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My name is Steve and I have just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and am slowly trawling through as much info as possible to understand what I can and cannot eat. My doctor signed me off work for 28 days as I am a truck driver (suppose I must get the decorating done now!). The doctor gave me a tester kit and said read the instructions to figure out how it works......i'm a bloke we don't read instructions lol.
 
welcome im a newbie too.....blood testing machine there should be a "quick guide"....im taking my bloods 7/8times a day.... my machine you just set time date thats it...no testing strip set up...whats your machine?
 
Search YouTube for the model of your machine and you will probably come across a wealth of tutorials. Nice and easy to follow too. My diabetic nurse set mine up for me but I still watched some videos anyway.

How are you feeling about the diagnosis? It can be a bit of a shock can’t it? I’m only recently diagnosed too. Still coming to terms with it all.
 
Hi Steamshed - you should be an engine driver with that handle not a truck driver LOL

Has doc started you on any meds? How were you diagnosed?

(And are you a member of a Mens Sheds group?)
 
If you are a really lucky type two you get to eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, chicken for lunch and steak for dinner.

What's not to like?
Stick to that, or similar and after a couple of months you could feel fighting fit, have a trimmer waist and you get to baffle your GP - fun all round really.
Just weed out the bread, potatoes, rice and possibly beans - anything that causes a spike after meals and - with any luck, as I wrote, you'll be back to normal or better.
 
1023nina said:
welcome im a newbie too.....blood testing machine there should be a "quick guide"....im taking my bloods 7/8times a day.... my machine you just set time date thats it...no testing strip set up...whats your machine?
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Hi, Thanks for the heads up about the "quick guide". My machine is a AgaMatrix Wave Sense Jazz. Managed to sort it out and have done my first bloods. Already gone from 19.25 down to 18.50. Still high but it's early days. I have to take bloods twice a day about an hour after food, so morning and evening. Off for a walk as it's stopped raining!
 
merrymunky said:
Search YouTube for the model of your machine and you will probably come across a wealth of tutorials. Nice and easy to follow too. My diabetic nurse set mine up for me but I still watched some videos anyway.

How are you feeling about the diagnosis? It can be a bit of a shock can’t it? I’m only recently diagnosed too. Still coming to terms with it all.
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Thanks for the tip about YouTube. All sorted and first blood taken and checked. Started at 19.25 and is now 18.50. High but it will go down....slowly.
I saw the doctor last week as I had been feeling somewhat under the weather. She suggested a blood test which I had on Monday morning. The doctor phoned me at work...I had literally just clocked in and was about to drive up to Newcastle from Hinckley. An hour later I was sat in front of the doctor who then dropped the bomb shell. And as I drive a 44 tonne truck promptly signed me off work for the next 28 days! I didn't see that one coming. At the time it was sort of over whelming and it's only when I got home and phoned work and gave them the news that it started to sink in. Then it was a case of what can I do and what can't I do food wise. Got to see the doctor on Tuesday 12th and take it from there.
 
trophywench said:
Hi Steamshed - you should be an engine driver with that handle not a truck driver LOL

Has doc started you on any meds? How were you diagnosed?

(And are you a member of a Mens Sheds group?)
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Funny you should say that. A steam shed is where the London and North Western Railway kept their locomotives....and yes I am a member of the LNWR society lol. The society archive (man cave) is in Kenilworth.
I am seeing the doctor on Tuesday 12th so will know more then but have been put on Gliclazide 40mg twice a day with food.
I was diagnosed after seeing the doctor last week as I was feeling tired and run down. She told me to book a blood test which was done on Monday morning. She phoned me at work on Tuesday and told me I needed to see her in an hour. She then dropped the bomb shell and promptly signed me off work for 28 days!
Just coming to terms and getting my head around it all.
 
Drummer said:
If you are a really lucky type two you get to eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, chicken for lunch and steak for dinner.

What's not to like?
Stick to that, or similar and after a couple of months you could feel fighting fit, have a trimmer waist and you get to baffle your GP - fun all round really.
Just weed out the bread, potatoes, rice and possibly beans - anything that causes a spike after meals and - with any luck, as I wrote, you'll be back to normal or better.
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Sounds like I can eat most things so lucky me! Got to cut back on some things though as you say, potatoes, rice, pasta and anything with a lot of sugar. Not sure about getting back to normal.....the other half says I was never normal lol. But what does she know.
 
Quite a whirlwind diagnosis then. I think a few of us have had quick diagnosis like that.
 
Testing is certainly helpful initially.

But the best thing I did was completely cut out fat, lost 4 stones, and reversed my diabetes entirely!
I still avoid high fat, and completely try to avoid saturated fats.
 
merrymunky said:
Quite a whirlwind diagnosis then. I think a few of us have had quick diagnosis like that.
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Yes it was quick, but I think I've been walking around like a ticking time bomb for the last year or so and been totally unaware until now.
 
Steamshed said:
Yes it was quick, but I think I've been walking around like a ticking time bomb for the last year or so and been totally unaware until now.
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It’s scary how many of us walk around not realising we have symptoms. Sadly it took me losing a baby boy at 16 weeks pregnant to discover I was type 2. It’s been a horrid whirlwind to be caught up in.

I hope you find this place to be informative and supportive.
 
merrymunky said:
It’s scary how many of us walk around not realising we have symptoms. Sadly it took me losing a baby boy at 16 weeks pregnant to discover I was type 2. It’s been a horrid whirlwind to be caught up in.

I hope you find this place to be informative and supportive.
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Sorry to hear of your loss. I cannot imagine how terrible that must have been for you.
The site is very good. Been looking through the recipe pages and they are really interesting and not as restrictive as you might think to start with. My partner is really supportive and is happy to be on the same diet as myself as she would like to lose some weight aswell.
 
I'm a God's Wonderful Railway girl myself and after Beeching had his wicked way and forced me to go to work on smelly buses, just a little bit later I also lived for nearly 30 years very close to the route of what is now the Severn Valley Railway and always have obviously had a very soft spot for it and indeed the steam shed at Bridgnorth.

Since I now live just outside Coventry - Kenilworth is just along the road, so to speak. But we thought round here was LMS.

'Mens Sheds' is a pukka social organisation for blokes where the groups organise speakers on things that men might be interested in generally or specifically be it men's health, fishing or anything else. (Bit kinda like the WI, LOL)
 
trophywench said:
I'm a God's Wonderful Railway girl myself and after Beeching had his wicked way and forced me to go to work on smelly buses, just a little bit later I also lived for nearly 30 years very close to the route of what is now the Severn Valley Railway and always have obviously had a very soft spot for it and indeed the steam shed at Bridgnorth.

Since I now live just outside Coventry - Kenilworth is just along the road, so to speak. But we thought round here was LMS.

'Mens Sheds' is a pukka social organisation for blokes where the groups organise speakers on things that men might be interested in generally or specifically be it men's health, fishing or anything else. (Bit kinda like the WI, LOL)
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You mean God's Worst Railway lol.
The LNWR was the largest joint stock company in the world and the largest pre group company to form the LMS in 1923. Coventry was built by the London and Birmingham Railway which was a constituent of the LNWR in 1846.

I live just out side Coventry but to the north. Bed'uth….Bedworth....Bedrock!
 
Steamshed said:
The site is very good. Been looking through the recipe pages and they are really interesting and not as restrictive as you might think to start with. My partner is really supportive and is happy to be on the same diet as myself as she would like to lose some weight aswell.
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If you mean the recipes on the main site, not the thread on the forum, they are often only suitable for T1s, far too high in carbs for T2s, treat with caution!
 
silentsquirrel said:
If you mean the recipes on the main site, not the thread on the forum, they are often only suitable for T1s, far too high in carbs for T2s, treat with caution!
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Agh! Thanks for that. I will have another look and make sure. Much appreciated.
 
Hi Welcome to the forum . You should find this thread helpful.
We shine our halos and bare our sins here
https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/what-did-you-eat-yesterday.30349/

We have some great innovative cooks on here you might want to check out some of these
https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/forums/recipes.21/ drooling emoji :D


I suggest if you haven’t already done so, have a read through these. For future reference you’ll find them at the top of the newbies forum On the thread called , Useful links for people new to diabetes

This is a long one, so a cuppa and some sustenance may be needed :D
https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/maggie-daveys-letter-to-newly-diagnosed-type-2s.61307/

This is how we find out how the various carbohydrates affect us as we are all individual in this

http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/test-review-adjust.html

Ask all the question you need to about diabetes, we’ll do our best to help.
 
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