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Resurgam said:
Hello and welcome to the forum, and the club no one wants to join.
I love the low carb Atkins style regime I use - and the fact that I got lower cholesterol on it after almost two years of the 'cholesterol lowering' diet I was advised would make all the difference to my life expectancy.
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And well done to you too, Resurgam.
 
Havelock said:
Thanks bulkbiker. Yes, indeed, I appreciate I am but one of many, but it's good to feel that the number is growing. The diabetic expert nurse was both delighted and, dare I say it, somewhat surprised!
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I bet they were.. someone proving their condition isn't progressive.. Last time I saw a DN she told me she thought I was over medicating with insulin when she saw my HbA1c until she checked the prescriptions and found I wasn't taking anything.
 
bulkbiker said:
I bet they were.. someone proving their condition isn't progressive.. Last time I saw a DN she told me she thought I was over medicating with insulin when she saw my HbA1c until she checked the prescriptions and found I wasn't taking anything.
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What a triumph!!!
 
@Havelock welcome to the forum! Happy to hear your good news. My dad has also type 2 but he has great difficulty accepting his condition. Do you have some advices for my dad? Thank you!
 
mushmonster said:
@Havelock welcome to the forum! Happy to hear your good news. My dad has also type 2 but he has great difficulty accepting his condition. Do you have some advices for my dad? Thank you!
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Hi,
Thanks for your greeting.
You actually hit the nail on the head with 'your good news'. I am 78 -79 on March 1st - and remarried 2 years ago! You can imagine how good I felt on learning that low carb dieting can, and does, work, for people. And the main thing is that one can still enjoy eating! I was in catering for many years, including 22 in the RAF, where you could have 3 square meals a day - far too much, especially when it came to the wrong things - bread, potatoes, puddings and cakes. My specialist diabetic nurse was very pleasantly surprised at my glucose and cholesterol levels, and weight loss, with no drugs involved!!! But I still enjoy my food. I occasionally, for example, allow myself sweet potatoes - much more nutritious1! I make sausage/chicken curry and other meat casseroles in our slow cooker, with lots of vegetables. You can buy a vegetable substitute for pasta which 'fills the hole' if you're particularly hungry. I may make myself a three egg omelette for lunch, and can add cheese, which I mistakenly stopped eating years ago, or diced fried bacon. The point is that if your dad, like most of us, likes his food, there is so much variety available to enjoy, but I'm down to 15 stone from 17stone 4lbs. Has to be good.
If your dad would like to chat about it let me know I would give you my phone number.
Regards,
Havelock
 
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Havelock said:
Hi,
Thanks for your greeting.
You actually hit the nail on the head with 'your good news'. I am 78 -79 on March 1st - and remarried 2 years ago! You can imagine how good I felt on learning that low carb dieting can, and does, work, for people. And the main thing is that one can still enjoy eating! I was in catering for many years, including 22 in the RAF, where you could have 3 square meals a day - far too much, especially when it came to the wrong things - bread, potatoes, puddings and cakes. My specialist diabetic nurse was very pleasantly surprised at my glucose and cholesterol levels, and weight loss, with no drugs involved!!! But I still enjoy my food. I occasionally, for example, allow myself sweet potatoes - much more nutritious1! I make sausage/chicken curry and other meat casseroles in our slow cooker, with lots of vegetables. You can buy a vegetable substitute for pasta which 'fills the hole' if you're particularly hungry. I may make myself a three egg omelette for lunch, and can add cheese, which I mistakenly stopped eating years ago, or diced fried bacon. The point is that if your dad, like most of us, likes his food, there is so much variety available to enjoy, but I'm down to 15 stone from 17stone 4lbs. Has to be good.
If your dad would like to chat about it let me know - my e-mail is ************* and I would give you my phone number.
Regards,
Havelock
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Just a reminder Havelock that this Forum is openly accessible to anyone, so you may want to delete your email address and send it to mushmonster in a personal message.
 
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Rachox said:
Just a reminder Havelock that this Forum is openly accessible to anyone, so you may want to delete your email address and send it to mushmonster in a personal message.
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You may wish to delete your quoted bits! The email address has been deleted from Havelock's post.
 
Havelock said:
My forbears, in the Scottish Marches, would have lived primarily on lamb and beef, and not a potato in sight!
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Are you sure? If they could afford to eat mainly meat, they must have been wealthy! And if they ate no potatoes, wouldn't they have been eating oats in various forms, from oatcakes to porridge? My forebears in Surrey used to eat a big slice of suet pudding with gravy as a first course to fill themselves up before getting to the meat. Or the main course might be a suet pudding made with a little bacon and a lot of onion mixed in. Tied up in as pudding cloth and boiled, utterly delicious!

My family too fattened me up as a reaction to the wartime and post war austerity and shortages. On Saturdays tea consisted of at least two crumpets each, of course drenched in butter, followed by multiple doughnuts filled with jam and coated with sugar. And that was just tea - preceded by lunch and followed by dinner!!!
 
Havelock said:
Hi,
Thanks for your greeting.
You actually hit the nail on the head with 'your good news'. I am 78 -79 on March 1st - and remarried 2 years ago! You can imagine how good I felt on learning that low carb dieting can, and does, work, for people. And the main thing is that one can still enjoy eating! I was in catering for many years, including 22 in the RAF, where you could have 3 square meals a day - far too much, especially when it came to the wrong things - bread, potatoes, puddings and cakes. My specialist diabetic nurse was very pleasantly surprised at my glucose and cholesterol levels, and weight loss, with no drugs involved!!! But I still enjoy my food. I occasionally, for example, allow myself sweet potatoes - much more nutritious1! I make sausage/chicken curry and other meat casseroles in our slow cooker, with lots of vegetables. You can buy a vegetable substitute for pasta which 'fills the hole' if you're particularly hungry. I may make myself a three egg omelette for lunch, and can add cheese, which I mistakenly stopped eating years ago, or diced fried bacon. The point is that if your dad, like most of us, likes his food, there is so much variety available to enjoy, but I'm down to 15 stone from 17stone 4lbs. Has to be good.
If your dad would like to chat about it let me know I would give you my phone number.
Regards,
Havelock
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Hey @Havelock thank you so much for your long list of advices! I think they will help my dad out! I'm also happy about your marriage and I wish you love for forever :) Do you think love and happiness affect your condition? :)
My dad also enjoys eating A LOT (especially desserts!) but he never cuts down on them. I'll talk about you with him. I hope it works...
I wish he could keep contact with you but unfortunately he doesn't speak English :( But thank you so much for everything < 3
 
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