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Just signed up after 6 years self management

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Gerrie DS

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Hello, thought i'd sign up to link up with others. Scotland is getting worse by the minute for Type 2 Diabetes and reaching out. Have to say if i followed the eating guidelines on this website i'd probably be deid by now!
 
Hi Gerrie, welcome to the forum 🙂 What guidelines are you referring to? If it's the 'official' Diabetes UK guidelines, you'll find that here on the forum most people follow the diet that they have discovered works best for their blood sugar levels, as no general diet can cover all the individual tolerances that people have 🙂
 
HI Northerner. Thanks. Yes the general guildelines but also have read the SIGN ones in depth. ALl of them state the 6 months on low carb is 'safe'. so far so good for me after 6 years on low carb with all my blood results. I also weight lift now and am very fit (a far cry from 2010!!!). I tried around 200gms when first diagnosed but had horrendous spikes. I must just be very sensitive. anyway, so far so good. WIll be interesting to read other people's thoughts and ideas. I get my carbs from vegetable sources.
 
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Hi Stitch! thanks for the welcome. My last hba1c was 45 too. can't get used to this 'new money'!!
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Ive only known the "new money" only been diagnosed 16 months. Not confident that my next HbA1c will be that good, but saying that I was shocked my last one was that good!
 
Welcome.
As Northerner said many of us follow what we have found works for us as individuals. I personally have around 100-120 grams of Carbs a day, I can't maintainin anything less.
 
Hello Gerrie. :D Deid! LOL
 
Hi Gerrie Welcome.
As far as I can tell most of us on here don't follow the rules esp that eat well plate 😱. Instead We do what works for us, this means we have perfected that nod and smile technique at our appointments.
 
Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your great HBA1C.
 
Hi Gerrie, welcome to the group
 
Welcome, Gerrie. I follow a low carb diet & it has done me very well. I can even have the odd treat with hardly a blip on my meter.🙂
 
well, thanks all for your replies. sometimes i think i am the only one in the universe who disparages the 'eat well' plate and wants to bop the professionals. The Gp phoned me when i was diagnosed to say that he wasn't giving me a meter cos i wouldn't know what to do with it. well......apart from the predictable response that i could have made....it has been amazing to take control. I used to eat abou 100-150gms carbs but i think as i am getting older i am becoming less tolerant and now i tend to just not eat grains apart from my plate of porridge (weighed dry 30gms) once a week. Not a problem after several tantrums! My partner is amazing and experiments with different ingredients cos textures can be a bit samey sometimes. OOOOh the thought of the crunch of an italian loaf..... Now my friend and I support a lot of people with Type 2. We get called the Type Twosies Floosies. might as well laugh eh otherwise i'd be in glum and that's just not the way i want my life to be. i enjoy it too much. So now when we see that loaf, we chorus "carbicide" in our broadest Glaswegian accents! (sorry, long post, am on a rant obivously haha!!)
 
Gerrie DS said:
well, thanks all for your replies. sometimes i think i am the only one in the universe who disparages the 'eat well' plate and wants to bop the professionals. The Gp phoned me when i was diagnosed to say that he wasn't giving me a meter cos i wouldn't know what to do with it. well......apart from the predictable response that i could have made....it has been amazing to take control. I used to eat abou 100-150gms carbs but i think as i am getting older i am becoming less tolerant and now i tend to just not eat grains apart from my plate of porridge (weighed dry 30gms) once a week. Not a problem after several tantrums! My partner is amazing and experiments with different ingredients cos textures can be a bit samey sometimes. OOOOh the thought of the crunch of an italian loaf..... Now my friend and I support a lot of people with Type 2. We get called the Type Twosies Floosies. might as well laugh eh otherwise i'd be in glum and that's just not the way i want my life to be. i enjoy it too much. So now when we see that loaf, we chorus "carbicide" in our broadest Glaswegian accents! (sorry, long post, am on a rant obivously haha!!)
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The eat well plate is a joke imho, bit like your GP. 😉
 
Hi Gerrie,
Welcome , your post made me laugh as a Scot living in England !!
 
Gerrie DS said:
Hello, thought i'd sign up to link up with others. Scotland is getting worse by the minute for Type 2 Diabetes and reaching out. Have to say if i followed the eating guidelines on this website i'd probably be deid by now!
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Hi Gerrie
Warm welcome to the forum.
 
Eat well plate? No idea what that is?!
 
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