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<blockquote data-quote="Diawara" data-source="post: 1988787" data-attributes="member: 472762"><p>[USER=500391]@Mollyc1995[/USER] hi.... exactly twelve months ago i had my first hb1ac test which came back at 12.5% .went to waterstones looked in the self help/ medical bit where one of the books on diabetes leaped out at me.. the eight week blood sugar diet by dr micheal mosley.. read and reread it and enbarked on the diet following roughly the recipes ( im not a bad cook) didnt keep strictly to 800 calories maybe 900ish as i work outside and the weather was quite cold so needed fuel!.... i also started to glean information from this wonderful site and forum.. by the time i saw the diabetic nurse maybe two weeks later she tested f.b.s.im sure it was in the 5s but she still insisted i had the metformin (i told her that i didnt want to be on this forever she said that i probally would be)she was concerned that ketones were present in urine which i said it was becase i was doing the low carb diet which she hadnt heard of.... i saw her again the following week she was still worried about the ketones so she sanctioned a meter and some strips .. so checking six or seven times a day and recording results over possibly two months i never had a figure over 7 mostly 5 to 6 f.b.s and before meals... eating less and cutting all the crud from my diet was easy;....no bread pasta cereals cakes pastry pies rice sweets biscuits haribo fruit as it turns out exept berries ..not sure of my weight when started as i had lost a little since autumn 2017 which was 124 kilos and i think i had got up to 127 earlier that year...i now weigh about 97 kilos ..i have been about 100 kilos since june 2018....my june hb1ac came back at .5% and my september one was 5.3% ... overall i feel a completly different person fitter, sharper in the mind ,positive ..above all the pain in my knees which i have had for about 15 years has gone with the weight loss....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Diawara, post: 1988787, member: 472762"] [USER=500391]@Mollyc1995[/USER] hi.... exactly twelve months ago i had my first hb1ac test which came back at 12.5% .went to waterstones looked in the self help/ medical bit where one of the books on diabetes leaped out at me.. the eight week blood sugar diet by dr micheal mosley.. read and reread it and enbarked on the diet following roughly the recipes ( im not a bad cook) didnt keep strictly to 800 calories maybe 900ish as i work outside and the weather was quite cold so needed fuel!.... i also started to glean information from this wonderful site and forum.. by the time i saw the diabetic nurse maybe two weeks later she tested f.b.s.im sure it was in the 5s but she still insisted i had the metformin (i told her that i didnt want to be on this forever she said that i probally would be)she was concerned that ketones were present in urine which i said it was becase i was doing the low carb diet which she hadnt heard of.... i saw her again the following week she was still worried about the ketones so she sanctioned a meter and some strips .. so checking six or seven times a day and recording results over possibly two months i never had a figure over 7 mostly 5 to 6 f.b.s and before meals... eating less and cutting all the crud from my diet was easy;....no bread pasta cereals cakes pastry pies rice sweets biscuits haribo fruit as it turns out exept berries ..not sure of my weight when started as i had lost a little since autumn 2017 which was 124 kilos and i think i had got up to 127 earlier that year...i now weigh about 97 kilos ..i have been about 100 kilos since june 2018....my june hb1ac came back at .5% and my september one was 5.3% ... overall i feel a completly different person fitter, sharper in the mind ,positive ..above all the pain in my knees which i have had for about 15 years has gone with the weight loss.... [/QUOTE]
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