So much of what I read is about losing weight. I am T2 (on metformin and linagliptin) but have never been overweight (BMI 23 - 24), have always done a lot of exercise, drink little alcohol (less than 5 units a week) and while my diet isn't perfect, I do eat lots of veg / fruit / fish, and avoid fast food. Would be interested to hear others in similar situation. I would love to come off meds but whenever I reduce dosage, my numbers go the wrong way.
I am/was a slim T2D (just briefly scraped info BMI 25 after 10yrs of high v=carb diet (under pressure from my GP and wife).
I used to eat Fruit , whole grains, carrots and parsnips until they were about to come out of my ears. Ultra low fat as well of course. You could say I should have been an advert for '5 a day' and the' Eatwell plate'!
I recently calculated that I must have v=been eating over 400gms of carbs per day and exceeded 7 portions of fruit and veg (not counting potato or sweet potato) per day every day.
What did it get me? - continuous slow weight gain, needing a 3x Coronary Bypass, then Type 2 diabetes.
I told both the GP and the Diabetes Nurse that eating like that wasn't working. All they suggested was trying harder to up carbs even more and to cut fat even lower.
So I found this forum and went Low Carb, with High(er) traditional Fat and High Protein. I always eat the full-fat version of things, I eat fatty cuts of meat and fatty fish, eggs, cheese, nuts like Brazils, Olive Oil on salads, stir Fries in Coconut Oil.
Sure I still lost 17% of my maximum weight (put 4lbs back on since then by raising my daily cheese quota ). But I never starved myself and enjoyed the food, even got to like chicken with the skin on.
I got a BG meter with cheaper test strips (a TEE2+, though SD Gluco Navii is probably as good) and I tested each meal until I knew exactly which food spiked my BG too much (which included all the whole grains, most of the fruit and of course both the carrots and parsnips).