Merrylizard1314
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A few years ago I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes with a likelihood of going on to develop T2D within 5years if no changes were made.
I was 125kg at the time, and though I felt myself to be active, with gardening, swimming and daily walks and eating what I thought was a healthy diet, fruit, vegetables, whole grain foods, legumes, eggs, fish, cheese, butter, pasta, bread( home made), rice, this was not enough to fend off the imminent threat of T2D.
However I did some investigation, found Professor Taylor and the Newcastle Diet, and also this forum. I completed the ND, with pleasing results, except that I had an episode of a-fib, which turned out to be due to very low magnesium.
Since then, IF- thank you forum for leading me to Dr Fung- low carb, Keto and OMAD- thank you, CherryAA, have led me out of the dangerous territory of almost T2D.
I apologise for this long preamble, but the upshot is that my weight stabilised at around 64kg, my BGLs were 5 and more usually around 3.9-4.8 and my HbA1c was 38/39 mmol/mol. The very last thing to normalise was blood pressure, which stabilised at 113/68 p 56,
I have a very good friend who has had T2D for 12 years, but has not let it alter her lifestyle. While interested in my journey, she would always say that it would be too hard for her to give up her favourite foods and sweets, she doubted her willpower, and anyway, she was too set in her ways to change. Recently, her arthritis has worsened, and her eyesight too, due to diabetic retinopathy. I was concerned to see her in a depressed state and eating comfort food, so I made a kind of deal with her, that if she would eat the sort of food I was eating, then I would eat her usual food. And we would see what eventuated.
Amazingly, because I had expected my friend to be complaining and hankering after her former treats, she just ate what was in essence a lowcarb diet with the emphasis on nutrition density with no complaints at all. In a little over 2 months, she has lost weight, reduced her HbA1c from 57mmol/mol to 49mmol/mol and her BGLs from 12 to 7mmol/l. She often has BGLs in the 5 to 6 range now and it is so good to see her progress so enthusiastically. She is like a different woman, or rather, she is like my old friend again.
On the other hand, I have put on 20 kilos, and my FBGL is now 9-11.
This has been a great shock to me. I expected to put on a few kilos, but I thought it would be relatively easy to get back into shape, but instead I am once more in the danger zone. My clothes do not fit, I have bulgy bits, and I feel tired a lot.
So, how silly was it to do this?
Of course I am determined to get back to my own normal ways, without the pasta, pizzas,biscuits, cakes, fizzy drinks ice creams etc,. that comprised my friend's way of eating, but I am a little frightened to be in this territory again, and have begun a 48 hour fast to begin with, after which OMAD seems to be the way back.
I am so glad this forum exists. I have benefitted a great deal from the wisdom of its members.
I was 125kg at the time, and though I felt myself to be active, with gardening, swimming and daily walks and eating what I thought was a healthy diet, fruit, vegetables, whole grain foods, legumes, eggs, fish, cheese, butter, pasta, bread( home made), rice, this was not enough to fend off the imminent threat of T2D.
However I did some investigation, found Professor Taylor and the Newcastle Diet, and also this forum. I completed the ND, with pleasing results, except that I had an episode of a-fib, which turned out to be due to very low magnesium.
Since then, IF- thank you forum for leading me to Dr Fung- low carb, Keto and OMAD- thank you, CherryAA, have led me out of the dangerous territory of almost T2D.
I apologise for this long preamble, but the upshot is that my weight stabilised at around 64kg, my BGLs were 5 and more usually around 3.9-4.8 and my HbA1c was 38/39 mmol/mol. The very last thing to normalise was blood pressure, which stabilised at 113/68 p 56,
I have a very good friend who has had T2D for 12 years, but has not let it alter her lifestyle. While interested in my journey, she would always say that it would be too hard for her to give up her favourite foods and sweets, she doubted her willpower, and anyway, she was too set in her ways to change. Recently, her arthritis has worsened, and her eyesight too, due to diabetic retinopathy. I was concerned to see her in a depressed state and eating comfort food, so I made a kind of deal with her, that if she would eat the sort of food I was eating, then I would eat her usual food. And we would see what eventuated.
Amazingly, because I had expected my friend to be complaining and hankering after her former treats, she just ate what was in essence a lowcarb diet with the emphasis on nutrition density with no complaints at all. In a little over 2 months, she has lost weight, reduced her HbA1c from 57mmol/mol to 49mmol/mol and her BGLs from 12 to 7mmol/l. She often has BGLs in the 5 to 6 range now and it is so good to see her progress so enthusiastically. She is like a different woman, or rather, she is like my old friend again.
On the other hand, I have put on 20 kilos, and my FBGL is now 9-11.
This has been a great shock to me. I expected to put on a few kilos, but I thought it would be relatively easy to get back into shape, but instead I am once more in the danger zone. My clothes do not fit, I have bulgy bits, and I feel tired a lot.
So, how silly was it to do this?
Of course I am determined to get back to my own normal ways, without the pasta, pizzas,biscuits, cakes, fizzy drinks ice creams etc,. that comprised my friend's way of eating, but I am a little frightened to be in this territory again, and have begun a 48 hour fast to begin with, after which OMAD seems to be the way back.
I am so glad this forum exists. I have benefitted a great deal from the wisdom of its members.