Hello
I have just got my hba1c results 8.6 (71) down tto 6.9 (52) I'm still struggling to lose weight but I'm not really accurately counting carbs! Am def low carb but need to track closely now. I lost a bit of motivation after my hols but am now determined to get back on it. See DN next week for a chat hopefully she will agree to retest later in year. Meanwhile I'm going to try longer fasts.
Cheers D
Debbie,
Do you have an iPhone? I use an excellent app called MyNetDiary that tracks everything for me. Everything I eat including calories, total carb grams, net carb grams, protein grams, fat grams, blood glucose tests, insulin injections, medications, blood pressure, exercise and on and on. .. oh also weight. It's a very handy app. What do you use to track everything? I record everything I eat. Do you use a journal at all?
How's it going? You doing the intermittent fasting still? I did it for 25 days perfectly, switched back to grazing for a few days because I felt like changing things up.. I'll probably do this a week then go with the 48 hour fast or something. Then probably back to intermittent fasting. Just want to see how my body handles grazin' LCHF. See if the blood sugars are about as good. I definitely don't want to stay grazing for too long.
I quit metformin 4 days ago, so far so good.. blood sugars are the same.. I guess I'll figure out what the full effect of quitting will be after about 2 weeks to 2 months. It was giving me chronic diarrhea.. not one solid bowel movement for like 30 dyas. Now that I am off, I am having beautiful bm's now
Started taking a probiotic today as well.
So I am now oral med & insulin free
Feel pretty good to be able to keep blood sugar 110-135mg/dl all day with no meds, when just a little over 2 months ago, for four years straight my A1C has been 9-11. Projected A1C now is 5.8. I weigh 379 lb now (27 stone), lightest I've been since 1999