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New Year, New LCHF Me

akindrat18

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Location
Stoke-on-Trent
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Insulin
It's only been a week since the New Year and so far I am preparing myself for a lifestyle change. Here is what I have done so far:

  • I've ordered a nutribullet so that I can start including more fruit and veg daily in the form of 2 daily nutriblasts with one in the morning and one for lunch.
  • I've made arrangements with my personal fitness advisor on creating a new gym schedule.
  • I've made an appointment with my GP to discuss if I have any food allergies or other medical conditions as I've been bloated and been non-stop burping and farting without fizzy drinks, also to increase my medication as the current medication that I am on now is not bringing my BG levels down.

My daily meals for the next six weeks will involve having a nutriblast for breakfast and lunch along with a boiled egg or two. As for dinner it will be mixed veg and a cheese sauce with either a beef burger, steak, chicken fillet, pork chop, salmon fillet. As for snacks I was thinking of pork rinds, tinned mackerel or sardines, peanut butter on ryvita, meat slices.

My nutriblast drinks are going to contain of 50% greens, 40% mixed berries as they are low glycemic fruits and 10% of flaxseed or cashew nuts or both with a teaspoon of coconut oil.

I don't know if anyone on here does this, but I was thinking of having a cheat day once every two weeks after scrolling through the internet and came across this site: http://lowcarbediem.com/planning-a-low-carb-cheat-day/

This is a general plan on what I want to do for when I go back to uni next Monday as I need to lose a lot of weight. Any advice is welcome
 
Good luck with your lifestyle changed!!!!I'm doing the transition between low fat / cow calorie to LCHF myself because my research (including info from this site) points towards low carbs as the most appropriate eating plan with T2 Diabetes.......Keep monitoring your BG's because you might find with stronger medication and less carbs might give you hypos.........Good luck and best wishes for 2015!!!!!!
 
Well done on the Nutribullet, I've had mine a couple of years now and they really are excellent.
 
seanj67 said:
Well done on the Nutribullet, I've had mine a couple of years now and they really are excellent.
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If you don't mind me asking this seanj67, but how much do you spend on fruit, veg and nuts for your nutribullet weekly as I will be having a nutriblast for breakfast and for lunch. Also what nutriblast recipes would you recommend?
 
akindrat18 said:
If you don't mind me asking this seanj67, but how much do you spend on fruit, veg and nuts for your nutribullet weekly as I will be having a nutriblast for breakfast and for lunch. Also what nutriblast recipes would you recommend?
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No problem at all. I guess I spend about £7 per week. I only have one a day currently though, but I always have fruit left. I tend to use Spinach/kale, with 1/2 a pear, 1/2 an apple & a banana. Quite basic but it's nice. I sometimes add Chia seeds and almonds but not always, or yoghurt. The important thing is that you use the veg..... some people just use fruit and that for me is too much sugar. I was worried about BG's but found that actually although they went up, they came down again quite quickly. If you look on the Nutriliving website there are loads of recipes and there's even a Nutribullet recipe app which is good. I think you'll love it. It's one of the few things I've bought having seen the TV ads which has lived up to the claims.
 
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I'm worried about my blood sugar levels as I am now back at university where now I can control what I eat and I still have to do shopping as I got back to my accommodation at 1pm and then had a nap at 3 that lasted till 7 (although I was up at 4am with excessive wind) I then had a curry with pilau rice and naan bread with my friends and have now just read the nutribullet booklet from cover to cover. I noticed that you have bananas which shocked me a bit as I can't handle bananas and have stayed away from them. I will have a look at the app and see what recipes they may have.
 
Looks interesting ... let us know how you get on with the Nutribullet... might be tempted myself
 
I have not started nutriblasting yet, but have begun online shopping for my ingredients on Tesco and will cost me under £10 a week for 2 nutriblasts a day every week, plus I will also be regularly having coffee with cream, boiled or poached egg with my nutriblasts and for my dinner broccoli and cauli with a different meat or fish everyday and a cheese sauce.
 
This will be my breakfast for tomorrow, plus either a poached or boiled egg. I made the nutriblast beforehand and now enjoying a decaff coffee with a squirt of Anchor squirty cream with 0.5 grams of carbs. And my blood sugar levels are still saying Hi.
 

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What's your level now? 'Hi' is bad... Was 30+ on my first meter. You need to bring that down
 
shedges said:
What's your level now? 'Hi' is bad... Was 30+ on my first meter. You need to bring that down
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Just checked my blood sugar levels now at 2:45am and they are at 32.4 and I am violently shaking, desperately hungry, my gut still keeps on making noises and I am still producing foul smelling farts (that smells an awful lot like rotten eggs). I've already been to the doctor and he only seems to be interested in my depression and gave me some antidepressants and buscopan. Currently now I am lying on my floor, stomach first and snacking on green olives (they taste awful), but I am looking forward to having my nutriblast for breakfast after having food delivered by Tesco's.
 
You need to attend to that ..... not that I know your issues all that well. Please get yourself some help ASAP. 32 + is NOT good so I strongly advise that you get support and do so now.

I wish you the best and please keep us advised Mike
 
I have just checked my blood sugar levels now at 6:40aam and they have come do e'en slightly to 24.8, but still have the same symptoms from earlier this morning.
 
Back to the GP akindrat18. Demand it
 
What Mike said... If you can't get your levels down with corrective insulin doses you need medical advice. GP if they're any good. Or go to A&E. It could become an emergency soon if you stay at levels like that. I've been admitted to hospital twice with Diabetic Ketone Acidosis (?) and it's not nice.
 

Memory tells me @akindrat18 is not on insulin, but T2 or oral medication. I agree though that those levels are alarmingly high, and action needs to be taken.

@akindrat18 = have you eaten or drunk anything, to our knowledge, to account for the sky high bloods? Unless your numbers are significantly better this morning, I urge you to see your Doctor, or attend a walk-in centre.

I seem to recall you're carrying some weight, but have you had any tests to rule out a T1 diagnosis?
 
I've had elevated blood sugar levels for the past 3 weeks due to a combination of a virus cough, being prescribed cough medicine that is not sugar free, being depressed since December and recently being prescribed sertraline.


I've been having some cheese and ham toasties on white bread as my mum gave me two toaster bags to take back with me. Also I've been focusing on reducing my beer consumption to zero and replacing it with a glass or two of Southern Comfort and lemonade every 2 days. I've already been to the doctors and he seems more interested in treating my depression than my diabetes, but I do have an appointments with my live well advisor and dietitian next week.

I am carrying alot of weight, but I've been told several times that I look slimmer, even though I am 23 stone and need to lose at least half of that to be normal weight. As for type 1 testing I think That when I got the diagnosis of type 2 they tested me for type 1 and also for cushings. My blood sugar levels are now 22.7 and I'm halfway through my nutriblast drink and it is making me feel full, so I might not bother with having an egg afterwards.
 

Do you understand that the bread in your toasties won't be doing you any favours? Did you ask your GP for a sugar-free cough linctus?

I completely appreciate that being depressed makes tackling your diabetes more difficult, but I can't help feel there may be a chicken and egg scenario in play here, whereby your high numbers could be impacting on your mood, then your mood makes you want to comfort eat.

Readings in the 20s are dangerous. Sustained readings in the 20s (and yours are now two days at least) should not be ignored. Respectfully, your GP isn't walking around at those numbers! I'm not one for rushing off to my GP or other medical establishment, but I really worry if you're not being monitored, with the weekend coming up. Do you have any means of testing for Ketones? Ketostrips or the like?

I'm putting a shout out to some of the T1s as (unfortunately), they sometimes have more experience of hyperglycaemia; such as you are experiencing at the the moment.

@shedges , @tim2000s , @Spiker , @noblehead - apologies to you all, but I'm nervous of akindrat's situation. Thanks in anticipation! I'm happy to be told I'm panicking, but I can't ignore this.
 
As Type 2s produce insulin, even if it is not effective in controlling Glucose levels, it still constrains Ketone release, avoiding DKA. Having said that, a glucose level of 20 is very high and I would still recommend getting yourself seen by a doctor to confirm that everything is okay.
 

I've just made a trip to my pharmacist to get some ketostix and did the test, which then showed me that I do not have any ketones present. I could not ask my gp for sugar free codeine linctus as I was back home and went to the walk in centre and I went to so many pharmacies for it, but they only had codeine linctus with sugar available. I do understand that the bread is no good for me and I was clearing out my cupboards and fridge for all carbs. I've also considered that I may need to be tested for food allergies as I can't stop passing wind.
 
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