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I had my first talk with the diabetes specialist after finding out last week I'm t2, and it was an absolute treat to talk to someone at the doctors who had set aside more than just a few minutes. We spoke for nearly 30mins and have a follow up in a month where we will check bloods and go over a bunch of other stuff that needs to be covered.
All of the posts and articles I've been reading here have been a great help as everything I have read and found out matches with what I was told and I got confirmation the changes I've been making were all in the right direction.
Everything we spoke about for me eventually came back round to food and making good choices as the drugs will only do so much, better food and exercise choices will make a bigger impact alongside the drugs.
MUCH Lower carbs for every meal. Better fats. Lower salt etc.
One of the points we spoke about was diet burnout and how giving up the bad food completely would be bad for me personally because I'll eventually overload on junk or give up on the diet.
On that note I do have a couple of questions, because I know it will happen to me eventually... If you folks who are eating a low carb diet do go a bit/WAY overboard at one or more meals or maybe on a snack and get through loads of biscuits or crisps or chips or sweets or whatever is your kryptonite how do you deal with it during your other meals that day or the next?
Do you reduce or remove your carbs for the final meal, what sort of food would you eat if you are looking for a very low (virtually) zero carb meal. Do you throw in an extra run/walk or a workout. A combination of both and other stuff.
Blood. HbA1c
2019, 40 mmol
2022, 82 mmol (this is why I was called in and retested multiple times in the last few weeks)
I had my first talk with the diabetes specialist after finding out last week I'm t2, and it was an absolute treat to talk to someone at the doctors who had set aside more than just a few minutes. We spoke for nearly 30mins and have a follow up in a month where we will check bloods and go over a bunch of other stuff that needs to be covered.
All of the posts and articles I've been reading here have been a great help as everything I have read and found out matches with what I was told and I got confirmation the changes I've been making were all in the right direction.
Everything we spoke about for me eventually came back round to food and making good choices as the drugs will only do so much, better food and exercise choices will make a bigger impact alongside the drugs.
MUCH Lower carbs for every meal. Better fats. Lower salt etc.
One of the points we spoke about was diet burnout and how giving up the bad food completely would be bad for me personally because I'll eventually overload on junk or give up on the diet.
On that note I do have a couple of questions, because I know it will happen to me eventually... If you folks who are eating a low carb diet do go a bit/WAY overboard at one or more meals or maybe on a snack and get through loads of biscuits or crisps or chips or sweets or whatever is your kryptonite how do you deal with it during your other meals that day or the next?
Do you reduce or remove your carbs for the final meal, what sort of food would you eat if you are looking for a very low (virtually) zero carb meal. Do you throw in an extra run/walk or a workout. A combination of both and other stuff.
Blood. HbA1c
2019, 40 mmol
2022, 82 mmol (this is why I was called in and retested multiple times in the last few weeks)
