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I am a type 2 diabetic.

I cannot emphasise enough what a HUGE difference controlling my blood glucose levels have made to my quality of life. I have energy, no longer need a nap in the afternoons, wake up after 8 hours of sleep refreshed instead of half-dead. And it only took 2-3 weeks of reducing my carbohydrate intake and reducing my blood glucose levels for my strength to return.

And I am only 50 years old.

Welcome and all the best. Stick around and wiser ones will come along with lots of ideas and share their experience of how to lower you blood glucose levels and what they have tried.

Agree with all the last post taking control makes you feel so much better physically and mentally and it's great when other people notice the changes too.
So hang in there, keep visiting the forum and ask as many questions as you like, I did and still have a way to go, but I love the way that I now control my body . Good luck!

If your appetite is not so good it is better to eat little and often When I started on metformin I lost my appetite and because I am skinny and had already lost weight this was a bit of a disaster but I found that eating something about every 2 hours I could enjoy my food more and because I didnt have as much on my plate I wasnt overfaced. For example if I had soup at lunch time I would have a cup of the left over soup with some marmite in it instead of just a cup of tea mid afternoon .Mid morning I may have cheese on a low carb cracker Try to eat tasty things in small portions . Hope this helps
CAROL

Cosy said:

Thanks for answers. I will indeed get back on the straight and narrow and low carb and see if that does indeed help with my problems with my health. I have been feeling a bit better the last day or so which I am glad about as this will make me feel more able to plan my eating etc. Still not got much of an appetitie but hopefully this will improve. I just want some oooooooooomph, if only you could buy this in M & S !!! Thank you again I will keep coming onto this site and get some good advice.

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Hi Cosy ... I'm a bit like yourself with the tiredness, appetite and digestion problems and I find it difficult to eat on a '3 meals a day at certain times' type of basis, nor can I eat what most people would call 'a meal'. But I started just cutting out the simple carbs and so instead of a 'dinner' with two or three items on the plate, I'd just eat a grilled lamb chop and leave it at that. Then when I felt hungry again I might have cheese with Hovis Crackers or a couple of dollops of that tuna and sweetcorn or egg mayo sandwich filler stuff that you can get on a couple of crackers and that would be my two meals. After a week or so of that I started making a little sauce with cream and mushrooms to have with the lamb chop or steak etc, and gradually I felt I could eat just a bit more. But the secret to that is cutting out the carbs in the first place.

Another thing I noticed is that sometimes I don't FEEL hungry but know I should eat so I'll just go to the kitchen anyway and I find within a couple of minutes my body starts telling me I'm actually hungry, not ravenous, but ready for a snack.

Don't worry about your appetite, it's doing it's best to tell you something and it will regulate itself - you may find yoursel eating at strange times for a while so just go with it and eventually a pattern will develop. I'm getting used to my body YELLING AT ME that it doesn't need HALF the amounts I've been used to eating when I ate carbs. I was constantly hungry then, but not now. So it's all about adjustment. Take the pressure off yourself and what you think you SHOULD be feeling where appetite is concerned and just let the appetite tell YOU what and when.

Totally agree with all thats been said

My hubby, who isnt a diabetic but has cut carbs along with me (not as much tho) found his chronic indegestion went,

I had aching fingers and joints all improved.

Mary x

MaryJ said:

Totally agree with all thats been said

My hubby, who isnt a diabetic but has cut carbs along with me (not as much tho) found his chronic indegestion went,

I had aching fingers and joints all improved.

Mary x

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Yup! Before diagnosis I've suffered with gastrointestinal problems, acid reflux, gastritis, hiatus hernia, IBS and have to take regular meds for them. Since diagnosis and going LCHF I've reduced my meds to absolute minimum, no gastric pain, no acid reflux, no IBS, no constipation, all back to virtual normal.

We wouldn't expect that from a high fat diet would we? We'd expect to feel sickly and yukky. First thing we're told to cut out when we have gastric probs is fat not carbs, yet I noticed that whenever I ate carbs the gastric pain would start and eating chocolate almost killed me with pain. But I can honestly say I've been pain free ever since I cut out carbs.

So glad I found this forum.

I had very bad IBS before diagnosis, kept getting told to eat more fibre even though I said when I did eat more it was aggravating it, I was being really ill 2 or 3 times a week, so I felt as though I'd been kicked in the stomach and washed out. Since reducing carbs I haven't been ill once in 18 months. It's not all bad having diabetes!!

Ann

Ann19 said:

I had very bad IBS before diagnosis, kept getting told to eat more fibre even though I said when I did eat more it was aggravating it, I was being really ill 2 or 3 times a week, so I felt as though I'd been kicked in the stomach and washed out. Since reducing carbs I haven't been ill once in 18 months. It's not all bad having diabetes!!

Ann

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It certainly isn't Ann. In fact, as every day goes by I'm regarding it more and more as a blessing rather than a curse.