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Low energy and fatigue

fumanchu

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393
Location
Scotland
Type of diabetes
Family member
Treatment type
Diet only
Hi everybody, am looking for help and advice.. Hubby is type 2, diet-controlled, been diagnosed 7/8 years now. He's very strict about diet and won't cheat. Recently started to feel quite drained and listless, gets tired easily and says his legs feel heavy. Might be his age - 70 this year - but I'm younger, non-diabetic, and I feel the same way. We eat the same meals. Are we being too strict? What could I add to the diet to give energy?
 
Hard to say if you are being too strict without knowing more of you diet. There is also the possibility that if you are indeed strict...are you getting enough vitamins and minerals? We haven't had that much great weather yet neither so D vitamin intake from sun is not peaked for its best.
So...what do you eat in normal day?
 
We take a good multi-vit, plus high dose vitD, & vitC.
Breakfast is porridge made the Scots way with water and single cream.
Dinner is a plate of soup.
Tea is meat and green veg, I use butter and cream in the veg. Will vary that with salmon/tuna with salad. Dessert is Greek yog, SF jelly and sometimes added cream and choc sprinkles.
Supper is two slices Burgen on cheese.
Snacks for him are Babybels or a square of 90% choc. Decaff tea often throughout the day. No cheats no extras apart from this.
 
That sounds pretty good for me! Can I come and stay for a day or two..?
If you are not going hungry with your diet..then you should not be short of energy neither. Are you both loosing weight or is it maintained steady with your diet? Do you drink a lot of liquids? (just thinking if you do and have to keep running into loo a lot...flushing salts away)
Do you both sleep ok..enough?
 
I'm feeling the same.
I'm blaming the flue and pneumonia jabs as I haven't felt 'right' since, but I'm also coeliac and so my diet is very restricted, and I really don't like veg.
 
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I would suggest you consider some sort of vitamin/mineral deficiencies or thyroid issues. If it continues maybe you should visit your GP. I would. Blood tests should show if there is a problem.
 
He has low thyroid, I wonder if that's the problem here and maybe he needs to tweak his thyroxine? Hi weight is steady, mine is going down slowly. As long as you don't see any huge problem in our diets then that helps me, ty !
 
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