Hello, @Just Sam and welcomeHiya
Im sam i turned 40 in November and for my birthday celebrations i went to Madness and got told i had diabetesNot your usual celebrations but there you go.
No history in my family at all so put down to bad diet and lack of activity. im about 2/3 stone over weight, never used to be but i packed the ciggies up after 22 years and went from a very active job to sitting down 10 hours a day, working may i add lol. So on gained the weight and in came the diabetes.
Im not 100% sure on my levels as never wrote them down but back in August i was borderline, so they left it 3 months did the ole lucozade test again, anyone else hate that stuff lol? and i was diagnosed. Given 500mg once a day but after a couple of weeks i saw an actual Dr and he said it wouldnt be doing anything for me based on my levels so upped it to 2 x 500mg a day.
First couple of days i had stomach cramps, then it calmed down. I now am too regular and cant see how anything is staying in side of me( sorry if tmi)
I have made massive changes to my diet i used to have umpteen cans of pop etc and sweets/crisps and now its all gone. I may have the odd biscuit here and there or a choccie once a week. No fizzy drinks i dont drink t or coffee so no sugar, dont add sugar to any cereal and i dont bake. Hopefully these will all start making a difference.
My main problem though is still my diet, on the basis of i have been SO fussy over the years with food and have problems with it.
The only veg i like is, roasted parsnips potatoes and sweetcorn.
I dont like ANY salad at all
I try and have fruit but thats limited to what i like
I dont like peppers/onions/ and so many other things it makes it SO hard to get all my nutrients and find meals i can have that aren't going to affect me masses.
Anyway think i have rambled on enough haha, if anyone has any tips on anything especially food i would be so so grateful, its all new its all very daunting and im like the rabbit in the headlights xx
@Pipp thanks for your reply sweet, appreciate it.. I am doing more activity between 7-1000 steps a day including some just dance and wii fit, so i know that will make a change, Doc did say if i can lose 2 stone i may lose the diabetes so thats my aim, its just so hard with my diet as to what i do and dont like.
@Mike D thank you also for your time, i know whats good and bad, but if i dont like it i dont like it lol which is why im trying to dins alternatives, from your list i like mushrooms eggs bacon all meat etc, its just my veg intake thats a problem. Re fruit im possibly talking a satsuma/handful of grapes a day which i was told at a seminar yesterday was okay to try and get my nutrients from my 5 a day. ?
I may have heard her wrong then i thought they said to try and introduce some starchy carbs into every meal?
@Pipp thanks for your reply sweet, appreciate it.. I am doing more activity between 7-1000 steps a day including some just dance and wii fit, so i know that will make a change, Doc did say if i can lose 2 stone i may lose the diabetes so thats my aim, its just so hard with my diet as to what i do and dont like.
@Mike D thank you also for your time, i know whats good and bad, but if i dont like it i dont like it lol which is why im trying to dins alternatives, from your list i like mushrooms eggs bacon all meat etc, its just my veg intake thats a problem. Re fruit im possibly talking a satsuma/handful of grapes a day which i was told at a seminar yesterday was okay to try and get my nutrients from my 5 a day. ?
I may have heard her wrong then i thought they said to try and introduce some starchy carbs into every meal?
@Pipp
I may have heard her wrong then i thought they said to try and introduce some starchy carbs into every meal?
Hi Just Sam. I was told exactly the same thing, "have carbs with every meal". So I did and on doing that I just couldn't seem to get my B S levels down. Came on this site and was told to ditch the carbs........................very difficult at first, but I'm glad to say that my B S levels have come down from 27 in November to around the 5 - 7 range now.
Thankyou @adrian207 kind of you to share that. Amazing how i get told to go on a 2 day course at a hospital with a specialist who puts up the big white board and says " more of this less of this" and i came away thinking it wasnt too bad and even with my poor liking to so many good foods, i could actually manage it. Ive been logging a good diary on a phone app just to keep a check, my carbs have been
Mon: 116.6g
Tues: 138.9g
Wed: 161.8g
And thats on a rather limited food diet! Alas it was weetabix for brekkie, sandwich/soup for lunch and some chicken and rice for tea. water only! So whereas some people are heading for under 50g ive been having 3 times that! Christ somethings gotta give x
@adrian207 Dr never said anything about me checking my levels, is this something i can do alone or something i need to go back to them about and ask for something to do it?
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