Is this a good reduction?

I saw my GP last Monday, who confirmed that I am T2 diabetic and he prescribed metformin 850mg once a day for 2 weeks, increasing to twice a day after two weeks, so I am still on 850mg a day. He also just said cut out sugar (as in table sugar, jam, chocolate etc) and made no further mention of less obvious sugars etc. I trained as a nurse many years ago so had a basic knowledge of diabetes and knew this wouldn't be enough so started reading this forum like mad, along with the books recommended by other members. I have been following the LCHF diet since last Monday and taking my metformin. This morning my meter arrived and I did the first test. My fasting blood test that alerted the doctors to my diabetes was 3.95grams (I live in France) this equates to 22mmol. My first test today was 13.8mml. Is this a good reduction or should I be trying harder with the diet and will the metformin continue to bring it down.

It's gone up to 15.2 2 hours after lunch.

dawnmc said:

So what did you eat?

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3 Wasa crispbreads (as recommended by Dr Bernstein) - they're basically the French version of Ryvita. Topped with Philadelphia and smoked salmon and a glass of Badoit water.

Two hours after dinner of a 2 egg omelette containing mushrooms, red pepper, bacon and gruyere cheese, a greek yogurt with 3 teaspoons of homemade unsweetened bluberry compote it had gone up again to 17.3. The only thing in my dinner that I felt could have done that was the blueberries. I chose them because I thought they were supposed to be so good for you but checking the nutritional value they seem to be much higher in carbs than strawberries or raspberries! Could the blueberries account for the increase again?

Just shows that there's a lot of testing ahead of me I suppose.

Yes Devonbear we do have Lidle but they often have different things to the UK Lidl's. I shall go and look tomorrow though. Are they pre-packed?

I haven't been to our Lidl's for ages but I think they now have a bakery on site so I MAY be in luck but rural France isn't too good on Bio, low-fat, low-sugar, gluten-free etc. I'm having to order a lot of stuff that most in the UK could get from the supermarket, through Amazon. Pleinster, I love the idea of avocado and asparagus lowering the sugar - they are two of my favourite foods! And my sister-in-law had already told me that her DN said that if she wanted to drink alcohol then whisky or vodka were the best to drink and vodka is my tipple, despite living in the land of wine.

BT my BS was back down to 14 this morning.

Sorry, some of the posts on this thread didn't appear yesterday. Daibell, I am EXTREMELY overweight. I have struggled with my weight since I was about 17 but since I was 40 I put on about 4 stone but have remained at a stable weight for the last 5 years, finding it very difficult to lose any but I do appear to have lost 2kgs this week. I know initially it's fluid but I also have a fluid retention problem, so even that is good news to me!!

Celadon, my GP has suggested no more than cutting out sugar from my diet, despite the fact that my Fasting blood sugar was 22mml or 3.95grams under the French system. I decided to do things for myself and spoke to my sister-in-law but she was advocating a low GI diet and saying that I should try and eat porridge every day which I hate! So I looked on this site and saw the LCHF option and testing your BS regularly to find out what suits you. I bought my meter off amazon.co.uk, amazon.fr doesn't appear to have any - probably because they would be free from your GP if he felt you needed one. Mind cost £12.99 and the strips are £4.99 for 50 and the lancets £7.99 for 100. I'm presuming that once I'vve worked out what I can and can't eat I won't have to test so many times a day so they will last a while. I was also surprised to discover that p&p to France was also free!!