freelance52
Member
Hi everyone.
I've been reading and posting since early august, but never actually got round to inroducing myself.
I'm a 58 yr old female, wife, mother of 1 daughter, now just a housewife. I was diagnosed T2 in mid 2001 with a BS of 30 :!: :!: All the women in my family have been overweight and developed T2 as soon as they reached the menopause, so it shouldn't have been such a shock to me, but it was. It came on the heels of 2000 when my son died in the March (aged 17 yrs) and I retired from work on health grounds (would you believe stress and depression :!: :!: :?: ) in the december. So not a good year and 2001, with the diagnosis of T2, was not much better.
Since then the depression has worsened and the eating has increased, along with the weight, and diabetic control has varied from poor to non-existent with a lot of total denial and non-compliance with meds etc.
This forum, and especially the stuff on low carbing, has become my lifeline. I am currently into week 4 of the new low carb lifestyle and not using salt at all. My BS are down from 17.9 to 7.6 in the morning (I suffer from 'the dawn phenomenon') and I have lost 9 lbs and B/P down to 114/73. So now, thanks entirely to this site, there is hope and a future.
Thanks to everyone who runs this site, visits it, posts on it etc. You are all great
I've been reading and posting since early august, but never actually got round to inroducing myself.
I'm a 58 yr old female, wife, mother of 1 daughter, now just a housewife. I was diagnosed T2 in mid 2001 with a BS of 30 :!: :!: All the women in my family have been overweight and developed T2 as soon as they reached the menopause, so it shouldn't have been such a shock to me, but it was. It came on the heels of 2000 when my son died in the March (aged 17 yrs) and I retired from work on health grounds (would you believe stress and depression :!: :!: :?: ) in the december. So not a good year and 2001, with the diagnosis of T2, was not much better.
Since then the depression has worsened and the eating has increased, along with the weight, and diabetic control has varied from poor to non-existent with a lot of total denial and non-compliance with meds etc.
This forum, and especially the stuff on low carbing, has become my lifeline. I am currently into week 4 of the new low carb lifestyle and not using salt at all. My BS are down from 17.9 to 7.6 in the morning (I suffer from 'the dawn phenomenon') and I have lost 9 lbs and B/P down to 114/73. So now, thanks entirely to this site, there is hope and a future.
Thanks to everyone who runs this site, visits it, posts on it etc. You are all great
