New and confused!

[everydayupsanddowns]

Well done on your brilliant progress @WayneMR you certainly seem to have found an approach that works for you!

Hope the slow release Met eases up your gastric upset a little.

Amazing how tastes change isn’t it. The ‘smaller amount of darker chocolate’ tip is a really great one. It gives you much more of a chocolate hit, and if you just melt a square on your tongue it actually lasts way longer in terms of stimulating your taste buds than chomping down on a fattier, sugarier, but far less chocolatey alternative.

 

[harbottle]

So, its 17 weeks since my first diagnosis. After some "ups and downs", struggling to balance my carb intake with my energy requirements, and generally finding I was going too hard on cutting back on carbs, I got my second mmol/l reading, and its 47, down from 80. I've lost close to 2 stone, the first 14lbs falling away very quickly, leading to some worry about loosing too much, too quick. However, I've stabilized my energy and weight loss by allowing myself to eat carbs, obviously trying to stay away from the "bad" ones. Having to also watch my intake of salt, and trying to monitor my cholesterol too has been a steep learning curve, but I seem to be doing ok. The Metformin has taken some getting used to, although luckily the only side effect has been a need to know where the nearest loo is all the time...no pain or cramps. The other meds arent really causing any issues, so my doc is considering whether to either reduce my dose of Metformin, or change from my current version, to the slower release type. I'm reluctant to reduce the dose currently, as I've made good progress, so I'm pushing for the slow release tablets. The strangest thing has been the cravings...my biggest weakness pre-diagnosis was tangy haribo sweets, and winegums...but giving them up wasnt that difficult, but now, despite not really being a previous "chocaholic" I'm craving chocolate...go figure!

Great news and well done.

I know what you mean about those bags of Haribo. I occasionally have a sneaky one or two if the kids have a bag, but that's it. I tend to crave nuts and fish more these days!

 

[trophywench]

You need to accept that the DUK site caters for people with all types of diabetes - eg us bog standard not obese Type 1s can eat pretty much what the hell we fancy, injecting the appropriate amount of insulin to deal with whatever amount of carbohydrate the food contains. We don't have to avoid anything because of diabetes.