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Weight loss
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kim#mimi
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Congratulations on your weight loss. Many of us control our diabetes with diet and exercise. I managed to get myself back into the pre-diabetic range and am aiming for full remission. Keep doing what you are doing. You've got this.
Lataxe
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- Type of diabetes
- Don't have diabetes
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- I do not have diabetes
Well done! If a health "condition" can be fixed by your own changes in behaviour rather than a drug this seems a much kinder (to your psychology and your wallet) way to fix things.
Testing diets are seemingly unavoidable to lose the excess weight that's interfering with one's pancreas. It's generally unavoidable to follow an initial diet to get rid of the excess weight quickly, which is not that joy-inducing. In the longer term it's probably also unavoidable to find a different diet than your historical diet so as to keep your eventual post-diet healthy weight where it is. That seems to be a major difficulty in our world of "convenience" fud stuffed with deleterious content - people put the lost weight back on s old habits continue.
Personally I long ago tried to avoid Supermarket and other over=processed or fast fud-stuffs in favour of a return to the old-fashioned modes of my youth (1950s & 60s) when nearly all meals were made from base ingredients into real food. It makes a huge difference to avoid the vast amounts of excess sugars, salt, UPF and other additions to commercially processed fud that's added to nearly everything these days. Of course, being human I too have my addictions (chocolate and the ladywife's occasional cakes being two).
Doing a significant amount of "hard" (for the individual doing it) exercise can help. "Hard" means getting quite panty, upping the heart rate to 90% of max for significant periods and otherwise pushing all the body parts and functions to perform up to a level that meets the mantra, "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger". Doing this for just 20 minutes every other day can make a big difference to health, as it stimulates all the body's functions into doing what they do rather than sitting dormant and withering down to "near-defunct".
Testing diets are seemingly unavoidable to lose the excess weight that's interfering with one's pancreas. It's generally unavoidable to follow an initial diet to get rid of the excess weight quickly, which is not that joy-inducing. In the longer term it's probably also unavoidable to find a different diet than your historical diet so as to keep your eventual post-diet healthy weight where it is. That seems to be a major difficulty in our world of "convenience" fud stuffed with deleterious content - people put the lost weight back on s old habits continue.
Personally I long ago tried to avoid Supermarket and other over=processed or fast fud-stuffs in favour of a return to the old-fashioned modes of my youth (1950s & 60s) when nearly all meals were made from base ingredients into real food. It makes a huge difference to avoid the vast amounts of excess sugars, salt, UPF and other additions to commercially processed fud that's added to nearly everything these days. Of course, being human I too have my addictions (chocolate and the ladywife's occasional cakes being two).
Doing a significant amount of "hard" (for the individual doing it) exercise can help. "Hard" means getting quite panty, upping the heart rate to 90% of max for significant periods and otherwise pushing all the body parts and functions to perform up to a level that meets the mantra, "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger". Doing this for just 20 minutes every other day can make a big difference to health, as it stimulates all the body's functions into doing what they do rather than sitting dormant and withering down to "near-defunct".
Resurgam
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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
Are you seeing lower blood glucose though?
At diagnosis I reduced my intake of carbohydrate, both starch and sugar - 6 months later, normal HbA1c.
I did lose weight as my metabolism normalized, under 8 and then under 7mmol/l after meals, but that was without any effort - not even reducing calories.
People in remission are often lighter than at diagnosis, I have lost shedloads of weight myself, but I rather suspect that the high glucose levels of type 2 caused the weight gain and by lowering intake of carbs weightloss was made so much easier.
Yes. I had bloods taken Thursday, got results and 3 weeks ago I was 54, I am now 49 so I am pleased. Well done you .
