What makes someone T2?

Hello all - newly diagnosed - about 4 days ago, having been told by the Dr. my readings were normal - normal for what? - 18 monyths ago. Being the best behaved around food as I have ever been in my life. Hoping for some help from the Diabetes Nurse when I see her in a couple more days about what to eat. Living on veg soup and poached eggs on toast is going to grow old very soon I think! Still feeling shell shocked about the whole thing.

KoKoCat said:

Hello all - newly diagnosed - about 4 days ago, having been told by the Dr. my readings were normal - normal for what? - 18 monyths ago. Being the best behaved around food as I have ever been in my life. Hoping for some help from the Diabetes Nurse when I see her in a couple more days about what to eat. Living on veg soup and poached eggs on toast is going to grow old very soon I think! Still feeling shell shocked about the whole thing.

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Those are probably not good choices if you are not being careful about the carbohydrate you are eating.
Vege soup is OK if you use - for instance - a mixture like the frozen veges from lidl which don't have sweetcorn included, as the base for it, and thicken it by blending a part of it and them adding it back.
Bread is high carb - I tend to cave scrambled eggs with cheese and a finely sliced tomato.
At other times I have any meat, or fish, as they contain hardly any carbohydrate.
I do eat chocolate but it is high cocoa and low in sugar.
I eat berries, putting them in jelly - sugar free, to bulk them up.
My low carb diet is far more varied, interesting and tasty than the hellish low fat high carb regimes dictated by my GPs over the years.