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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
I'm finding this diabetes malarkey a bit much. I have gone very low carb and it's mostly ok but I'm getting envious of others. My sugars aren't coming down far or fast enough.
During lockdown I've been doing the shopping for a pair of 85 year olds, one of whom was diagnosed type 2 a good few years ago but what they buy is very wrong, bread, tea cakes, rice pudding, baked beans, jam, cereals, corner yoghurts, week in week out. He ignores the advice and is only tested infrequently, doesn't seem to have any complications, or any guilt.
My sister was diagnosed at xmas but only started taking action few months ago. She has cut her doughnuts down to once a week! Yet her hba1c has fallen by the same as mine even though I am being much stricter. I am also younger, slimmer and fitter yet her results are the same as mine.
It's not fair.
I keep going in circles trying to lose weight and keep sugars down but not seeing much effect either way.
I swing between thinking I'm eating too much because of the fats and lack of weight loss to thinking I'm not eating enough because I get dizzy and light headed. I've got funny skin sensation and lots of headaches.
I'm dreading lockdown releasing as that will just show I have no will power. I dont want to be restricted in restaurant choices, but I dont want to lose a foot either. Some days I think my carb cravings have gone, then I get a smell of soemthing and I know I'd be right back on it if there was any in reach.
The fun of eating fat is wearing off, it just feels greasy now. I'd love a proper pudding, yet I'm thinking I need to fast more and for longer.
I think I can stop testing regularly but as soon as I stop testing I worry that my sugars and weight will go up
I'm scared to try other foods. I'd like to add more range but am frightened to try in case it just shows I'm going to be limited for life.
I keep oscillating between aiming to get sugars right down then relaxing a bit and getting fed up waiting and relaxing a bit now. I want to believe the gp that I dont need another test for year, but I dont trust myself to stop testing. I want to be in control but I don't want to have to be in control.
This is all so muddled, but my thoughts swing from one extreme to the other all the time
Example: I just tested after a meal to which I added 4 small grapes. I also ate teaspoon of couscous while cooking to taste it for others. Yet those 2 new things sent me up 3 (from 6 to 9). I know my levels aren't bad compared to some, but why me??? Why cant my life be simple? What have I done to deserve this, and for the rest of my life too?
This sounds such a moan but it is really getting to me. Any tips any one?
During lockdown I've been doing the shopping for a pair of 85 year olds, one of whom was diagnosed type 2 a good few years ago but what they buy is very wrong, bread, tea cakes, rice pudding, baked beans, jam, cereals, corner yoghurts, week in week out. He ignores the advice and is only tested infrequently, doesn't seem to have any complications, or any guilt.
My sister was diagnosed at xmas but only started taking action few months ago. She has cut her doughnuts down to once a week! Yet her hba1c has fallen by the same as mine even though I am being much stricter. I am also younger, slimmer and fitter yet her results are the same as mine.
It's not fair.
I keep going in circles trying to lose weight and keep sugars down but not seeing much effect either way.
I swing between thinking I'm eating too much because of the fats and lack of weight loss to thinking I'm not eating enough because I get dizzy and light headed. I've got funny skin sensation and lots of headaches.
I'm dreading lockdown releasing as that will just show I have no will power. I dont want to be restricted in restaurant choices, but I dont want to lose a foot either. Some days I think my carb cravings have gone, then I get a smell of soemthing and I know I'd be right back on it if there was any in reach.
The fun of eating fat is wearing off, it just feels greasy now. I'd love a proper pudding, yet I'm thinking I need to fast more and for longer.
I think I can stop testing regularly but as soon as I stop testing I worry that my sugars and weight will go up
I'm scared to try other foods. I'd like to add more range but am frightened to try in case it just shows I'm going to be limited for life.
I keep oscillating between aiming to get sugars right down then relaxing a bit and getting fed up waiting and relaxing a bit now. I want to believe the gp that I dont need another test for year, but I dont trust myself to stop testing. I want to be in control but I don't want to have to be in control.
This is all so muddled, but my thoughts swing from one extreme to the other all the time
Example: I just tested after a meal to which I added 4 small grapes. I also ate teaspoon of couscous while cooking to taste it for others. Yet those 2 new things sent me up 3 (from 6 to 9). I know my levels aren't bad compared to some, but why me??? Why cant my life be simple? What have I done to deserve this, and for the rest of my life too?
This sounds such a moan but it is really getting to me. Any tips any one?