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First post LCHF HbA1c not as good as hoped for

I am not a 'diet geek' but I occasionally have a hot cup of yeast extract instead of black coffee, I think that sorts out the B vitamins for me. My moods have been pretty stable, until recently finding myself at risk of redundancy, and I have been pushing my brain with an academic course this year, the first in many years and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Your results are brilliant @ringi and a great encouragement not only to yourself but to others too, that changing a lifestyle can be done.
 
Phoenix55 said:
I am not a 'diet geek' but I occasionally have a hot cup of yeast extract instead of black coffee, I think that sorts out the B vitamins for me.
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I have started to do this to increase my salt intake and as I no longer have it on bread.

NoCrbs4Me said:
There's lots of B12 in dairy, meat and seafood. Not much (none?) in greens.
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I eat a lot of these and have increased since being on LCHF

donnellysdogs said:
Even wasting money on fasting glucose tests that really should not be done on a T1.. Complete waste of money again!!
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I think glucose tests are done “free of charge” by the machine that does hba1c, my doctor did not list it this time, as I forgot to request it hence the result was not reported. Shame as it is useful to check my BG meter by taking my own reading at the same time.

I will get my B12 checked at some point, however they will not do vit D that I wanted as it takes part in the thyroid pathways and with a underactive thyroid it would be useful to be able to look back on a graph of vit D to see if it colligates with thyroid tests. (My thyroid results increased on this set of test, but I don't know way but the lab has also change the way they run the test.)
 
ringi said:
however they will not do vit D that I wanted as it takes part in the thyroid pathways and with a underactive thyroid it would be useful to be able to look back on a graph of vit D to see if it colligates with thyroid tests.
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I don't believe it is routine to do Vit D tests. However, I simply asked for one to be included with my last lot of HbA1c etc. tests. I also asked for B12 and folate. I gave no reason for my request. There was no problem. I got the lot, including iron, iron absorbance and saturation, and ferritin, none of which I specifically asked for. Also, for some reason the tests included a plasma glucose for the first time since diagnosis in early 2014. I have no idea why, but I was delighted because I was coincidentally wearing a Freestyle Libre at the time so I was able to do a comparison. My motto with doctors - if you don't ask, you don't get.
 
NoCrbs4Me said:
There's lots of B12 in dairy, meat and seafood. Not much (none?) in greens.
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Wish I could eat the meat!! I think if cutting out sources of some nutrition from the fortified foods like B12 and iron then its good to get a baseline of B12, D, cholesterol done and then a follow up.

Personally having to eat broccoli everyday for iron I still cant get enough and B12 is very, very low so i recognise that you need those baseline bloods from GPs. Same with people stopping statins etc.. personally I think its worth me paying £295 on an annual basis privately, wish I could do more often but also paying for hubby and a lot of private meds and other treatments too.
 
This is awesome, @ringi - congrats!

I'm a bit worried, though - you seem anxious about very good results! Have you paused to ask yourself how you feel? Like, physically - irrespective of the numbers - do you feel better, worse or the same as three months ago? Numbers give us the mechanics of our bodies, but how we feel is what it's all about.

Really, congratulations!
 
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