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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Boissetarian" data-source="post: 424646" data-attributes="member: 74062">Hi everyonejust read all your posts about Dieticians and their "helpful" !!!!!! advice.  I have experienced similar.  I was told to eat 200grms of carbs with each meal.  Being green behind the ears at the time I tried it - result - I put on weight wich did not help the diabetes!  GP also changed my medications because I was having digestive problems with the ones I was on, and I put on even more weight.  It was then I started to investigate the drugs I was on and what they did.  I began to take control of my diabetes myself.  As you say Hazehkm, no one knows our bodies better than ourselves.  My GP certainly doesn't.  I then came across the "Fast Diet" or 5:2 diet as it is also known.  Started it in June and began to lose weight.  Went to see GP to run it past him.  He said it would not work but I said I wanted to try it.  He just shrugged his shoulders.  Tried diet for a month and kept record of BS readings BP readings and weight.  Went back to see him with evidence of weight losss and lower BS readings.  I had also reduced my medication to one tablet instead of 3. He was not impressed and said readings were not reliable as I would still have a residue of other medications in my system!!!! So we agreed on another trial month, just taking Dialmacron and BP tablet, then have a blood test and go back and see him.   I came away thinking that he expected my BS to be all over the place so he could say "I told you so!"  How wrong could he be.  I had lost even more weight and more importantly my HbA1c was down almost 1% from the previous reading 4 months before.   When he say that he just uttered a short synical laugh!!!  He could not say anything against the results.But when he was on holiday a couple of weeks ago I had to see a colleague of his who had an entirely different attitude.  I told him about this diet and he too was a bit sceptical but when I showed him an article about the diet and showed him how my weight & BS had dropped he was very supportive.  I said how my BS rose after the evening meal and he suggested that I took half a metformin along with Diamacron with the evening meal to help steady the BS;  I have done this and now have a more even level.  Shows how GPs differ.  I cannot eat carbs - my body does not seem to deal with them properly and they just turn to fat.  I now weigh in at 90kg - the lowest I have been for ages.  I was over 95kg when I started.  Like you I have more energy most days and my mental attitude has improved.  We have bought a running machine and I now do about 10-20 mins of fast walking each day.  So think I am now living a healthier life than before.I fully recommend a person taking control of their diabetes and not letting it take control of them. One will never be non-diabetic, it is with us for the rest of our lives, but we can live a full rounded life in it's company.  There are no foods I do not eat, but some less often than I used and in not so great a quantity.  I am 71 and want to live what years I have left to the full and not be a slave to a rigid diet that give no pleasure.  I would suspect you feel the same.</blockquote>

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