I eat quite normal, fresh veg bit of fruit( carrots,spinach,avocado,Apple) 1 main meal,(spag bol,porkchops,chicken,gammon) work nights so tend to have chocolate bar and crisps do not eat meal at work,have toast when finish(brown bread) have alcohol weekend's only ( Rum with mixer) no larger/cider.
Hi
@Bobert66 ,
You eat "quite normal" yes... The thing is, your metabolism isn't normal. It's impaired, which is what T2 really is... Your body becomes unable to properly use certain food components for fuel. And a lot of what you mention is what we can't process. (Pasta, fruit, spuds, rice, bread etc) What happens to stuff we can't process? It either gets stored it fat cells, or it ends up in our bloodstream, urine, salive, tears, doing damage along the way.... We can't process carbohydrates, and carbohydrates turn to glucose once ingested. So hence the high bloodsugars. The high cholesterol is debatable, because what some consider high actually isn't all that high, but... High Cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, high bloodpressure and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease usually go together. Good news being, if you tackle the diabetes bit with diet.... The rest will follow. Everything will normalise. Why? Because the main thing that mucks us up is the inability to process carbohydrates. Why can't we? Because contrary to type 1's, we T2's make
massive amounts of insulin. And when here's a lot of something around, we become insensitive to it.The insulin stops helping us use glucose (from all carbs, not just sugar but starches too) as fuel, so it just gets stored or ends up in our bloodstream. Boom. Diabetic.
The solution's a simple one: Don't eat carbs. Stick with everything that has little to none. Cut out bread, pasta, potatoes, cereal, corn, fruit (berries are okay though), rice... And stick with other stuff like eggs, meat, fish, poultry, above ground veggies and leafy greens, (hard) cheeses, full fat greek yoghurt, that sort of thing.
..If T2 could be fixed with cinnamon, there'd be a great shortage in the world. There's no quick, easy fixes. It takes some determination. but hey, eggs with bacon and high meat content sausages are back on the menu. (And extra dark chocolate too!)
You'll be okay. But there is no real miracle cure, nothing easy.... Though I have to admit, once you get in the swing of things with a low carb, high fat diet (and yes, that WILL fix your cholesterol too), it doesn't seem all that hard...
https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html <-- this is my own quick start guide, and you might want to read Dr. Jason Fung's The Diabetes Code, or watch his (free) youtube video's. Dietdoctor.com is good too, as is this forum's website, diabetes.co.uk, for ideas on how to eat to put your diabetes in remission. I've done it, a lot of people here have done it, and there's no reason why you can't.
Good luck,
Jo