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<blockquote data-quote="CatsFive" data-source="post: 2578160" data-attributes="member: 567227"><p>I was actually diagnosed a year ago - HbA1c of 56 - but it sent me into such a flat spin it was some months before I could bear to look here. At the time it felt full of rather macho 'I will beat it into submission' posts and I simply looked at them and closed the browser window. </p><p></p><p>However I did change my diet to very little carbs and more pulses, fish, fruit & veg. Luckily I live on my own so don't have the pressures of family catering, luckily I can afford that diet and luckily I've rarely eaten ready meals, convenience foods, pastries & cakes, sweeties and so on, luckily I've never taken sugar in my tea since laziness got the better of me when I left home and luckily I like an active lifestyle. </p><p></p><p>Also luckily here in Scotland there is the horribly named MyDiabetesMyWay website. It took quite a bit of time to get signed up - that is once I could bear to apply - but now I think it should be renamed to 'MyHealth' or similar and opened to all. I have a record of all prescriptions back to some time in 2008 apart from those in hospital, ditto my weight. Blood was taken on Friday and I saw the results yesterday afternoon. I can add my own weight & blood pressure records. So apart from the name and the poor admin when I was trying to join, I rate it.</p><p></p><p>A year on my HbA1c is down to 46 and I'm about 12 kg lighter. I don't feel any different probably because I lost weight very gradually, but I have a lot of rather baggy clothes and the metatarsalgia I had had gone, though exercises for Achilles tendon issues are partly to do with that.</p><p></p><p>However there is still 8kg to go to a BMI of 25, and I'm interested to see what the HbA1c will go down to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CatsFive, post: 2578160, member: 567227"] I was actually diagnosed a year ago - HbA1c of 56 - but it sent me into such a flat spin it was some months before I could bear to look here. At the time it felt full of rather macho 'I will beat it into submission' posts and I simply looked at them and closed the browser window. However I did change my diet to very little carbs and more pulses, fish, fruit & veg. Luckily I live on my own so don't have the pressures of family catering, luckily I can afford that diet and luckily I've rarely eaten ready meals, convenience foods, pastries & cakes, sweeties and so on, luckily I've never taken sugar in my tea since laziness got the better of me when I left home and luckily I like an active lifestyle. Also luckily here in Scotland there is the horribly named MyDiabetesMyWay website. It took quite a bit of time to get signed up - that is once I could bear to apply - but now I think it should be renamed to 'MyHealth' or similar and opened to all. I have a record of all prescriptions back to some time in 2008 apart from those in hospital, ditto my weight. Blood was taken on Friday and I saw the results yesterday afternoon. I can add my own weight & blood pressure records. So apart from the name and the poor admin when I was trying to join, I rate it. A year on my HbA1c is down to 46 and I'm about 12 kg lighter. I don't feel any different probably because I lost weight very gradually, but I have a lot of rather baggy clothes and the metatarsalgia I had had gone, though exercises for Achilles tendon issues are partly to do with that. However there is still 8kg to go to a BMI of 25, and I'm interested to see what the HbA1c will go down to. [/QUOTE]
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