Everyone probly already knows all my stats from previous posts but will give the basics again I’m age 38 was diagnosed in September hba1c 89 followed an 800 cal diet of my own devising and lost nearly 3 stone in 11 weeks my hba1c was 45 (due to have it done again end of the month) in this time didn’t have a monitor and didn’t test myself at all. I waver between feeling alright about everything and feeling pretty desperate I’ve gone from a dress size 24 to a 14 (I’ve lost another 1 1/2 stone so 4 1/2 in total) I’m 5ft7 and now I’m quite active. My dad also has type 2 and was diagnosed age 45 so a bit older than me but the big difference being he wasn’t overweight I was morbidly obese. I’m still on reduced calories between 1200-1500 a day as still have 2 1/2 stone to lose. I was told at diagnosis by my diabetic nurse and the gp and also my best friend (who is an anaesthetist so looks after diabetic patients often in intensive care) that weight loss is going to be key for me. I was told by my diabetic nurse don’t even really worry about calories just go low carb and I promise you the weight will come off so I did but as well as staying under 130g carb I severely cut my calories for 3 months although I eat more now the carb is still the same (130g) and although eating more calories the weight is still coming off.
Now here is what is driving me absolutely up the wall - according to professor Taylor and he cause of type 2 diabetes is excess fat in your liver that has then also built up in your pancreas and therefore by losing weight you reduce this internal organ fat and reverse type 2 diabetes, he has also demonstrated that the longer a person stays in remission the pancreas gradually repairs itself and that remission can be lifelong but that the change MUST be lifelong in that physical activity must be maintained and weight loss. So I thought ok I can do this and have thrown myself into getting physically fitter and losing weight and my thought process was well my ways of old can now never ever be again I cannot sit and feast of packets of biscuits at time but I did think I would be able to eat normal family meals including controlled portions of carbs as professor Taylor says the diet a person in type 2 remission eats is not important what is all important is maintaining the weight loss but on the forum so many people are going on about never eating certain carbs again ever. I’ve also started finger prick testing after reading posts where people are telling others that you should but I’m feeling desperate most of the time that my morning fasting reading never gets below 6 it’s always between 6 and 6.4 so after getting my hba1c down to 45 Im now feeling despondent that what I’m doing isn’t getting any better and that I’m going be stuck where I am. I know 45 is better than 89 but it’s not as good as 36 would be! The fact that I’m only 38 plays a large part in how I’m feeling I think.
Now here is what is driving me absolutely up the wall - according to professor Taylor and he cause of type 2 diabetes is excess fat in your liver that has then also built up in your pancreas and therefore by losing weight you reduce this internal organ fat and reverse type 2 diabetes, he has also demonstrated that the longer a person stays in remission the pancreas gradually repairs itself and that remission can be lifelong but that the change MUST be lifelong in that physical activity must be maintained and weight loss. So I thought ok I can do this and have thrown myself into getting physically fitter and losing weight and my thought process was well my ways of old can now never ever be again I cannot sit and feast of packets of biscuits at time but I did think I would be able to eat normal family meals including controlled portions of carbs as professor Taylor says the diet a person in type 2 remission eats is not important what is all important is maintaining the weight loss but on the forum so many people are going on about never eating certain carbs again ever. I’ve also started finger prick testing after reading posts where people are telling others that you should but I’m feeling desperate most of the time that my morning fasting reading never gets below 6 it’s always between 6 and 6.4 so after getting my hba1c down to 45 Im now feeling despondent that what I’m doing isn’t getting any better and that I’m going be stuck where I am. I know 45 is better than 89 but it’s not as good as 36 would be! The fact that I’m only 38 plays a large part in how I’m feeling I think.
