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Help - I am so hungry

David Swales

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I am newly diagnosed type 2 and I am on metformin. I am absolutely ravenous. I have eaten an omlette (+ pice of wholemeal bread) some fruit and am still famished.

I am regulalrly hungry. Will this ever change?
 
Hi this might sound naff but try drinking a pint of water after you eat your meal. It does take the edge of it (diagnosed type 2 a month ago ) 6 pints a day :lol:
good luck !
 
You posted at almost 20:00 and said you've eaten an omelette, 1 piece of bread and some fruit.

If that's all you've eaten today, no wonder you're hungry!

You can eat much more than that - at leat 3 good meals a day, or 5 smaller ones if it suits you, making sure that you control the amount of carbohydrate you eat. You don't have to go to extremely low carbs, like some of us (me!), but make sure that most of your diet is made up of protein, fat (if you can tolerate it) and 'good' carbs form fresh vegetables and a small amount of fruit.

The diet I follow is somewhere on the Low Carb Diet thread, under 'Viv's Diet'. The example I give is very low carb and quite high in fat - it works out at about 25 grams of carb per day max. My blood lipids are okay on it, and I'm losing weight - but everyone's different. Also my bg readings seem to be almost 'normal', and stable (with metformin).

If you want to eat more carbs, just add them on, using a carb counter book such as the 'Calories, Carbs and Fat Bible' to help you work out what to eat.

Have a look around here at all the threads dealing with diets of various types (not everyone does low carb) and you'll find plenty that you can safely eat. Diabetes may be a life sentence in some ways, - it's certainly a change in lifestyle - but no-one is asking you to starve yourself to death. Just find out as much as you can about it, and work out an eating plan that suits you.

I'm afraid that potatoes, grains, pasta, bread and flour, and other starchy vegetables and sugary fruits are out. But there's an awful lot left - honestly! like fish, meat, steak, eggs, cheese, fresh veg, some fruits - I can go on. You need never be hungry again. And you can still drink alcohol - in carefully controlled moderation.

Promise!

Lots of people on here to help, so just keep asking.

Viv :)

At leat 2 litres of water a day - good for you in any case.
 
Thanks for all your repiles and help. I have a great diabetes nurse who has given some great advice. I do eat regularly and generally have managed my diet well but just seem to have struggled tonight with hunger. I have had 3 good meals today plus some fruit mid morning and afternoon.

The water has helped to a certain extent but still feel hungry, I don't feel weak at all.
 
Keep some protein snacks handy - cheese, cold meat, hard-boiled eggs you can eat lots of and they keep you feeling full for longer. Minimal carbs! A few nuts are good too, but there's always the danger of eating too many - at least for me! :lol:

Viv
 
I was diagnosed T2 two weeks ago today and for the first week was exactly the same. No matter what I ate, I was famished shortly after. Part of this was due to being nervous about what I was eating and seeing my BG raising. Once the medication started to take effect and I've started knowing a bit better what I can and can't eat, it seems to have passed.
 
From your initial post, you would have been better off eating JUST the omelette, than the omelette PLUS the other things. The omelette alone would have kept you full.

The problem with eating fruit and brown bread, is that they contain sugar, and when you reat sugar, your body releases insulin, and when insulin is not taken up in the cells (along with the sugar) you get even MORE hungry.

When you combine this with insulin resistance, the result is, you stay hungrier for longer.

So to stay full, don't eat foods that trigger insulin release. Viv covered that pretty well in her above post...

You're omelette could have had cheese, mushrooms, bacon, sausage, ham, spinach - in any or all combinations. These foods wqould NOT trigger an insulin spike, and you would not feel so hungry.

Hunger is the enemy.
 
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