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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sheepie123" data-source="post: 1505402" data-attributes="member: 390599">Hey Folks,Went to my First Appointment with the Dietician she was a young girl early 30s and she started asking<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">What type of Diet are you on presently. I said that I was on LCHF and she looked at me as if I had two heads.  I explained to her that given that I am 29 years old and will live with T2 for a large part of my life I wanted to cut out carbs early.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She then said that she would not advise me to go low carb as I could take a Hypo.  Even though all medical resources say Type2 Generally cant get hypo's unless on medications as our body will dump glucose if we are low.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She then proceeded to tell me I should be eating the NHS Eat Well plate and that I should eat plently of potatoes / rice and pasta.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She asked me what I had for breakfast...  Knowing the game she was playing I said Wheetabix when in fact its bacon and eggs.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She what do I have for lunch?  I said sometimes nothing as I would rather trade off a little hunger for complications down the line.  She said that she advises me not do that and eat plenty of carbs.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She asked do I eat fruit -- Again I responded no because I don't want my levels going too high.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She asked if I had been feeling thirsty and peeing more - I said only on Metformin and that I never had any traditional symptoms</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She then offered to explain Diabetes more to me to which I humoured her and asked stupid questions such as 'How did I get it / Why does it happen?'   These questions in and of themselves are not stupid but considering I told her I was on this forum and I was on LCHF I would have thought she would have realised that I actually want to take control of my T2D and would have probably read everything about it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She told me the NHS would rather the results stable than the blood levels be low  She said the rise from 5 - 7 isn't good Based on her logic I should be running 6.5 with an occasional blip to 7.0</li> </ol>I then revealed that I had a meter and gave her my resultsFasting 12 Hr (4.2 - 5.0)Before Meals Random (5.6)2 Hours after Meals (6.1)Max Recording 8.9She said those seem to be very good control ------  (To myself I was like what! you just told me I was doing it wrong).Ultimately though she kept battering on about the NHS Eatwell plate and how great it is - I looked at the first few pages with her and thought this is a very quick way to poison yourself with the sugar.I agreed to change my diet (I wont LCHF with 100g carb cap keeps me happy).  She said she would see me in 3 months to tighten my diet (She wont).</blockquote>

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