The start
I am about to embark on a journey I'm not looking forward to. I can see the destination in my mind's eye, and it looks inviting, but the route to get there I perceive as being so horrible I have put off doing it for many years. Today, however, I have been given the a great big boot up the backside; set off down this road or the place where you currently are will get murkier and much less pleasant. So let's go.
I'm 53 and, since my late teens, I have been overweight. Never hugely overweight but just enough for me to have to dress carefully, if you know what I mean.
My life has been unremarkable. I got married aged 29 then had two children who are now just on the point of leaving home. In that time my weight has only shifted in one direction; not rapidly, but steadily upwards. I have thought about dieting in the past and occasionally (only twice that I can recall) I have managed to lose a few pounds. But then I relax, the weight comes back, plus the inevitable extra few pounds, and I convince myself that this is where I belong and ignore it, as far as I can.
Today however I got the phone call I had been half expecting for years - my blood tests show I have moved into the officially diabetic range.
It has been picked up early. I am only just over the threshold between "pre-diabetic" and "diabetic" so the nurse I spoke to was happy to monitor me as I try to correct this with diet changes. Let's see how we get on.
What I have learned so far...
I'm 53 and, since my late teens, I have been overweight. Never hugely overweight but just enough for me to have to dress carefully, if you know what I mean.
My life has been unremarkable. I got married aged 29 then had two children who are now just on the point of leaving home. In that time my weight has only shifted in one direction; not rapidly, but steadily upwards. I have thought about dieting in the past and occasionally (only twice that I can recall) I have managed to lose a few pounds. But then I relax, the weight comes back, plus the inevitable extra few pounds, and I convince myself that this is where I belong and ignore it, as far as I can.
Today however I got the phone call I had been half expecting for years - my blood tests show I have moved into the officially diabetic range.
It has been picked up early. I am only just over the threshold between "pre-diabetic" and "diabetic" so the nurse I spoke to was happy to monitor me as I try to correct this with diet changes. Let's see how we get on.
What I have learned so far...
- · Carbs bad, but don't go full keto
- · Sugar bad, unless you're hypoglycaemic
- · Veg and protein good
- · Below 42 mmol/mol is normal, 42-47 mmol/mol is prediabetic, mine is only 50 mmol/mol
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