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<blockquote data-quote="CrazycatYork" data-source="post: 2300136" data-attributes="member: 524038"><p>Hiya, it’s so disheartening when our diabetes keeps evolving and making life more difficult - I do sympathise. I’ve had T1 for about 40 years and my diabetes has been described as ‘brittle’. Your HbA1c is enviable- well done! - but you don’t mention your testing. I’ve found the Freestyle Libre very useful - it shows how volatile my wild fluctuations in my blood glucose levels are; so my own (HbA1c of 6.7 or thereabouts most years) turned out to be an average of 1.2 and 20-odd! It’s very difficult to plot blood sugar fluctuations if you’re rationed to 5 or fewer blood test strips per day. Santa got me a FitBit too. Normally I’d hate all these gadgets, but they’ve helped me to get a much better picture of what’s affecting my blood sugar most. I’m still exploring changes I can make to pull in my blood-sugar fluctuations. I’ve cut right down on high GI carbs after seeing the incredible blood sugar spikes after meals (I’m talking cutting down on wholemeal pasta or granary bread - I never did eat much white flour - even wholegrain foods give me a humongous blood sugar spike - not the gradual spike I’d expected) and I managed to lose half a stone since moving to Medtronic’s CGM system. I try to keep my bmi below 22 as I have a small build, but I have to work very hard to keep my weight down by exercise and very careful low-carb dieting. I’ve found some of Dr Michael Moseley’s books very interesting, especially the Clever Guts Diet book (I think that’s the title), which sheds some light on the relationship between types of food and weight gain, without focusing on calories! If you’re getting desperate, it might be worth a read - a few diet tweaks without anything daft or extreme might help (high fibre, low in refined carbs and cutting out processed foods as much as you can manage). Good luck and try not to beat yourself up about your diabetes-management - your HbA1c is great!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazycatYork, post: 2300136, member: 524038"] Hiya, it’s so disheartening when our diabetes keeps evolving and making life more difficult - I do sympathise. I’ve had T1 for about 40 years and my diabetes has been described as ‘brittle’. Your HbA1c is enviable- well done! - but you don’t mention your testing. I’ve found the Freestyle Libre very useful - it shows how volatile my wild fluctuations in my blood glucose levels are; so my own (HbA1c of 6.7 or thereabouts most years) turned out to be an average of 1.2 and 20-odd! It’s very difficult to plot blood sugar fluctuations if you’re rationed to 5 or fewer blood test strips per day. Santa got me a FitBit too. Normally I’d hate all these gadgets, but they’ve helped me to get a much better picture of what’s affecting my blood sugar most. I’m still exploring changes I can make to pull in my blood-sugar fluctuations. I’ve cut right down on high GI carbs after seeing the incredible blood sugar spikes after meals (I’m talking cutting down on wholemeal pasta or granary bread - I never did eat much white flour - even wholegrain foods give me a humongous blood sugar spike - not the gradual spike I’d expected) and I managed to lose half a stone since moving to Medtronic’s CGM system. I try to keep my bmi below 22 as I have a small build, but I have to work very hard to keep my weight down by exercise and very careful low-carb dieting. I’ve found some of Dr Michael Moseley’s books very interesting, especially the Clever Guts Diet book (I think that’s the title), which sheds some light on the relationship between types of food and weight gain, without focusing on calories! If you’re getting desperate, it might be worth a read - a few diet tweaks without anything daft or extreme might help (high fibre, low in refined carbs and cutting out processed foods as much as you can manage). Good luck and try not to beat yourself up about your diabetes-management - your HbA1c is great! [/QUOTE]
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