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A typical, ordinary type 2 has trouble with carbohydrate - that is starch and sugar.
By removing the high carb foods and sticking to lower ones, plus doing some tests with a blood glucose meter to see how a meal has altered blood glucose it is normally not difficult to return to normal numbers, which often means feeling a lot better and more energetic.
Eating protein and the fat which comes with it usually sorts things out.
I avoid seed oils and am no longer getting sunburn which used to be so painful and restricted the time I could spend out of doors, even with factor 50 sunscreen so my time out in the fresh air is far more enjoyable and I get more exercise.
By removing the high carb foods and sticking to lower ones, plus doing some tests with a blood glucose meter to see how a meal has altered blood glucose it is normally not difficult to return to normal numbers, which often means feeling a lot better and more energetic.
Eating protein and the fat which comes with it usually sorts things out.
I avoid seed oils and am no longer getting sunburn which used to be so painful and restricted the time I could spend out of doors, even with factor 50 sunscreen so my time out in the fresh air is far more enjoyable and I get more exercise.
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Welcome to the forum @Esta
I was just browsing another newcomer’s thread and a member here @Felinia had offered this thorough summary which you may find helpful
The Learning Zone is a great repository of information which you can work through gradually.
Many members here have also found Maggie Davey’s letter to the newly diagnosed to be a helpful introduction to life with T2.
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I was just browsing another newcomer’s thread and a member here @Felinia had offered this thorough summary which you may find helpful
The Learning Zone is a great repository of information which you can work through gradually.
Many members here have also found Maggie Davey’s letter to the newly diagnosed to be a helpful introduction to life with T2.
Maggie Davey's letter to newly-diagnosed Type 2s
This disappeared from the original site, but @Alan S has managed to track it down. Rather than risk losing that link I'm posting the text here. I've had to split it over a few posts, as there is a size limit for each post and it wouldn't all fit in one! :) An open letter to the newly-diagnosed...
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