I don't want to tell you how to suck eggs, and I know how bad carbs can be, it was the worst week of my life, far worse than giving up smoking and they say heroin is easier to give upWell, lucky you!
It is taking me months! And I am worried.
Chicken... No not you (well may be for not even trying a single piece) - try a chicken sandwich in bergen or rye bread. Very light on the stomach - lots of chicken - Your body will need the protein
Can't help having a beer or two myself sometimes, but not when doing Newcastle diet. Never mind, you did well to avoid it the second time.I had a nice walk yesterday and fell of the wagon a bit. Walked 2 miles down by the beach in the photo and into a Russian owned bar. My friend and I consumed a pitcher of beer & the walked back 2 miles to my car to drive home..All told about 80 minutes of walking. This morning I walked the dogs for an hour and then this afternoon I did cycle down to the end of the same beach this being about 100 minutes cycling all told. I avoided the bar and the pitcher of beer. I really wanted a glass of that pitcher of beer but I'll wait till I get down and stabilize around my target weight. We all have to keep ourselves honest as it were. After the bike ride and the shower after the ride I feel fantastic!
Current weight 212 lbs BMI currently 27.2
Most recent Cholesterol 160 Sept 2014
Most recent HbA1C 6.2 May 2014
As I am not on insulin but doing just Metformin and Gabapentin I've no meter.
I 'm going to get a blood check up this week.
We have meatloaf tonight & I can have as many brussel sprouts as I like! Yea!
JM
@paulins my original meeting with the specialist endocrinologist didn't go too well especially when she prescribed me with statins. I refused to take them. My total cholesterol was just originally 202 or just over the upper limit of the threshold. I figured that as I'd been a total slug / couch potato the amount of exercise I was doing was going to alter and that my cholesterol would change (& it has) Its now 160 at my last test. One thing I didn't like was that (here in the US) the statin drugs have a warning on the label that they (the statins) can send a patient into T2 diabetes! No wonder I got upset with the Endocrinologist, (aside from her smug attitude too) Something I was trying to get away from, so basically I kicked that relationship completely into touch at the first go round.It reduced quite a bit at the beginning then slowed over the middle months then was quite marked again towards the end of the weight loss. My GP said to remember that we are not machines and lots of things can affect levels, so not to be in any way disheartened if it seems to go up for some reason.
After two reductions in medication I am now off all blood pressure meds (two lots) which can only be a good thing. So much healthier overall with losing all this weight. With the exercise do you build up a sweat and get fairly out of breath? I was told these were optimum conditions for losing the bad fat in the liver and pancreas. That fat is the last to go as it comes off in the reverse order to how it went on so that's why levels reduce more towards the end.
I have now lost 7st 11 lbs and am trying to stop loss now and stabilize and am gradually introducing foods to see what happens.
Best of luck.
@paulins my original meeting with the specialist endocrinologist didn't go too well especially when she prescribed me with statins. I refused to take them. My total cholesterol was just originally 202 or just over the upper limit of the threshold. I figured that as I'd been a total slug / couch potato the amount of exercise I was doing was going to alter and that my cholesterol would change (& it has) Its now 160 at my last test. One thing I didn't like was that (here in the US) the statin drugs have a warning on the label that they (the statins) can send a patient into T2 diabetes! No wonder I got upset with the Endocrinologist, (aside from her smug attitude too) Something I was trying to get away from, so basically I kicked that relationship completely into touch at the first go round.
Since then I had a free pre-diabetes checkup @ my Sunday church about 4 weeks ago. My resting heart rate is now 60/minute, it was 72+. My blood pressure was 111/68.(it had been 120/79). So blood pressure wise I 'm much improved in my health. Since posting my question to you I've re-read part of the forum where you mentioned you are doing 5-6000 yards (or meters) / day running. My knees won't allow me to run. So what I've been doing is the cycling. & Lots of it. I got my neurologist to keep an eye on me and to prescribe me my medicines. When I went in for my checkup 4 weeks ago he was very pleased with my progress. I have been guided too by Phil http://trailjunkie-phil.blogspot.fr/ with my exercise regime. Yup I'd say I've been working up more than a mild sweat. Every evening I come in I am drenched with sweat from the bike ride workout or what ever exercise I've done that day.
I had contact from Dr Roy Taylor and he said either hard core Newcastle diet or just make sure to diet to move all the weight off. Over the last 20 years I've lost 2" in height. that negatively affects my HbA1c in that I need to lose another 12lbs. So to get down to a BMI of less than 25 I've got another stone to go. I think while I am at it I may lose up to 20 -25 lbs just to really rid my pancreas / liver of the fat and get everything working as it should again. Its funny about my avatar that is where I cycle to everyday. & I am blessed in that here the weather is more amenable to getting exercise. That's gotta help in the longer run over people living in the UK and winter weather. Typically the weather here is very mild in the Winter. One of my cousins also a diabetic lives in Toronto Canada. She's lost some weight but also lost the desire too to get fit and lose the remainder of the weight needed to combat diabetes. It has to be tougher there than in the UK as their Winters can be bitterly cold think -10C in the morning and not getting over freezing point all day.
@Living-by-the-beach - I'm so pleased to see you are continuing to exercise and getting your BS levels down. It is definitely worth all our hard work. I live in Scotland and we therefore do NOT get regular decent weather - hence I have the treadmill in my bedroom! This year I am planning to venture outside and train for a 5k or 10k charity run. I do worry that I am getting ahead of myself, but think the support of others will help me to keep going. Yesterday I was out with an old friend who spent most of the time telling me I was now too thin, and looked ill and haggard. I am not, and I don't. She is very overweight, and was telling me she is wheat intolerant, (though not diabetic), and was eating a large toasted raisin bun with butter and preserve at the time. I think she is in complete denial and saw myself 10 months ago. Denial is a powerful thing, I know, and I think we who have faced our demons and been honest with ourselves are all really brave. It doesn't matter if we use the Newcastle diet or simply really cut down to lose the weight - what matters is that we do something and take control.
Very best of luck fellow dieters! We can do it! My new real struggle will be to maintain the weight loss and keep myself fit and healthy. BUT!!!! I have to say that I like being fitter, able to do things, able to run, able to get back into nice clothes, and able not to worry too much about the horrible things that could happen to me if I was still getting high BS readings and was still so overweight. My doctor is now considering taking me off my blood pressure medication (which has been reduced twice now), (117/61 this morning) and my resting heart rate is now 59/60. We will also discuss the statins.
Keep posting and let us know how you are all doing.
P xx
@Living-by-the-beach ................. It doesn't matter if we use the Newcastle diet or simply really cut down to lose the weight - what matters is that we do something and take control.
Very best of luck fellow dieters! We can do it! My new real struggle will be to maintain the weight loss and keep myself fit and healthy. BUT!!!! I have to say that I like being fitter, able to do things, able to run, able to get back into nice clothes, and able not to worry too much about the horrible things that could happen to me if I was still getting high BS readings and was still so overweight..............................
@Living-by-the-beach - I'm so pleased to see you are continuing to exercise and getting your BS levels down. It is definitely worth all our hard work. I live in Scotland and we therefore do NOT get regular decent weather - hence I have the treadmill in my bedroom! This year I am planning to venture outside and train for a 5k or 10k charity run. I do worry that I am getting ahead of myself, but think the support of others will help me to keep going. Yesterday I was out with an old friend who spent most of the time telling me I was now too thin, and looked ill and haggard. I am not, and I don't. She is very overweight, and was telling me she is wheat intolerant, (though not diabetic), and was eating a large toasted raisin bun with butter and preserve at the time. I think she is in complete denial and saw myself 10 months ago. Denial is a powerful thing, I know, and I think we who have faced our demons and been honest with ourselves are all really brave. It doesn't matter if we use the Newcastle diet or simply really cut down to lose the weight - what matters is that we do something and take control.
Very best of luck fellow dieters! We can do it! My new real struggle will be to maintain the weight loss and keep myself fit and healthy. BUT!!!! I have to say that I like being fitter, able to do things, able to run, able to get back into nice clothes, and able not to worry too much about the horrible things that could happen to me if I was still getting high BS readings and was still so overweight. My doctor is now considering taking me off my blood pressure medication (which has been reduced twice now), (117/61 this morning) and my resting heart rate is now 59/60. We will also discuss the statins.
Keep posting and let us know how you are all doing.
P xx
@paulins Well done on getting so far, its been great to read your, and others stories. You have been in my mind as you mentioned that week 2 of the ND was hard. I have just completed it and I agree, it was a lot harder than the first week!!
Im finding there are only so many ways you can play with vegetables!
But my morning readings are in the 5's (from 7-8 previously) and the weight is dropping off so things are going in the right direction for me.
Please keep posting, I'm almost fantasing about LCHF (or whatever works for me) when I complete the diet, so it would be good to see what you have done to stabilise after doing it for such a long time.
Im going through tons of test strips though, and although I have one bottle of 50 prescribed every year, Im having to go to ebay to buy loads more!
Tanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread, it has made for a very informative read.
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