Had Enough

@southamptonsteve1959 - I know you feel strongly about paying for any form of dietary support, but, and it is a huge but, everything you say, about not knoiwing what to do, not really knowing which food choices to make, about being preparation time poor, and potentially finding a dietician input to be useful, is almost like a tick box menu for the Low Carb Programme.

That is is currently on a massive discouts - at £21 for a year's membership, with support from mentors, behavioural change coaches, exercise folks and a dietician - who is fully on-side with the Low Carb way of eating.

At £21, it's almost a drop in the ocean to what it could cost to flounder for some time.

However, on an overall basis, by suggestion to you would be to concentrate on the things you can have, rather than those which would seem like less good ideas these days.

Reduced Carb eating, like many other things, is a matter of habit. Once those habits become a little more engrained, it gets easier.

OK, I've been eating that way for several years, butI never even pause in the caakes and biccies isle, unless my OH needs something. His current favourite is a particular brand of dark chocolate covered stem ginger cookie. He can have that. I'm not bothered.

All the best with it, because one thing is for sure, you deserve better than a life littered with health issues and likely complications further down the line. You cite losing a partner, and a feeling of little prospect of finding another, but the picture of someone whose life is limited (in terms of what you can do, rather than necessarily time), is hardly the biggest draw for someone looking for love.

At the beginning, and from time to time, my OH has commented some frustration over my way of eating (I happen to also need to be gluten-free, but that's zero to do with my T2), but he does appreciate that I am fit, energetic and have a massive desire to live a good and long life, and that's important to us both.

Life and relationships are aboiut compromises. I prefer to compromise for the best outcome I can manage.

southamptonsteve1959 said:

Thank you . I think for £21 I may review that, I was looking at £70...I’m not happy at £70 but £21 is do-able.
If everyone is on low carb diet and looking after their levels how come they are not all in remission?
Is remission a myth to encourage you?
Thanks again. Steve

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I just need to emphasise that the £21 offer ends at the end of this month, so that's Sunday. From Monday, it reverts to the usual cost.

Why isn't everyone on remission?

In my opinion that's almost a "how long is a piece of skin" question.

Many, many do achieve remission - some maintain it and others find their new habits are easier to maintain than others. Similarly, not all T2s become T2 for the same reason. In some cases, they should have been diagnosed with a different type of diabetes - in reality being something like LADA, which is more a variant of T1, but with a very slow onset.

For others the reason can be the person can't find a balance in their lives where they live a decent life, and equally decent blood sugar numbers. For some that can be because they are juggle multiple comorbidities For some that can be that their pancreas just can't perform in the required way, and for some it could be they are taking medications which significantly impact their blood glucose levels, and importantly, some don't feel motivated to change. Again, that lack of motivation may be because of a package of issues they live with - both for themselves, but also in the immediate family dynamic.

The thing is, there is no definite predictor of who will and who won't achieve remission, and to what extent that remission will be maintainable long term.

I am absolutely not putting myself on any sort of pedestal here, because it can be painful when one falls off, but at I do seem to have been very lucky indeed, in that by and large, my body has recovered to a large extent from any damage my T2 did to me. Personally, I don't find living a lower carb lifestyle for the last 6.5 years to have been too much of a hardship, but and it is a BIG BUT, I do have my days. You know, those days when we think a sort of random, "I just want x, y or z".

Do I give in? Sometimes, and sometimes, I just move on and either choose something different or get distracted. Nobody's life runs to clockwork.

Honestly, please do try to do something, because I have observed individuals who have deferred and deferred actions, until even their best efforts are not going to achieve their dream. When it comes to preventing complications, the sooner we intervene the better, and to be honest, the feeling of empowerment when we're doing "something" is empowering. We're dealing with "it", rather than "it" dealing with us.