New here but not to diabetes

[Dors]

Hi everyone I have been T2 for about 10 years now. It’s been a rollercoaster of events. I first started on diet only but not very successful. I was very obese and in 2015 had a gastric bypass with the result of loosing 10 st and went into remission from my diabetes
Over the last 5 years my weight has increased (2 stone) but also my diabetes has returned. My HbAc1 is 60 last week
my diabetic nurse has suggested Ozempic injections but worried about it never heard of them.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @Dors

Goodness! What a journey you have been on 😱

Sorry to hear that despite undergoing surgery and putting your diabetes into remission it has returned - how devastating for you

Were you advised to make any changes to your diet and eating plan after the surgery? Many T2 members here find that balancing what they eat (specifically the amount of carbohydrates they are eating) with both their metabolism and any medication they are taking is absolutely vital to their diabetes management.

We have a few forum members who have been starting on Ozempic recently - @Lucyr is one. It’s a relatively new diabetes medication, but we are beginning to see it more and more.

Hope it works well for you.

What sorts of things would you eat in a general day? Can you give members here an idea of some typical meals or snacks for their ideas and suggestions of any more BG-friendly swaps and alternatives?

 

[Ralph-YK]

Welcome to the forum Dors from a fellow T2.

 

[Lucyr]

Hi Dors and welcome to the forum. As mentioned i've started ozempic recently and happy to chat about it. Ozempic is an injection you take once a week, the needles are tiny (4mm long). There is a tablet version coming out soon i think, but you'd have to take that every day.

Ozempic seems to work differently for each person, but the main ways it works is by helping you feel fuller quicker and digest food more slowly, to make it easier for you to turn the weight gain around. You've done fantastically well to lose 10 stone, so hopefully losing the couple that have crept back would help your blood sugars. The other way ozempic works is to reduce blood sugars to help bring your a1c down.

 

[Dors]

Hi Dors and welcome to the forum. As mentioned i've started ozempic recently and happy to chat about it. Ozempic is an injection you take once a week, the needles are tiny (4mm long). There is a tablet version coming out soon i think, but you'd have to take that every day.

Ozempic seems to work differently for each person, but the main ways it works is by helping you feel fuller quicker and digest food more slowly, to make it easier for you to turn the weight gain around. You've done fantastically well to lose 10 stone, so hopefully losing the couple that have crept back would help your blood sugars. The other way ozempic works is to reduce blood sugars to help bring your a1c down.

Thanks for the reply Lucyr I hope I get on with it took my first dose this morning. also really trying to work on my diet trying to cut down carbohydrates. I don’t want to start a strict Keto diet as I know it will be hard for me to stay on track taking each day as it comes

 

[Drummer]

What is it about a low carb diet which causes problems?
Personally I would not want to eat any other way than my 40 gm of carb a day regime - but I started to low carb back in the 1970s, and could not understand all the ranting and raving about 'healthy carbs' and why HCPs felt so threatened by the Atkins diet .

 

[Lucyr]

Oh hope it goes well, I was advised to cut portion sizes down when starting so you could reduce the carb portions a bit but still have them, if you want to go lower carb but not keto? I can’t do low carb either, it’s not for everyone.