Hi, newly diagnosed type 2

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Not seeing nurse untill end of June. Told to eat less carbs/sugar but I’m losing weight by doing this and don’t want/need to. Any suggestions please
 
Eat more protein and fats - they are the essential foods to maintain a body.
 
martinswife said:
Not seeing nurse untill end of June. Told to eat less carbs/sugar but I’m losing weight by doing this and don’t want/need to. Any suggestions please
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It is usually inevitable that people lose weight when they reduce carbs and part of that can be fluid as a carb heavy diet tends to make the body hang on to water.
Meal plans are usually aimed at people who need to lose weight that being one of the features of Type 2.
Replacing the carbs with protein and healthy fats will help both to maintain weight and stop you feeling hungry.
Have a look at this link for ideas for modifying your diet, it is low carb but that is suggested as being no more than 130g per day so you may have reduced more than you need as it is not NO carbs. https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/
 
Leadinglights said:
It is usually inevitable that people lose weight when they reduce carbs and part of that can be fluid as a carb heavy diet tends to make the body hang on to water.
Meal plans are usually aimed at people who need to lose weight that being one of the features of Type 2.
Replacing the carbs with protein and healthy fats will help both to maintain weight and stop you feeling hungry.
Have a look at this link for ideas for modifying your diet, it is low carb but that is suggested as being no more than 130g per day so you may have reduced more than you need as it is not NO carbs. https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/
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Thank you trying to average about 130, and eat more protein just struggling with what to eat that doesn’t have sugar in it
 
martinswife said:
Thank you trying to average about 130, and eat more protein just struggling with what to eat that doesn’t have sugar in it
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Meat, fish, cheese, eggs, dairy most veg and salads, berries are the lowest carb fruit. The high carb foods are bread, rice, pasta, breakfast cereals, pastry, as well as the obvious cakes, biscuits and sugary drinks including fruit juice.
The link I posted will have lots of suggestions.
Get sugar out of your head and just consider the total carbohydrates when you look at the nutritional information on packets, tins, or the internet or shop websites which are useful for carbs info.
The book or app Carbs and Cals is very useful for giving carb values of different portions of a whole range of foods as portion size is important.
 
Sorry to hear you are losing weight without meaning to @martinswife :(

Have you got a BG meter? Have you been able to see whether your low carb approach is reducing your BG levels?
 
Welcome to the Forum. I was in the same situation (pre diabetic, normal for years, not pre-diabetic again). I lost weight to the extent that the GP was horrified so upped the protein and good fats and have now put some back on. I have tried to keep myself at the lower end of my BMI as my weight all goes on the waist area. Also my GP (we are lucky in that we have one who specialises in diabetes and I was moved from one of the other GPs to him when I went pre-diabetic) told me it was not weight related and I must stop losing weight. The only thing he could think of was increased insulin resistance as I was getting older.

This time when I went to just at the bottom of pre diabetes (42) GPs just want to check again next year and not too concerned. I was upset though and they arranged for me to see the diabetic nurse. At our surgery you can only see a DN if a GP agrees as we have one of the highest incidences of diabetes in the UK so obviously everyone is overwhelmed.
 
martinswife said:
Thank you trying to average about 130, and eat more protein just struggling with what to eat that doesn’t have sugar in it
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Nuts are a good bet - low carb, high protein, high calorie and although mostly fat it's predominantly unsaturated. My preferred nuts are peanuts and walnuts.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Sorry to hear you are losing weight without meaning to @martinswife :(

Have you got a BG meter? Have you been able to see whether your low carb approach is reducing your BG levels?
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No not got a meter, told didn’t need one. But had to up carbs today as felt unwell and could only think I hadn’t had enough yesterday. After a couple of bread sticks and a banana felt better
 
Maz2 said:
Welcome to the Forum. I was in the same situation (pre diabetic, normal for years, not pre-diabetic again). I lost weight to the extent that the GP was horrified so upped the protein and good fats and have now put some back on. I have tried to keep myself at the lower end of my BMI as my weight all goes on the waist area. Also my GP (we are lucky in that we have one who specialises in diabetes and I was moved from one of the other GPs to him when I went pre-diabetic) told me it was not weight related and I must stop losing weight. The only thing he could think of was increased insulin resistance as I was getting older.

This time when I went to just at the bottom of pre diabetes (42) GPs just want to check again next year and not too concerned. I was upset though and they arranged for me to see the diabetic nurse. At our surgery you can only see a DN if a GP agrees as we have one of the highest incidences of diabetes in the UK so obviously everyone is overwhelmed.
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The doctors didn’t say what mine was related too but it’s definitely not weight, going to follow suggestions on here to try and meet the happy medium of extra protein with less carbs. I suppose after only 2/3 weeks I am still learning.
 
Leadinglights said:
Meat, fish, cheese, eggs, dairy most veg and salads, berries are the lowest carb fruit. The high carb foods are bread, rice, pasta, breakfast cereals, pastry, as well as the obvious cakes, biscuits and sugary drinks including fruit juice.
The link I posted will have lots of suggestions.
Get sugar out of your head and just consider the total carbohydrates when you look at the nutritional information on packets, tins, or the internet or shop websites which are useful for carbs info.
The book or app Carbs and Cals is very useful for giving carb values of different portions of a whole range of foods as portion size is important.
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Eating lots of meat, fish, veg and salads up to the point of being fed up with them. Think you are right about getting sugar out of my head and just looking at carbs, because otherwise checking everything is a chore. I’ve got the book.
 
You are early days and your body has to get used to having less carbs so people can feel a bit wobbly.
The reason people are told they don't need a monitor is because if people are Type 2 not on medication that could cause low blood glucose then GP are not obliged to prescribe them but that is not to say that is a wise thing, It is like driving your car without a speedometer, you don't know if you are exceeding the speed limit.
People find them a useful tool in managing their blood glucose as it enables them to see not only what foods are best avoided but which ones are perfectly fine that people might otherwise reject.
Inexpensive ones can be bought on line, a few with the cheaper test strips are Gluconavii, TEE2 and Contour Blue.
 
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