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carol43

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Location
South Nottinghamshire
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
My blood is now between 6 and 6.5 (started at 23.5) on a lchf diet. Don't seem to be able to lower it. I know now with rigorous testing what I can eat without raising BS using meat and veg, have about 10 to 15 blueberries with a dollop of double cream for dessert, low carb pancakes or yogurt with blueberries for breakfast, tuna or prawns with a few toms for lunch, half Lidl roll at week-ends with ham and cheese or bacon & mushrooms all using proper butter and olive oil. Mushrooms fried are now my potatoes, good job I love them. About 6 cups of decaff coffee with a couple of teaspoons of singe cream a day.

Have lost weight since March, was 13st 1lb now 11st 9lbs, walk an hour nearly every day, I've only got little legs so that's lots of steps but I haven't lost any more weight in September. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks Carol
 
Doesn't sound like it, we all stall. Maybe pop some more fat in there too like avocados and coconut oil in coffee. Mix up the exercise too, throw a few weights in there too.
 
Since I was diagnosed type2 9 months back and went LCHF soon afterwards my body keeps reminding me that no matter what care I take with my diet that it holds most of the control of my blood glucose level not what my brain decides.
You don't say if your numbers are fasting, pre-meal, post-meal or a meter average but they are in the right ball park.
Also with post meal be aware testing to soon after a meal can skew the numbers by quite a large margin.
 
I would both be strict about getting your 80-ish % fat *and* investigate Dr Jason Fung's intermittent fasting approach. See his website. Sounds as if you might need to kick that insulin resistance.
 
Suggest you try reducing the blueberries and also test BG after coffee because coffee can decrease insulin sensitivity.
 
Celeriac said:
Suggest you try reducing the blueberries and also test BG after coffee because coffee can decrease insulin sensitivity.
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I have found that coffee with single cream does not affect my BG levels at all. What is the point of reducing the blue berries to less than 10 it wouldn't be worth eating any of them. My levels are steady before and a raise of 0.5 - 1.0 after meals and back to 6 odd 1 hour and 2 hours afterwards.
 
Carol, don't give up coffee or have fewer blueberries. What would be the point of living? But *do* look at Jason Fung.
 
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