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really great results low carbing!

zazoopits

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91
Location
highland
Type of diabetes
Prediabetes
Treatment type
Diet only
I went to my GP for a blood test for another problem and while i was there asked him to check my blood sugar - I have PCOS so it's always something that has worried me. Two years ago they were 4.3 which is fine. The result this time was 12.8 and I was told I was diabetic type 2. They did another GTT and that came back 26.3 - not to say I was terrified, from going from safe levels a few years back to quite high knocked me sideways. My Gp wanted to start me on Metformin right away but I asked to wait and I would try to diet a bit and change my lifestyle. I saw the dietician who told me just to swap brown bread for white etc, keep on eating my carbs at every meal and have dessert if I wanted. She told me not to look on the internet as her's was the only advice I should be taking. I thought this was nuts and found Diabets.co.uk which I credit with saving my life! After reading about low carbing and the effect that carbohydrates have on the body, I immediately started cutting out bread, potatoes, rice, pulses and ate plenty salads, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, cream, butter and a wee bit of dark chocolate. I had a test yesterday and my levels have dropped to 6.2!!!!!

I am really amazed how well this has worked, I am now classed as borderline and the GP said ...just keep on doing what you're doing...it's certainly working. I would like share this story if it might help anyone else who has newly been diagnosed Type 2 - I was very scared and anxious, but now I feel that with the right food (which is delicious!) and a wee walk every day, things can turn around greatly. I hope this is helpful for somebody else x
 
i have expierenced the same results and im 4 months diagnosed i eat same meats fish dark choc stay low carb as i can the weight has dropped of at 3 stone and my bloods are great it does seem to work for me to i walk hr a day and lift weights , so i defo recommend the low carb thnks to people on hear otherwise id still be eating spuds rice and be in a pickle xx well done to you
 
WELL DONE ZAZ You soon got to grips with that, didn't you! Keep that up and you could even keep the Big D away, for a good few years, anyway.
 
thanks all - I don't know what I would do without this site - I'm on here getting tips and recipe's, laughing at the funny story's and crying at what some others are going through - just so glad I found this website. So much support for what can be a scary diagnosis!
 
Just imagine the loneliness other diagnosed people are feeling without this site... and the hopelessness.
It is so encouraging to contact others.
 
imagine the despair they feel when they do as they are told and follow the dreadful advice and eat plenty of carbs, not test then see the progressive predictions come true at their next hba1c
 
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So why DO the NHS still dish out this dreadful advice? With prediabetes I believe the advice is to follow the 'Eatwell Plate' which is stuffed full of pasta, rice, etc. Then they wonder why there is an obesity crisis and a Diabetes epidemic. Personally I need to get my head around low carbing as I have prediabetes and no weight to lose. And fast too if zazoopits story about her escalation/descent into type 2 is typical. Why 2 yrs ago she wasn't even prediabetic I don't think. She has done brilliantly though, hope she stays that way. Let us into your secret about how low carbing you went, should really like to know!
 
Similar experience! I agree, this forum has been a life line!
 
You're right gardengnome, I went to my gp with acid reflux and asked to get a blood sugar test. I had no symptoms but have pcos so always aware of the possibility. Two years ago my blood sugar was 4.3 but this time was 12.8. Gtt was 26.3!. My dietician gave me the usual NHS guff about plenty "good" carbs. My friend in America advised me to get a book called the wheat belly. It made so much sense to me and took away so much of the fear. I stuck to low carbing until the next gp appt. Levels were 6.2. I am amazed at how this works. Certainly for type two my experience has been to seriously reduce carbs. No bread, tatties (Scottish!!) rice, pasta, sugar. Plenty fage yogurt, eggs, meats, fish, chicken, coconut oil, olive oil, butter, cream etc. I was a low fat junkie before, but I credit this site and the book with saving the day. I know I'm just at the beginning of my journey but I feel in control of this bad boy!

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Thanks to you all... I am prediabetic and was sent by my GP to see the dietitian. I said to her "I heard that prediabetes can be reversed" and got the same advice: Follow examples on the Eat Well plate, have smaller portions (I'm morbidly obese), and when I asked about carbs, was told that I can eat whatever is on the Eat Well plate, as long as I reduce the portions of everything...
I measure my (fasting) BG every morning and it kept slowly rising. Average in January 5.8, February 5.99, March was 6.22,... So yesterday I cut out all refined carbs (no bread, no potatoes, no pasta or rice) and this morning my BG was 5.5. Will try and follow this way of eating and see if I can keep it below 6.
 
Well done! It will take a few days to fight the sugar cravings but stay strong. I too was morbidly obese. 16 stone 1lb. I have loads of recipes I can give you, if you want.
 
Oh caught button. Where are you from? Swedish by any chance? Got a fab recipe site if that's the case! I kept a food diary when I first started on 28th of jan. Now weigh 14 stone 5lbs! Measure fasting, the pre and post prandial. Weigh myself on a Saturday but struggle not to weigh self in week. Anyway, nice to meet you!
 
I'm recently diagnosed T2 and have yet to see my dietician (see sig below).

Been eating LCHF and my BGs are now less than 6 pre-dinner and less that 7 at dinner +2.

I am a scientist and I was seriously hacked off by my GP whose only reaction was to (attempt to) get me to take statins and to take more exercise - well the second was right, and yes I am. But he wouldn't volunteer any numbers, the attitude was like 'this is too scientific, you wouldn't understand, just run along and do as you're told'. Well stuff that I told myself as I left, and here I am. So maybe I should thank my GP after all for getting my hackles up!
 
This is what bugs me most of all! There is no consideration that they might just be talking to someone else in a profession with an ability to put forward a cohesive argument or who might want an open discussion about their condition. I accept that I am not a scientist but you are. What a moron! I must say, mine is little better. As for the DN.....
 
I recently complained to my gp about the 5 minute appointment I had with the DSN when I was diagnosed in February, I told him that I had felt totally abandoned and scared and initially felt very depressed. He seemed quite concerned and said I should have had at least a half hour appointment and given some advice. I told him that I had booked myself on to the X-pert which I start in May, if I had waited for the DSN to arrange it I probably wouldn't get on it until Sept/Oct which I thought was too long to wait. I also informed him that I was following a LCHF diet, He seemed to be ok with that, but when I asked him about testing he said that the NHS guidlines was to lower blood glucose over a period of two years. I said surely it makes more sense to lower bg as soon as possible rather than building up problems for the future. I did take my self test log book with me to show him how well I had done despite not having any advice, and he had to agree with me, he was very nice about it and said if I needed any help to shout and shout loud, so I intend to work on him a bit more to see if I can make him realise that carbs are no good for T2 diabetic.
 
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