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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1668189" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hi again! Sorry that it has taken me a while to go into the forum again - it was the big rain storm, and also getting used to the mediterranean type of heat we have this year and therefore lifestyle! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> (meaning my usual routines are out the hot summer hols window....). Anyway.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I am pleased you are open to doing a DSME course - it was fabulous for the BG-metre stuff and meeting other diabetic folk IMHO.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And open to the low carb thing. Even moderate carbing is marvellous. I got down from an HBA1c of 93 to 54 from moderate carbing. (and lots of walking.) (LOTS. But I started out at 93, so...) I lost 20-30 kg, and have not gained those kilos back, from first moderate and now low carbing, with some lifestyle change fluctuations. I have been 40-45 HBA1c range for almost three years now. (Sadly I am one of these people who probably has to be really lean to be in the normal blood glucose range, and I have not been able to do that easily or maintain that.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Which brings me to - activity and exercise is great for keeping your vascular system, heart, and muscles healthy, and really important, but when it comes to having blood glucose dysregulation (ie pre/diabetes) nothing beats putting less of the carby-sugary stuff into your system in the first place. I say this as someone who had a couple of weeks off for xmas/new year and am paying the price - but bear in my mind my dysregulation is way worse than yours (using HBA1c-history as evidence there <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">This means bucking the 'balanced diet' advice which I know is tough as we were brought up on it, and continue to be advised on. All I can tell you is - the high carb prescribed diet is what lead you to blood glucose regulation in the first place, and that balanced diet advice (which is high carb) will not help you get better, alas. It means ignoring the official nz diabetes diet advice I am sorry to say.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I do feel for you re the food prep issue. Learning to cook new foods and so on was a bore, but now it is second nature, and I learnt to cook in bulk basic items, and have a lot of almond meal/flour in the pantry. If you look at it as basically dead critters and veg - it becomes a lot easier! Doesn't take long to cook up lamb chops and toss a salad (with olive oil and vinegar!). And you have the added bonus of being able to pass on these nutritional gems to your kids - I was too late with my eldest for that, although have been able to affect my youngest. This is very good as they inherit my body type and therefore tendency to blood glucose dysregulation, as yours might. As a parent of young one/s you have an enormous potential to truly affect their health in a good way. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">But, as I said above (I think? Ah - the heat! Even my cats re panting) (First time I have seen cats panting!) I know many folks whose insulin resistance was not as dyed in the wool as mine obviously is who were able to achieve normal blood glucose levels by doing not so very much, just fairly minor adjustments. This could be your story. They have all been close to normal weight though, and very active, so maybe all it took was minor adjustments? who knows. I would look at the weight as a sign of your body's dysregulation rather than a cause (as I believe scientifically - it is), and getting your body systems functioning well and healthily directing yourself away from the too high insulin (and blood glucose) 'complications' of diabetes - which is the strokes and cardiovascular diseases. And yeah - that is in lowering carbs and upping physical activity. It sounds easy, but I do understand it is easier said than done. As many on this forum will and are saying - it can be a challenge. But good health is sure worth it. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1668189, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Hi again! Sorry that it has taken me a while to go into the forum again - it was the big rain storm, and also getting used to the mediterranean type of heat we have this year and therefore lifestyle! :) (meaning my usual routines are out the hot summer hols window....). Anyway. I am pleased you are open to doing a DSME course - it was fabulous for the BG-metre stuff and meeting other diabetic folk IMHO. And open to the low carb thing. Even moderate carbing is marvellous. I got down from an HBA1c of 93 to 54 from moderate carbing. (and lots of walking.) (LOTS. But I started out at 93, so...) I lost 20-30 kg, and have not gained those kilos back, from first moderate and now low carbing, with some lifestyle change fluctuations. I have been 40-45 HBA1c range for almost three years now. (Sadly I am one of these people who probably has to be really lean to be in the normal blood glucose range, and I have not been able to do that easily or maintain that.) Which brings me to - activity and exercise is great for keeping your vascular system, heart, and muscles healthy, and really important, but when it comes to having blood glucose dysregulation (ie pre/diabetes) nothing beats putting less of the carby-sugary stuff into your system in the first place. I say this as someone who had a couple of weeks off for xmas/new year and am paying the price - but bear in my mind my dysregulation is way worse than yours (using HBA1c-history as evidence there :)). This means bucking the 'balanced diet' advice which I know is tough as we were brought up on it, and continue to be advised on. All I can tell you is - the high carb prescribed diet is what lead you to blood glucose regulation in the first place, and that balanced diet advice (which is high carb) will not help you get better, alas. It means ignoring the official nz diabetes diet advice I am sorry to say. I do feel for you re the food prep issue. Learning to cook new foods and so on was a bore, but now it is second nature, and I learnt to cook in bulk basic items, and have a lot of almond meal/flour in the pantry. If you look at it as basically dead critters and veg - it becomes a lot easier! Doesn't take long to cook up lamb chops and toss a salad (with olive oil and vinegar!). And you have the added bonus of being able to pass on these nutritional gems to your kids - I was too late with my eldest for that, although have been able to affect my youngest. This is very good as they inherit my body type and therefore tendency to blood glucose dysregulation, as yours might. As a parent of young one/s you have an enormous potential to truly affect their health in a good way. But, as I said above (I think? Ah - the heat! Even my cats re panting) (First time I have seen cats panting!) I know many folks whose insulin resistance was not as dyed in the wool as mine obviously is who were able to achieve normal blood glucose levels by doing not so very much, just fairly minor adjustments. This could be your story. They have all been close to normal weight though, and very active, so maybe all it took was minor adjustments? who knows. I would look at the weight as a sign of your body's dysregulation rather than a cause (as I believe scientifically - it is), and getting your body systems functioning well and healthily directing yourself away from the too high insulin (and blood glucose) 'complications' of diabetes - which is the strokes and cardiovascular diseases. And yeah - that is in lowering carbs and upping physical activity. It sounds easy, but I do understand it is easier said than done. As many on this forum will and are saying - it can be a challenge. But good health is sure worth it. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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