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How Long We Can Control BG With Low Carb Diet?

gusbudone

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
I try my own version low carb diet 2 week ago. One week my Fasting BG down from 8,3 to 6,5, after that my doctor suggest me to get metformin and follow their diet program, so i stop low carb, but after one week, my fasting BG did not go down significantly, so I will start low carb diet again.

Can we control blood sugar with diet and exercise? without meds for long time? Is there a member here that can control blood sugar just by diet more than 5 year? thanks for your support
 
I've been going on for four years and I reckon there must be chums round here who've been doing it longer...
 
t totally depends on your body. dont get hung upon being drug free if you need them use them. obviously diet should be your first option.
 
I have been doing low-ish carbs for just over 6 years now, and am still drug free. I have no objection to taking meds if I need to, it hasnt happened yet though. My diabetic nurse says this is progressive, but I am not so sure. At the very least, progress of diabetes, for some, seems to be slowed down considerably by low carbing
 
wow, amazing @lucylocket61, i hope you no need meds forever
 
I think we are all individuals so it is impossible to say how long any one of us could keep good BG control with diet alone.

Having said that, I have been controlling my BG levels by diet alone since 2010. It has been had work at times and takes planning when eating out, holidays etc as I am also a vegetarian.

Do you have a meter? When I first started this journey I was eating what I thought was a very healthy diet (so did the dietitian!) but foods such as porridge raised my BG levels significantly. I would recommend buying a meter and testing how you react to certain foods, then eat to your meter. I bought the SD codefree as it had the cheapest test strips and I pay for them myself.
 
yes i have meter, i also always check my BG after meal. Thanks Scimama, you give me great advice
 
gusbudone said:
yes i have meter, i also always check my BG after meal. Thanks Scimama, you give me great advice
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Just a thought: I check before and 2 hours after my meal. This is because the rise is the most important bit. A rise of more than about 2 points after a meal usually means that that meal is too high in carbs for me to cope with.
 
lucylocket61 said:
Just a thought: I check before and 2 hours after my meal. This is because the rise is the most important bit. A rise of more than about 2 points after a meal usually means that that meal is too high in carbs for me to cope with.
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Yes you are right, i always chek fasting BG and 2 hour after meal, everyday
 
Diagnosed 2013, since then in ketosis. Before a restricted diet.
No worries, no health problems.

I intend to keep being in ketosis because that is where my body likes to be!
And it works!

Best wishes
 
Lamont D said:
Diagnosed 2013, since then in ketosis. Before a restricted diet.
No worries, no health problems.

I intend to keep being in ketosis because that is where my body likes to be!
And it works!

Best wishes
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how about your colesterol level? good until now?
 
lucylocket61 said:
My diabetic nurse says this is progressive, but I am not so sure. At the very least, progress of diabetes, for some, seems to be slowed down considerably by low carbing
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I'm not so sure T2D is progressive either. After 40 years in business, one of the most dangerous things I've found is to treat an assumption as a fact. Especially since "what everybody knows" is frequently wrong.

So, a question I've found useful (and that in retrospect, I wish I had asked more often) is, "is that an assumption or a fact?"
 
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