Hi it is I DarshanDhanda aka Dodge ( preferable ).

[DarshanDhanda]

Well I'm a 51yr old male, divorced & have 2 daughters, eldest lives with her fella near by & youngest lived with me as I need assistance everyday.

I've had co.plications of diverticulitis & getting an infection whilst on operating table & to be blunt I ended up 10 month hospital stay in Slough & Oxford & during that time I ended up in IC twice too. So I ended up with a permanent stoma & 120 staples in my torso to waist, this started in 2008 to 2009.
Then after a month of being at home I got a call from my GP to go see them & it was then I was told I had diabetes type 2 & was told that when a body ends up having a trauma it can sometimes lead to diabetes & that's how I came to be type2. However my mental health suffered & I spiralled & gained a lot of weight but due to other complications I've ended with chronic back pain that means I'm using crutches to walk & I'm also taking a lot of medication & on top of that I wasn't being kind to myself & I've ended up paying the price.
Now I'm on both metformin 100mg twice a day & as of next week I will be on humalog 50mix thrice a day. On a good day my morning sugars are between 9 to 12 & on a bad one where I've not eaten at set time or correct food it's anything up to 25+.

Now personally I'm looking to lose weight to help me bring my sugar levels down & to be thinner & not this mis-shapened person I see & it's down to adhesions that formed back 2008 & surgically there nothing that can be done by way of gastric band or even sleeve due to the scar tissue & so I'm on the slow boat. I have good days & bad & I'm honest & have been told that I'm too brutally honest but honesty is best policy.

So hi & any & all tips to lose weight are appreciated, will say now I can't use a gym & am currently using YouTube for seated exercising. Even walking is hard hence crutches.

 

[Pipp]

Hello Dodge.
Sorry you are going through tough time.
I had similar experience in my late forties, early fifties. Several abdominal surgeries, stays in ICU, hospital food, and damage to spine from a road accident, caused severe mobility difficulty. I needed to use a wheelchair for several years, before my last surgery . The weight gain, and diabetes were not helped by following the standard NHS advice to eat lots of ‘healthy carbs’. I chose a very low calorie meal replacement diet, and did lose a lot of weight. Not all, but enough to better control my T2 diabetes. Later I followed the Low carb method. I am still overweight, but not super morbidly obese as I was previously.

With Metformin, low carb way of eating should be possible for you. I am not sure that would be the same if start insulin, as there is the possiblity you could experience hypos. Perhaps one of our members more experienced with insulin and low carb can advise?

As for exercise, that alone will not help lose weight, though it can help tone muscle, and increase general well being. I started out with chair based exercise, and progressed to water based exercise, swimming and aquafit. I know it can be difficult when you appear as what you call a ‘miss-shaped person, but lots of swimming pools have dedicated sessions for folks like yourself, but I have found that even in general public swimming pool sessions, most people are too concerned with how they look themselves than to be noticing or commenting on anyone else. In fact I have experienced only encouragement. It is so much easier to exercise in water, as I feel weightless, supported by the water, movement is painless.

I hope you can get the support you need to be able to achieve better diabetes management, and to become fitter.