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<blockquote data-quote="Lamont D" data-source="post: 1876901" data-attributes="member: 85785"><p>Hi, I have a history with carbs and also a limit on what I can eat, because of a few intolerances to many foods.</p><p>I was always a fussy eater, in a low wage full household!</p><p>I was told from a young age to eat everything that was on my plate, including those foods which my body even at such a young age knew wasn't really good for me. </p><p>My parents could not understand why, dairy, margarine, cheese, cooked vegetables, cereals but I didn't mind porridge, seafood, I like some white fish, like cod, haddock. Sauces, dressing, and foreign food, no way! I enjoyed chips with everything, mashed potatoes was a definite no thanks because of my dairy intolerance. And so on, I just couldn't get my taste buds to enjoy some food, I was forever finding myself on the wrong end of school dinners and my parents.</p><p>Move on to being a parent, already diagnosed with dairy intolerance, still plenty in house, both working, dietary choices not brilliant, but affordability, time, social and a mortgage to work around, cheap alternatives to healthy food choices.</p><p></p><p>But even the meat and two veg, was not for me, just the meat and spuds, mostly roasties, because the wife loves her roast dinners.</p><p>Didn't fancy the Atkins, just ate what agreed with me, and off course, it wasn't!</p><p>Moving on to this century, it all caught up with me, told to look after myself, eat more healthy, such as the eat well plate, and tried every diet that I could find, but it made me even worse. For over ten years slowly putting weight on, I was eating healthy, according to the doctors, dsns, dietary advisors and even one endocrinologist, who all agreed that porridge for breakfast, baked potatoes and a filling, preferably with a carby filling, with fibre, then a meat and two veg evening meal but not chips! </p><p>I tried to eat like this, but my weight still gained slowly but surely. I kept asking why, and obviously my health was suffering, my endocrine system was becoming more fatty, my cholesterol levels were worse, my organ function tests were high. I was told again and again to eat less and eat the above diet. I was diagnosed with T2.</p><p>Another four years or so, I was religiously writing my numbers in my food diary, testing for whatever reason, lots of symptoms, health going down the drain. The doctors etc, still insistent that healthy eating was the answer. My weight was nearly eighteen stone, something was clearly not right!</p><p></p><p>I had a hypo in front of my latest GP and referred to an endocrinologist, who did have a clue what the hell was going on, he diagnosed me after a series of tests, he directed my attention to this site. I never had a clue, nor all my medical care practitioners.</p><p>I was eating healthy foods, but it was this healthy food that was going to put me in a coffin. I was not eating healthy for me.</p><p>Carbs, sugars were literally killing me.</p><p>Potatoes were making me obese!</p><p>I was non diabetic, I had been misdiagnosed, and I went through hell because of the ignorance of what these so called healthy foods recommended for me had done to me.</p><p>I do realise that being weird, because of the number of intolerance foods, I have to avoid, but if they had tested my insulin levels twenty years ago, they would have seen my hyperinsulinaemia. They would have had a different view about healthy dietary advice for me.</p><p>It's shocking in this day and age, that so many are not aware of what a change away from so called healthy foods will make you healthier.</p><p>There is so much wrong with dietary recommendations within the medical profession and like statins, there will not be a clear definitive dietary treatment for diabetes and other endocrine conditions.</p><p></p><p>I lost six stone, got my health back, my endocrine system is really healthy, symptoms have mostly gone, and my last health review was described as perfect, hba1c 37, cholesterol in the low fives overall, good high, bad low.</p><p>I got my life back, I got my energy back, I'm enjoying working again, I would not go back there again.</p><p>Very low carb has worked, avoiding those foods, is healthy for me, I have my balance right, I'm old but in great health!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lamont D, post: 1876901, member: 85785"] Hi, I have a history with carbs and also a limit on what I can eat, because of a few intolerances to many foods. I was always a fussy eater, in a low wage full household! I was told from a young age to eat everything that was on my plate, including those foods which my body even at such a young age knew wasn't really good for me. My parents could not understand why, dairy, margarine, cheese, cooked vegetables, cereals but I didn't mind porridge, seafood, I like some white fish, like cod, haddock. Sauces, dressing, and foreign food, no way! I enjoyed chips with everything, mashed potatoes was a definite no thanks because of my dairy intolerance. And so on, I just couldn't get my taste buds to enjoy some food, I was forever finding myself on the wrong end of school dinners and my parents. Move on to being a parent, already diagnosed with dairy intolerance, still plenty in house, both working, dietary choices not brilliant, but affordability, time, social and a mortgage to work around, cheap alternatives to healthy food choices. But even the meat and two veg, was not for me, just the meat and spuds, mostly roasties, because the wife loves her roast dinners. Didn't fancy the Atkins, just ate what agreed with me, and off course, it wasn't! Moving on to this century, it all caught up with me, told to look after myself, eat more healthy, such as the eat well plate, and tried every diet that I could find, but it made me even worse. For over ten years slowly putting weight on, I was eating healthy, according to the doctors, dsns, dietary advisors and even one endocrinologist, who all agreed that porridge for breakfast, baked potatoes and a filling, preferably with a carby filling, with fibre, then a meat and two veg evening meal but not chips! I tried to eat like this, but my weight still gained slowly but surely. I kept asking why, and obviously my health was suffering, my endocrine system was becoming more fatty, my cholesterol levels were worse, my organ function tests were high. I was told again and again to eat less and eat the above diet. I was diagnosed with T2. Another four years or so, I was religiously writing my numbers in my food diary, testing for whatever reason, lots of symptoms, health going down the drain. The doctors etc, still insistent that healthy eating was the answer. My weight was nearly eighteen stone, something was clearly not right! I had a hypo in front of my latest GP and referred to an endocrinologist, who did have a clue what the hell was going on, he diagnosed me after a series of tests, he directed my attention to this site. I never had a clue, nor all my medical care practitioners. I was eating healthy foods, but it was this healthy food that was going to put me in a coffin. I was not eating healthy for me. Carbs, sugars were literally killing me. Potatoes were making me obese! I was non diabetic, I had been misdiagnosed, and I went through hell because of the ignorance of what these so called healthy foods recommended for me had done to me. I do realise that being weird, because of the number of intolerance foods, I have to avoid, but if they had tested my insulin levels twenty years ago, they would have seen my hyperinsulinaemia. They would have had a different view about healthy dietary advice for me. It's shocking in this day and age, that so many are not aware of what a change away from so called healthy foods will make you healthier. There is so much wrong with dietary recommendations within the medical profession and like statins, there will not be a clear definitive dietary treatment for diabetes and other endocrine conditions. I lost six stone, got my health back, my endocrine system is really healthy, symptoms have mostly gone, and my last health review was described as perfect, hba1c 37, cholesterol in the low fives overall, good high, bad low. I got my life back, I got my energy back, I'm enjoying working again, I would not go back there again. Very low carb has worked, avoiding those foods, is healthy for me, I have my balance right, I'm old but in great health! [/QUOTE]
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