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<blockquote data-quote="pinkfoot" data-source="post: 2449953" data-attributes="member: 23898"><p>Alright [USER=526951]@kevsta[/USER] from another Kev.</p><p>Blimey, your nurse sounds like she needs to go back to Stalag 19 for a refresher course in PR or read Dale Carnegie's book, 'How to win friends and influence people'...</p><p></p><p>I can only speak for myself and what has worked for me - and it is all down to the lovely folk on this forum that I have had a big turn round.</p><p></p><p>15 years ago, at 173cm tall, I was 102Kg and HbA1c close to 100, I've been diagnosed for 18 years and it wasn't until 7 weeks ago I took control - only you can do this. I love my food, beer, choc, cake whatever but my control was slipping after years on Metformin, Trulicity injections and other meds. I was absolutely sick to the back teeth with running to the loo with a gippy stomach. I was eating all the wrong things being a wagon driver.</p><p></p><p>I'm now 85 Kilo and falling, I still eat well and have an odd day where I drink a beer or two, but I have cut carbs out, my HbA1c has dropped from 61 to 51 in six weeks.</p><p></p><p>Today's food - Breakfast, Bacon, good quality sausage (no rusk) tomato, mushroom, egg and some piccalilli on the side.</p><p>Lunch, can of tuna with a side salad. Dinner, Cauliflower rice based Pizza with tomato, mozzarella, onion, prosciutto and leek, bit of oregano on the toms to make them extra tasty.</p><p></p><p>I'll say it again - only you can do this. You need to look at your diet and find with regular testing what spikes you and what doesn't, everybody is different. You don't have to live like a monk/nun, but you do have to be careful with what you put in your body, do you want to measure food every day and inject insulin? Do you want to lose your sight and possibly limbs through diabetes?</p><p></p><p>It took me a couple of weeks and reading posts from [USER=219467]@bulkbiker[/USER] [USER=496333]@Jim Lahey[/USER] [USER=524245]@LaoDan[/USER] [USER=400972]@Rachox[/USER] [USER=41885]@lucylocket61[/USER] and [USER=517579]@KennyA[/USER] to motivate myself. Lose the carbs, eat dairy and non-processed foods, meat, veg etc.. but be sensible. Once you lose carbs you then need fat to fuel yourself.</p><p></p><p>Good luck with it and by using this forum and the support of the brilliant folk on here, you WILL beat it...</p><p></p><p>Take care.</p><p></p><p>Kev</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pinkfoot, post: 2449953, member: 23898"] Alright [USER=526951]@kevsta[/USER] from another Kev. Blimey, your nurse sounds like she needs to go back to Stalag 19 for a refresher course in PR or read Dale Carnegie's book, 'How to win friends and influence people'... I can only speak for myself and what has worked for me - and it is all down to the lovely folk on this forum that I have had a big turn round. 15 years ago, at 173cm tall, I was 102Kg and HbA1c close to 100, I've been diagnosed for 18 years and it wasn't until 7 weeks ago I took control - only you can do this. I love my food, beer, choc, cake whatever but my control was slipping after years on Metformin, Trulicity injections and other meds. I was absolutely sick to the back teeth with running to the loo with a gippy stomach. I was eating all the wrong things being a wagon driver. I'm now 85 Kilo and falling, I still eat well and have an odd day where I drink a beer or two, but I have cut carbs out, my HbA1c has dropped from 61 to 51 in six weeks. Today's food - Breakfast, Bacon, good quality sausage (no rusk) tomato, mushroom, egg and some piccalilli on the side. Lunch, can of tuna with a side salad. Dinner, Cauliflower rice based Pizza with tomato, mozzarella, onion, prosciutto and leek, bit of oregano on the toms to make them extra tasty. I'll say it again - only you can do this. You need to look at your diet and find with regular testing what spikes you and what doesn't, everybody is different. You don't have to live like a monk/nun, but you do have to be careful with what you put in your body, do you want to measure food every day and inject insulin? Do you want to lose your sight and possibly limbs through diabetes? It took me a couple of weeks and reading posts from [USER=219467]@bulkbiker[/USER] [USER=496333]@Jim Lahey[/USER] [USER=524245]@LaoDan[/USER] [USER=400972]@Rachox[/USER] [USER=41885]@lucylocket61[/USER] and [USER=517579]@KennyA[/USER] to motivate myself. Lose the carbs, eat dairy and non-processed foods, meat, veg etc.. but be sensible. Once you lose carbs you then need fat to fuel yourself. Good luck with it and by using this forum and the support of the brilliant folk on here, you WILL beat it... Take care. Kev [/QUOTE]
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