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Did a Nutritionist help you any with your Diabetes way of eating ?

Yes I remember her printing a load of stuff off the computer, most of which was useless, I had to make my own way, not very successfully as I went through the try this medication, try that etc. After 9 years of being mostly ignored I was sent to the hospital diabetes centre of which I had high hopes of someone at last understanding my pleas for help but I was put on insulin just at night, still no nutritional advice. Thank goodness I came upon this site.
The poor guy sounded suicidal, hope you managed to cheer him up!
 
I hope all goes well.
 
I had nutrition advice from a dietitian, a local diabetes charity and my DN. None of them gave correct or useful advice. It invariably told me to eat starchy carbs with every meal and eat more fruit.
 
I have seen three dietitian / nutritionist before I got my proper diagnosis.
Each of these gave the unhelpful advice about how 'good carbs' were essential for my T2!!
I had two sessions with a nutritionist which my endocrinologist arranged and because of my diagnosis recommended this site to me.

I now talk to my clubs nutritionist whom recommends low carb.
 
I was offered a course with a dietitian/nutritionist about six years ago, before I was diagnosed as T2. My GP said it was because of my weight, though I was only a bit overweight, and otherwise quite physically healthy. I couldn't go as the appointments would have been during my working hours, and my employer would not have given me the time off.
I have not been offered anything since being diagnosed, which is probably just as well judging by reading people's experiences on here. I get all the advice I need from this forum.
 
Diagnosed sixteen years ago I have never seen a dietician or nutritionist,just,very occasionally the GP 'with special interest in diabetes' and the DN every three months .The dietary advice has been eat porridge (I did!),watch your weight(I watched it shoot up) and a suggestion of larger carb portions on my plate!I was told several times I was not at typical Type 2 shape..............................
If you have a sense of humour (I lose mine sometimes) Just having low carbed for six months I went along to a review with printouts of much lowered weight, BP, BS ,Hbac and a food diary with blood sugars,as my DN had given me a meter and strips for IBS problems I wanted to put a word in for low carb.A trainee DN was observing.On looking briefly at my results my DN commented,'I always say diet is important'.............I asked how many other Type 2s in the practice were low carbing.......'a couple but not as seriously as you.' I did feel 'damned with faint praise'!!However compared to many health professionals she is quite supportive and the test strips are on prescription.My GP thinks the diet will not work and I really don't need all those strips (50) each month.Better not to say I buy extra myself.
 
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Squire Fulwood said:
I had nutrition advice from a dietitian, a local diabetes charity and my DN. None of them gave correct or useful advice. It invariably told me to eat starchy carbs with every meal and eat more fruit.
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I get the more fruit also told to me , and if I did I would be way overweight and BG to high.
 
I am so glad I found this site.
 
I am thinking these profesionals seem to believe low carb is something that wont be a lifetime change so dont even bring it up and if we do arent real supportive of it and I get it but it works as we all know- and just like anything else suggested to us some of us go back and forth to diff ways of eating just like non diabetics do with ''eating a certain way'' - IF low carb works I aint fixin it. right!!
 
I have only ever seen the practice dn. Was told that I had hypothyroidism and t2d on the phone. And then she gave me some tablets for hypertension.
I do believe that a gp sometimes signs the prescription, although I wouldn't swear to that.
Anything I now know I have found from places like this, and I am so grateful.
 
When diagnosed my DN suggested the 600 calorie regime as a diet. I see that 10 months later it is regularly referred to as the cure to diabetes. If I had known that it was I certainly would have taken the Nestle shakes but hey then I thought it was just a diet and I have seen the results of enough food fad diets.

The nutritional advice was left to the Desmond course some 7 weeks after diagnosis by which time I had omitted carbs and seen several videos about Ancel keys and Statins. As I demonstratably had proven weight loss and was still functioning I was not persuaded by the plastic food representations of various foodstuffs.

Ten months on low carb is still working. On last weeks mental agility tests I still have IQ 134, report analysis skills still function at >90%, qrisk is still improving and when I have my bloods done for the DN I will know how much control I have over BG and cholesterol. By then I should also have my genetic profile report. At present I am unaware of low carb doing me any harm.

On the other hand I am subjected to nutritional advice from many specialisms; here, cancer, dementia, weight, magazines, lifestyle, arthritis, friends and I find nutritionists give me an headache.
 
I have had no interaction with either nutritionist or dietician one advantage of that is I had no advise to ignore or comply with on dietary matters, so was free to do as I pleased.
 
Same here low cab no harm. I had done low carb 5 years straight before not for Diabetes , now low carb over a year straight again and Diabetic.
 
letstalk1 said:
With low carb or ? diet plan suggested seems way to high carb to me with out the thought of how carbs effect craving to people etcc..... .
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Yes and no. She recommended that I eat 180 to 210 grams of carb a day. I thought that this was insane for a diabetic to eat that much of the substance that causes their bg to go up. She also recommended that I eat to my meter. Basically, do not eat anything that causes my bg to go up. When I followed this recommendation and stopped trying to eat 210 grams of carbs my bg normalized after less than 48 hours.
 
Ya if
Ya if I ate this many carbs a day I would be gaining weight.
 
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