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<blockquote data-quote="KathyCP" data-source="post: 1595558" data-attributes="member: 424527"><p>i was diagnosed with an hba1c of 104 in jan 2014, and as i wasn't particularly overweight, ate a basically healthy diet and exercised regularly, my gp also told me that there was nothing i could do to improve things, and that i needed to accept the fact that i would be on medication for the rest of my life. she put me on tablets for my blood pressure, and wanted me to have statins, but i refused those. anyway, various ups and downs, but 18 months ago, still on metformin and bp tablets, i switched to a lchf diet. i was also advised (not by my gp) to leave at least 5 hours between meals with no/minimal snacking to give my body a chance to reset my bg levels before eating again; plus it was recommended that i do at least 20 minutes exercise a day, and at least 5 min first thing in the morning, to wake my system up. so i've been doing that religiously since april last year - i've been off metformin for a year, stopped my bp pills in january, and my ha1bc last week was 36 - and everything else is normal. so much for having to be on medication for ever .... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KathyCP, post: 1595558, member: 424527"] i was diagnosed with an hba1c of 104 in jan 2014, and as i wasn't particularly overweight, ate a basically healthy diet and exercised regularly, my gp also told me that there was nothing i could do to improve things, and that i needed to accept the fact that i would be on medication for the rest of my life. she put me on tablets for my blood pressure, and wanted me to have statins, but i refused those. anyway, various ups and downs, but 18 months ago, still on metformin and bp tablets, i switched to a lchf diet. i was also advised (not by my gp) to leave at least 5 hours between meals with no/minimal snacking to give my body a chance to reset my bg levels before eating again; plus it was recommended that i do at least 20 minutes exercise a day, and at least 5 min first thing in the morning, to wake my system up. so i've been doing that religiously since april last year - i've been off metformin for a year, stopped my bp pills in january, and my ha1bc last week was 36 - and everything else is normal. so much for having to be on medication for ever .... :) [/QUOTE]
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