AntLockyer
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Hi everyone, just thought I would share my journey so far.
Started trying to lose some weight/fat in august of last year (was 86kg, I'm 6'1" not I wasn't fat just not in the shape I wanted to be). I've been fairly active over the years with cycling and golf. I worked hard at losing the weight and slowly it started to come off, then a little faster. I relaxed my diet a bit and still was losing weight. I thought 'this is great'. I'm now 10kg lighter and never thought there was an issue.
I went to the doctors for three reasons.
1: I had to get up in the night to wee every single night
2: I had muscular pains in my left glute
3: I needed to get a review of my Asthma drugs
Had blood tests for prostate issues and diabetes and got a call to say I needed a retest of the FBS. I went the next day and got called into the nurse the day after. My FBS was 17.9 and she explained the normal range and gave me the lowdown on what was what and how I would be treated.
First step gliclazide and regular testing (she gave me a monitor).
My fasting numbers so far have been 14.2, 14.3 and 15.1. After breakfast numbers (2 hours after) 21.8, 21.7, 15.1. the first two are the weetabix I always used to eat and she told me to continue with the 11.8 is scrambled eggs.
I've realised through reading and what I know from trying to live a healthy lifestyle that low carbs is the way to low blood sugar swings and this has been born out in my testing so far. A sandwich had me up to 19.1 on Wednesday, my steak and veggies last night raised me from 13.0 to 13.6
Anyway that's me, right now I feel fuzzy headed and headachy which is exactly what I'd expect considering the lack of carbs in my diet.
Started trying to lose some weight/fat in august of last year (was 86kg, I'm 6'1" not I wasn't fat just not in the shape I wanted to be). I've been fairly active over the years with cycling and golf. I worked hard at losing the weight and slowly it started to come off, then a little faster. I relaxed my diet a bit and still was losing weight. I thought 'this is great'. I'm now 10kg lighter and never thought there was an issue.
I went to the doctors for three reasons.
1: I had to get up in the night to wee every single night
2: I had muscular pains in my left glute
3: I needed to get a review of my Asthma drugs
Had blood tests for prostate issues and diabetes and got a call to say I needed a retest of the FBS. I went the next day and got called into the nurse the day after. My FBS was 17.9 and she explained the normal range and gave me the lowdown on what was what and how I would be treated.
First step gliclazide and regular testing (she gave me a monitor).
My fasting numbers so far have been 14.2, 14.3 and 15.1. After breakfast numbers (2 hours after) 21.8, 21.7, 15.1. the first two are the weetabix I always used to eat and she told me to continue with the 11.8 is scrambled eggs.
I've realised through reading and what I know from trying to live a healthy lifestyle that low carbs is the way to low blood sugar swings and this has been born out in my testing so far. A sandwich had me up to 19.1 on Wednesday, my steak and veggies last night raised me from 13.0 to 13.6
Anyway that's me, right now I feel fuzzy headed and headachy which is exactly what I'd expect considering the lack of carbs in my diet.