😛hi I am fairly new to this scenario. I have had diabetes in myfamily for years. I had always been on top of the old sugars and while playing rugby had no problem at all with worrying about my social life. I had put on some weight when I stopped playing rugby just a couple of stone which everyone said was normal.But then I was always a big guy and carried my weight in muscle very well.
I met my wife and she is an organic hippie that i enjoyed pulling her leg about all the pulses and weird stuff she would cook (and a fabulous cook she is ) Amazingly I lost over 4stone in weight I then noticed an amazing change in skin and tone and sharpness which I started to put down to my organic eating. I have now become very interested in organic and locally grown produce where you can see the food before buying it. I became very aware that "preservatives " are exactly what they are and who says that your body will break them down along with E numbers et al , or are these just hanging around that waist line !
My reward for all this great action and hard work (although it was not really hard, just a lot of eating amazing food ) yes you guessed it a nice dose of thrush sending me to the docs, (WHo I hadn't seen for years) and early this year a diagnosis of T2 !
BUt hey my doc was quick to pick up that Steve Redgrave has it ! so naturally I feel fantastic knowing I have a olympian illness ! After a few months of fighting with GPs and not ever meeting a specialist I have now tried to get the levels down and my new friend is Metformin (another scary prospect) he has not been to good at reducing my levels below 10. So now my doctor has rubbed her hand with glee and said its time to meet mr Insulin ! to say I am freaked is an understatement. The only person I know on insulin was an old guy severely obese with a wig in a wheel chair when i was younger . I feel fine ! in fact aprt from the odd sleepless night from the two wondeful healthy kids I have I have absoloutly no complaints . I did go out for a run th eother night and my sugar plummeted to under 6. so I am unbelievably confused right now.
I agree my body is wacked out ! why ? is it years of using it a it a high rate of exercise and excess ? perhaps but not excess in the way the media might think (diddnt start drinking till early twenties) yes my central Scotland urban diet is a little bit away from my Highland roots use of oats and pulses, but surely if I am ill I will walk around expecting death not running around like a teenager !
I think the "fat person self afflicted" illness is out of date and a cheap sound bite to create a political and media hype that will justify quick fix remedies from public spending.
If you want real understanding and real research why are we not looking at the corellation between no diabetes in certain culture such as Indian, and the highest in that same culture when put in a western homeland ? why is the stereo type for many sufferers , middle aged having spent many years playing high levels of sport and pushing hard on their bodies and then a sudden stop and then T2 results? (sorry Steve ! ) I think we have a lot more to investigate and perhaps its not just T2 diabetes out there perhaps T3 T4 etc.
I for one am going to fight the medics and their quick fire perscriptive advice ( you need to change your diet !" I have " ok "can I increase my physical endeavours?" t will always help" I just went running my sugar plummeted" yeah that can happen but be careful with the metformin it might make you Hypo !!!!!"
We're a little bit "on the road to nowhere" here unless we have experts who will honestly take time to understand our disease and realise as with our lifestyles being individual, so is our illness, and until that awakening we will all still have a "Fat Disease" and have to struggle on through ourselves . Me I am going out for a run !
I met my wife and she is an organic hippie that i enjoyed pulling her leg about all the pulses and weird stuff she would cook (and a fabulous cook she is ) Amazingly I lost over 4stone in weight I then noticed an amazing change in skin and tone and sharpness which I started to put down to my organic eating. I have now become very interested in organic and locally grown produce where you can see the food before buying it. I became very aware that "preservatives " are exactly what they are and who says that your body will break them down along with E numbers et al , or are these just hanging around that waist line !
My reward for all this great action and hard work (although it was not really hard, just a lot of eating amazing food ) yes you guessed it a nice dose of thrush sending me to the docs, (WHo I hadn't seen for years) and early this year a diagnosis of T2 !
BUt hey my doc was quick to pick up that Steve Redgrave has it ! so naturally I feel fantastic knowing I have a olympian illness ! After a few months of fighting with GPs and not ever meeting a specialist I have now tried to get the levels down and my new friend is Metformin (another scary prospect) he has not been to good at reducing my levels below 10. So now my doctor has rubbed her hand with glee and said its time to meet mr Insulin ! to say I am freaked is an understatement. The only person I know on insulin was an old guy severely obese with a wig in a wheel chair when i was younger . I feel fine ! in fact aprt from the odd sleepless night from the two wondeful healthy kids I have I have absoloutly no complaints . I did go out for a run th eother night and my sugar plummeted to under 6. so I am unbelievably confused right now.
I agree my body is wacked out ! why ? is it years of using it a it a high rate of exercise and excess ? perhaps but not excess in the way the media might think (diddnt start drinking till early twenties) yes my central Scotland urban diet is a little bit away from my Highland roots use of oats and pulses, but surely if I am ill I will walk around expecting death not running around like a teenager !
I think the "fat person self afflicted" illness is out of date and a cheap sound bite to create a political and media hype that will justify quick fix remedies from public spending.
If you want real understanding and real research why are we not looking at the corellation between no diabetes in certain culture such as Indian, and the highest in that same culture when put in a western homeland ? why is the stereo type for many sufferers , middle aged having spent many years playing high levels of sport and pushing hard on their bodies and then a sudden stop and then T2 results? (sorry Steve ! ) I think we have a lot more to investigate and perhaps its not just T2 diabetes out there perhaps T3 T4 etc.
I for one am going to fight the medics and their quick fire perscriptive advice ( you need to change your diet !" I have " ok "can I increase my physical endeavours?" t will always help" I just went running my sugar plummeted" yeah that can happen but be careful with the metformin it might make you Hypo !!!!!"
We're a little bit "on the road to nowhere" here unless we have experts who will honestly take time to understand our disease and realise as with our lifestyles being individual, so is our illness, and until that awakening we will all still have a "Fat Disease" and have to struggle on through ourselves . Me I am going out for a run !
