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Not lost weight!!!

well done Gappy!!!

thanx Viv and Donelly,

but i jumped on the scales today (even though i know i shouldn't :wink: ) and i lost a 1lb!!! i was so pleased, i knew it was gonna come anyday soon, i could feel it in my water :lol:

i have no thoughts of giving up..this is about my health just as much as losing it,

Viv
my late mother (who passed at 67 with lung cancer and dementia :( ) use to use that saying...if there was rude things on telly, she would say its like soddom and goomorah!!, bless her,
was nice to see some else say it lol xx
 
Just well done anybody that has lost a bit, levelled a bit, and lost a bit more.....

Our bodies physically and mentally are complex things.....medicine has only been really practiced for the past 100 years(??guestimate).....so we are all going to have up's and downs' in mind and body.....

So well done anybody that has just been able to see the light at the end of the tunnel...no matter how far off it seems!!!!!
 
i am type 2, i am starting a low car diet today. I bought some books about low carb diet and after reading the success stories of other members of the forum who low carb am inspired to do the same. I need to loose 4 stone and cant wait to see the weight drop off. You are doing really well too on your diet so keep at it and you will soon hit your target weight. good luck and best wishes x
 
Good luck Starlight!
Out of all the weight loss approaches I have done when needed to over the years , there is no better way in my experience to shed the pounds that low carb. It kick starts your metabolism into the weight loss the fastest I have found, and without feeling the groaning hunger you feel on calorie cutting diets.

hope it works out well for you Hun, keep us updated on how you go on....onwards and upwards kid :wink:
 
I just decided to cut down a little on carbs {and I didn't eat many} not with any thought of losing weight but just for my bg levels. Just cut down on the starchy carbs and lost two stone. in 3 months.
All my family and friends were most concerned. They thought I was killing myself dieting. I suppose that was because I hadn't been overweight to begin wih. They kept letcuring me about doing too much too quickly!
It may have also been connected with reducing glimepirides but I don't think that would have had such a rapisd effect. on its own.
 
Hi Unbeliever :D
So was it an intentional thing to lose the weight? Or a side effect of the reduction in carbs?

Did you replace the carbs with more fat and protein or just cut back on the rice,pasta 'bread ect?

If you are still losing weight but want to maintain the good Glucose control you have achieved by cutting out the carbs, I have added a few things into my diet still low carb and not high in saturated fat and my weight has now stabilised ,as I, like yourself was losing a bit too much too quickly on the low carb approach, but also like you have found it so good for over-all well being and very steady control. So I thought I would stick it out and find ways to add the weight back on...though as we all know we do tend to plateau where weight loss is concerned anyway...usually when we don't want to :roll: typical

Do you think you will go back to introducing the starchy carbs into your diet again?

Glad you have had good control on it :D
 
No, Fallenstar, I had no thought of losing weight was just trying to keep off insulin.! I was also put on Januvia which levelled out the spikes which I used to eperience in the evenings when Eating LESS than usual so my levels are quite stable now.
I have plaeaud with the weight , interestingly at pre-diagnosis level. I find I am able to eat some starhy carbs now without their having the effec hey used o have but I definitely found that pretty well cuting them out didn't make me want to eat more. as happens when I have a litlte..
The crux of the matter I think is that I have now returnred to eating the diet I ae for years before diagnosis when I was very slim. I only started to eat more carbs after diagnosis as I was advised o do so to counterac the effects of metformin,
I have been told that I have probably had diabetes for most of my adult life .As fortunately I didn't have a sweet ooth or large apppetite and was fairly active it was probably controlled for years and didn't show up in any tests.
The diabeologist said that my body knew I had diabetes before I did,
Unfortunately , I can't help feeling my acccidental diagnosis was a bad thing for me just as some other posters say it was a good thing for them.
that is because my symptomsonly appeared after dignosis and medicaion. Although I had been diabetic for maybe forty years I had only the eeniest race of retinopahy then but thanks to he mad rush to reduce ny levels [which were not THAT high} I suffered a bleed in my eye had over -the =op treatment for that too and now have macular oedema which is not responding to anyhing after 4 years of reament.
I have to say though that I now understand i all far more han I did to begin with. My levels are low and stable and because i don' have to obsess about diet and exercise - while continuing to be strict about both I am beginning to be able to relax a little.
It has taken just under a year to get from a siuaion where I was on quite a bit of medication and worrying about every thning I ate and despairing when my levels were higher when I ate smaller meals to my present position.
I have a feeling that I might have been better ff in a way had i been a little overweight on diagnosis. perhaps the metformin would have worked and the weight loss would have helped my levels rather than making me ill.
 
Hi, I've been going to the gym twice a week and do an hour of running, weights, cycling and rowing followed by 20 - 30 minutes of swimming and I've still not lost any weight. I eat healthy, don't snack between meals and don't drink alcohol much (about 4 units a week if that). I've come to the conclusion that it's just harder to lose when you've got diabetes.
 
Never mind the diabetes, it also gets harder as you get older!. Don't forget, Chris, that muscle weighs more than fat, so you cuold be losing fat but putting on more muscle tissue - a good thing. :D

Viv 8)
 
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