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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Assegai" data-source="post: 381659" data-attributes="member: 40352">Hi Guys,  I started out diagnosed as diabetic with an HBa1C if 13 two years ago. I was put directly on insulin and given the doom and gloom scenario of being a diabetic. All the horror stories etc. I started to slowly change my lifestyle and started seeing positive results in how I felt as a person, fitter from exercise leaner from eating better. So I started adopting a new lifestyle. I had a monthly checkup and saw the blood sugar levels keep dropping. More encouragement! After a year I was taken off insulin because of hypo's and my new doctor basically telling me its not needed anymore. So over to oral medication. Not that I was complaining, I was getting rather tired of injecting.  So I kept up the eating plan (Lo carbing all the way) and getting more and more into exercise. About three weeks ago I went for a checkup again. my HBa1C had been stable at around 4.8 for the last 3 months, so I was taken off all medication. Its been three weeks now, and my blood sugar levels have been stable at around 4.8 -5. Exercise and diet only. I'll probably go back onto drugs or insulin again in the future, diabetes is progressive, But I know i have fought it as hard as I can and I have won.... At least temporarily. That combined with the fact that I am in the best shape of my life (32 now and embarrassingly fitter than I was at 19) has made me a happy man, I've had a couple of curve balls thrown along the way. Busy going through a divorce, Family members affected by retrenchments etc. But the one stable thing funnily enough has been my battle against diabetes. Not a battle in which I plan on surrendering.So keep strong, keep plugging away. Hell if a procrastinating unfit IT guy can do it, so can you.  :wink:</blockquote>

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