Hi everyone, had type 2 diabetes for a number of years now, but only just found this online.....looking at loosing weight & pushing my diabetes into remission....any guidance for someone with Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia, would be great, as exercise on a daily basis is impossible for me. Thanks
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Welcome I'm sure you will find lots of useful tips here from people who have managed to get to grips with managing their condition. When you have other health issues it makes it all the more difficult but it can be done. Although exercise helps and people do use that as a component of their strategy it is dietary changes which are going to have the most impact.
What is suitable may depend on what medication you may be taking but if only on metformin then a low carb approach is one that people find successful at losing weight and reducing blood glucose, High blood glucose is likely to be contributing to your fatigue. Have a look at this link as you may find it helpful in finding a way forward in modifying your diet.
https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/
What is your HbA1C as that will indicate how much work you will need to do to get to normal numbers.
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That is not too bad, the diagnostic threshold is anything over 47mmol/mol, however still high enough to take seriously and make some changes, reducing portion size of any high carb foods and cutting out cakes, biscuits and sugary drinks including fruit juice.
I started at that level and got down to 42 in 3 months and 38 in another 6 months, pretty well still there 2 and a half years later.
Thanks, tbh I'm not really into sweet things, very occasionally, i don't have sugar in drinks & any cold drinks are sugar free, but i drink more water than anything. I have a small glass of pure orange juice every morning because of the painkillers I take, but i could change that to prune juice if that's better for me. We have wholemeal bread, brown pasta & rice, I also like any berries with full fat Greek yoghurt. Not too sure what else I can do, I've learnt to stop eating as soon as I feel full?
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You need to look at your portion sizes in particular bread, rice and pasta as even the brown versions are higher carb than many can tolerate so making some substitutions for something lower carb or have a very much reduced portion with plenty of the sauce with extra vegetables.
The suggested amount of carbs per day is no more than 130g. It is useful to keep a food diary of everything you eat and drink with an estimate of the amount of carbs and see how far you are from that and it will help you see where you can cut back. For example 1 slice of a standard size loaf can be as much as 20g carbs or a bread roll as much as 30g, a normal portion of rice could be 40g carbs, a portion pasta 50g carbs so you see it can soon mount up.
I don't think prune juice would be any better, but as long as you factor in your small glass of juice into your carbs for breakfast then that's OK.
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