Maybe I just worry too much.Just to add my tuppence. Pipp, top drawer, keep it up. Forget the labels you've done amazingly well.
Also, 6.8 two hours after eating some bad stuff to my mind is non-diabetic levels.
Yesterday me and my wife had the exact same lunch for science. It was a white baguette with sausage and bacon with lots of ketchup (i think the bloke in the sandwich shop got carried away). Today i'm back to salad and tuna as every other day.
We tested before, She was 4.7 and I was 5.3. We ate the baguettes, nothing else, and 2 hours later tested. She was 7.7 and I was 9.2. She has been tested for diabeties very recently and isn't. Your 6.8 is a fantastic result.
Controlled means you got to be doing something like special diet. I am not doing anything to control I am living as normal as I did before diabetes.I would not even say it is reversed, just controlled.
I was not talking about you. I am in this situation and wondered if Pipp may also be. My suggestion is to certainly test for the first few months.Controlled means you got to be doing something like special diet. I am not doing anything to control I am living as normal as I did before diabetes.
I was not talking about you. I am in this situation and wondered if Pipp may also be. My suggestion is to certainly test for the first few months.
- the articles that I have read state that rather than t2 being the result of obesity the thinking now is that obesity is the result of a pre disposition to t2 as a result of your genes.
I liked your post and agree with the majority of it. The only thing I would like to say is that I notice the book you refer to was published in 2004. This was before Prof Taylor's study with the Newcastle diet. I believe that in a very few cases of type 2's there has now been a cure, but these are so recent that we don't know much about them and if the cure is lifelong or not. That is why I think Pipp should test and monitor her BG's so that she knows if she is indeed cured or if the diabetes is simply very much improved. I think it's a cure that will not work for everyone..........but time will tell.The NHS needs to make up its mind - is T2 the plague of the modern world or just a cold and snotty nose type illness. I was diagnosed in May 2014 with a fasting level of 13.8. I couldn't get an appointment with the nurse for three weeks (holiday -hers not mine) so I do what any sensible person would do bought my self a monitor and test strips and good book. By the time I went to see the nurse my level was down to 8.3 on morning tests. Good job I took the initiative because she told me - she didn't have time to do a first review, she wished she had known it was my first review. Strange thing I did mention it to the receptionist and it was in my notes - but we will let that slip. She then told me she couldn't give me a prescription for test strips as my tester was not the one the practice gives you for free. My test plugs into my iPhone so my results are there for me to see all the time in A graph, in a log in an average. She then told me I only need to test once a week. By this time, having lost interest and five hours pay as the appointment was in the middle of the day and work 30miles from my home I bought the appointment to close and decided not to bother with her in the future.
The book I bought was brilliant type 2 the first 12 months and this forum is fantastic - I have gained more insight and advice from these than for the NHS. If I was you I would test from what I have read there is no cure - you can control it but you can't cure it. I also think that every home should have a tester and should test once a week - the articles that I have read state that rather than t2 being the result of obesity the thinking now is that obesity is the result of a pre disposition to t2 as a result of your genes.
Slightly off topic-ish, but Kyran, you are also now within normal levels without medication and can eat "normal" food?
What did you do to achieve this? Was it also massive weight loss and the newcastle diet like Pipp?
Anyone else fall into this category of not needing meds and being able to eat pretty much what they want without BG spikes? If so i'd be curious to hear how it was achieved.
I think @Pipp and @Andrew Colvin are the two who most immediately spring to mind, although they may chose to comment for themselves. I don't take meds and am currently sampling reintroducing more carby foods to my day to day diet, which is going pretty well, so far.Slightly off topic-ish, but Kyran, you are also now within normal levels without medication and can eat "normal" food?
What did you do to achieve this? Was it also massive weight loss and the newcastle diet like Pipp?
Anyone else fall into this category of not needing meds and being able to eat pretty much what they want without BG spikes? If so i'd be curious to hear how it was achieved.
I just got back from Holiday. My wife ordered dominos pizza. I took Thai green chicken curry and cauliflower rice out of the freezer. She left 3 slices.I think @Pipp and @Andrew Colvin are the two who most immediately spring to mind, although they may chose to comment for themselves. I don't take meds and am currently sampling reintroducing more carby foods to my day to day diet, which is going pretty well, so far.
Speaking for myself, I reduced my carbs, brought my sugars down to non-diabetic levels, and lost any excess weight before reintroducing additional carbs. That said, I have always been able to tolerate some unusual carbs (from a diabetic perspective), like tropical fruit, rice and bread; although these have always been in very modest quantities, and not every day. I'm now trying to work my way through a variety of scenario I would like explore, but am also being a little more relaxed in social environments where a wider diet makes joining in simpler. To be fair, none of my experiments, to date, have involved sweets, puddings, cakes or the like, as they're not high on my priorities, or on my wish list.
Is that 7.2 at 2 hours Andrew?@Raspin have a read of my success story thread "got my 3 month hba1c" thread. It explains my approach. This week whilst being on holiday I have been eating normally including burgers chips bread and butter pudding treacle tart bake well tart and not seen anything over 7.2. Can't believe it is helping my weight loss though. Oh well back to normal next week.
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