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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
Ok, can I sort of rant here? And can you put this into perspective?
Had a meeting with my doctor today, it went really well sort of. He's over the moon at my BS levels... This weeks average is 5.3. Yes it's had a couple of spikes but because I'm testing so often I know exactly what's caused them. Which means I know what to either limit or avoid... He laughed at my canned tomatoes spike and said he would think of me while he was eating some for breakfast tomorrow... But all in all he's happy. I'm going for a blood test to see how everything else is doing in two weeks. He decided not to up my metformin or glimepiride as he doesn't think I need it increased, which means some of the works paid off with my diet because this meeting was to check to see if I was coping or needed more.
We talked about my diet, he's impressed that I've stayed off bread, pasta potatoes and rice the entire time and my coffee is still sugar free. I asked him about what my carb intake realistically should be. He likes the fact that I'm down to between 10-20gms per day, but says he doubt that's going to be attainable long term, and says that there are times when I'm going to want carbs. So he was saying that realistically I should be looking at up to 50gms per day. And if there's a special occasion etc come up to try to keep them under the 200gms because this is going to really spike my levels. But moderation.
All of this is re-enforcing what I've been reading and makes a lot of sense if I'm wanting to maintain low carb eating... He did say though if I'm happy on 10-20mgs a day stick to it, I will reap the benefits long term.
My blood pressure has had a slight drop
But my weights increased by 1kg... I'm gutted.... I've lost 14kg since Christmas and have been actively trying to loose more. I've walked every day and really been focused on trying to shift at least another stone. The doc actually did say that he has been expecting me to gain a lot more than I have because my body's rehydrated it's self and it will take a little while to find the balance. So I'm trying to heed this advice and look positively that it was only a kilo.
Now the rant... My family and friends... You can see I see I've lost weight since Christmas, it's been more visible because over the last three years I've lost 4.5 stone. I did this a bit at a time, and kept it off... But I haven't had a push like I have since Christmas.. So the 14kg takes me up to loosing about 7 stone, and I still need to loose another 2 to be at my happiest weight. Anyway family and friends... All I'm getting is eating to few carbs is unsustainable... I need to start to eat more, I need carbs in my diet, they are a good group for a reason and my body needs them.. I need a balanced low fat diet and do it goes on and on and on and I have no idea how on earth to deal with them.. I've tried to say my doctors happy with my diet, my blood sugars under control so let me just keep going with it...to the point had a stand up screaming match with my sister today because I should be eating low fat instead of having whipped cream in my coffee.... I should be thinking about my cholesterhol and that I'm going to be causing myself damage.
How on earth do I get them to believe that my diet is ok, and I am going to continue with it?
Anyone got any ideas?
Had a meeting with my doctor today, it went really well sort of. He's over the moon at my BS levels... This weeks average is 5.3. Yes it's had a couple of spikes but because I'm testing so often I know exactly what's caused them. Which means I know what to either limit or avoid... He laughed at my canned tomatoes spike and said he would think of me while he was eating some for breakfast tomorrow... But all in all he's happy. I'm going for a blood test to see how everything else is doing in two weeks. He decided not to up my metformin or glimepiride as he doesn't think I need it increased, which means some of the works paid off with my diet because this meeting was to check to see if I was coping or needed more.
We talked about my diet, he's impressed that I've stayed off bread, pasta potatoes and rice the entire time and my coffee is still sugar free. I asked him about what my carb intake realistically should be. He likes the fact that I'm down to between 10-20gms per day, but says he doubt that's going to be attainable long term, and says that there are times when I'm going to want carbs. So he was saying that realistically I should be looking at up to 50gms per day. And if there's a special occasion etc come up to try to keep them under the 200gms because this is going to really spike my levels. But moderation.
All of this is re-enforcing what I've been reading and makes a lot of sense if I'm wanting to maintain low carb eating... He did say though if I'm happy on 10-20mgs a day stick to it, I will reap the benefits long term.
My blood pressure has had a slight drop
But my weights increased by 1kg... I'm gutted.... I've lost 14kg since Christmas and have been actively trying to loose more. I've walked every day and really been focused on trying to shift at least another stone. The doc actually did say that he has been expecting me to gain a lot more than I have because my body's rehydrated it's self and it will take a little while to find the balance. So I'm trying to heed this advice and look positively that it was only a kilo.
Now the rant... My family and friends... You can see I see I've lost weight since Christmas, it's been more visible because over the last three years I've lost 4.5 stone. I did this a bit at a time, and kept it off... But I haven't had a push like I have since Christmas.. So the 14kg takes me up to loosing about 7 stone, and I still need to loose another 2 to be at my happiest weight. Anyway family and friends... All I'm getting is eating to few carbs is unsustainable... I need to start to eat more, I need carbs in my diet, they are a good group for a reason and my body needs them.. I need a balanced low fat diet and do it goes on and on and on and I have no idea how on earth to deal with them.. I've tried to say my doctors happy with my diet, my blood sugars under control so let me just keep going with it...to the point had a stand up screaming match with my sister today because I should be eating low fat instead of having whipped cream in my coffee.... I should be thinking about my cholesterhol and that I'm going to be causing myself damage.
How on earth do I get them to believe that my diet is ok, and I am going to continue with it?
Anyone got any ideas?