I have been diagnosed today and been to see the nurse at my gp surgery who was nice enough. i am confused about what i should and shouldn’t be eating with trying to control it with my diet. Any tips and advice would be really appreciated
carol
Hi carol and welcome.
I'd endorse the "nutritional thingy" - it helped me enormously when I was diagnosed.
In terms of living with the condition and doing something to address it, my view is that the most important thing you can do is find out what works for you. You will read lots of stuff on the internet about "what you must do" and "this is what you need to do". Not all of it is wrong, but if you read around a bit on the forum you'll quickly see that what works for one doesn't always work for another. So beware of anyone telling you there's only his way.
I set out to reduce my blood glucose levels - that was my priority, as I'd had nasty diabetic symptoms for years but been firmly told I wasn't diabetic. I cut my carb intake to around 20g/day (this is what people call "keto"), which meant and means excluding all the high carb items such as bread, potatoes, cereals, fruit, rice, pasta, pastry, and anything sugary. It worked very quickly - in about four or five months - and I haven't had a diabetic level blood result since January 2020. I have to say this extreme change came very easily to me and wasn't much of an effort - but it doesn't work for everyone.
Since then I've lost about six stone - I'm not sure, because I don't know how heavy I was when I started low carb in December 2019. That worked for me. Other people have had similar results on different (higher) levels of carb intake, and it depends a lot on what your goals are. Did they tell you what your HbA1c score was when you were diagnosed?
Best of luck, and ask as many questions as you need.
