Hi all I am Gill 66yrs old with 3 grown up daughter and 5 grandchildren who I totally adore. I have been dignoised with type 2 and is high at 98. my GP has given me Metformin and I have to see the nurse to discuss my diet i would appreciate some advice
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Ljc
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Hello @sunny day . Welcome to the forum. You have had a few replies on your other thread
https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/been-diagnosed-with-type-2.83960/
https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/been-diagnosed-with-type-2.83960/
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Hi Sunny day
I have posted a reply on your other thread, but just to add that it is good to hear that you have lots of family around you who will hopefully support you.
When you have decided what your eating plans are it will be good to share it with them, so that they can help you stay with your eating plan.
5 grandchildren sounds like a lot of fun. I only have 2 grandsons, and that keeps me busy. They are a bit of a 'hazard' though. One of my coping strategies is to have very few carbs around, but when I visit their house it looks like carb city. They have been briefed by their mum though about what I shouldn't eat and are keen to tell me what terrible things will happen to me if I fall victim to temptation.
Seriously though, family support is very important, so try to get them involved.
I have posted a reply on your other thread, but just to add that it is good to hear that you have lots of family around you who will hopefully support you.
When you have decided what your eating plans are it will be good to share it with them, so that they can help you stay with your eating plan.
5 grandchildren sounds like a lot of fun. I only have 2 grandsons, and that keeps me busy. They are a bit of a 'hazard' though. One of my coping strategies is to have very few carbs around, but when I visit their house it looks like carb city. They have been briefed by their mum though about what I shouldn't eat and are keen to tell me what terrible things will happen to me if I fall victim to temptation.
Seriously though, family support is very important, so try to get them involved.
Hi Toucan
It wasn't until I went for my yearly blood test for my under active thyroid gland that my doctor decided to do a full blood test that this showed up and it came as a sock not understanding what it meant I joined the group. it has helped already one question will the Diabetes ever go away.
Regards
Gill
It wasn't until I went for my yearly blood test for my under active thyroid gland that my doctor decided to do a full blood test that this showed up and it came as a sock not understanding what it meant I joined the group. it has helped already one question will the Diabetes ever go away.
Regards
Gill
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Hi Gill and welcome from me too.
I'm afraid that diabetes is with you for life but the good news is that you may be able to push it into remission through changes to your diet, increased activity, weight loss and perhaps with the help of medication. And surprisingly, once you get your head around low carb eating it can be a very enjoyable and therefore sustainable diet. The key is adding more fat to your diet which is contrary to everything you have been taught over the past 50+ years. Some people cannot overcome that indoctrinated advice to eat low fat or that fat is bad and causes heart disease, but the carbs that we have eaten instead along with our more sedentary lifestyle, have almost certainly caused the diabetes and that puts us at risk of cardiovascular disease, so in my opinion you cannot rely on the dietary advice we have been given for the past 50+ years as actually being healthy or accurate. I know I feel so much better for cutting bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and breakfast cereals out of my diet as well as sweets cakes and biscuits and eating more fat. I no longer eat as much as I did and I don't feel hungry or have the cravings that I used to have. I have a new found love of cheese instead of sweets and chocolate and I don't even care if people eat cakes or sweets in front of me, which is actually very liberating. Anyway, I am not the only one to feel like this. There are several people on this forum who have lost weight lowered their BG into the normal range from very high HbA1c readings like yours and feel healthier for eating very low carb and increasing their fat content.
I imagine with 5 grandchildren there are plenty of opportunities for increasing your activity levels... walks in the park, playing games, swimming or cycling perhaps.... gentle exercises which are all great for lowering BG levels.
Good luck with your diabetes journey. I hope you are able to find as many positives to it as I have.... weight loss (my partner now calls me "slim" and I fit into clothes that have been in the back of the wardrobe for 30 years), dramatic reduction in joint pain (knees and back were giving me daily grief and I was really starting to feel like I was getting old and stiff), no more migraines and I can now drink red wine again which was one of my main triggers.
I'm afraid that diabetes is with you for life but the good news is that you may be able to push it into remission through changes to your diet, increased activity, weight loss and perhaps with the help of medication. And surprisingly, once you get your head around low carb eating it can be a very enjoyable and therefore sustainable diet. The key is adding more fat to your diet which is contrary to everything you have been taught over the past 50+ years. Some people cannot overcome that indoctrinated advice to eat low fat or that fat is bad and causes heart disease, but the carbs that we have eaten instead along with our more sedentary lifestyle, have almost certainly caused the diabetes and that puts us at risk of cardiovascular disease, so in my opinion you cannot rely on the dietary advice we have been given for the past 50+ years as actually being healthy or accurate. I know I feel so much better for cutting bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and breakfast cereals out of my diet as well as sweets cakes and biscuits and eating more fat. I no longer eat as much as I did and I don't feel hungry or have the cravings that I used to have. I have a new found love of cheese instead of sweets and chocolate and I don't even care if people eat cakes or sweets in front of me, which is actually very liberating. Anyway, I am not the only one to feel like this. There are several people on this forum who have lost weight lowered their BG into the normal range from very high HbA1c readings like yours and feel healthier for eating very low carb and increasing their fat content.
I imagine with 5 grandchildren there are plenty of opportunities for increasing your activity levels... walks in the park, playing games, swimming or cycling perhaps.... gentle exercises which are all great for lowering BG levels.
Good luck with your diabetes journey. I hope you are able to find as many positives to it as I have.... weight loss (my partner now calls me "slim" and I fit into clothes that have been in the back of the wardrobe for 30 years), dramatic reduction in joint pain (knees and back were giving me daily grief and I was really starting to feel like I was getting old and stiff), no more migraines and I can now drink red wine again which was one of my main triggers.
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Ah - I have an underactive thyroid - thanks to a wrongly ticked box (I think) when I should just have had the thyroid tested, I was diagnosed type two after years of indications that I could not deal with carbohydrate. I corrected it myself by eating low carb, but when I tried to discus it with doctors they just went manic and told me how bad it was to eat a low carb diet, even though it made me feel so much better. Many times I was forced onto diets which began with a breakfast of cereal or porridge, or wholemeal toast with low fat spread.
I should have a fifth grandchild sometime around my 69th birthday next spring, if all goes well.
I should have a fifth grandchild sometime around my 69th birthday next spring, if all goes well.
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