Jacqui Downie
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hi I am new to all this But I just had to share this as I am so chuffed with what I have achieved over the past 16 weeks. 24/07/15 the day before my 50th birthday I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, I am classic stones and stones over weight and my practice nurse told me I needed a kick up my a#*e to loss weight and that I should know better as I am a staff nurse! Seven months passed with me in denial then I was given an appointment to go to the step management programme for three weeks, the way the programme was delivered well everything fell into place and I was a changed woman from that first session. My HBa1c in March this year had climbed from 57 to 63 and I was to put it mildly gutted. I was back to see my practice nurse and she wanted to put me on Metformin. I said no can I have three months more as I had lost over twenty pounds at that point, she was not happy and said it was against her advise. She weighed me and and then said "could you not have done that two years ago". I was devastated I had felt for the few weeks since I had been at the step programme felt empowered and she just burst my bubble. I have in the past twelve weeks since my last HBa1c been on a very low carbohydrate diet, usually from 80g to 120g per day. I have now lost 45lbs feeling great and wearing clothes five sizes smaller. But the best bit I have kept for last, my HBa1c has dropped from 63 to 37 proving to me I can turn this around and control my diabetes with the life changes I have made, now I have to continue with my weight management and maintain my HBa1c.
Jacqui
Jacqui
