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First 3 monthly bloods

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Oggy64

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Hi, I was diagnosed on the 2nd December 2021 with type 2 diabetes with a Hba1c level of 69. Which to be honest quite frightened me, I ordered the fast 800 diet books and weighed myself the same day and started dieting. I've not gone mad with exercise. I use finger prick blood testing as a means of checking the impact different foods have on my blood sugar. I was prescribed 2 x 500mg metformin a day, which to be honest I've been quite bad at taking, only from the point of forgetting, I think I've at least managed 1 a day. So today my Hba1c was 39, my cholesterol was down to 4.7 from 4.9, so I need to work on that. I've lost 2 stone 10lbs and feel so much better and what a relief. I've been slowly upping the calories but still being strict with what I eat. I look on the weight loss as almost a side effect of trying to keep my blood sugar under control. I haven't been obsessed with the scales like I have been in the past when dieting. It's awful but it took me becoming diabetic to get my weight in order. I even bought a new belt yesterday, I'd already lost some weight before my diagnosis, I'm actually down by just over 4 stone now to weight I haven't seen in 40 years. Hopefully anyone newly diagnosed can take some hope from this. I'm sure everyone is different and what works for some won't work as well for others. I'm down to 1 tablet a day with next bloods in 6 months. Good luck to anyone starting their journey. Going for takeaway now! Only joking.
 
You must be pleased as punch @Oggy64 - many congratulations on getting your BG down to "normal" levels and for losing so much weight 🙂
 
What a fabulous result! You must be absolutely delighted and you have every right to be. Amazing weight loss and fantastic HbA1c decrease. Good on you for taking control! I know that feeling of guilt that it took a diabetes diagnosis to do what you knew needed to be done because I also felt that but chaneling that negative feeling into such a positive result is a huge credit to you. Well Done!
Thank you so much for posting your result how how you went about it as I am sure it will provide motivation and inspiration for others.
Keep up the good work!
 
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