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Newly diagnosed - at the beginning of a trip to the US!
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Well done.
Shame you choose to deny the diagnosis and deflect the reason for your success though. Had you taken the opportunity to educate your nurse that lowering carbs is what did it, she might be more believing, do a bit of research of her own and even suggest it to her next patient to help them achieve what you have.
Shame you choose to deny the diagnosis and deflect the reason for your success though. Had you taken the opportunity to educate your nurse that lowering carbs is what did it, she might be more believing, do a bit of research of her own and even suggest it to her next patient to help them achieve what you have.
Oh, no I think you've misunderstood. We did have a discussion about how I did it, but the truth is that I did have a massive chocolate binge in February and March which is undoubtedly what tipped me over the edge as I just happened to have a blood test right at the end of the binge. I had hoped I could reverse the condition - but honestly didn't expect to see it happen this side of Christmas. To do it in just 3 months is just amazing. I also saw a different nurse this time round.
I'm honestly not sure how you would lose weight on 250g of carbs a day: I was told to stick to that but self-regulated myself to aruond 100g most days with the occasional 150g. I feel that you would have to be a total glutton to be able to eat 250g of carbs a day - that is a heck of a lot of bread/pasta/rice/potatoes etc, after all! A 100g portion of pasta is less than 50g of carbs, and it was enough for a meal, after all. And my brother put me onto Lidl thin pizza bases which are only 100g carbs per pizza (approx 12" diameter), and half of one of them was enough for a dinner along with a portion of homemade coleslaw. I was even able to eat the Dominoes' Italian style base as they worked out at about 60g for half a medium pizza (and then I had lunch the following day).
At the end of the day, I know I wasn't eating healthily before, and I'm going to try and 'keep up the good work' for as long as I can without reverting to my old ways. I have, after all, been pre-diabetic for at least 10 years before this anyway. But I was so stressed out through work that it was never the right time or convenient to do anything about it. Now I'm at home all day it's easier to find the time to make salads and stuff.
The funny thing is that I have my 'special' eye test (the one where they put drops in and stuff) at the hospital round the corner on the 20th August. My eyes definitely deteriorated a few months ago, but I don't know whether it's connected to the diabetes or just age.
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Sorry, I took my assumption from this sentence that you you didn’t credit your change in eating for the new results.
Chocolate binge or not if you were metabolically healthy your hba1c would have coped with this. It is because you have insulin resistance that it raised the hba1c. Lots of people that genuinely low carb reverse levels like ours and much much higher in 3 months. That’s not to diminish your efforts. You did great it’s just that the right diet is incredibly powerful medicine and far too few people realise this.
100-150g a day seems to have worked for you, and it will for others. Some of us need to go lower. I was diagnosed at 55mmol so very close to you but every time I go over about 50 ish a day the hba1c rises. I’d love to behave the flexibility you have and all I’d say is savour and prolong that by maintaining the new choices.
Stress can add a fair bit to glucose levels. Perhaps the relief from work stress has aided your recovery too.
Eyes often go a bit wonky temporarily as we lower glucose levels. The eye gets bathed in higher glucose solutions and adjusts ti that. When we drop levels back to optimal then it takes a bit of time to readjust back down again. Hope it goes well for you. Take and wear your sunglasses afterwards.
