Think I’m making progress!

[Flakie]

Hi again. Well, I just thought I’d check in with what’s happened this week. Got my testing kit last Saturday and have been getting the hang of that. My morning levels are around 7 - 7.5 so if that’s comparable to my first test at the GP of 10.4 I reckon that’s a bit of progress? Still struggling with what to have for breakfast - made the mistake of giving in to a bowl of cornflakes the other day and where I started the day at 7.3 it was double that two hours later! Won’t make that mistake again! Have tried the Hovis low carb wholemeal bread - had a cheese, coleslaw and tomato sandwich at lunch and the reading only went up half a point so pleased with that. And it’s delicious too. Gave up on the Metformin- I admire anyone that persevere with it and puts up with the side effects but I just couldn’t. The term Revenge of Montezuma came to mind the other day! Now that it’s gone my blood pressure has gone down (was doing a week of ambulatory checks at home for the nurse). Feel so much better. Spoke to the doc for a routine med review and told him and he was fine about it and said there were lots of others to try so I speak to the nurse on Friday and she will suggest something else. Slowly learning what I can have and experimenting a bit and have lost nine pounds in the process, so that’s a good start. Funny, all,the years I really tried to lose weight and now I’m not it’s dropping off! Also found Tuc crackers are only about 3 grams of carbs so a couple of those with a bit of cheese keeps me going in the evening.

 

[stephknits]

Really great start Flakie. It's so useful isn't it, to be able to test and see how things affect you. Congratulations on your weight loss. 🙂

 

[Ljc]

That’s a great news. It may be possible providing you are happy with your new diet and your numbers are ok to be able to do without Diabetes meds at least for a while.
It’s a well known secret amongst us here that cutting down the carbs can help with weight loss

 

[Wirrallass]

@Flakie. Well done on your weight loss and for lowering your bgls ~ being able to finger test on a daily basis is of great help as opposed to 3 monthly HbA1c.
Take care & keep up the good work x

 

[Wirrallass]

Thanks for your update Flakie. If you can face bacon & eggs for breakfast your numbers shouldn't elevate too much ~ and as eggs are carb free you could have scrambled eggs; boiled eggs; poached eggs etc instead of ceŕeal. x

 

[Mark Parrott]

Well done, Flakie. I found losing weight really easy with low carbing. I seem to have settled at around 75kg, which i'm happy with.