my body. I have over this weekend purposely stopped my BG testing and filling out my log.
The reason now being that I have now grasped what will and will not send my BG skyward, that is not to say I will not test any more, because I am, I have just tested now after 3 days not testing as a random check, and all is well in my smaller (now) and fitter body, the smaller is because of cutting out all the rubbish I used to eat now replaced by good natural low carbohydrate alternatives, food which now I have come to really enjoy, I eat until full and never go hungry, no harm there. Fitter because I now train and exercise on a regular basis something I often thought about, but never quite got too the Gym before Diabetes. Now I make the time, in my book now I reason it is as important as my diet. I have to admit not testing can be as worrying as starting to test because my little pouch has been my constant companion always by my side to reassure me, I was doing things right.
I suppose I now transgress to the next stage, I have all my food logs and a reasonable good knowledge of the disease and what I need to keep an eye on, so I'm calling this stage good running and maintenance, I will check my BG if I am feeling under the weather, or if I try out new food, and also probably once a week, maybe more (I did say it was hard to stop) I continue to find this forum and its members a solid tree of knowledge and the posts and advice a source of inspiration and kindness even though there are some great spats sometimes, makes life more colourful if you ask me. End of 6 month report, now onwards and forwards folks. Thanks to you all.
roblem: so I grabbed some Oat cakes at 4.3g each, now because I got carried away in the heat of the moment 
