Hi and welcome aboard.
Another type two here, diagnosed in January. I have always been mildly overweight but otherwise healthy. I ate the sort of diet recommended as healthy - lots of fruit and veg, complex carbohydrates etc etc and did a reasonable amount of exercise. When I was trying to lose weight for my wedding a couple of years ago I did the whole strict diet and lots of exercise thing and it made not a jot of difference
I started monitoring my blood sugars 11 days ago, now on day 12. I monitor on waking, pre meal, and 2 hours post meal.I write it down, plus what I eat with a estimate carb count. I also take a note of anything I do in the way of exercise, mostly walking (I also got a pedometer with a view to achieving the 10 000 steps a day commonly recommended for good health). I'm very much regarding all this as a fact finding mission and hope not to be doing all that pin sticking in a couple of months time :lol:
On the basis of what I have noticed I have changed what I eat quite a bit, both in terms of what type of food and how often (eg, a banana eaten in one go pushes my blood sugar right up but I can have half a banana with my breakfast and the other half as a mid afternoon snack without it doing any damage)
Out of interest I just had a quick shufty at my blood results whilst I've been doing this. The average waking BM for the first 6 mornings was 7.1 and three of the readings were over 7. The average for the last 6 mornings was 5.9 and none of the readings were over 7. The three highest blood sugars I recorded in the first 6 days were 10.8, 11 and 12.5. The three highest I recorded in the last five completed days were 8.2, 8.4 and 9.8 [though I must confess to having had a carby blow out a couple of days ago and being too unhappy about it to do the 2 hour one which I'm sure would have been bad
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Some of the stuff I've found is University of the Bloomin' Obvious type stuff - eg if I've been for a good long walk (two or three miles) I can eat a lot more carbs without it impacting on the 2 hour reading. Yes, someone could have told me that but I find it's a lot easier to make the right decisions based on my own real experience
When I was a brand newby someone told me to monitor as knowledge is power. I'm a real convert to that one, even in as short a time as I've been doing it I feel that the changes I've made on the basis of the things I've learned have made a difference and I think the numbers back me up.
Welcome aboard, take it as slowly or as fast as you need to, read, think and ask questions and you'll be fine.
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