Hello Ronkey.
Hello Ronkey.
Looking at your profile, it suggests you are T2, not taking any medication. Well done modifying your diet, because when it comes to managing T2, the most important thing we can do is to control what we eat, bearing in mind our conditions. What your profile doesn't do is tell me what sort of things you are eating on a day-to-day basis. Secondly, you don't say of your weight loss was deliberate, but in my response, I'm assuming it was.
Just looking at your stats, dropping some weight since diagnosis will have done you some good. The NHS BMI calculator suggests, from what information you have made available, that you have managed to go from a BMI of just over 31 to just over 25. According to the NHS, they consider 25 and over to be overweight, so on their scale you are just getting into the good zone.
Please don't think that's any form of telling off, because it isn't. To lose 3 st takes a lot of work, and you should be very pleased, but the thing about a changing body shape and losing s real chunk of weight, as you have, is that it takes your body a bit of time to catch up with the weight, in terms of look and tone. Some of the "look" issue is just that we (and our friends and families) are not used to seeing ourselves slimmer, so it takes us a while to get used to that chiselled chin,, sculpted cheekbones, thinner arms or whatever. As for our bodies catching up? Well, Murphy's Law says we must lose weight from our favourite parts first, leaving the bits we've always hated until last. But, on another gross generalisation, for T2s, any weight we carry around our midriff can be slow to move, and that's important for us. Shifting that tummy weight is where we see our greatest gains, in terms of managing our conditions.
One final comment from me though. You mention your body not making enough insulin, and therefore it cannibalising your muscle sources. This can indeed be the case for T1s at diagnosis, or if they don't get great control, but most T2s, particularly those controlling by diet only, actually produce plenty of insulin, but our bodies don't use it as well as it might. OK, so that might seem nit-picking, but it is important. Most of us T2s suffer what is known as "Insulin Resistance", and a consultation with Dr Google will return quite a bit of reading for you. I'd search on "T2 diabetes insulin resistance".
Have a good read around that Google search. I'm sure you will find it interesting and enlightening.
If you could give us an insight into what you're eating and drinking on a day-to-day basis, and let us know whether you are self testing or not, that would be extremely helpful. Additionally, if you are home self-testing, what do your before and after meal scores look like?
