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belinda_b

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Hi there I'm new. My name's Belinda and I was diagnosed type 2 three years ago. I've posted on someone elses intro about diet and I have a couple of questions which I hope someone can help me with. Up until recently I was controlling my levels by diet only and doing ok, then over the last six months my weight went up and so did my blood glucose levels and my BP (take bendroflumethiazide 2.5mg and candesartan 2mg). I have now been prescribed metformin twice a day. I have two questions:

All my other levels are ok and my HbA1c is 8.....does anyone think I could reduce these levels by diet and exercise alone and avoid the metformin which I only started yesterday?

Why do the dieticians advise a high carb diet? I've been reading posts on here that have certainly been a shock to me....I've been on a high carb diet for the last three years and obviously I have been given the wrong advice....as recently as this week!

Help please....I'm confused

Belinda
 
Hi Belinda
to take your points singly:
yes you can improve levels by diet and exercise. Diet in particular. Reduce your carbs drastically and the levels WILL come down. Metformin is a good medicine and might help a little with weight.Low carb is good for that too.
High carb diets
Are advised because of a misundersanding sparked by Dr. Ancel Keys in the USA. He believed that fats caused elevated cholesterol and that resulted in cardiovascular events. He had no evidence for that, it was pure assumption. He wasn't a medic, but a Ph.D!
He was wrong, but "shouted" so loudly that his beliefs became facts( from the very beginning, there were doctors who opposed his views and were shouted down)
Many medics, who follow what they were taught,blindly, truly believe that carbs are essential THEY ARE NOT and that if you reduce your carbs, you will make up for it by increasing your fat intake, which will lead to CVA. IT WILL NOT
Read through these foums and find out more about this stuff. them bake yourself a Fergus loaf and spread it liberally with butter and top it with cheese and ENJOY without guilt.
 
Thank you for the replies....I will start readng through the different topics this evening. At least I have found somewhere where I can get reliable information now and that's a start.

What's a fergus loaf?
 
belinda_b said:
Thank you for the replies....I will start readng through the different topics this evening. At least I have found somewhere where I can get reliable information now and that's a start.

What's a fergus loaf?
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Can't help with a Fergus loaf:-)

This may help you start again (click on it): Getting Started
 
Metformin is a pretty useful drug (can be a bit noisy at first, start at a low dose and increase slowly and avoid eating carbs at the same meal you take the pill which might help) - it helps reduce insulin resistance, especially alongside exercise, and is one I would recommend at first.

It also has some cardioprotective properties, so it's a toss up between the side effects and the benefits as to whether you will want to stay on it when you have gained better control in future.
 
Fergus loaf is what I call the bread baked rfrom the recipe that Fergus invented. It's ultra low carb and delicious. Recipe is in the recipe threar. If yo want to try making it and haeve never baked bread, PM me.and I'll explain how to do iHana
 
Thanks Hana...I have baked bread, although not for a while. I have searched through the recipe thread but can't find the bread one...it seems to have been removed :(
 
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