- Messages
- 7
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
This is my first time posting so go easy on me guys ! I've hovered around the fringes since being diagnosed almost 18 months ago, reading the brilliantly helpful suggestions and some amazing success stories but never felt a strong enough urge to post anything until today. You all - with your amazingly eloquent and well-researched advice - spurred me to go against my GP and the NHS dietician's advice and try the LCHF approach. I'd tried low-carbing (on a milder scale) when first diagnosed, with some success but following an appointment with the dietician at our local Diabetes clinic I became brainwashed with her advocating the 'balanced plate' method - carbs with every meal and and low fat choices with everything.
This did not work. I gained the weight I had lost and then some, my blood sugars peaked out, I felt ill, sluggish, unmotivated and I was probably in denial about it all. Until earlier this year - my blood tests showed some liver inflammation and a subsequent scan because of family history diagnosed a fatty liver. I couldn't ignore it any longer, I've got two young boys and I want to be around to see them grow into young men, so I had to do something.
Determined to make a change I came back to the forum, read some stuff that really inspired me and shortly after a big birthday at the end of Feb decided to give it a go. I've found lots of amazing recipes via Pinterest and food blogs and although I can't say it's always been easy I've stuck with it now for about 11 weeks. I've lost almost 2 and a half stone in the process, feel so much better, no bloating, sluggishness, afternoon slumps, dizziness. And I'm just getting to the really good bit that made me decide to post today - following a blood test earlier this week, came in to a letter this morning from GP saying there has been a 'spectacular improvement' in my results - liver function and HbA1c are both now normal (letter attached) !!!! I don't have the precise figures but will get them when I go in to discuss with them next week.
I am elated.
Thank you so much to everyone here for every bit of advice, every question and answer, every heated debate about the diet topic, and every reference or link to studies, research and evidence. You all convinced me that I could take control of this myself, that I didn't need to be reliant on medication or the outdated advice that the public health agenda pushes on us (I cannot blame my GP, dietician or the wider NHS for this, I work for the NHS myself and know how this works) and that I could try to heal myself through a better knowledge and understanding and a bit more thought about what I put into my body.
I know this is just the start. I know that the biggest challenge is to maintain this. But these results have got to be the biggest motivator I can imagine. The times when I'm busy collecting recipes, obsessing over sourcing the right ingredients, spending hours trialling out new meals and thinking of creative ways to make my diet interesting and sustainable - they're all worth it. And I would never have had the confidence to do this if it hadn't been for this site.
So I am unbelievably grateful. My family are unbelievably grateful. And if me saying this helps even one more newly-diagnosed T2 take the leap and try to do the same then I will feel I am somehow paying it forward. You ALL rock, and I feel incredibly proud to be a part of this virtual community in my own little way.
This did not work. I gained the weight I had lost and then some, my blood sugars peaked out, I felt ill, sluggish, unmotivated and I was probably in denial about it all. Until earlier this year - my blood tests showed some liver inflammation and a subsequent scan because of family history diagnosed a fatty liver. I couldn't ignore it any longer, I've got two young boys and I want to be around to see them grow into young men, so I had to do something.
Determined to make a change I came back to the forum, read some stuff that really inspired me and shortly after a big birthday at the end of Feb decided to give it a go. I've found lots of amazing recipes via Pinterest and food blogs and although I can't say it's always been easy I've stuck with it now for about 11 weeks. I've lost almost 2 and a half stone in the process, feel so much better, no bloating, sluggishness, afternoon slumps, dizziness. And I'm just getting to the really good bit that made me decide to post today - following a blood test earlier this week, came in to a letter this morning from GP saying there has been a 'spectacular improvement' in my results - liver function and HbA1c are both now normal (letter attached) !!!! I don't have the precise figures but will get them when I go in to discuss with them next week.
I am elated.
Thank you so much to everyone here for every bit of advice, every question and answer, every heated debate about the diet topic, and every reference or link to studies, research and evidence. You all convinced me that I could take control of this myself, that I didn't need to be reliant on medication or the outdated advice that the public health agenda pushes on us (I cannot blame my GP, dietician or the wider NHS for this, I work for the NHS myself and know how this works) and that I could try to heal myself through a better knowledge and understanding and a bit more thought about what I put into my body.
I know this is just the start. I know that the biggest challenge is to maintain this. But these results have got to be the biggest motivator I can imagine. The times when I'm busy collecting recipes, obsessing over sourcing the right ingredients, spending hours trialling out new meals and thinking of creative ways to make my diet interesting and sustainable - they're all worth it. And I would never have had the confidence to do this if it hadn't been for this site.
So I am unbelievably grateful. My family are unbelievably grateful. And if me saying this helps even one more newly-diagnosed T2 take the leap and try to do the same then I will feel I am somehow paying it forward. You ALL rock, and I feel incredibly proud to be a part of this virtual community in my own little way.