Feeling down

Hi welcome

Yup been there done that!

Take a breath, you will be able to cope, this thing can be a blessing in disguise if you let it

Knowledge is power, read all about it in your own time, ask questions

Then get ready to show the world how awesome you are

MidnightStar said:

I was diagnosed a week and a half ago and I'm being to think I'll not be able to cope with being a Type 2. I love food and love to cook. I feel so low *Sighs*

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Nothing most of us haven't been thru.

Can you give us some background with your Figures? heaps of people ready to help on this forum

Mike

NoCrbs4Me said:

Ya, I used to love bread and baked my own since I was a kid. It sucked giving that up, but rating it was killing me.

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Nocrbs4me, there are a few fair "bread recipes I'll send you my fav's tomorrow.

MidnightStar said:

I was diagnosed a week and a half ago and I'm being to think I'll not be able to cope with being a Type 2. I love food and love to cook. I feel so low *Sighs*

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Hello there and welcome to the madhouse,

Two things about diabetes and food:

1) Don't listen to the NHS "Eat Well Plate" advice as given out by most NHS dieticians and Diabetes UK;
2) Do ask others (via this forum) for help, hints and ideas / links to ideas, etc. This website regularly offers pdf Cookbooks with a fantastic array of tasty, healthy and thoroughly enjoyable meal ideas.

MidnightStar said:

I'm seeing my Diabetic nurse on Tuesday. I'm going to ask for a monitor and if I'm refused I'm going to buy one. All I know at the moment is my HBac1 was 61 when the Dr diagnosed me a week and a half ago

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Also ask for a copy of all your lab results. Knowledge is power!

MidnightStar said:

I was diagnosed a week and a half ago and I'm being to think I'll not be able to cope with being a Type 2. I love food and love to cook. I feel so low *Sighs*

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Not coping is not an option.

Human beings are wonderfully adaptive and I am sure that when you get over the shock of your initial diagnosis you will be amazed at how well you can eat and feel, even as a diabetic.

There is no reason to give up cooking. In fact home cooked from scratch, unprocessed food is quite high on the list of most diabetic recommendations,

You will have to abandon or at the very list limit your intake of some carb rich food but to compensate you have a host of new low carb recipes to try out to find alternatives that you both enjoy and will keep you healthy.

There is not much capital to be made in regretting what can no longer be.

Embrace your new situation, see it as a challenge, as an opportunity to make a fresh start and turn some things around, and you may find, like a lot of others have found,that you end up fitter and healthier as a result of your diagnosis.

If this optimistic outlook does not resonate with your current mood, do not despair and dismiss it out of hand. A diabetes diagnosis is no small thing and all of us found ourselves a bit overwhelmed by it all at first.

Give yourself a bit of time

All the best

Pavlos

MidnightStar said:

I was diagnosed a week and a half ago and I'm being to think I'll not be able to cope with being a Type 2. I love food and love to cook. I feel so low *Sighs*

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At least on this forum you will find the answers and they are quite simple. Less carb and more exercise, like walking as has been mentioned on another thread. As someone else has already mentioned, it's not really an option, you now have all the tools to have a healthy life and you must use them. All the best. You know where we are.

Id like to welcome you to the forum
You will get fantastic advice on here. So ask lots of questions

@daisy1 will be along soon with some great information for you

if you love to cook, I've got some good news for you.."fat is flavour" .... low fat high carb is thrown out the door
There are thousands of low carb recipes out there. just watch high protein levels in some and not enough healthy fats and oils in others
https://www.google.com.au/#q=lchf "recipes"

American diabetic association (http://www.professional.diabetes.org/)
Position Statement
http://www.professional.diabetes.org/admin/UserFiles/0 - Sean/dc132042 FINAL.pdf
Evidence is inconclusive for an ideal amount of total fat intake for people with diabetes;
therefore, goals should be individualized; fat quality appears to be far more important than quantity.
In people with type 2 diabetes, a Mediterranean-style, MUFA-rich [mono fats-rich] eating pattern may benefit
glycemic control and CVD risk factors and can therefore be recommended as an effective alternative to a lower-fat, higher-carbohydrate eating pattern