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[Renka]

Diagnosed Type 2 just before New Year. I'm 76 years old and trying to get to grips with it. I have been told to lose weight and try to control sugar levels with diet. It's difficult!

 

[Drummer]

Diagnosed Type 2 just before New Year. I'm 76 years old and trying to get to grips with it. I have been told to lose weight and try to control sugar levels with diet. It's difficult!

If you are an ordinary type 2 then cutting down the carbohydrate in your diet might lift a burden which has been accumulating for quite some time.
I was pushed to eat so called healthy starchy food and everything should be low fat - it made me feel very old and I became very overweight. When diagnosed I was prescribed Metformin and Atorvastatin and in a few weeks I was suicidal.
Luckily I rebelled and threw out the tablets, stuck to the 50 gm of carb diet I knew did me so much good when doing Atkins and managed to come up for air after a very deep dive - my blood glucose levels became normal and I have lost weight. I feel so much better.
I find many of the meals I have now are much more to my liking than the pallid stodge I can't cope with.
I tend to go to Lidl for my shopping and they have a good variety of low carb veges in the fresh section, plus frozen stirfry in three variations - I usually get the two with the lowest carb content, Asian and Italian, and I have half a pack with various meats - usually leftovers from the previous day. I buy swede, cook it in a pressure cooker and then mash it to eat with my evening meals, any leftovers I use to make bubble and squeak with bacon or cheese for breakfast. I get frozen cauliflower and have that with curry instead of rice.
I have a camper van and get envious looks when I am preparing steak with a little onion and a lot of mushrooms using the double burner on the picnic table. Then next morning I do bacon, eggs, more mushrooms, tomato. Men walk past and groan or sigh and I have had a couple of offers of marriage which were almost serious.

 

[Leadinglights]

Not quite as old as you but I found following the principals in this link made so much sense and was very easy to adopt and the low carb regime is my new normal, it was successful in both losing weight and reducing my HbA1C to normal.

Freshwell Low Carb Project - Home

lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Diagnosed Type 2 just before New Year. I'm 76 years old and trying to get to grips with it. I have been told to lose weight and try to control sugar levels with diet. It's difficult!

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