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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1773221" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hi [USER=473281]@Walter Wolf[/USER]. I am really pleased to see you sharing your feelings and point of view about your choice of treatment, as I suspect, judging by friends and family in my own 'in real life' - your feelings and thoughts are shared by many. And it is really good to hear it expressed really clearly amongst other diabetics in here, and food for thought to hear the reasons.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">First off - the American based forum, 'Diabetes Daily' has heaps of good info about diabetic drugs from heaps of folks, and I have often thought that forum is a fantastic mine of information on the topic. (This one probably is too, but I don't come across it the same way and in the same volume and same detail as I do in Diabetes Daily.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Saying that, it can be really hard for those T2 diabetics like me to deal with reading about wanting to 'just' deal with the symptoms, rather than try and affect the cause, especially in one relatively young ( I see - 40 isn't it? as young!). Metabolic diseases aren't pretty. ( I guess - what nasty disease is?) And the longer you have it, re 'progression' and 'complications' the less pretty it is. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Because, even though you don't want to hear this, and I understand why - the best way to deal with metabolic dysfunction is by dealing with metabolism, and in our case - it's food. Food gets us into this, if it's the insulin resistance kind of type two, and really - only food can get us out of it. (With help dealing with the symptoms via drugs and medication, of course.) As much as it would be amazing if taking a pill or an injection would really work! (Please note, I am just talking about insulin resistance based type two.) But as yet, it doesn't.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I'm pretty physically active, and keep up my fitness, but no amount of physical exercise, is my understanding, will get you out of type two diabetes without dealing with the food. In our case - carbs. (Apparently to a lesser degree - protein as well, but I am still in the process of being convinced about that!) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And I could weep hearing stories like yours of a medical professional with pathetic knowledge of food ruining food info where it puts you off forever. That's where their lack of up to date decent information can be seen to do enormous harm. Fats! The only food group that absolutely doesn't affect our blood glucose! Demonised where good info would have been liberating. Blast them!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">At least you know if you do change your mind, and will try the food route out of T2D, you will get heaps of support here. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And I hear you on not liking or wanting to cook. I didn't either before diagnosis, and had to learn to first cook, then again - how not to cook! And go as simple as possible. which, did I read it in here? Can be to fry up a couple of chops in good animal fats, olive oil or coconut oil, and eat some raw veg, or mildly cooked veg with it. As simple as that. (Or even simpler - just eat the meat and healthy fats!) Ditto when ordering food at restaurants with friends. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">But I sympathise hugely if you really really don't want to get into the whole food thing in the kind of detail diabetics treating or partially treating with food get into.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1773221, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Hi [USER=473281]@Walter Wolf[/USER]. I am really pleased to see you sharing your feelings and point of view about your choice of treatment, as I suspect, judging by friends and family in my own 'in real life' - your feelings and thoughts are shared by many. And it is really good to hear it expressed really clearly amongst other diabetics in here, and food for thought to hear the reasons. First off - the American based forum, 'Diabetes Daily' has heaps of good info about diabetic drugs from heaps of folks, and I have often thought that forum is a fantastic mine of information on the topic. (This one probably is too, but I don't come across it the same way and in the same volume and same detail as I do in Diabetes Daily.) Saying that, it can be really hard for those T2 diabetics like me to deal with reading about wanting to 'just' deal with the symptoms, rather than try and affect the cause, especially in one relatively young ( I see - 40 isn't it? as young!). Metabolic diseases aren't pretty. ( I guess - what nasty disease is?) And the longer you have it, re 'progression' and 'complications' the less pretty it is. Because, even though you don't want to hear this, and I understand why - the best way to deal with metabolic dysfunction is by dealing with metabolism, and in our case - it's food. Food gets us into this, if it's the insulin resistance kind of type two, and really - only food can get us out of it. (With help dealing with the symptoms via drugs and medication, of course.) As much as it would be amazing if taking a pill or an injection would really work! (Please note, I am just talking about insulin resistance based type two.) But as yet, it doesn't. I'm pretty physically active, and keep up my fitness, but no amount of physical exercise, is my understanding, will get you out of type two diabetes without dealing with the food. In our case - carbs. (Apparently to a lesser degree - protein as well, but I am still in the process of being convinced about that!) And I could weep hearing stories like yours of a medical professional with pathetic knowledge of food ruining food info where it puts you off forever. That's where their lack of up to date decent information can be seen to do enormous harm. Fats! The only food group that absolutely doesn't affect our blood glucose! Demonised where good info would have been liberating. Blast them! At least you know if you do change your mind, and will try the food route out of T2D, you will get heaps of support here. And I hear you on not liking or wanting to cook. I didn't either before diagnosis, and had to learn to first cook, then again - how not to cook! And go as simple as possible. which, did I read it in here? Can be to fry up a couple of chops in good animal fats, olive oil or coconut oil, and eat some raw veg, or mildly cooked veg with it. As simple as that. (Or even simpler - just eat the meat and healthy fats!) Ditto when ordering food at restaurants with friends. But I sympathise hugely if you really really don't want to get into the whole food thing in the kind of detail diabetics treating or partially treating with food get into.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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