KayAnne
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hello, I'm not usually a forum user but you all seem like a helpful bunch so thought I would introduce myself.
I was diagnosed with Type 2 nearly 2 years ago (the day before my 23rd birthday 🙄) and have struggled with the information ever since. I barely told anyone about it to begin with, my brothers didn't know until about a year or so afterwards because I was so embarrassed that I had done this to myself at such a young age. However, I have since done a fair bit of research into it and have started to realise that, although I should have been more careful with my weight, there were other factors at play.
I also exercised a lot when I was a child, sometimes doing 9 to 10 hours of dance classes a week up until the age of 16, when I then stopped due to mental health. I may have stopped the exercise but my eating habits continued and progressively got worse so I think this is also a factor in my rapid weight gain and poor eating habits. I have always tried to lose weight and did quite well on Slimming World about 5 years ago, loosing about 3 stone in 4 months but after going to uni and other circumstances, I gained most of it back and eventually got the diagnosis of T2. When I have tried to lose weight since it has been difficult. When I feel slightly sad or down, I reach for the chocolate and the biggest issue last year was I was working in quite a stressful job in the film industry where I was away from home 5 days a week and didn't really have access to many cooking facilities.
I discovered the Newcastle/VLCD sometime towards the end of last year and did a ton of research into and decided that this would be a great option for me. The shakes are convenient if I have to travel away from home again for work and the break from food for 8 weeks might just help break the emotional and psychological relationship I currently have with food. I was upset but not surprised to see that the NHS doesn't offer the scheme in my area (postcode lottery and all that) but was still determined to give it a go and so brought it up with the Diabetic nurse at me review. I was adamant that I wasn't going to get brushed off with the same comment on "just watch what you eat and do more exercise" that I had got on my diagnosis and my first review. However, my DN had never heard of the diet, so didn't know what it was about or anything. When I asked if I could get access to a dietician, she replied with "I don't know if we have access to one in this area for diabetics." I left feeling deflated.
So, despite the lack of support, I began the Newcastle Diet on Monday (3rd January) and hope that this is the answer to remission, or at least a good amount of weight loss and a better relationship with food.
Apologies for rambling on, I'm not used to being this open with strangers on the internet but I have gathered some great advice and information from reading through other threads on here.
Thank you 🙂
I was diagnosed with Type 2 nearly 2 years ago (the day before my 23rd birthday 🙄) and have struggled with the information ever since. I barely told anyone about it to begin with, my brothers didn't know until about a year or so afterwards because I was so embarrassed that I had done this to myself at such a young age. However, I have since done a fair bit of research into it and have started to realise that, although I should have been more careful with my weight, there were other factors at play.
I also exercised a lot when I was a child, sometimes doing 9 to 10 hours of dance classes a week up until the age of 16, when I then stopped due to mental health. I may have stopped the exercise but my eating habits continued and progressively got worse so I think this is also a factor in my rapid weight gain and poor eating habits. I have always tried to lose weight and did quite well on Slimming World about 5 years ago, loosing about 3 stone in 4 months but after going to uni and other circumstances, I gained most of it back and eventually got the diagnosis of T2. When I have tried to lose weight since it has been difficult. When I feel slightly sad or down, I reach for the chocolate and the biggest issue last year was I was working in quite a stressful job in the film industry where I was away from home 5 days a week and didn't really have access to many cooking facilities.
I discovered the Newcastle/VLCD sometime towards the end of last year and did a ton of research into and decided that this would be a great option for me. The shakes are convenient if I have to travel away from home again for work and the break from food for 8 weeks might just help break the emotional and psychological relationship I currently have with food. I was upset but not surprised to see that the NHS doesn't offer the scheme in my area (postcode lottery and all that) but was still determined to give it a go and so brought it up with the Diabetic nurse at me review. I was adamant that I wasn't going to get brushed off with the same comment on "just watch what you eat and do more exercise" that I had got on my diagnosis and my first review. However, my DN had never heard of the diet, so didn't know what it was about or anything. When I asked if I could get access to a dietician, she replied with "I don't know if we have access to one in this area for diabetics." I left feeling deflated.
So, despite the lack of support, I began the Newcastle Diet on Monday (3rd January) and hope that this is the answer to remission, or at least a good amount of weight loss and a better relationship with food.
Apologies for rambling on, I'm not used to being this open with strangers on the internet but I have gathered some great advice and information from reading through other threads on here.
Thank you 🙂
