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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul_Williams2409" data-source="post: 1637225" data-attributes="member: 290100">Not been here for a while but still interested in progress.  I was diagnosed type 2, 21 October 2015.  Hba1c was then at 7.5 (59).  I had allowed myself to get sucked in to eating and drinking all the wrong things, no exercise and weight crept up.  15st 1lb, cholesterol 5.9, blood pressure off the scale 190/142 at worst and controlled by three drugs and water pills.  The advice I got from the NHS was at best useless and at worst dangerous.  I seemed headed for more pills and a life dependent on doctors. To say I was in shock is an understatement.Two things began to change me.  The first was watching a TV programme 'doctor in the house' where a GP lived with and advised a man with many of the problems I had. The second was finding the low carb diet. Both gave me enough information to start exploring how to turn my life around.Scroll forward to last Thursday. The half yearly diabetic MOT. Why do we always fear these? The new figures Hba1c 6.2 (44), 12st 1lb, cholesterol 3.9, blood pressure 138/78 and no medication. Even the practice nurse asked me two or three times how I had managed to turn myself around.  And I still think she didn't believe me. She offered me a place on a six week diabetes management course.Add to this last Monday I qualified as a fitness instructor and in the spring will be qualified to undertake personal training with the aim of working with people stuck in the diabetic rut and those struggling with weight and fitness issues.I am firmly committed to the belief that we all have it in us to change and help heal ourselves and, although you do at times need support, it is us who must decide to make lifelong changes. There can be no half measure. There is life after diabetes......I just don't think the NHS as cottoned on yet!</blockquote>

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