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At the end of January of this year I discovered by a blood test I was a Type 2 diabetic with a reading of 56 HbA1C. I was put on Metformin, I was pretty gutted. I was overweight at 16 stone, aged 70, and I came away from the doctors adamant I would take charge of the rest of my life. I had already read Dr Michael Mosley's book and was sure that he was on to something. My problem was the recipe's. I am not very adventurous with food, I like normal ordinary foods !!! I do not like nuts, do not like seeds and the recipes just didn't do anything for me. I tried some of the baking recipes I saw on the Diet Doctor but didn't like the results. I didn't like the sweeteners so tried to get used to no sugar at all. However, not to be beaten, I bought myself a tracker to record my steps, started swimming twice a week. I walked my elderly dog each day (more of a stroll I am afraid than a walk but I still got the steps in). Only once did I let myself down by eating one chocolate muffin out of a tinfull I had baked for my grandsons. I had no additional sugar, carbs were cut to approx 20 per day. No potatoes, rice, bread etc. I had full fat Greek yoghurt with berries or strawberries and even got used to it. For lunch it would be a salad with ham, egg and cheese. For dinner a home made stir fry of about 5/6 different veg and maybe a chop, salmon, tuna, etc. My only treats were one piece of 84% Chocolate per day. I drank a Gin and bitter lemon (low calorie of course) twice a week. Oh and as my husband loves pork scratchings I would steal 2 pieces !!! Towards the end when the weight started to slow down I tried missing a meal, without being hungry.

Over the next 3 and a half months my weight gradually and regularly fell. I am now 13 stone. At the beginning of this week I had a blood test. Today I have got the results. My HbA1C is 37. I am normal.

I am a recovering diabetic.I know it could come back but I know I must keep the weight off. I am so thrilled and so relieved. This is my big thank you to all of you and your posts, thanks to Dr Michael Mosley for his information. What a wonderful find discovering these pages.
 
Very well done! Thanks for sharing, it's so encouraging to read stories like yours. :) Keep posting. :)
 
Patient_ said:
At the end of January of this year I discovered by a blood test I was a Type 2 diabetic with a reading of 56 HbA1C. I was put on Metformin, I was pretty gutted. I was overweight at 16 stone, aged 70, and I came away from the doctors adamant I would take charge of the rest of my life. I had already read Dr Michael Mosley's book and was sure that he was on to something. My problem was the recipe's. I am not very adventurous with food, I like normal ordinary foods !!! I do not like nuts, do not like seeds and the recipes just didn't do anything for me. I tried some of the baking recipes I saw on the Diet Doctor but didn't like the results. I didn't like the sweeteners so tried to get used to no sugar at all. However, not to be beaten, I bought myself a tracker to record my steps, started swimming twice a week. I walked my elderly dog each day (more of a stroll I am afraid than a walk but I still got the steps in). Only once did I let myself down by eating one chocolate muffin out of a tinfull I had baked for my grandsons. I had no additional sugar, carbs were cut to approx 20 per day. No potatoes, rice, bread etc. I had full fat Greek yoghurt with berries or strawberries and even got used to it. For lunch it would be a salad with ham, egg and cheese. For dinner a home made stir fry of about 5/6 different veg and maybe a chop, salmon, tuna, etc. My only treats were one piece of 84% Chocolate per day. I drank a Gin and bitter lemon (low calorie of course) twice a week. Oh and as my husband loves pork scratchings I would steal 2 pieces !!! Towards the end when the weight started to slow down I tried missing a meal, without being hungry.

Over the next 3 and a half months my weight gradually and regularly fell. I am now 13 stone. At the beginning of this week I had a blood test. Today I have got the results. My HbA1C is 37. I am normal.

I am a recovering diabetic.I know it could come back but I know I must keep the weight off. I am so thrilled and so relieved. This is my big thank you to all of you and your posts, thanks to Dr Michael Mosley for his information. What a wonderful find discovering these pages.
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Whoop, whoop, whoop as my kids would say! What a truly inspirational story. You've lost nearly 20% of your body weight. Wow!!:)


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@Patient_ thanks for sharing your story, very inspirational. I know when I first came to the forum it was stories like this that gave me hope that the dark thoughts I had on diagnosis were extreme. A diabetes diagnosis doesn't signify the end to an enjoyable life - for me it was the start of a great new journey with my food.

Keep up the good work, and keep enjoying that chocolate and Gin :):):)
 
Patient_ said:
At the end of January of this year I discovered by a blood test I was a Type 2 diabetic with a reading of 56 HbA1C. I was put on Metformin, I was pretty gutted. I was overweight at 16 stone, aged 70, and I came away from the doctors adamant I would take charge of the rest of my life. I had already read Dr Michael Mosley's book and was sure that he was on to something. My problem was the recipe's. I am not very adventurous with food, I like normal ordinary foods !!! I do not like nuts, do not like seeds and the recipes just didn't do anything for me. I tried some of the baking recipes I saw on the Diet Doctor but didn't like the results. I didn't like the sweeteners so tried to get used to no sugar at all. However, not to be beaten, I bought myself a tracker to record my steps, started swimming twice a week. I walked my elderly dog each day (more of a stroll I am afraid than a walk but I still got the steps in). Only once did I let myself down by eating one chocolate muffin out of a tinfull I had baked for my grandsons. I had no additional sugar, carbs were cut to approx 20 per day. No potatoes, rice, bread etc. I had full fat Greek yoghurt with berries or strawberries and even got used to it. For lunch it would be a salad with ham, egg and cheese. For dinner a home made stir fry of about 5/6 different veg and maybe a chop, salmon, tuna, etc. My only treats were one piece of 84% Chocolate per day. I drank a Gin and bitter lemon (low calorie of course) twice a week. Oh and as my husband loves pork scratchings I would steal 2 pieces !!! Towards the end when the weight started to slow down I tried missing a meal, without being hungry.

Over the next 3 and a half months my weight gradually and regularly fell. I am now 13 stone. At the beginning of this week I had a blood test. Today I have got the results. My HbA1C is 37. I am normal.

I am a recovering diabetic.I know it could come back but I know I must keep the weight off. I am so thrilled and so relieved. This is my big thank you to all of you and your posts, thanks to Dr Michael Mosley for his information. What a wonderful find discovering these pages.
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Hi - I am also following Michael Mosleys Blood Sugar Diet, I was diagnosed in October and have lost 20lb, I am not on medication apart from Amlopodine 5mg for high blood pressure which was prescribed in September. I am hoping to be drug free by January when I have my next fasting blood test. It has been hard as I was a carb lover, bread and potatoes were a major part of my daily diet. I have not missed cakes, chocolate, biscuits, etc but having to make sandwiches and dinner for my partner has been hard. What has and still is keeping me going is that I am determined to be in control of my health and not reliant on drugs, I firmly believe once you take them one leads to another and they all carry side affects. I hope I can say the same as you one day soon 'I am normal' well done!
 
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