Having read some of the spats on here regarding the low/high carb debate, it's with slight trepidation that I introduce myself and provide a brief outline of my progress since diagnosed as a T2.
Anyway, It was almost two years ago now since I was diagnosed, and although the figures didn't mean that much to me at the time I think my HbA1c was over 10 and my fasting BG 16+.
I was a couple of stone overweight, didn't take much exercise and my diet was awful - junk, high-fat food and mainly eaten binge-style.
Over the next year or so I gradually lost a couple of stone in weight, transformed my diet and now walk several miles a day with some steep flat out stretches, often with a stone or so of bags of shopping, thus it can be quite vigorous. I'm now around my ideal height/weight - BMI 21 or so.
I was put on 2 x 500 mg Metformin per day initially, and got my HbA1c down to around 8 after a couple of months. The dosage was raised to four tablets per day, and eventually the reading came down to 6 or so, then 5.2.
My dosage was reduced back to the two Metformin per day, and a few months later my reading had increased to 5.4.
I was tested again recently and my latest figure was 4.8, which I find a bit difficult to credit - the figure I was given over the phone was 29 in the new units, which I converted to the old ones, so perhaps I picked up the figure wrongly, but even if it was 39 then that would still be comfortably under 6.
Anyway, here's the diet bit. I'm eating lots of fruit and veg, including bananas, apples and clementines (or similar) which I know some people have difficulty dealing with.
I also consume a fair bit of carbohydrate, including a big bowl of breakfast cereal (unsweetened, obviously), four/five slices of bread (it's the Tesco Finest oat-based stuff, since oats are supposed to be more palatable for diabetics) and some pasta, though I avoid potatoes and rice.
Other than that it's generally low-fat stuff including oily fish for the Omega 3 and usually a Tesco lite choices ready meal (I know, I know, but I can't really cook!) accompanied by lots of microwaved veg. I consume over a pint of milk a day, and it's the Tesco 0.75% fat stuff, which is mid-way between semi-skimmed and skimmed, but still tastes fine with my cereal!
No prizes for guessing where I do most of my shopping!
Anyway, It was almost two years ago now since I was diagnosed, and although the figures didn't mean that much to me at the time I think my HbA1c was over 10 and my fasting BG 16+.
I was a couple of stone overweight, didn't take much exercise and my diet was awful - junk, high-fat food and mainly eaten binge-style.
Over the next year or so I gradually lost a couple of stone in weight, transformed my diet and now walk several miles a day with some steep flat out stretches, often with a stone or so of bags of shopping, thus it can be quite vigorous. I'm now around my ideal height/weight - BMI 21 or so.
I was put on 2 x 500 mg Metformin per day initially, and got my HbA1c down to around 8 after a couple of months. The dosage was raised to four tablets per day, and eventually the reading came down to 6 or so, then 5.2.
My dosage was reduced back to the two Metformin per day, and a few months later my reading had increased to 5.4.
I was tested again recently and my latest figure was 4.8, which I find a bit difficult to credit - the figure I was given over the phone was 29 in the new units, which I converted to the old ones, so perhaps I picked up the figure wrongly, but even if it was 39 then that would still be comfortably under 6.
Anyway, here's the diet bit. I'm eating lots of fruit and veg, including bananas, apples and clementines (or similar) which I know some people have difficulty dealing with.
I also consume a fair bit of carbohydrate, including a big bowl of breakfast cereal (unsweetened, obviously), four/five slices of bread (it's the Tesco Finest oat-based stuff, since oats are supposed to be more palatable for diabetics) and some pasta, though I avoid potatoes and rice.
Other than that it's generally low-fat stuff including oily fish for the Omega 3 and usually a Tesco lite choices ready meal (I know, I know, but I can't really cook!) accompanied by lots of microwaved veg. I consume over a pint of milk a day, and it's the Tesco 0.75% fat stuff, which is mid-way between semi-skimmed and skimmed, but still tastes fine with my cereal!
No prizes for guessing where I do most of my shopping!
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