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There is light out there

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Just a one off post really, but happy to answer specific questions about my remission, cure, whatever.

Its been 15 years since I was diagnosed with type 2.

Full bloods in today, and all good, I’ll be counting to 20 for a few more years.

Not apologising for that, it’s the drive that keeps me going.
(Yes, I do realise there are people that doesn't sit well with, but if any advice could helped to avoid it.....)

For those that remember, “Travellor”



For those that are new, there is always a light at the end of that tunnel.

Which is why I feel I need to post the upside.

Yes, there is actually an upside, believe it or not.

I’ll come back to that.



I was diagnosed 15 years ago with Type 2.



I was very fat.

Not overweight, I do mean fat.

Because I had a really bad lifestyle, and really bad eating habits.

No one made me do it, “lifestyle” meant I owned it.

Just me.

I gave me type 2.



So basically I lost weight.

And because I chose to put it on, I could decide to take it off.

I had amazing support from the NHS, their dietician, their gym, they gave me strips, they tested my bloods when I requested them, we worked as a team.

I wrapped it up with the Newcastle Diet, by the book, (sort of, Tesco shakes).

Five stone later I wasn’t type 2.

(not getting into word games here, if you don’t like “cured”, “remission”, feel free to scroll on)



Ok, I actually did look like Skeletor, and got the Big C question off a lot of people.

But from my experience, (and this post is purely my personal story) it seems there is a hysteresis loop.

I needed the last few pounds, (less than 14!) to drop the final blood count, but I’ve put enough on to look like the devil isn’t waiting to pull me through that door now.

But back why it was actually a good thing.

I was chronically obese.

My exercise was lifting a family pack of jam donuts.

Now I weight myself, the scales don’t do the “one at a time” thing.

Without that diagnosis, I’d have worked into a stroke or heart attack most likely.

So, I got a wake up call, and it gave me a life back.

In the spirit of “full transparency” or whatever the trendy phrase is now, I did leave this site previously, as it was getting hard to post without being confrontational, I’ve not doing that again, because I’m good about where I am.

But, it seems unfair to not share that with others, so, I’m happy to respond on this post, about specific questions, based solely on me alone.

(oh, as my previous moniker was Travellor, I can definitely say the world seems to live on rice, so obviously I still don’t do low carb!
Never have, never will, and it’s still a big world , but it’s getting smaller every day for me)
 
Nice to hear from you again!
I was marked as 'in remission' last year when the surgery told me off for taking 500mg of Metformin when I didn't need it and just stopped it. The next test was fine.
(And I had a load of rice this weekend in a Chinese restaurant.)
 
Weren't you also at 'the other place'?
 
Well done to you? It’s good to read a positive story . I am pre-diabetic and have high cholesterol which I’m finding hard to manage both. But I think losing weight is the key isn’t it

How do you manage with not doing low carb? I thought that was part of getting diabetes down ?
 
I was very fat.

Not overweight, I do mean fat.

Because I had a really bad lifestyle, and really bad eating habits.

No one made me do it, “lifestyle” meant I owned it.

Just me.

I gave me type 2.
This is refreshing to read. Like you, I'm perfectly aware of everything I did to get obese and diabetic. Unfortunately, there're a lot of grifters and charlatans out there, ready to push various narratives ('The Men Who Made Us Fat', govt. guidelines and Ancel Keys made us fat etc. etc.) to take away responsibility (as different from blame) form individuals, and to buffer their own particular position(s) and bank balances.

Congrats on your success! Turn around and squint, and you might see me in the distance. Be there soon 🙂
 
This is refreshing to read. Like you, I'm perfectly aware of everything I did to get obese and diabetic. Unfortunately, there're a lot of grifters and charlatans out there, ready to push various narratives ('The Men Who Made Us Fat', govt. guidelines and Ancel Keys made us fat etc. etc.) to take away responsibility (as different from blame) form individuals, and to buffer their own particular position(s) and bank balances.

Congrats on your success! Turn around and squint, and you might see me in the distance. Be there soon 🙂
The second you own it. you'll be up there. 🙂
 
Well done to you? It’s good to read a positive story . I am pre-diabetic and have high cholesterol which I’m finding hard to manage both. But I think losing weight is the key isn’t it

How do you manage with not doing low carb? I thought that was part of getting diabetes down ?
Nope.
I was a chunky monkey.
I put myself into type 2,
I researched it, at the time the Newcastle Diet was the only way the had some proven results.
So that was what I did, and to be honest, as I said, I travel, and the world revolves around carbs, so, to me, that's probably worse than diabetes taking over my life.
Just me though.
 
The second you own it. you'll be up there. 🙂
Not that simple. I've never not owned it. Even at 7-years-old (Back in the 70's), when I put myself on my first diet, I was aware that I was eating too much for my energy outgoings (Back then, everyone understood how weight/fat - gain/loss worked). The foods I ate were no different than those eaten by everyone surrounding me. I just clearly ate more of them. And any time I shifted that energy balance towards a deficit I reduced fat/weight.
 
Not that simple. I've never not owned it. Even at 7-years-old (Back in the 70's), when I put myself on my first diet, I was aware that I was eating too much for my energy outgoings (Back then, everyone understood how weight/fat - gain/loss worked). The foods I ate were no different than those eaten by everyone surrounding me. I just clearly ate more of them. And any time I shifted that energy balance towards a deficit I reduced fat/weight.
i was the same probably.
I found the Newcastle diet broke my relationship with food.
So, and purely for me, it was a hard reset.
I came back into food with a different relationship.
I switched sweet to savoury, I dumped junk food.
I still do beer and 'spoons, I still do McDonalds, but not as a goto.
 
I was exactly the same as - an absolute glutton. I didn't do the Newcastle diet, but lost a lot of weight using one based on low carb and have kept the weight off for three years and haven't gone back to eating junk food (Apart from the occasional Five Guys). I still do beer as well.
 
I was exactly the same as - an absolute glutton. I didn't do the Newcastle diet, but lost a lot of weight using one based on low carb and have kept the weight off for three years and haven't gone back to eating junk food (Apart from the occasional Five Guys). I still do beer as well.
Are you low carbing now?
I looked at my options, but I was driven by the fact the world turns on bread and rice, and I eat mostly street food when I travel, so low card was out of the window for me.
 
Are you low carbing now?
I looked at my options, but I was driven by the fact the world turns on bread and rice, and I eat mostly street food when I travel, so low card was out of the window for me.

I am still generally low carb, mainly as I kind of got used to it.
Although I did have bucketloads of potato last night for tea, and didn't restrict the carbs at the weekend in a Chinese restaurant, and on holiday last year before my last hba1c test I ate what I wanted. And two days before the hba1c I had a steak and chips. (The result was lower than the previous one.)

Basically, if I want to eat the carbs, I will, but most of the time I'm not bothered.

(And when I go out with my friends I drink beer and inhale bags of crisps.)
 
Welcome back!
 
Nope.
I was a chunky monkey.
I put myself into type 2,
I researched it, at the time the Newcastle Diet was the only way the had some proven results.
So that was what I did, and to be honest, as I said, I travel, and the world revolves around carbs, so, to me, that's probably worse than diabetes taking over my life.
Just me though.

Not sure if Newcastle Diet was only diet with proven results, but did tell my wife about it how weight loss, particularly losing visceral fat around organs as in ND can sometimes reverse diagnosis.

As she was prediabetic so opted for a less strict diet to lose weight & joined Slimming World, after around 15 months she lost 5 stone & all bloods since have been in normal range, last two being 36 & 34.

As saying goes There's more than one way to skin a cat.
 
Do you find this site better?If so,why?
Welcome to the forum @shaz 59
Would you like to go to the Newbies section and tell us a little more about yourself.
Ie what is your HBA1C and how you are managing your T2

You can also ask as many questions as you wish and members will be only to willing to offer some help and advise and discuss things through with you.

Alan 😉
 
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