Newly diagnosed type 2 - have cried the entire weekend.

[Jaz006]

You can't get the low cost meter and strips at a supermarket - the 'Codefree' one is recommended due to it being cheap enough to use all the time - and you can even tick the box which informs them that you are a diabetic and get it free of VAT - but the weetabix and fruit is high carb and should really be avoided.

Thanks. I think once a week won't kill me coz I have cut everything else. Saturday's will never be the same again without Papa John's pizza in the evening. I could kill for a packet of crisps... but I am enjoying eating new things and crisps have been replaced with mixed nuts and seeds. So I am keeping my half a weetabix on a Saturday morning ... sorry.

 

[PamJHS]

Hi @Jaz006, I was completely shocked when I was told I was T2 in a phone call from my GP, she told me to reduce carbohydrate intake and I found this site fairly quickly with lots of ideas how to do that.

As for blaming yourself for being overweight - don't. It's a societal problem, and it seems that conventional weight-loss advice over the last half-century may be to blame. I've never had any lasting success with the usual diets, in fact I've yo-yo dieted for the past 40 years. I started off in the healthy weight range for my height in my twenties, and I'm now obese. I feel quite cross that the weight gain may have been down to my metabolism not working properly. Every time I've been told by a doctor to lose weight, I've pointed out that I've tried everything and asked what they suggest. So I'm hoping low carb and high fat is the key to the mystery for me.

In fact, for several years I've been telling people I have FOLS - Fat Old Lady Syndrome - because, whatever my problem, it seems it is caused by fat and can only be cured by weight loss! Yet when the GP showed me my notes on his screen, there was a graph showing a rapid increase in blood sugar over the last three years - which has never been mentiuoned to me before.