Thank you for your advice everyone. My GP has agreed keep me off Metformin for 12 weeks and will reassess after checking the HBA1C. I am still struggling with the morning sugar level.
The diet that I'm following is:
Breakfast
1 Whole Egg, 3 Egg Whites, 5 Almonds
Lunch
5 Cashews, Yogurt Drink (Unsweetened)
Dinner
Double Chicken Tikka Subway Salad without cheese
Before Sleeping
1 Whole Egg
I am a bit concerned about my morning sugar levels as they are above the recommended range.
Here is a summary of how my sugar levels are:
25 May -> 17mmol (After Meal) -> 125.8Kg
2 Jun -> 13.1mmol (Morning Fasting) -> 117.6Kg
5 Jun -> 7.5mmol (Morning Fasting) -> 114.9kg
12 Jun -> 7.2mmol (Morning Fasting) -> 112.4Kg
Wow! I have lots of comments on this !
1. I see that you are not vegetarian (despite the user name). Good, this makes a sustainable low cab lifestyle so much easier!
2, You seem to be avoid fats. For most of us Type 2's doing Low Carb, whole eggs, full fat cheese, full fat dairy, fatty fish. fatty cuts of meat (even Bacon) form a large part of our diet. Traditional fats (from whole food your great granny would have recognised ) isn't any worse for you than it was for people back then, and Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity was much, much rarer back then.
3. You are seriously Low Calorie. I tend to advise Low Carb, or low calorie for those who can't handle low carb. This is because with low carb you don't need to cut knowingly calories in order to lose weight - for most of us it just falls off at a pace of 1lb to 2lbs per week without any effort . Low calorie like that actually makes keeping the weight off much harder if done for too long because your body goes into starvation mode meaning your metabolism drops and so you then don't actually need as many calories per day to live. The downsides of that are that you have less energy, you feel cold, your thinking isn't as sharp; because all of these require energy!
4. For Breakfast, may I suggest 2 or 3 whole eggs (possibly as a mushroom omelette, or just fired, boiled , poached or scrambled). Your current breakfast is very low fat and whole eggs are a great mix of protein and fat - remember they build a chick! Also the almonds don't really contribute here while they add carbs.
5. For Lunch, may I suggest Full fat Greek yogurt ( same size as the current yogurt drink). Add in a few berries (strawbs, rasps, blackberries, blackcurrants or worst case blueberries) and some seeds (chia, pumpkin, sesame or sunflower). Or add nuts, but not cashews which are the highest carb in a nut (and aren't a true nut anyway).
6. I don't know what's in a Subway salad - it may be OK so long as it has it doesn't have Subway bread (so sweet it's officially a cake in Ireland). Also beware high carb salad dressings.
Its good that you are using a BG meter, but they are best used for testing your meals or specific foods. Your fasting BG levels are OK. Nothing to be concerned about there! I have been in remission for over 2 yrs and my Fasting BG range between 6.5 and 7.5. They are falling, still but very very slowly. The fasting BG levels are high(ish) because of Dawn Phenomenon which is where out livers try to help us out by dumping glucose into our blood stream in the morning in order for us to go hunt/gather our breakfast like a cave dweller! Over time if we typically have BG levels below 8.0 then it will start to 'realise' that we don't actually need that additional glucose in the mornings!
