MeeTooTeeTo
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
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Hello everyone, I’m Dez.
I confess I’ve been lurking on here for a while, reading and learning a lot from many of the posts.
A little bit about me ……
I had been diagnosed as having Impaired Glucose Tolerance over 5 years ago. At my annual reviews I was told that I still had “elevated blood sugars” and advised to include starchy carbohydrates as part of my diet, cut back on the amount of fat I ate and, above all, eat more fruit and vegetables. Like a good boy, I did as I was told and yet at every review my blood sugars hadn’t improved.
Again, and again I was told to cut down on sugary foods, fizzy drinks, sweets and cakes. When I protested that I didn’t eat those sorts of things the response was “oh well, sometimes the pancreas just gives up….”
Following the advice given, I continued trying to eat more and more fruit and veg. Popular wisdom at the time was even suggesting we needed to eat up to 10 fruit and veg a day to be healthy. I did my best to comply!
The hammer blow came in October last year when I was informed that my HbA1c was 53 and I was now officially a Type 2 Diabetic. After a chat with the doc, we agreed that I would try and remedy the situation by a change of diet and lifestyle.
I had never been told or knew much about HbA1c levels, so off I went in search of more info on my old friend, the WWW.
Thankfully I found this site!
Wow, did I learn a lot.
I learned that to understand properly what food was doing to me I needed to test my glucose levels before and 2 hours after I’d eaten. So, I bought a monitor and learned how to use the lancets without making the place look like an abattoir. Reading the posts on here, I found out about carb counting and lots of other things.
I had my follow-up review a couple of days ago and I’m more than pleased to say my HbA1C was 40. So I just had to register on here and let all you wonderful people know how much you’ve helped.
Thank you all so much
Dez
I confess I’ve been lurking on here for a while, reading and learning a lot from many of the posts.
A little bit about me ……
I had been diagnosed as having Impaired Glucose Tolerance over 5 years ago. At my annual reviews I was told that I still had “elevated blood sugars” and advised to include starchy carbohydrates as part of my diet, cut back on the amount of fat I ate and, above all, eat more fruit and vegetables. Like a good boy, I did as I was told and yet at every review my blood sugars hadn’t improved.
Again, and again I was told to cut down on sugary foods, fizzy drinks, sweets and cakes. When I protested that I didn’t eat those sorts of things the response was “oh well, sometimes the pancreas just gives up….”
Following the advice given, I continued trying to eat more and more fruit and veg. Popular wisdom at the time was even suggesting we needed to eat up to 10 fruit and veg a day to be healthy. I did my best to comply!
The hammer blow came in October last year when I was informed that my HbA1c was 53 and I was now officially a Type 2 Diabetic. After a chat with the doc, we agreed that I would try and remedy the situation by a change of diet and lifestyle.
I had never been told or knew much about HbA1c levels, so off I went in search of more info on my old friend, the WWW.
Thankfully I found this site!
Wow, did I learn a lot.
I learned that to understand properly what food was doing to me I needed to test my glucose levels before and 2 hours after I’d eaten. So, I bought a monitor and learned how to use the lancets without making the place look like an abattoir. Reading the posts on here, I found out about carb counting and lots of other things.
I had my follow-up review a couple of days ago and I’m more than pleased to say my HbA1C was 40. So I just had to register on here and let all you wonderful people know how much you’ve helped.
Thank you all so much
Dez
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