I found after I was diagnosed with type II, and did many things to modify my diet was that it was 100% necessary to have carbs to function. I have one of those high stress, 90% travel jobs where you work 14 hour days regularly while away from home for months at a time. I eat bad, drink way too much, don’t excercise enough, and though I wasn’t ridiculously overweight (210 at 6’1) I still needed to lose at least 30 pounds. I had an A1C of 13 (normal is below 5.7) which translates to an average blood sugar of almost 350 at all times, and my doctor basically said I could not eat anything at all that was white in color, no fruit, bread, carbs of any kind, ever basically may as well eat paste. I really do like food, and luckily am a very good cook and do enjoy cooking, once I got the “trendy” instant pot pressure cooker, all bets were off. I did try very hard at first to follow a very strict diet. I was rewarded with frequent hypoglycemia, and I was very lethargic, and over time started to trend anemic. The cure was worse than the disease. So I really started to intensely educate myself, and really learning about foods and body chemistry, and discovered over time that I could cook food that is as tasty or even better than what I ate before with simple common sense choices, to the point that I still eat all of my favorite foods, including carbs, and in the last two years my A1C dropped from 13 to 6.1 (almost normal) while enjoying everything I eat, and if I don’t get ridiculous, my blood sugar rarely goes above 140 no matter what I eat including the occasional ice cream or bear claw. Now if I can figure out how to cure hypertension.
I began to use the app, Headspace.
I can't recommend it enough.
And of course, some nice walking.
“Now if I can figure out how to cure hypertension.”
You’re already on your way. Not going to preach (nobody cares anyway). Keep doing what you’re doing, but look for my book announcement sometime in the next year. I bet you’ll be interested in my approach. You’ve already learned some of the hard lessons, but there’s much, much more.