Remember, excess blood sugar comes from carbohydrates you can’t burn off in an hour or two and can’t get your insulin to pump into triglycerides to ultimately be destined for fat cells. Cut your carb intake and you don’t have to burn them off or have them floating around, corroding your vessels and organs.
You don’t even have to lose weight to make this work. Just stop eating so many carbs, please.
I’m dealing with this as a new issue with my in-laws, and watching them go downhill for no real reason, is frustrating, but eating entire cakes in a day and passing out for an ambulance, while not eating any protein or healthy fats, is just ruining their health—and these people raised my wife to eat much healthier than they now choose to do. One just got a diabetic sore without realizing they finally had driven over the edge being effectively diabetic. They have the money to eat better, but it’s not as fun, apparently, and one has grown to believe that any fat and any meat is unhealthy!
Vitamins and supplements can’t counter the amount of bad we can do to ourselves from our diet, sadly.
I have taken a novel approach to diabetes.
I do nothing to control it, and eat as much candy and carbs as I can.
I figure, I’m getting my body USED to high blood sugar levels.
American diet habits had their own Fauci, one Ancel Keys, who through misinformation and dishonesty (anything new here?) forced the FDA to recommend a high carbohydrate/low fat diet that is now responsible for the obesity and diabetes epidemic.
There are numerous excellent books on the subject and as a starter I recommend Gary Taube’s “Why We Get Fat”.
Been on a very low carb diet for a couple of weeks
No more night sweats
You can still have carbs as long as you exercise daily. Exercise for T2 diabetics is most beneficial AFTER dinner, as this will help mitigate the blood sugar spike that can stick with you throughout the sleeping hours.
My A1C was up a bit I was given Metformin
Type 2 here. 53 yo male. Need to lose about 40# fat and gain about 10# muscle. A work in progress. Biggest advice I can offer is to just get out and walk. I’ve been amazed at how even just a 20 minute walk can help. Docs got me on Trulicity and it seems to be working really well. Would like to hear what others here are experiencing.
Spot on!
I got a blood glucose meter and have been testing myself frequently during the day before and after meals to see how my body reacted to various foods. When I ate low-carb my blood sugar was very stable and within safe limits. When I ate lot of carbs my blood sugar skyrocketed.
You don’t have to avoid tasty meals on low carb. Eggs bacon beef are all fun to eat. And for dessert a cup of low-carb hi fat keto yogurt mixed with some berries and dark chocolate is pretty dang tasty and does not affect your blood sugar levels hardly at all.
I feel so much better on low carb, And now with the results of the blood Metering I know why.
I was diagnosed with diabetes last year, but I don’t think it’s going to be any problem at all on a low-carb diet.
On a high does of high blood pressure meds for 38 years. My doctor says it’s just part of me, there’s nothing I can do about it, he called it idiopathic. Went on a low carb diet. I lost 37 pounds and stopped the BP meds. I have been taking my blood pressure readings three times a day just to make sure the readings are normal. My blood pressure has been normal to low for the past nine weeks - average 118/71.5.
I’m amazed and a little pissed that I didn’t figure it out along time ago. My arthritis pain is gone. Most amazingly, once I have adapted I no longer have cravings for sugar or grains. In the past my cravings were off the charts leading to years of weight loss then weight gain - yo-yo land. If somebody would’ve told me I would have a lack of cravings after weight loss I don’t know if I would’ve believed it.
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