Type2 diabetes

Pudsey Bear

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I've had it for a while, but it has gone haywire since we went to France.

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for meals. I have looked online, but they all seem unappetizing, so unlikely to work for me.

Any suggestions welcome.
 
i’ve had it 23 years once you get stabilized you can usually eat & drink normally , took a long while to get statins etc all balanced eventually once i was given slow release metformin that really helped , although my medication has been unchanged for about 20years they recently prescribed blood thinners because i’m 75 they sent my figures haywire for a week or so but all settled down now
 
Carnivorous diet and few carbohydrates, a lot of research on this subject with large trials.
Worthy of anyone's time to research for themselves
 
Eriba said:
Carnivorous diet and few carbohydrates, a lot of research on this subject with large trials.
Worthy of anyone's time to research for themselves
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That isn't actually very helpful, if you do a search, you get so many different opinions, Diabetics UK for instance, disagrees with the NHS.

But that isn't what I was looking for anyway, the net suggests all kinds of meals for type 2ers, but I was hoping to get more genuine meals rather than a list of ingredients.

Last night Liz made a dessert out of crème fraiche and allowed fruit, it was lovely, but due to my prostate, I got up FIVE times for a pee.
 
Tw@

the weight is dropping off me anyway, mostly muscle mass due to the hormone therapy.
 
Be afraid, be VERY afraid, or I might do just that.
 
Off for a keto bloodtest tomorrow.

Just checked and my sugar is in the normal range (glad some of me is) 7.1 mmol/mol (was 87 mmol/mol) 20/6/25 so dropping carbs has done wonders
 
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GMLS said:
Have a look at the Keto diet.Worked for me.
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Surely if you put yourself on a high fat diet, you're going to gain weight and get fatter.
 
Jenny is type 2.
We both went on a course, 15 years ago, to look at the low carb diet and how to live with it.
She normally has a protein rich breakfast, with minimal carbs.
Lunch is no protein, minimal carbs.
A mid- afternoon snack of rice cake, philly and chopped herbs, maintains balance.
When she's stable, we can now take some liberties.
So if constipated, ( Metformin), we can swap to a Weetabix, prunes, Greek Yogurt and fruit breakfast for a short while, cutting back on carbs , throughout the day. Then back to normal when the blood tests improve.
The local Medics say she has pretty good control on Hb1ac.
Hope this is helpful.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I've had it for a while, but it has gone haywire since we went to France.

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for meals. I have looked online, but they all seem unappetizing, so unlikely to work for me.

Any suggestions welcome.
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Start each meal with salad (eat salad before eating anything else*) and try to avoid bread as much as possible.

*And, no, I have no idea why it helps, but wearing a CGM for a couple of months told me that it does - for me.
 
Best of luck Jeff. I assume a biopsy first, interesting procedure, nowt to bother about usually.
 
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