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Rare test, shock result!

Hi

Reading with interest and just joined

Ive just started the low carb diet

Have to say it should be normal fat not high fat diet

Your cholesterol is often high when your blood glucose levels are

This is a phenomenon and doesn't represent your actual cholesterol levels, check them again once your blood sugars are under control and even with out a lipid lowering drug they will be down

Ive been to see the hospital specialist in a community setting and Ive been told to get my hba1c done every 3 months and that's what should be happening

I was encouraged to test and always thought there was no point but actually it helped and Ive now got the abbot freestyle libra, self funded and can see exactly what foods and other things do to my blood sugars

Other note is that sugar free things like sweets can raise your blood sugar levels as the sugar alcohols are read as sugar on the machines

Hope this helps
 
NoCrbs4Me said:
The idea is to eat more fat to replace the carbs you're no longer eating. So, it is "high fat", in that most of your calories should come from fat, rather than mostly carbs as the Eatwell Guide recommends.
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It's normal fat as in not low fat products but don't hammer the fats
 
Richram said:
It's normal fat as in not low fat products but don't hammer the fats
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People can choose to eat low carb and normal fat, or low carb and high fat. It is entirely their choice. Or any other way of eating they choose. We get people eating all sorts of variations posting their experiences.

Personally, i am a LCHFer. If i only ate moderate fat i would get too hungry, but other people have different experiences.
 
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I have to shovel fat in like my life depended on it otherwise I'd be emaciated.... I just can't sustain weight without a daily 1000cal fat smoothie in addition to my main meal.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Snap. Normal walking pace, no matter how near or far, keeps my levels either stable or better. The further, the better. Brisk or fast pace and they go up, also with more strenuous housework/gardening.
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Agreed again. But I can never exercise or do anything strenuous in the morning
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I also need to eat high fat for the calories or I would lose weight I cannot afford to lose. Normal fat just wouldn't be enough for me.
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Yeah I see that

Sorry I meant to say I'm also calorie deficit to try and loose some weighy
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I also need to eat high fat for the calories or I would lose weight I cannot afford to lose. Normal fat just wouldn't be enough for me.
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I wish I could say something similar - with exercise and less than 1000cal per day my weight is fairly static after fairly rapid reduction.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
You may like to consider changing surgeries if you can. Yours isn't following current guidelines.
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I think it is up to individual surgeries how much information patients can get online. At mine we can make appointments and request repeat prescriptions online but thats all. If we want blood test results we have to phone up after 4pm
 
Pinkorchid said:
I think it is up to individual surgeries how much information patients can get online. At mine we can make appointments and request repeat prescriptions online but thats all. If we want blood test results we have to phone up after 4pm
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Maybe, but that doesn't alter the fact that all surgeries were told by NHS England to have coded test results on-line by April 2016. Obviously in some cases it wouldn't be appropriate., if for example the patient had health anxiety problems that may send him over the edge if he saw certain data. Those that haven't done so are non-compliant.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Maybe, but that doesn't alter the fact that all surgeries were told by NHS England to have coded test results on-line by April 2016. Obviously in some cases it wouldn't be appropriate., if for example the patient had health anxiety problems that may send him over the edge if he saw certain data. Those that haven't done so are non-compliant.
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Well it does not sound like anyone does anything to make them put records on line as lot's of people on here say they can't get any of their medical information or test results online
 
Well after a couple of weeks (mostly) on the Diet Doctor diet, I've found the high fats hard to accept, and the lack of anything substantial like bread, potatoes and the like too hard to miss! I am trying really hard to get used to it though. Trouble is, my weight is not going down at all, I don't think I can eat much less than I used to, as I still feel hungry a lot of the time, although I didn't feel like that in the beginning. the BG is much better than it used to be and I hope it stays so. If anyone has a suggestion of what to eat to replace missing carbs (like bread, spuds, wheat, rice and the like, I would love to hear it, thanks!) I tried these funny (low carb) noodle and rice products, that supposedly carry a great choking risk if you don't drink enough water, but they just tasted like rubber to me! So there seems to be no easy way to do this thing apart from biting the bullet and lots of cold turkey at the same time. Ho hum...
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Maybe, but that doesn't alter the fact that all surgeries were told by NHS England to have coded test results on-line by April 2016. Obviously in some cases it wouldn't be appropriate., if for example the patient had health anxiety problems that may send him over the edge if he saw certain data. Those that haven't done so are non-compliant.
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Unfortunately whilst they may be non-compliant nobody seems to be making them comply. When I asked when the results would be on line, as per NHS England's instructions, I was told that it was up to the individual surgeries whether they did or not and what information they let us see and they had no plans to do so at the moment! The only thing we can do on line, and I use the term loosely, is order prescriptions via e-mail. It's so frustrating.
 
Well I think I've found out why the weight isn't dropping. I've put my fats up again, as I now seem more used to them and it's definitely more tasty than 7 years of low-fat nonsense. But now, having read (& still am reading) a book called 'The 8 week blood sugar diet' by Michael Mosley, I've realised that I completely forget about a thing called 'calories'! I've been buying foods without sticking rigidly to the Diet Doctor recipes and have probably overloaded myself with nasty calories, (been trying to do it cheaper, as all these special recipes cost a lot more than my budget will allow). So I can still do this, but I just need to pay a lot more attention to calories as well as carbs. Phew! This thing ain't easy...
 
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