Lurch
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hi. Just discovered I am T2 (on top of existing gout) after a routine NHS blood check that I nearly didn't attend. At sixty, 97 kilos, stuffed with cookies and sitting all day, I can't be too surprised now I've read about diabetes. Since the DX I've lurked here every day and followed links to Jenny Ruhl's site among others. Reading like a dervish.
Started daily exercise (yet again) and bought an SD Codefree and been self-testing for about a week. Threw out the kitchen contents and starting from scratch.
Head's swimming with questions but following Jenny Ruhl's low carb advice. Challenge will be to balance gout foods (moderate, low purines) with a diabetes diet. Meter's saying NO to almost any carbs to keep under 9 let alone 7.7: no wholemeal bread or brown rice and just a few flakes of AllBran accepted. Daily intake around 80g which I think is something called 'ketogenic'? Haven't yet figured what to eat to balance this in fat and protein and lose weight at the same time. Need to do loads more diet research I know.
First meet with very nice DN was advised to cut out sugars and otherwise eat a normal healthy diet with exercise. Told no need to meter and no mention of medication. Guess it's a gentle lead-in. Liked the sound of eating a normal diet but my meter says No, so seems I'm swimming against official guidelines within two weeks of learning I have a serious disease. Weird feeling. Still, have lost 3 of the 97 kilos in 12 days of terrified lifestyle change so that's a start.
This seems the right place to be.
Started daily exercise (yet again) and bought an SD Codefree and been self-testing for about a week. Threw out the kitchen contents and starting from scratch.
Head's swimming with questions but following Jenny Ruhl's low carb advice. Challenge will be to balance gout foods (moderate, low purines) with a diabetes diet. Meter's saying NO to almost any carbs to keep under 9 let alone 7.7: no wholemeal bread or brown rice and just a few flakes of AllBran accepted. Daily intake around 80g which I think is something called 'ketogenic'? Haven't yet figured what to eat to balance this in fat and protein and lose weight at the same time. Need to do loads more diet research I know.
First meet with very nice DN was advised to cut out sugars and otherwise eat a normal healthy diet with exercise. Told no need to meter and no mention of medication. Guess it's a gentle lead-in. Liked the sound of eating a normal diet but my meter says No, so seems I'm swimming against official guidelines within two weeks of learning I have a serious disease. Weird feeling. Still, have lost 3 of the 97 kilos in 12 days of terrified lifestyle change so that's a start.
This seems the right place to be.
