Newly diagnosed! Hi and help!

Hi Buzzer81 I know how you feel. My GP was not interested in ' reversing ' my type 2 db so I went ahead myself using the Prof Roy Taylor Newcastle diet and then low carb , self learned from the internet and the books of Dr Mosley, and low carb down under on youtube. When I asked about a blood glucose monitor the GP's poo -poohed the idea , " because we don't want you to be worrying yourself "" [ ! ] Terrible - but don't worry, the info is all out there. A useful site on you tube to start testing is Beating Diabetes by Dennis Pollock. Great fun !

 

@Buzzer81 my monitor is Accuchek Active, simple with no bells or whistles - I don't like the fancy programmable types

 

It’s not a programmable fancy one. It’s an accuchek mobile. Just a replaceable cassette you drop in and it rotates around for 50 tests then swap it. Less fiddly than strips being inserted and disposed of each test.

 

Hello and welcome,

Congratulations and great results. You've been given great advice from everyone so I am just going g to say welcome and good luck.

 

That's awesome, well done!
For a while I tested 1h and 2h after food to see how it would affect me as often I was not as high as I'd expect after some meals and I wanted to find out how far up the spike went.
Turns out sweet potato is good for before training, same for bananas. I got away with a small handful of wholegrain pasta and vegetables before training too and a small amount of oats in my morning yoghurt was ok too - that was when I was active and training 6x a week but with Corona cancelling training, I reduced my carbs further as I can't handle them as well.
Had to up my basal insulin this week too and sort of got an ok level again of maintain good control.

I found especially at the start it's all about testing and learning. I used MySugr app to keep track and look at trends until I had an idea on what worked for me.

 

Don't worry about it. It takes a little while for your body to adjust to low carb, say, a week or two. Fatigue won't last long, after a while you'll actually end up with more energy than you know what to do with. In the meantime, protein and fats can keep you going, and make sure you keep your electrolytes up!!!