Hi
@Talya2022. I often think about the dilemmas we have around food and medication, and exercise - a collosal balancing act often, in keeping our T2D under control. (ha! I say. I have taken to scoffing at the idea that I have any great control when medical professionals talk to me about tight control), but it is a particularly difficult aspect of a dietary disease that we have to pay soooooo much attention to what we put in our mouths nutrition and medications wise! Very difficult and fraught, sometimes, indeed.
And to have had life threatening eating disorders, and then develop type two?! I cannot even begin to imagine the balancing act that this entails. So please let me say at the outset - my deepest sympathy goes to you, being in that precise situation.
But the next thing I am going to say is - taking weight loss medication, and the flavour of the month one too I might add - is also part and parcel of eating disorders is it not? As would - poor you! - Lots of exercise! If you are also able to exercise freely physically. Honestly, this is such an OTT situation for you - you cannot get out of the arena that you have to be so careful about, as you have the dietary disease that many of us have because our bodies tipped over the other side - not under-nutrition, but too many fats and glucose - malnutrition and what they call over-nutrition, but I would argue about using that word. (I like to say - stuffed but malnourished, rather than over-nourished.)
The idea that a healthy act - like lowering your sugar and carbs - when you have T2 - would be unhealthy for you, but taking weight loss medications is not, is not logical to me. Going low-carb and healthy fat, with as much protein as you can afford (that's my own way of eating at any rate), is not to under nourish - far from it. It is just not adding glucose and insulin raising food and drink to your poor ol dysregulated body. I don't know how you are with dairy, but chomping into lots of cheese and cream and slathers of butter is probably as far off anorexic eating patterns as you can get! Which is what going LCHF would be like for you. I don't understand how that could lead to your malnutrition.
But you need a great support group and medical oversite perhaps? A therapist or probably a psychiatrist as medications are involved, who specialises in a case such as yours? As your situation is soooooo complex, due to the contrasting nutritional and way of eating concerns.
