Still diabetes free.

I had a fasting blood test last Friday and had a phone message from my db nurse yesterday. All she said was 'we don't need to see you again for 6 months'. I had to take a urine sample in today and I saw my nurse chatting to a colegue. I asked if everything was ok with my test and she said yes it was all fine. I then asked if there was any old data I could have as a comparison for this forum. These are some of my readings over the years.

2009
weight 113 kg about 17.5 stone
HbA1c 56
Plasma fasting glucose level from 2005 was 9.6

I started dieting in March 2011
weight 1 month later 103.5kg
HbA1c (just before the diet) 50
pfgl 8.8

Now
weight 79.3kg 12.5st
HbA1c 37
pfgl 5.3

I have lived in (almost) total ignorance of what diabetes meant to my life, it was with me for life and the medical profession would take care of me and give me the medication I needed to stay alive. What a simple soul I am! The above figures are a foreign language to me, I hope some of you make more sense of them! I have been told that my next test is in 6 months unless I feel unwell or have trouble with my feet or eyes. Or put on a lot of weight! Her words, not mine.
In the past few months I gave up bananas, grapes and biscuits. I have really cut down on the high carb foods and have got my carbs down to about 120g per day. I am now left wondering if I needed to do all that. If I got a new battery for my meter and some test strips I could carry out some experiments.
Well, have to go now, the dinner won't make itself! and I am being summoned.
Lee.

Hi LittleWolf,

I have to stick to my new way of eating to be certain, well hopeful anyway, of the diabetes staying away. On the whole I have reduced my carb intake from 200g per day to just over 100 and up to 150 some days. I am now going to start looking at ways of getting it down further.

Yorksman, Mon Ami. Isn't suet made with animal fat? Veggie in the room, veggie in the room. But chips? A chip butty must be one of lifes most indulgent pleasures. I shall plan for a chip butty as we speak (low carb bread, of course :twisted: .
Lee

So many things I would enjoy are non-veggie. Before I became diabetic I hadn't eaten cake for years. Now I can't/won't eat cake. (eggs). I have to ask before I buy an ice cream if it has egg, sometimes they know mostly they don't. Most wines have egg, some apparently have something out of a fish. I remember a programme on TV where one of the people appearing was a diet group leader. She recommended eating dust. Little Britain I think it was called. Probably a documentary about the British at work and play. I will try dust, maybe with some rainbow?
lrw60.
PS. Got the headphones on listening to Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene, 1976. For me it don't get much better, just wish this computer had a very much louder button.