Type 2 One year on..

Hello

A year ago I was diagnosed with Type 2, I had a body scan at the time too as despite being a slim build I had very fatty organs and my cholesterol was through the roof. at around 8 mmol and my blood sugar was in the high teens.
I had a beer belly starting to appear, felt lethargic and let's say I had circulation issues
I have 4 children and it knocked me for 6 as I didn't think I ate a particularly bad diet but consented I was going to knock 7 bells out of this.
My Dad had been diagnosed a year prior to me ironically and was immediately placed on Metformin and Statins, he's 61 I'm 39.
I decided to educate myself on Diabetes, read book after book, medical journals, holistic approaches, natural treatments etc but I decided that to give my body a fighting chance I had to lose the internal fat.
So I began by hitting the cross trainer, 15 minutes daily, Diet changed as to cut out all processed foods, trans-fats and hydrogenated fats and oils and Monosodium glutamate . and multiplied my intake of leafy green vegetables, oats , soya , nuts super- fruits and seeds. and It was rather fun as I've always been a keen cook.
I cut down red meat intake and increased omega oils , porridge, oily fish, WATER!!
I've tried a myriad of different natural remedies, some worked and some didn't, the decision to monitor and try to tackle this myself was something I was determined to do.
It's a personal choice- I wanted to see if I could do it without Metformin and statins and would commit to blood tests and cholesterol checks every three months, My Doctor was happy with this.
Diet, commitment ,moderate exercise, and cutting down alcohol consumption has changed me for the better, I'm leaner, fitter and this morning I got my results back, they were:
HB1AC: 48 (6.5 MMOL)
Total cholesterol: 4.5
I'm so happy, great feeling to know that it can be done, and whilst these results arn't the best, I'm still free of the medically prescribed drugs and getting better and better at self management.
I think my hobby and love of food and nutrition has really helped and I wish anyone out there who may be struggling to suggest I haven't found it difficult but exciting- I am biased though as I would happily live in the Kitchen.
I have a full medical "overhaul" around September and I hope to improve further on these results.
Thanks for reading this and have a great day. :mrgreen:

Thanks DaveNN

Good to hear you have a very positive approach to this, It's amazing what simple things like drinking plenty of filtered water can do for you.
I only say filtered as tapwater contains cholorine and its toxic to the pancreas-which is the very thing we're trying to repair here :lol:
It will be interesting to see what your results are in a few months time.

Recipe sounds great!
I would throw some tumeric in too.
Have you tried inexpensive basa fillets of fish?
I'm trying to do my bit for dwindling cod stocks.
If you pop down aldi like you say, their tinned salmon makes great fishcakes too.:grin:

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