Nearly died at the A & E

[slinkimalinki]

Your meals sounds delicious...thank you!

Im going to try eating more spinach too.

Tested my blood sugar this morning before waking up and it read 4.9 but I am still on 14 units of Insulin Glargine. My DN said they will slowly add Metformin 500mg before breakfast and dinner and at the same time wean down Insulin from this week.

After 5-6 weeks of starvation, I started to eat from last week -

For breakfast I have raspberries/blueberries or strawberries (because they grow abundantly here in England) with plain soya yogurt, stevia (sweetener) and a few walnuts with a dash of cinnamon. Sometimes I have poached eggs with Keto bread. My mother makes her own low-carb bread made with low-carb almond flour. Recipes are on YouTube. Or sometimes I just have a pear.

For lunch, I have meat (chicken, fish or beef), mixed vegetables, steamed or stir fried with very little oil (usually pressed cold rapeseed oil or avocado oil). Mixed salad and tuna/salmon. Sometimes just vegetables soup.

Dinner: Similar to lunch

Snacks before going to bed: A slice of Keto bread, a small piece of smoked salmon (very cheap in England) or pomegranate seeds and walnuts, almonds, pecan nuts.

Question for you - isn't that we shouldn't be eating cheese and creams because they have casein and that turns into sugar and raises BG ?

Just looking at some of the things you eat, there are hidden carbs in your meals.

Breakfast: berries should only be eaten when you have your numbers under control, also soy yoghurt is not the best either, you should be eating full fat unsweetened greek yoghurt. Bacon and eggs would be a better breakfast.

You should be using olive oil, coconut oil, butter or ghee. Rapeseed oil is the same as Canola oil, not a good oil. Also pomegranate is a fruit, so also not good to eat.

Full fat cheese and cream are perfect for us to eat, they have the fats that keep us full and fuelled.

 

[NewTD2]

Thank you for this but my doctor told me to eat some low-carb because Ketogenic diet did not work for me Im afraid.

I am also currently on Insulin so need to be careful. I'm having a balanced meal and it doesn't spike my blood sugar.

Low-carb means small portions of vegetables. Somehow the vegetables I eat works and lowers my BG levels.

What might be good for one person doesn't necessarily work for the other. Each individual have different biochemistry.

I cannot have bacon because it contains nitrites and I cannot find uncured bacon in my area. Cheese, full fat cream milk and dairy are also bad for me because they contain caseine which turns into sugar.

Excess amounts of protein as in Ketogenic diet also turns into sugar.

 

[kokhongw]

I cannot have bacon because it contains nitrites

Roast pork belly, roast meat works as a great replacement for me...

 

[NewTD2]

Where are you based and what do you do?

By the way, can we east roast pork, cheese, fats?

 

[Mrsrobbieswan]

I am in your world right now. When I come home, I never know if Robbie will be on the chair working or on the floor. Massive hugs from me xx

 

[donnellysdogs]

Are you are a driver? Did they tell you to inform DVLA/Insurance?

Have they told you that you must apply for an exemption card to claim free prescriptions (unless you had them free before?)

If you are going on holiday and have insurance you would need to tell that insurance company too.

Just making sure that if put on insulin you've been told everything..

 

[NewTD2]

No darling, I don't drive and I don't intend to go on holiday for a long-time.

 

[donnellysdogs]

Thank you for your advice.

I am feeling very nauseous, could hardly walk and very weak muscles because I have not been eating carbohydrates for 6 weeks.

I am scared of raising blood glucose levels up again.

Please advice what I should eat?

What are your blood levels running at?

I hope you've been given enough strips to test pre bed, waking up, before meals and after..

You need to write down in a log book your levels, your food and your injections.. the more detail the better.. ie slept in; went to cinema; went walking; work; sleep n play-lol!!

Please can you let us know what a days food looks like??

 

[NewTD2]

After being discharged from the hospital and finding out I was diabetic I got scared of eating so I starved myself surviving on 2-3 lettuce, 1 small tomato and a boiled egg for 5-6 weeks. There were 1-2 days I didn't anything at all and I survived on drinking water.

I was dying and I could hardly walk and had to basically lie down all day. I lost about a stone in weight from 14.5 stones.

My mother had to call for the ambulance 2-3 times because I was nauseous, breathless and very very weak.

Anyway I am now eating slowly and gradually.

On Insulin Glargine 14 units ....and Metformin 500mg will be added increasing to 1G and at the same time weaning down Insulin.

My blood glucose levels are as follows:

Before breakfast: between 4.9 - 6.8

Before dinner: between 6.5 - 7.4

Next A1c will be mid-December.

 

[donnellysdogs]

After being discharged from the hospital and finding out I was diabetic I got scared of eating so I starved myself surviving on 2-3 lettuce, 1 small tomato and a boiled egg for 5-6 weeks. There were 1-2 days I didn't anything at all and I survived on drinking water.

I was dying and I could hardly walk and had to basically lie down all day. I lost about a stone in weight from 14.5 stones.

My mother had to call for the ambulance 2-3 times because I was nauseous, breathless and very very weak.

Anyway I am now eating slowly and gradually.

On Insulin Glargine 14 units ....and Metformin 500mg will be added increasing to 1G and at the same time weaning down Insulin.

My blood glucose levels are as follows:

Before breakfast: between 4.9 - 6.8

Before dinner: between 6.5 - 7.4

Next A1c will be mid-December.

Well those levels are very good... but not your eating!!

Glargine is only a background insulin..
So you have nothing in you to cope with food... metformin (in my opinion) wont cope with a proper 3 meal living....

You do need to speak to a DSN and tell them how you are surviving and that may mean changing to a mixtard or basal/bolus regime but as much as you need to control BG's, you also need to live!! And laugh...

Also, explain.. christmas is coming up and you would like to have a bit (not a lot-lol) of christmas day dinner!!

 

[NewTD2]

Absolutely!

The doctor's plan is to slowly and gradually titrate down the Insulin and slowly add Metformin 500mg before breakfast and dinner.

I am newly diagnosed, nearly died from Ketoacidosis and didn't even know I was diabetic, and I am still learning.

Some people here said that starving myself for 5-6 weeks may have actually helped lower my BG levels down.

 

[donnellysdogs]

Weaning down on insulin is not particularly a good idea if you arent eating food that nutritionally fulfils your hunger or needs...

It (to me) would be better to get you back eating and nutrionally balanced with insulin rather than trying to wean you off it!!

However of course, I am neither a medical expert or a T2 but I am an insulin dependent T1 who would love your levels!! (But not your food!!)...

I think you need a follow up appt early December at latest as they arent around over Christmas and its you that has to balance everything whilst they are playing happy familys on vacation.

Do try to get an earlier appt..

 

[NewTD2]

What are your current BG levels darling?

 

[oldsle]

I would say now that you are starting to eat properly that you are on the right track. And if you can get off any medication, including insulin, then that's great! The high carb diet recommended usually results in people having to gradually increase their insulin, not decrease. I was talking to my pharmacist about it and he was surprised I was decreasing my dose as he was used to hearing the opposite. I'm on Metformin and Lantus right now, and my specialist said that how they usually do it is to decrease the insulin first until I'm off that, then work on hopefully decreasing the metformin. But she also said I could decrease my Metformin by one pill too if I really wanted to. You'll get the hang of adjusting your medication as time goes on, especially the insulin. You can talk to your doctor about that too.

 

[oldsle]

And congrats on the great numbers!

 

[kokhongw]

By the way, can we east roast pork, cheese, fats?

These has been my staple food for the past 2 years, but I don't drink milk...your mileage may vary...

This was how I started my own carbs lite fats friendly journey...
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/alternative-path-to-recovery-from-t2d.763/

These are my updated views regarding obesity related T2D...
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/newbie-guide-to-t2d.1858/

 

[NewTD2]

I’m being very careful with what I eat and drink and I control my portions. Yes I’m also low-carbing.

Starving myself for 5-6 weeks have probably resulted in lowering my BG levels.

Like you I’m also on Insulin Glargine (Lanthus) 14 units but not yet on Metformin. Yes, I can’t wait to be off insulin and hopefully just taking the pills and to be completely off medication in the future. That’s our ultimate goal!

When we’re you diagnosed, where are you based?

Andrew

 

[NewTD2]

Thank you for this info, I appreciate it.

Does roast crispy pork increase your cholesterol levels and high in calories?

 

[NewTD2]

Thank you

 

[NewTD2]

I’d like to share this with you my friend

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal/#overview