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<blockquote data-quote="SuziQueue" data-source="post: 393749" data-attributes="member: 73789"><p>Brilliant post Ellis. I was going to reiterate this. I have a number of friends who are GP's and they say that the majority of diabetic patients have poor motivation and as such they do not follow advice given. Even my friend, who knows how motivated I am, <em>still</em> said to me "yeah, but you have to live a bit!" meaning I should be eating at least a square of 70% dark chocolate per day...</p><p></p><p>It seems from what I've heard that many dieticians/members of the medical fraternity are not used to meeting highly motivated individuals like us.</p><p></p><p>I've just joined the forum as I'm newly diagnosed pre-diabetic with Fasting BG of 7.1mmol/l and an HbA1c of 40. </p><p>Just 2 years ago my Fasting BG was 5.4 which was reasonable.</p><p></p><p>My father had diabetes as did a number of relatives on his mother's side. </p><p></p><p>I was gutted to receive the diagnosis 4 weeks ago but am now <strong>not </strong>eating/drinking:</p><p>1) Alcohol</p><p>2) Refined sugars of any type</p><p>3) High GI carbs - in fact only eating very low GI carbs</p><p>4) Upping my intake of walnuts, almonds, pistachios, red grapes, cinnamon and the usual suspects.</p><p></p><p>My Fasting BG has gone down to 5.9 mmol/l in just 12 days and I'm intending to run as fast and as far as possible away from diabetes as I can, knowing that my dad was insulin dependent despite dropping the weight. </p><p></p><p>Congrats as well to you for your motivation and results. And forget what they say about loading with carbs - it's a crock, in my humble opinion. It may work for some, but for many it doesn't. And right now, where I am in no man's land, I'm avoiding them as much as I can.</p><p></p><p>Good luck on your continuing journey.</p><p></p><p>Suzi</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuziQueue, post: 393749, member: 73789"] Brilliant post Ellis. I was going to reiterate this. I have a number of friends who are GP's and they say that the majority of diabetic patients have poor motivation and as such they do not follow advice given. Even my friend, who knows how motivated I am, [i]still[/i] said to me "yeah, but you have to live a bit!" meaning I should be eating at least a square of 70% dark chocolate per day... It seems from what I've heard that many dieticians/members of the medical fraternity are not used to meeting highly motivated individuals like us. I've just joined the forum as I'm newly diagnosed pre-diabetic with Fasting BG of 7.1mmol/l and an HbA1c of 40. Just 2 years ago my Fasting BG was 5.4 which was reasonable. My father had diabetes as did a number of relatives on his mother's side. I was gutted to receive the diagnosis 4 weeks ago but am now [b]not [/b]eating/drinking: 1) Alcohol 2) Refined sugars of any type 3) High GI carbs - in fact only eating very low GI carbs 4) Upping my intake of walnuts, almonds, pistachios, red grapes, cinnamon and the usual suspects. My Fasting BG has gone down to 5.9 mmol/l in just 12 days and I'm intending to run as fast and as far as possible away from diabetes as I can, knowing that my dad was insulin dependent despite dropping the weight. Congrats as well to you for your motivation and results. And forget what they say about loading with carbs - it's a crock, in my humble opinion. It may work for some, but for many it doesn't. And right now, where I am in no man's land, I'm avoiding them as much as I can. Good luck on your continuing journey. Suzi [/QUOTE]
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