Hello all,
This is my maiden forum entry, to celebrate reaching my own first major weight loss milestone.
It all started with a review meeting with my doctor second half of May. I got diabetes type 2. My Hb1Ac values were really bad despite taking over 200 units of insulin and 6 Metformin tablets a day. I weighed in at 102 kg, 5 ft 10, and I am 62 years of age. So obviously headlong in for disaster if I did not changed things. :shock:
I had up till then avoided eating sugar, sweet food or white bread and I had typically unsweetened muesli & branflakes for breakfast and ate only wholemeal breads so I was frustrated with my poor test results. I have now weighed my previous typical ‘healthy’ non-sugar breakfast and it contained a whopping 70g net carbs in total!
Anyway, I was recommended by my doctor to try a low carbohydrate diet, aiming for a slow weight loss of about 0.5 kg per week.
Apprehensively, I started out without follow any specific diet regime in mind but I cut out the obvious suspects like potatoes, rice and cereals. Already the second day my blood sugar levels had fallen dramatically and I also felt much better already then.
When reading up on low carb diets I came across Atkins and I bought their new book. I liked what I read and liked the reasoning behind it a lot so decided to follow Atkins. I still use the Atkins book as a well thumbed reference book.
The milestone reached today is that I have now lost over 10 kg. I am still in the Atkins initial phase after 9 weeks and I am losing about 1 kg per week. The good news is that I do not feel deprived of food, never really hungry, just feeling great.
Not only that, my insulin etc intake is now only 15% of what it was when I started out! It was difficult to start with to balance the insulin intake with the diet so it was ‘touch and go’ approaching hypos but I control that now.
Next milestone is now to get into the 80 kilo’s weight range (soon, touch wood…).
Next target after that is to reach about 85 kg and then slow down the weight loss tempo aiming for just less than 80 kg as my final target. It will be interesting to see what my medication needs will be once I have reached my target weight.
Then starts the, for now, daunting task to keep it there.
Happy days!
This is my maiden forum entry, to celebrate reaching my own first major weight loss milestone.
It all started with a review meeting with my doctor second half of May. I got diabetes type 2. My Hb1Ac values were really bad despite taking over 200 units of insulin and 6 Metformin tablets a day. I weighed in at 102 kg, 5 ft 10, and I am 62 years of age. So obviously headlong in for disaster if I did not changed things. :shock:
I had up till then avoided eating sugar, sweet food or white bread and I had typically unsweetened muesli & branflakes for breakfast and ate only wholemeal breads so I was frustrated with my poor test results. I have now weighed my previous typical ‘healthy’ non-sugar breakfast and it contained a whopping 70g net carbs in total!
Anyway, I was recommended by my doctor to try a low carbohydrate diet, aiming for a slow weight loss of about 0.5 kg per week.
Apprehensively, I started out without follow any specific diet regime in mind but I cut out the obvious suspects like potatoes, rice and cereals. Already the second day my blood sugar levels had fallen dramatically and I also felt much better already then.
When reading up on low carb diets I came across Atkins and I bought their new book. I liked what I read and liked the reasoning behind it a lot so decided to follow Atkins. I still use the Atkins book as a well thumbed reference book.
The milestone reached today is that I have now lost over 10 kg. I am still in the Atkins initial phase after 9 weeks and I am losing about 1 kg per week. The good news is that I do not feel deprived of food, never really hungry, just feeling great.
Not only that, my insulin etc intake is now only 15% of what it was when I started out! It was difficult to start with to balance the insulin intake with the diet so it was ‘touch and go’ approaching hypos but I control that now.
Next milestone is now to get into the 80 kilo’s weight range (soon, touch wood…).
Next target after that is to reach about 85 kg and then slow down the weight loss tempo aiming for just less than 80 kg as my final target. It will be interesting to see what my medication needs will be once I have reached my target weight.
Then starts the, for now, daunting task to keep it there.
Happy days!