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Just diagnosed, long road ahead

Hi and welcome, glad to hear you're diet is going well. What sort of diet is it?
Do you have a target weight to reach?
What was your last HbA1c?
Cheers
 
Hello @Chantmarie
Welcome to the forum, you will find lots of help and info on here and lots of support from members. Feel free to have a look around and remember no question to small or to silly. Good luck in your diabeties journey
gail
 
Hiya @Chantmarle and welcome! 🙂

Caught the Glucose Goddess thing other night, really good watch as I’m also fairly new to all this, no diagnosis just yet, next bloods on 31/1.
 
I have one of her books which my sister bought me and some of the tips work for Type 1s too. She can unfortunately be considered a controversial figure, so you might get some negative comments, but diabetes is all about finding what works for you as an individual so try what she suggests and see what works for you and adopt it and discard what doesn't.
 
You will find a lot of advice here. It helped me enormously when I was pre-diabetic. I got back to normal for about 5 years but, unfortunately, it went back to 42 last year. They are doing another hba1c shortly which I dread. I am testing regularly at the moment and not finding any problems but the GP will only take any notice of the hba1c not what I say.

I watched the Glucose Goddess programmes and I think she talks a lot of sense. Similar to Michael Moseley. I have not read her books though. I don't tend to buy the newer books as they seem to be only vegan based and I prefer to eat a variety of foods although I eat lots of plants too.

I suppose you have to make up your own mind what is best for you as we are all different. It is a good idea to test too as that gives some idea of what foods suit you and which ones don't. Again people are different and what one can eat another one maybe cannot.
 
Chantmarle said:
Hi All
Just diagnosed type 2. On diet to reduce carbs at moment all going well. Just watched a programme on channel 4. Eat Smart, secrets of the Glucose Goddess. Well worth a watch, explains type two and lots of useful info to keep your glucose spikes under control.
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For T2, for most trimming the carbs back a bit, or a lot (depending on your blood sugar numbers and objectives) realy can make a difference.

I've just read the Glucose Goddess 10 hacks again, and whilst there's definitely sense in there, for some they may be over complicating things.

For me, I ate to my meter (in my day, around diagnosis, the Libre/CGMs simply didn't exist - I know, shocking!), and I just cut down or out the foodstuffs that I ate that made my bloods go to numbers I didn't want to see. Doing that, I ended up going low carb. I always made sure to have plenty protein (to help retain muscle mass) and balanced the weighing scales by varying the amount of fats I ate. I lost my love handles quickly, so had to stabilise my weight somehow.

I'm over 11 years in now and have got used to that general way of eating, but these days, I find I can tolerate a much wider diet, in terms of carbs, but I'm generally content to be LC.

To be clear; I'm absolutely not saying my way is right and anyone else's is not. We all need to find our own contented (in the face of enforced changes) place with our lifestyles, but all I'm saying is try to keep it simple. I find simpler easier to adopt long term.

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Hi @Chantmarle and welcome to the forum - I watched that programme the other night and it was quite good I agree (better than some others!) - Feel free to fire away any questions you may have, there are decades of experience on this forum, and we're all here to help each other
 
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