Hi
My husband discovered he had type 2 immediately after his heart attack two years ago and this reawakend my knowledge of the type 2 condition as my grandfather and late father both had late onset type 2 and my second cousin on my father's side of the family also has it. Although I was aware of type 2 I had no idea how silently it creeps on until my husbands heart attack (he's in his mid 50s) and the impact it can have on heart and strokes as he'd had very few symptoms apart from tiredness which we had put down to his work, which is very physical.
Unfortunaately, having been a yo yo dieter over the past I dare not say how many years, and coupled with a desk bound job, I have piled on the weight again. For a while I have been aware how sensitive my weight and body shape were to carbs but like the ostrich I buried my head in the sand. The proverbial boot up the backside of said ostrich came a couple of months ago when, on registering with a new GP following a move, they took a fasting blood test. It came back 7.5. When the practice nurse rang to tell me the reading was high I felt there had been some mistake (I'd been tested a couple of times previously at my last surgery) I sheepishly found myself confessing to "comfort eating" - the previous nine months prior to the move in August had been extremely stressful for a number of reasons - and asked if I might take it again. They nobly obliged. I was feeling pretty confident with a week of sensible eating it would come back down. Shock, horror. The second one was 7.9 and I was called to see my new gp who kindly confirmed that I was now diabetic.
Armed with all this knowledge you would have thought it would have immediately got me rushing to a low Gi diet book, getting out walking every day etc. but somehow it isn't quite registering and I can empathise entirely with the earlier posting on the boar "In Denial". It is utter folly to not make changes - given my gene pool I am in a high risk area and need to take steps to rylive a more healthy life style. I enjoy vegetables of all kinds and fish etc but my downfall is the "comfort food". I have recently been reading the physiological effects of stress (cortisol) on the body and the cravings it creates whilst under stress for fat and sweet items. A lot of the stress I had in my previous job and the problems we encounter prior to moving house have gone but in trying to adjust to new surroundings, only having temporary work for the moment, my attention has been diverted from watching my food intake and my weight. Time to get back on the wagon and with the positive input I see from the threads on here I will be in good company. The second boot up the proverbial has been the prescription for a statin! My chlorestorol wasn't particularly high but the gp want me to start on a statin given my family history etc (I;m on tablets for hypertension as well). I know that weightloss is the key to improving my health and I'm going to have to grasp that particular nettle. The only thing in my favour is that I rarely drink
Any help re the statin would be much appreciated - I'm going to be checking what sets my levels off over the next few weeks and plaster big "Step away from the carbs" signs in the kitchen
My husband discovered he had type 2 immediately after his heart attack two years ago and this reawakend my knowledge of the type 2 condition as my grandfather and late father both had late onset type 2 and my second cousin on my father's side of the family also has it. Although I was aware of type 2 I had no idea how silently it creeps on until my husbands heart attack (he's in his mid 50s) and the impact it can have on heart and strokes as he'd had very few symptoms apart from tiredness which we had put down to his work, which is very physical.
Unfortunaately, having been a yo yo dieter over the past I dare not say how many years, and coupled with a desk bound job, I have piled on the weight again. For a while I have been aware how sensitive my weight and body shape were to carbs but like the ostrich I buried my head in the sand. The proverbial boot up the backside of said ostrich came a couple of months ago when, on registering with a new GP following a move, they took a fasting blood test. It came back 7.5. When the practice nurse rang to tell me the reading was high I felt there had been some mistake (I'd been tested a couple of times previously at my last surgery) I sheepishly found myself confessing to "comfort eating" - the previous nine months prior to the move in August had been extremely stressful for a number of reasons - and asked if I might take it again. They nobly obliged. I was feeling pretty confident with a week of sensible eating it would come back down. Shock, horror. The second one was 7.9 and I was called to see my new gp who kindly confirmed that I was now diabetic.
Armed with all this knowledge you would have thought it would have immediately got me rushing to a low Gi diet book, getting out walking every day etc. but somehow it isn't quite registering and I can empathise entirely with the earlier posting on the boar "In Denial". It is utter folly to not make changes - given my gene pool I am in a high risk area and need to take steps to rylive a more healthy life style. I enjoy vegetables of all kinds and fish etc but my downfall is the "comfort food". I have recently been reading the physiological effects of stress (cortisol) on the body and the cravings it creates whilst under stress for fat and sweet items. A lot of the stress I had in my previous job and the problems we encounter prior to moving house have gone but in trying to adjust to new surroundings, only having temporary work for the moment, my attention has been diverted from watching my food intake and my weight. Time to get back on the wagon and with the positive input I see from the threads on here I will be in good company. The second boot up the proverbial has been the prescription for a statin! My chlorestorol wasn't particularly high but the gp want me to start on a statin given my family history etc (I;m on tablets for hypertension as well). I know that weightloss is the key to improving my health and I'm going to have to grasp that particular nettle. The only thing in my favour is that I rarely drink
Any help re the statin would be much appreciated - I'm going to be checking what sets my levels off over the next few weeks and plaster big "Step away from the carbs" signs in the kitchen