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Welcome to the forum, you will find lots of help and ideas here. One thing that will help people help you is a it more information about your diagnosis. Were you told what your HbA1C is as that will determine what medication if any you might be prescribed, do you have weight to lose as doing that will help as will getting more exercise if you can but the most important factor will be diet.
Many find a low carbohydrate approach successful and have found this link is a good program being designed by a GP practice who found the standard NHS advice did not work for many of their patients. https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/
It is based on the suggested no more than 130g carbs not just sugar per day, it is not NO carbs so that is the area of your current diet to look to reducing.
I'm afraid many GPs will just say cut the sugary stuff and hand out a prescription when just as much success if not more can be achieved by some serious dietary changes but that does need some commitment.
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Welcome to the forum Marshall @Whorl
Were you told the result of your HbA1c check? This will be a number above 47mmol/mol, and can help you understand what your general glucose levels have been like for the previous 3-4 months.
Some are just over the threshold at diagnosis and some relatively modest dietary tweaks can make a big difference, whereas other peoples’ diabetes isn’t picked up until their metabolisms have started to struggle a bit more, and some more significant changes, and perhaps the addition of some medication, can help.
Diabetes is a serious condition, but it’s also one that can usually be managed well with a few changes and adaptations - it’s something that you can learn to live well with, and it shouldn’t stop you doing things you enjoy. Some things may just need a bit of lateral thinking, some adaptations, or workarounds though.
Let us know how you get on at your Drs appointment 🙂
Were you told the result of your HbA1c check? This will be a number above 47mmol/mol, and can help you understand what your general glucose levels have been like for the previous 3-4 months.
Some are just over the threshold at diagnosis and some relatively modest dietary tweaks can make a big difference, whereas other peoples’ diabetes isn’t picked up until their metabolisms have started to struggle a bit more, and some more significant changes, and perhaps the addition of some medication, can help.
Diabetes is a serious condition, but it’s also one that can usually be managed well with a few changes and adaptations - it’s something that you can learn to live well with, and it shouldn’t stop you doing things you enjoy. Some things may just need a bit of lateral thinking, some adaptations, or workarounds though.
Let us know how you get on at your Drs appointment 🙂
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