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I’m feeling celebratory this morning as I’ve just got on the scales to see 9 stones and 13 pounds - a 2 and a half stone loss since September 2017 so many life changing events since I started lCHF and then later added in intermittent fasting. I haven’t been in the 9 stones since my 20s!
More importantly my hbac1 - in mid December was 33 despite coming off Metformin two months previously ( it was 97 on diagnosis a few years back)
My fasting blood sugars are regularly 4.5 to 5.2 at the moment
I also may be able to give up the blood pressure meds - the only meds I’m still taking- it was creeping up last summer to 150/80 and is now around 120/74 and sometimes lower.
This forum - which I discovered whilst on my lCHF journey on the low carb programme has been an invaluable source of support, information, inspiration, humour and motivation - thank you guys. I really couldn’t have done it without you - all those queries answered and all those links to talks and videos helping to educate me. I sometimes think I’ve taken a high level course in managing diabetes type 2 - I’ve learnt so much along the way , although I know there’s more to learn as there is more research ahead and hopefully the tide is on the turn for current advice?
I’d like to lose another half stone so that I’m safely in the middle of my healthy weight category and so will continue with my lCHF but it’s a way of life not a diet so I’m sure weight loss will happen until my body is at the point that’s best for it and I know that I can’t go back to the carbs way of eating that got me into the unhealthy mess I was in the first place.
More importantly my hbac1 - in mid December was 33 despite coming off Metformin two months previously ( it was 97 on diagnosis a few years back)
My fasting blood sugars are regularly 4.5 to 5.2 at the moment
I also may be able to give up the blood pressure meds - the only meds I’m still taking- it was creeping up last summer to 150/80 and is now around 120/74 and sometimes lower.
This forum - which I discovered whilst on my lCHF journey on the low carb programme has been an invaluable source of support, information, inspiration, humour and motivation - thank you guys. I really couldn’t have done it without you - all those queries answered and all those links to talks and videos helping to educate me. I sometimes think I’ve taken a high level course in managing diabetes type 2 - I’ve learnt so much along the way , although I know there’s more to learn as there is more research ahead and hopefully the tide is on the turn for current advice?
I’d like to lose another half stone so that I’m safely in the middle of my healthy weight category and so will continue with my lCHF but it’s a way of life not a diet so I’m sure weight loss will happen until my body is at the point that’s best for it and I know that I can’t go back to the carbs way of eating that got me into the unhealthy mess I was in the first place.
