What on earth can I do???

Resurgam said:

I found that my blood glucose was better eating early and late, the closer to 12 hours apart the better. I do not eat at other times, and usually drink only water - I have coffee with cream once or twice a day, usually when cooking.
I eat a lot of salad and stir fry or roasted veges, no dense carbs - no legumes other than a small serving of peas or funner/french beans, or bean sprouts

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DCUKMod said:

@tcamper1963 - I could well be speculating here, but I could wonder whether, despite your mega cycling (a big well done on that!), you may have been hitting your body with more carbs than you might have been used to in UK, and your body could have become accustomed to it, and is clinging.

I'm also in SE Asia at the moment. I've been here around 6 weeks, with another 6 to go. We dine out every night, are eating local dishes, and to date my noodle consumption is zero, and my rice consumption, probably amounts to 2 tablespoons from a couple of forkfuls of sampling from my OH's plates.

I know I am picking up sugar in many dishes, because the Thai/SE Asian way of cooking is to combine hot, sweet sour and spice into their dishes.

In your shoes, I might try, maybe a week of very low carb, which for me would focus on meat and eggs, but clearly for you it could be eggs (apologies if I missed you don't eat those), and maybe soya based produce, like tofu? (I'm also gluten free aand avoid all soy based produce where I can, which is my challenge here of course - all that soy sauce).

If you go for a week, say of very low carb, if your body is clinging to high numbers, because of past adventures, it could well "give in" in that time, and your numbers might notch down. If not, then I would be thinking a trip to the Doc, for some bloods to try to identify what's going on.

I imagine your Vit D will be OK after your trip. You don't say how long you were away, but I'm thinking to pack in 1300km cycling, it would be more than a few days!

In UK, I supplement my Vit D, with a combination of D3/K2-Mk7 and got my levels up nicely. Last year I stopped the supplement before coming away and was surprised to find that despite all this fabulous sunshine, my levels stayed static. I have done the same again this year.

It's a tricky one, and I hope you find a simple solution. Your dietary choices, to my inexperienced (of vegetarianism) do seem to cut down the options a bit, but if those are your choices, then I'm sure there will be a way around it.

It'll be good to hear how you get along.

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VashtiB said:

I just wanted to say hello and well done on losing the weight and keeping it off.

My belief is that once you are a diabetic that you will always be sensitive or intolerant of carbs. I think of myself as being extremely intolerant/allergic to carbs. I miss them- every day but as someone with an allergy I have to choose between health and my desire for carbs. I'm a long way from a health BMI so I'm envious of that- but I keep very low carb- less than 20 grams a day and my blood sugar levels are well within the normal range.

I hope after a few more years to be able to increase my carbs to maybe 30 -50 grams per day but I will be testing rigorously and am not contemplating that for a few more years.

Good luck.

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DCUKMod said:

I'd say, if you need to go back that you ask for an A1c, but also a full blood panel, including vitamins, minerals and thyroid.

Is it fair to assume you have not recently started on any meds, such as statins?

Let us know how you get along.

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