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New Year, New LCHF Me

I've managed to get my blood sugar levels down to single digits now at 8.6, but I've felt tired and luggish all day long. Tomorrow I'm off to a party where there will be a hot buffet and the host has allowed me to look at the menu and this is what they are offering and: beef chilli, vegetarian quiche, bread rolls, chips, chicken tikka, sweet and sour pork, tomato mushroom and basil pasta, rice and mix green salad. I know to miss out the rice, pasta, bread rolls and chips, but I don't know whether I should have the quiche or sweet and sour pork.
 

The sweet and sour pork would probably be off limits based on the sauces and you need to be careful about the quiche (pastry).
 
Well tonight my bs monitor is reading hi at 2:45am and I got woken up by my gut making really loud noises that won't go away.
 
This is a rollercoaster you do NOT want to be on. Fluctuations you're experiencing are bad enough but readings in the 30s are serious. I implore you to get yourself some attention and do so as soon as you can. There's something here that needs immediate medical intervention so again, go seek help. This is just not acceptable and I'm sure you know that
 
I am a LCHF success story.
From 18st to fifteen stone in three months.
Fifteen is where I'm happy to stay at six foot three.
Blood glucose under pretty good control .... very good actually.
I know what spikes me but can't resist now and then.
Blood pressure medication down.
Two Metformin a day instead of three.
Cholesterol down.
Full fat everything none of that semi skimmed low fat no fat stuff for me.
Lots of nuts and cream and butter and yoghurt and tinned fish and bullet proof coffee.
I went cold turkey for the first six weeks as good as.
No spuds rice pasta noodles bread at all.
Now I can tolerate small amounts.
Weight rock an rolled up and down the first five weeks and then headed downward so don't become dispirited if it keeps popping back up for no apparent reason.
It's the sugar demon trying to break your resolve and lure you back.
I eat a half dozen snack sized packs of pork scratchings a week.
I drink the juice of at last half a dozen lemons a week.
I drink a lot of tea ... ordinary and green.
The green with lemon squeezed in.
I use fresh lemons as I'm a bit suspicious of the packaged kind with their preservatives.
I'm not a fence or a historic monument so I don't need preserving.
Stick with it you'll be glad you did.
Love and peas.
 
With respect JTL (good and all that it is), akindrat has been given much of that info before now ....... and LOTS of warnings. What is demanded now is action. I've read thru 90% of the posts and there doesn't seem to be all that much attention paid to the replies and if there is, precious little resolve or inaction.

I do NOT like sitting around when I see / read someone is in the 30s and ignoring it. akindrat knows what to do.

Apologies but I'm losing patience. This is just ridiculous ...... if you won't help yourself or seek medical help, how in the Hell is someone else supposed to drag you out of the hole you're in?

Mike
 
@Mike D

It is time to step back if you are feeling so frustrated.

We can all give advice but it does not mean that the poster will take it.

@akindrat18,

I hope you have been to A@E this morning with your high readings. You need to go.

There are some forum members who are trying to help you but it seems to be falling on deaf ears. It is no good asking for advice and then carrying on eating what you like and it is unfair of you to expect forum members to carry on trying to help.

If you have an eating disorder then it needs addressing as you will not be in the right frame of mind to use any help that is given here. I would think a lot of your stomach problems are caused by eating too much.

NewYear,NewLC/HF Me is your title of the thread but it seems a bit pointless at the moment. Do you actually know what LC/HF means? Do you have a list of foods that you can eat? If you are confused then please ask as there are plenty of people here who follow a LC/HF diet who can help but they are not prepared to go round in circles.
 
Understood Catherine

Up to her own devices I guess. I just find it annoying but I will let it go as other members have chosen to do. It is another one's life, not mine.

That said, I still care until I believe it is a lost cause .... Just me

Mike
 
@akindrat18 I have said this before but I really do think you need more counselling. When we eat like you described the other day 'I don't know what came over me' we are usually eating to fill a void somewhere inside us (and I don't mean hunger). I had my 9th counselling session this week and finally understood what had caused the void in me; it's not what I would have expected at all. The day after my session I just had that Eureka moment and now I feel so different. I feel that at the moment you are going round in circles blaming yourself for failing when in reality there is something else at the bottom of this.

I'm sure you will have seen this thread about LCHF already but just in case:-

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/a-new-low-carb-guide-for-beginners.68695/

Sorry I just didn't have time to go back through your threads to see if you have been told about this before.

A Hi reading on a monitor is urgent please take heed of the others' advice on this.

Take care.
 
I will be going to the hospital later on today, but I think I should have gone 2 months sooner as that was when everything got out of hand.

@catherinecherub I know what LCHF is and I've recently done a online Tesco shop earlier this week but have avoided it so far and I think I know as to why I'm avoiding what I have in. It's because I have my wallet on me all the time and I just pop into shops to see what they deals they have and then I start shopping.

@zand I am currently taking counseling sessions and have had one not too long ago. I've got another few counseling sessions lined up, but it has not been focusing on my eating problems as such, as it's been focused on my depression and suicidal thoughts for now.
 
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What was your reading this morning?
 

Take the attachments down, as they have personal details.
 
akindrat18 said:
I'm at the hospital now, after I had myself some breakfast of chicken, bacon and cheese.
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Good.
Please try to make this a turning point. You cannot go on as you have been doing.
 
@akindrat18 - I see from your profile, you've logged in today. What the update? last you posted you were at the hospital. What happened?

I hope things are better for you than they were a few days ago.
 
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