My husband was in your situation exactly last September. He had his annual blood tests and the doctor said "your HbA1c level is 52 You have diabetes type2. If your level is 48 you are diabetic." (My husband is not computer literate, he's 84 so I'm writing).
We knew nothing about all these numbers. The doctor booked him on the local area day course, a diabetic eye test and said 'book yourself with a podiatrist.' But they weren't till December. Meanwhile he said to lose 2 stone in 8 weeks by 'cutting out bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. Eat smaller portions and drink 8 glasses of water a day and don't graze between meals.' By the time we went on the course he'd gone down from 13 stone to 10 stone 10.lbs. which is a weight loss of 2 stone 4lbs. His waist measurement had gone down from 42inches to 37 and a half inches. He was sent for another set of blood tests and when the results came through in January his HbAlc had gone down to 44 and the doctor said 'you are no longer diabetic but we'll keep an eye on you'.
Instead of those carbs he has proper porridge from proper old fashioned oats for breakfast. We have two cooked meals a day or one salad and the other cooked.
The cooked meals are white meat or fish with a mix of about 5 or 7 steamed veg (sweet potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, parsnips,mashed swede, leeks, beetroot, onion,celery and sweet corn). He has ryvita and seven pieces of fruit throughout the day.
We don't use sugar, honey, don't have cakes or biscuits. We only use skimmed milk. We don't bother with fruit juice, only water or cups of tea.
(I now eat exactly the same but I still eat some bread occasionally and have lost 10lbs). So keeping down the carbs is definitely the solution.
We both suffered withdrawal symptoms for four weeks so it was pretty stressful. But now I dont have a potato, rice or pasta in the house and we no longer miss them. We can walk past the burger bars and no longer feel tempted by the smell.
We do eat out about once a month but only at places where they allow a choice.
Quite a few places offer takeaway salads with chicken or fish these days.
Keep it up. You'll come through. And it was worth it to hear the doctor say 'you are no longer diabetic).
We knew nothing about all these numbers. The doctor booked him on the local area day course, a diabetic eye test and said 'book yourself with a podiatrist.' But they weren't till December. Meanwhile he said to lose 2 stone in 8 weeks by 'cutting out bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. Eat smaller portions and drink 8 glasses of water a day and don't graze between meals.' By the time we went on the course he'd gone down from 13 stone to 10 stone 10.lbs. which is a weight loss of 2 stone 4lbs. His waist measurement had gone down from 42inches to 37 and a half inches. He was sent for another set of blood tests and when the results came through in January his HbAlc had gone down to 44 and the doctor said 'you are no longer diabetic but we'll keep an eye on you'.
Instead of those carbs he has proper porridge from proper old fashioned oats for breakfast. We have two cooked meals a day or one salad and the other cooked.
The cooked meals are white meat or fish with a mix of about 5 or 7 steamed veg (sweet potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, parsnips,mashed swede, leeks, beetroot, onion,celery and sweet corn). He has ryvita and seven pieces of fruit throughout the day.
We don't use sugar, honey, don't have cakes or biscuits. We only use skimmed milk. We don't bother with fruit juice, only water or cups of tea.
(I now eat exactly the same but I still eat some bread occasionally and have lost 10lbs). So keeping down the carbs is definitely the solution.
We both suffered withdrawal symptoms for four weeks so it was pretty stressful. But now I dont have a potato, rice or pasta in the house and we no longer miss them. We can walk past the burger bars and no longer feel tempted by the smell.
We do eat out about once a month but only at places where they allow a choice.
Quite a few places offer takeaway salads with chicken or fish these days.
Keep it up. You'll come through. And it was worth it to hear the doctor say 'you are no longer diabetic).
(before I ate 3/3 of it) and some fish and veggie or fruit. And at night
