I lost a load of weight quite quickly - I was 73.6kg in November last year when I was first diagnosed with T2
Hi, I lost a load of weight when I started LCHF in November last year when I was found to have T2. I was 73.6kg back in November and I'm 54. 5kg now - I began to worry that I would lose too much weight, I'm 5ft 1 inches and 69. I've been this weight for a couple of months now so I think - I hope this is my proper weight. I have a couple of eggs as an omelette every morning, occassionally a couple if boiled eggs instead. I eat a lot of unsalted nuts and seeds, in fact I tend to have them instead of a meal or with a bowl of soup. I eat a good meal once a day with meat or some sort of fish and a couple of different green veg and maybe a couple of baby new potatoes. I don't eat bread or a lot of potatoes or pasta because I discovered by testing before and after meals that grain based products and potatoes cooked in certain ways (jacket / mashed) raised my blood sugar. I'm afraid I've almost always had a pudding with my main meal - it's always berries and a dollop of cream. I cook with olive oil and I love coleslaw. I wasn't trying to lose weight, mine came off as a side effect of 'eating to my blood test results' - I've got a record of everything I've eaten since December last year and I just cut out the stuff that spiked my blood, once I did that the weight came off. As I've stopped losing and am eating the same sort of and quantity of food, I think I'm probably at my natural weight now.
I have Graves Disease which is an overactive thyroid with antibodies, I lost stacks of weight when I was first diagnosed but as I was treated that weight all came back
Like you say it can be really difficult when your doc doesn't want to do blood tests. If it's any help, I now organise my own blood tests using an accredited lab that I found on the TUK website - I've been completely signed off but I like to keep a check in what's going on - I have all my thyroid bloods, antibodies, CRP, vitamins D and B12 and a couple of other things done for around £100. I use their home thyroid 11 fingerpick test, you get the complete kit through the post, prick your finger, fill a tiny tube then send it off and get the results and a report back by email in a couple if days. No more pleading with your GP for blood tests. I started when they were talking about possibly giving me radioactive iodine and I had never ever had my T3 tested.