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Type 2 Type 2 diabetes

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jetleg

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Trying to avoid medication. Currently been on low cal diet but my testing still high. This morning fasting test 8.9. Any suggestions please.
 
Have you addressed the amount of carbohydrate within your calorie restricted diet? A lowered level of carbs should see a fall in blood glucose numbers.
Having said this, fasting readings are often the last to fall. What are your pre and post meal readings looking like? If you could give us a typical day's menu perhaps we could help you tweak it a little.
 
I'm afraid that the idea that type two diabetes is caused by overeating is firmly entrenched in the thinking of many people - but as you have discovered, fewer calories is not the answer.
Diabetes is an inability to cope with the carbohydrate (the sugar and starch) in the modern diet. The answer is to reduce the heavy starchy foods as much as possible, avoid sugar and select only the lowest carb berries (not blue berries, they are naturally high) and then eat meat fish eggs cheese shellfish, as they are just about carb fee, along with salad and low carb veges, full fat yohurt if you like it, put cream in your coffee and on the fruit.
Blood Glucose levels usually drop very quickly - so fast that those on glucose lowering medication have to be cautious or risk hypos.
 
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