Give yourself time, use the diabetes to change your health, i will try go beat it, but am having this year as a settling in preriod. Put right my wrongs, exercise and lose weight . I want a stable bg level better fitness and more knowledge before going for reversal and if it fails then this year will be a good set up for the rest of my life.
Good luck with your path though, hopefully it works out.
I would definately start testing as it gives you a good indication of what foods you can tolerate and those that you cant. Unfortunately its like pulling teeth to try and get one from your GP though but give it a go you.might be lucky. If not you should purchase one as they are an essential tool to have in diabetes management. Good luck with your next Hb test, Im sure it would have gone down with the changes you have made so far. Please let us know the reault
Dont be to hard on yourself diabetes is very much about genes, but when you first have the genes you can reverse it.
Read this book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-8-Week-Blood-Sugar-Diet/dp/1780722400
I'd say test every day! Only by testing before and a couple of hours after any "new" food will you know the impact of it on your blood sugar levels. I would also say that recording the details alerts you to patterns and equips you with personally relevant info you can discuss with your doctor. Also- a couple of litres of fluid each day keeps you hydrated ..less can produce higher levels, but we all differ.
Thank you for the advice though I am a little wary of testing as I want to focus on weight loss first but yes - I am going to need to know what goes and what stays. I have eaten porridge before work for years so this is something I need to check, along with full fat milk and toast as I have recently switched to Burgen and Vogel breads. Dehydration/ frequency of urination has been a problem since before Christmas though fortunately I drink a lot of tea......Ah, expect I should test the tea too?!
Thank you for the advice though I am a little wary of testing as I want to focus on weight loss first but yes - I am going to need to know what goes and what stays. I have eaten porridge before work for years so this is something I need to check, along with full fat milk and toast as I have recently switched to Burgen and Vogel breads. Dehydration/ frequency of urination has been a problem since before Christmas though fortunately I drink a lot of tea......Ah, expect I should test the tea too?!
Give yourself time, use the diabetes to change your health, i will try go beat it, but am having this year as a settling in preriod. Put right my wrongs, exercise and lose weight . I want a stable bg level better fitness and more knowledge before going for reversal and if it fails then this year will be a good set up for the rest of my life.
Good luck with your path though, hopefully it works out.
Hi Dave, welcome to the forum. Oh dear, you didn't stand a chance!Yes it does look like my genes could be the key, as my Dad seems to have similar problems to my own mix of health issues and my mother has had T2 Diabetes for a number of years controlled through diet.
Just looked and ordered the book. Thank you.
Hey Dave.
While clearly we all differ and it pays to test to be clear on what you personally should and shouldn't eat in relation to blood sugar, and while many doctors (evidently reading from some 1950s handbook) recommend a "healthy, balanced diet"....like we all have the same systems...there are some things I would say you don't need to test to know they are high carbs which will push your levels right up. I find that any kind of cereal, including low GI stuff, and nearly every kind of bread spikes my levels almost instantly and it stays up for a good few hours. If I don't eat this kind of stuff, levels are seldom above 7.0mmols. Milk would be a no-no for me too, but I wouldn't worry about a little drop in tea....and tea and coffee are absolutely fine. Bitter melon tea is worth trying as it does lower my levels for a short time, as can cinnamon tea. I find that drinking a couple of litres of water can be a struggle. I had to drink about 3.5 litres a day for about a month after my transplant...and got sick of it..but I found that a very small amount of Robinsons orange or summer berry in water made a huge difference. I manage to avoid dehydration (despite visits to the loo) by sipping away at a bottle of very diluted juice throughout the day, and regularly manage 2 litres plus. Anyway, good luck, mate.
My personal experience - FWIW - is that it is that my blood glucose levels are far more tightly tied to what I am putting in my mouth today than they are to the end result of what I put in my mouth over a period of years (my weight). I am working on both, but I'm down around 16% of my body weight since diagnosis and have not experienced any decrease in insulin resistance. Had I focused on weight loss alone, I would have been very discouraged at this point (3.5 months after diagnosis).
But limiting my carb intake - based on changing my diet in response to what elevated it, put my readings in the normal range over 96% of the time - starting within 3 days of diagnosis - makes me a very happy camper.
Dave, forget about your weight please, a lot of diet, 'healthy' foods are so high in Carbs they probably have an effect by looking at them, follow the food advise on this forum, Good food, quick to prepare and right for us Diabetics, i am loosing weight, i was borderline obese, which surprised me, i did not think at 5'11'' and 16 stone i was overly fat! (try the carrot cake recipe, this is by no way any different to normal cake, possibly better.). And get a tester, you need to know what your levels are the food you eat will have an effect, either good or bad, and by testing to can keep track of your progress, i test 3 times a day, now beging to increase that as my levels are normal/ near normal in the three weeks i have known i have diabetes. Knowledge is power.
Good luck.
If you follow a LowCarb diet you should start losing weight and Lowering your BG in weeks not months,and like many T2D,s on this forum reverse your diabetes,when you start looking at the food you can eat there a lots things that are surprising, bacon and eggs fried in butter,nice fatty pork chops,Mayo, full day Greek yogurt ,the opposite to what you have been told and it works
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