Mrs HJG
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- Type of diabetes
- LADA
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
I had my first 3 month review yesterday and need to share.
I was 62kg at diagnosis, thanks mostly to the ‘undiagnosed diabetes’ diet, from a lazy lockdown max of 80.5kg BMI 29.9 this time last year. I’m now a happier and healthier 57kg, BMI 21.2.
I’ve consciously ‘exercised’ since diagnosis and walk at least 25 brisk minutes every day and my Garmin watch, probably not entirely scientifically, has re-assessed my fitness age from a shocking 69 before Christmas to 28, I’m almost 52.
All my FBC and cholesterol readings have all gone in the “right” direction, inc. non-HDL down from 4.13 to 2.96 and Cholesterol/HDL ratio reduced from 5 to 3.4.
And so to the big one, HbA1c, from the heady and scary heights of 129.5mmol/mol 14%, I am now at… da da dah… 36.6mmol/mol 5.5%! O.M.G.
*** WARNING - OSCAR Speech!***
I just really want to thank everyone on this forum and those I have chatted to on the side, for all your amazing advice, inspiration and patience with me, I couldn’t have got this far without you.
The enthusiasm and science of low-carbing promoted here are responsible for the route I've taken. I started aiming for <50g/meal, but now on <100g/day and feeling OK about it; though not going to lie, I’m still missing lots of things like crazy.
I have my private endo appointment in less than 2 weeks, when I hope to get a few answers about all those pesky auto-immune anti-bodies and high C-Peptide, and maybe I’ll get to cut the Metformin in half to 1g/day and see how I go too.
My BG meter shows a 90 day average of 5.4, versus the 6.2 equivalent HbA1c, but that only includes the odd post-breakfast or post-lunch test and no post-prandial levels measured at all for the first month, and I ate half a Christmas cake in small slices in those visually-impaired ignorant days. Thinking that when the time with ‘syrup for blood’ is totally excluded, this could well drop a little more. But for the first time in 3 months, I am not going to stress about spikes and lows tonight!
For now, I’m sending you all the virtual hugs of thanks, while I celebrate with an extra square of 90% Lindt and fizzy water x
I was 62kg at diagnosis, thanks mostly to the ‘undiagnosed diabetes’ diet, from a lazy lockdown max of 80.5kg BMI 29.9 this time last year. I’m now a happier and healthier 57kg, BMI 21.2.
I’ve consciously ‘exercised’ since diagnosis and walk at least 25 brisk minutes every day and my Garmin watch, probably not entirely scientifically, has re-assessed my fitness age from a shocking 69 before Christmas to 28, I’m almost 52.
All my FBC and cholesterol readings have all gone in the “right” direction, inc. non-HDL down from 4.13 to 2.96 and Cholesterol/HDL ratio reduced from 5 to 3.4.
And so to the big one, HbA1c, from the heady and scary heights of 129.5mmol/mol 14%, I am now at… da da dah… 36.6mmol/mol 5.5%! O.M.G.
*** WARNING - OSCAR Speech!***
I just really want to thank everyone on this forum and those I have chatted to on the side, for all your amazing advice, inspiration and patience with me, I couldn’t have got this far without you.
The enthusiasm and science of low-carbing promoted here are responsible for the route I've taken. I started aiming for <50g/meal, but now on <100g/day and feeling OK about it; though not going to lie, I’m still missing lots of things like crazy.
I have my private endo appointment in less than 2 weeks, when I hope to get a few answers about all those pesky auto-immune anti-bodies and high C-Peptide, and maybe I’ll get to cut the Metformin in half to 1g/day and see how I go too.
My BG meter shows a 90 day average of 5.4, versus the 6.2 equivalent HbA1c, but that only includes the odd post-breakfast or post-lunch test and no post-prandial levels measured at all for the first month, and I ate half a Christmas cake in small slices in those visually-impaired ignorant days. Thinking that when the time with ‘syrup for blood’ is totally excluded, this could well drop a little more. But for the first time in 3 months, I am not going to stress about spikes and lows tonight!
For now, I’m sending you all the virtual hugs of thanks, while I celebrate with an extra square of 90% Lindt and fizzy water x