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<blockquote data-quote="Resurgam" data-source="post: 1692988" data-attributes="member: 355878"><p>It isn't you that's wrong, it is the modern diet.</p><p>I'm afraid that although you can eat meat fish shellfish eggs, cheese and lots of salad, low sugar fruits such as berries (not blueberries) and low starch vegetables, what is pushing your metabolism, and even your sense of taste off balance is all the sweet and starchy foods, which although we have been advised to eat them for so long, are causing weight gain, illness and unhappiness for many.</p><p>The number 75 is most likely your Hba1c - it indicates how high your blood glucose has gone, on average, over the life of your red blood corpuscles. Mine was 91 on diagnosis thanks to all the healthy carbs I had been eating. </p><p>There are quite a few people on the forum who are not taking medication but are controlling their diabetes by sticking to the amounts of carbs which enable them to keep their blood glucose in the normal range. They do eat fats and protein and - for quite a few of us, around 50 gm of carbs a day. Some have to stay lower, others go a bit higher, so it is handy to have a meter to test your levels using a small drop of blood.</p><p>For me, eating low carb foods means the weight just falls off - and even when as now I am trying to build up some muscle I just get thinner and thinner so I have to get all new clothes. I used to be a XXL at diagnosis, now I am fitting into Ls, and I am not even trying, I don't restrict calories at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Resurgam, post: 1692988, member: 355878"] It isn't you that's wrong, it is the modern diet. I'm afraid that although you can eat meat fish shellfish eggs, cheese and lots of salad, low sugar fruits such as berries (not blueberries) and low starch vegetables, what is pushing your metabolism, and even your sense of taste off balance is all the sweet and starchy foods, which although we have been advised to eat them for so long, are causing weight gain, illness and unhappiness for many. The number 75 is most likely your Hba1c - it indicates how high your blood glucose has gone, on average, over the life of your red blood corpuscles. Mine was 91 on diagnosis thanks to all the healthy carbs I had been eating. There are quite a few people on the forum who are not taking medication but are controlling their diabetes by sticking to the amounts of carbs which enable them to keep their blood glucose in the normal range. They do eat fats and protein and - for quite a few of us, around 50 gm of carbs a day. Some have to stay lower, others go a bit higher, so it is handy to have a meter to test your levels using a small drop of blood. For me, eating low carb foods means the weight just falls off - and even when as now I am trying to build up some muscle I just get thinner and thinner so I have to get all new clothes. I used to be a XXL at diagnosis, now I am fitting into Ls, and I am not even trying, I don't restrict calories at all. [/QUOTE]
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