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Hi All, I have been fighting Diabetes for a while, basically ignoring it, taking my medication, but basically shoving it into a corner and ignoring it rather than trying to sort it out. Now it has come back to bite me, I was offered a job, but it requires HBA1c to be 7% (American company) mine was 8.8%.

So I have had to make sudden changes, diet, exercise, lifestyle etc, I have lost about 5kg in the last month and I do feel better for it - still would kill for a bag of crisps or to share the bairn's bar of chocolate, but I know that I am doing myself better. Just hope I have done enough to be accepted for this job.

Anyway, there I am.
Cheers
Ian
 
Blimey , can employers do that ?

I thought diabetes was covered under the equality act , I currently work for a company that has just been taken over by an American company , but thought they still had to adhere to UK law

Sam
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I am not sure, but this is for an overseas job and they have minimum fitness and health levels that you need to achieve before they will employ you - I suppose they do not want you getting sick or having a heart attack at work in a remote location.

Ian

Samseal6 said:
Blimey , can employers do that ?

I thought diabetes was covered under the equality act , I currently work for a company that has just been taken over by an American company , but thought they still had to adhere to UK law

Sam
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Hi Ian welcome to the forum.🙂 Are you self testing your blood sugar levels?
 
KARNAK said:
Hi Ian welcome to the forum.🙂 Are you self testing your blood sugar levels?
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Yes, my Diabetes Specialist & my Doctor asked me to use the Accu Chek to watch my levels when I have altered my medication, it is hoped that if my levels stay within the boundaries tenths company will accept this rather than wait for the HB A1c result, the earliest will be beginning of July.
 
Hi Ian and welcome from a fellow northerner..... I'm guessing you are from the wonderful North since you use the colloquial term in reference to your offspring.
Well done with your weight loss and resisting the crisps and chocolate ..... not easy when you have family enjoying them under your nose! Good luck with the job and getting your HbA1c down.... even if it does take you away from this great country.

It might help to read what others have found to eat and enjoy whilst reducing their carb intake. There are threads on the forum where people list what they ate yesterday to give others some ideas. I like to have a cooked breakfast (usually mushroom omelette or fry up with a green salad and avocado but no bread or toast obviously) to set me up for the day , then just a chunk of cheese at lunchtime and a proper dinner in the evening with just a small portion of carbs like potatoes or pasta. Good luck on your journey and keep us posted with your job application situation/ test results..
 
rebrascora said:
Hi Ian and welcome from a fellow northerner..... I'm guessing you are from the wonderful North since you use the colloquial term in reference to your offspring.
Well done with your weight loss and resisting the crisps and chocolate ..... not easy when you have family enjoying them under your nose! Good luck with the job and getting your HbA1c down.... even if it does take you away from this great country.

It might help to read what others have found to eat and enjoy whilst reducing their carb intake. There are threads on the forum where people list what they ate yesterday to give others some ideas. I like to have a cooked breakfast (usually mushroom omelette or fry up with a green salad and avocado but no bread or toast obviously) to set me up for the day , then just a chunk of cheese at lunchtime and a proper dinner in the evening with just a small portion of carbs like potatoes or pasta. Good luck on your journey and keep us posted with your job application situation/ test results..
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Hi, yes it is hard and I am still making mistakes as I still love bread and cheese, but I am getting better and as I am from the North East this is not our natural diet. Thanks for the advice and diet tips.

Years ago I checked my blood group and was told that meat and. Natural grains were my natural food groups, whilst processed foods like bread and cheese were bad for me - how true they were....
 
I have found Asda protein bread, which looks like a brick but is only 4 gm of carbs a slice.
Cheese is fine for type two diabetics, along with meat fish seafood and eggs.
grains are to be avoided - they are about 2/3rds carbs by weight - not at all the thing for us.
 
rebrascora said:
Hi Ian and welcome from a fellow northerner..... I'm guessing you are from the wonderful North since you use the colloquial term in reference to your offspring.
Well done with your weight loss and resisting the crisps and chocolate ..... not easy when you have family enjoying them under your nose! Good luck with the job and getting your HbA1c down.... even if it does take you away from this great country.

It might help to read what others have found to eat and enjoy whilst reducing their carb intake. There are threads on the forum where people list what they ate yesterday to give others some ideas. I like to have a cooked breakfast (usually mushroom omelette or fry up with a green salad and avocado but no bread or toast obviously) to set me up for the day , then just a chunk of cheese at lunchtime and a proper dinner in the evening with just a small portion of carbs like potatoes or pasta. Good luck on your journey and keep us posted with your job application situation/ test results..
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Is frying acceptable, I always thought that it was a no-no, I have a ceramic frying pan which uses no oil/fat but I have been loathe to use it as I thought frying was not good?
 
iblemings said:
Hi All, I have been fighting Diabetes for a while, basically ignoring it, taking my medication, but basically shoving it into a corner and ignoring it rather than trying to sort it out. Now it has come back to bite me, I was offered a job, but it requires HBA1c to be 7% (American company) mine was 8.8%.

So I have had to make sudden changes, diet, exercise, lifestyle etc, I have lost about 5kg in the last month and I do feel better for it - still would kill for a bag of crisps or to share the bairn's bar of chocolate, but I know that I am doing myself better. Just hope I have done enough to be accepted for this job.

Anyway, there I am.
Cheers
Ian
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Welcome Ian. I am a "Risk Assessor" for Duk & the sooner you find out the more you can do. Good luck & do your best. 🙂
 
Frying is excellent, though charring is not - I'm afraid that all the information about the dangers of fat were just so much flim-flam.
The more research that is done by proper scientists the more it seems that the whole of the dietary information used for the whole of my lifetime is flawed.
 
Do not be afraid of frying or eating healthy fats and oils in other ways like on salads, cooking cabbage or spinach in a little butter or cream cheese etc.... and some of those are the ones that scientists previously told us were unhealthy, like butter.

As @Drummer says, it is looking like we may well have been fed misinformation for the past 70 years about fats being bad for us and there are a growing number of scientists who now believe that the low fat diet which has been advised for many years (and is still being recommended) is one of the main reasons why we are currently experiencing a Diabetic epidemic. The large amounts of sugars and refined starchy carbs which we have not been warned about are surely making us ill and or killing us despite our low fat diet and heart disease has not significantly decreased.
The 4 main components of food are protein, fat, carbohydrates and fibre. The low fat diet recommended since the 1950s has lead to a large increase in the proportion of carbohydrates we eat in our modern diet and it is believed that those carbs may have put too much strain on our pancreases. As diabetics, our bodies have become unable to process those carbs the way we used to, so we need to eat significantly less of them and increase the other components of our diet in order to provide enough calories to give us energy. Increasing fat intake via dairy (if you are not intolerant) and olive oil and coconut and avocado etc and fibrous veg like cabbage/kale/spinach/broccoli and salad leaves etc will fill up your plate and digestive tract and help provide you with the energy you are no longer getting from carbohydrates like bread, pasta, potatoes and rice (and cakes and pastries and biscuits and breakfast cereal of course). Your Blood Glucose and HbA1c will show a big benefit from cutting right back on those starchy foods as well as the sweet stuff.
It takes some getting your head around when you have been programmed to eat carbs as the major part of your plate for every meal since birth, but once you get it and accept that increasing fats is not the evil we have been lead to believe, eating becomes enjoyable again and following a low carb diet for the rest of your life is perfectly sustainable and you lose the cravings for carbs. and feel satisfied without them. Furthermore, you are more likely to lose weight by cutting out the starchy foods and eating more fat, but it is important to also eat more fibre from green veg. Many people are concerned that increasing their fat intake will increase their cholesterol but the scientific community are now showing that there is no direct link between dietary intake of cholesterol and that in your blood stream.... at least that seems to be the situation from the online research I have read and the previous conclusions may all have been based on that initial and flawed research 70 years ago which demonised dietary fat.
The thing that helped me get my head around the whole issue with carbs and fat was a TED talk by Dr Peter Attia which I found on You Tube and was very convincing. I will add a link to it, so that you can make your own mind up and perhaps be motivated to do some further research
 
It depends on the fat, I wouldn't consume anything with Palm oil in (knowingly), fortunately most things are labelled clearly these days.
I think its always been known the body needs fats, but the right sort of fats is what it needs, sats in excess are going to cause other health issues.
 
Good luck Ian, hope all goes well. 🙂
 
Drummer said:
Frying is excellent, though charring is not - I'm afraid that all the information about the dangers of fat were just so much flim-flam.
The more research that is done by proper scientists the more it seems that the whole of the dietary information used for the whole of my lifetime is flawed.
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So I can have bacon?..............get in
 
iblemings said:
So I can have bacon?..............get in
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Dunno about you but as far I am concerned I can. Just had lunch.... fried bacon and mushrooms on bergen toast with a big salad, mostly leaves of one sort or the other from the garden. I recon about 20g carbs or thereabouts.
 
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