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[Dandy1873]

Hi, David here from Cyprus, I am finding the website very interesting and look forward to hearing fellow members views and experiences

 

[Inka]

Welcome @Dandy1873 🙂 How long have you had Type 2? Do feel free to ask any questions you want. Everyone is friendly and helpful here.

 

[Dandy1873]

Diagnosed about 6/8 weeks ago, doctors instructions re diet, “don’t eat pasta, potatoes, bread or drink alcohol” that was it! I had gone for a blood test for something unrelated and this comes back!
Anyway I carried out much research, found websites like this and have adjusted my diet a bit. One thing I noticed that most dietary info seems aimed at folk who are overweight which I’m not.
Thanks for the Welcome,
David

 

[Inka]

A percentage of Type 2s are slim @Dandy1873 but yes, lots of the advice is about weight loss. Do you carry any extra weight around your middle? Sometimes a re-distribution of weight can help.

A really useful tool is a blood glucose meter because then you can see how various meals affect you. Do you know your HbA1C result? This will be the blood test that diagnosed you.

 

[Leadinglights]

Diagnosed about 6/8 weeks ago, doctors instructions re diet, “don’t eat pasta, potatoes, bread or drink alcohol” that was it! I had gone for a blood test for something unrelated and this comes back!
Anyway I carried out much research, found websites like this and have adjusted my diet a bit. One thing I noticed that most dietary info seems aimed at folk who are overweight which I’m not.
Thanks for the Welcome,
David

Those things mentioned are the big hitters when it comes to carbohydrates but also tropical fruits, rice and breakfast cereals and the obvious things like cakes and biscuits and sugary drinks including fruit juices, as far as alcohol then wines and spirits with diet mixers are not too bad. You can lower your blood glucose by reducing carbs but compensate by increasing protein and healthy fats to keep your weight stable.

 

[Dandy1873]

Diagnosed about 6/8 weeks ago, doctors instructions re diet, “don’t eat pasta, potatoes, bread or drink alcohol” that was it! I had gone for a blood test for something unrelated and this comes back!
Anyway I carried out much research, found websites like this and have adjusted my diet a bit. One thing I noticed that most dietary info seems aimed at folk who are overweight which I’m not.
Thanks for the Welcome,
David

A percentage of Type 2s are slim @Dandy1873 but yes, lots of the advice is about weight loss. Do you carry any extra weight around your middle? Sometimes a re-distribution of weight can help.

A really useful tool is a blood glucose meter because then you can see how various meals affect you. Do you know your HbA1C result? This will be the blood test that diagnosed you.

Being honest I do carry a little extra round the waist, but not excessive. I didn’t know a thing about HbA1C until I joined up here, just checked my original blood test and it was 9.8! My glucose was 242.33. I do have a meter and am happy that glucose is now mostly under 150mg/dl

 

[trophywench]

Thing is, it's more than possible and likely that you are TOFI - thin outside, fat inside - which means that though you don't look fat, you have fat around your internal organs which slows the metabolism down and the body starts telling us it can't quite cope fully just at the mo - and metabolic diseases like T2 diabetes start to appear. You get rid of such fat exactly the same way as you would to lose weight - cut down on the more fattening things in your diet - which basically means the carbohydrates (of which sugar is merely one)

Dietary fat as long as it isn't excessive is OK as is protein. You don't need to do anything drastic or cut everything out completely - just cut down and pasta/rice are two of the things it's all too easy to put more on our plate than is good for us. I've only visited Malta once and there were far more Italian restaurants on offer to the self catering tourist than any other. Or - British - meat spuds veg and gravy. Is there even such a thing as Maltese specialities?

 

[Leadinglights]

Thing is, it's more than possible and likely that you are TOFI - thin outside, fat inside - which means that though you don't look fat, you have fat around your internal organs which slows the metabolism down and the body starts telling us it can't quite cope fully just at the mo - and metabolic diseases like T1 diabetes start to appear. You get rid of such fat exactly the same way as you would to lose weight - cut down on the more fattening things in your diet - which basically means the carbohydrates (of which sugar is merely one)

Dietary fat as long as it isn't excessive is OK as is protein. You don't need to do anything drastic or cut everything out completely - just cut down and pasta/rice are two of the things it's all too easy to put more on our plate than is good for us. I've only visited Malta once and there were far more Italian restaurants on offer to the self catering tourist than any other. Or - British - meat spuds veg and gravy. Is there even such a thing as Maltese specialities?

Where did you get Malta from, the OP is from Cyprus.
I think rabbit is a Maltese speciality.

 

[Dandy1873]

Thing is, it's more than possible and likely that you are TOFI - thin outside, fat inside - which means that though you don't look fat, you have fat around your internal organs which slows the metabolism down and the body starts telling us it can't quite cope fully just at the mo - and metabolic diseases like T1 diabetes start to appear. You get rid of such fat exactly the same way as you would to lose weight - cut down on the more fattening things in your diet - which basically means the carbohydrates (of which sugar is merely one)

Dietary fat as long as it isn't excessive is OK as is protein. You don't need to do anything drastic or cut everything out completely - just cut down and pasta/rice are two of the things it's all too easy to put more on our plate than is good for us. I've only visited Malta once and there were far more Italian restaurants on offer to the self catering tourist than any other. Or - British - meat spuds veg and gravy. Is there even such a thing as Maltese specialities?

Thanks for your input, it’s actually T2 I have, also I live in Cyprus

 

[trophywench]

My entire post was about T2, apart from Malta instead of Cyprus for which I apologise!

However - plenty of lovely thick creamy full fat yogurt available all over presumably.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hi, David here from Cyprus, I am finding the website very interesting and look forward to hearing fellow members views and experiences

Welcome to the forum @Dandy1873

Glad to have you here 🙂