On the verge of giving up
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 9:58 am
Hi everyone. I am new here so hopfully I am doing things right. I am in a mess at the moment re my diabetes and am on the verge of giving up.
I have been a type 2 diabetic for over 10 years. I have lost weight and have for many years followed a mainly vegetarian type diet. I mostly avoided oil and eggs. I have lost a good amount of weight with a BMI of 25. I’m 6’2” and weight just a fraction under 14 stones (196lb). I do not take insulin.
Please can anyone advise me. At the moment the whole diabetes situation is getting me down. My morning figures are between 8 and 9 mmol (144 – 162 mg/dl). I have tried having a snack at night and tried not eating after 6 or 8 pm. Nothing works to get my morning figures down. Obviously, anything I then eat throughout the day is elevated.
The second problem is that I tried eating some of the whole food plant based recipes and sticking to them rigidly for a couple of weeks. For example, oats feature in many recipes but they send my blood glucose up by about 5 or 6 mmol. After about 2 hours they very slowly come down. My body is obviously not processing them. I love bread but just one piece of good quality wholewheat sourdough (and any other type of bread) plays havoc with my blood sugars. A number of recipes on the McDougall sites and other use wholewheat flour! Rice sends my blood sugar high and yet again rice features quite a lot in the recipes. If I ate all these things for say 2 months, will my body adapt? Will my blood glucose levels come down after these eating the things mentioned, especially my morning figures?
I took a test to see if I was producing enough insulin and apparently, I am. So, it’s just a case that I am insulin resistant.
Please forgive me for my many questions but I genuinely am at my wits end and on the verge of doing and eating what I want. While I am happy for the people I read about on McDougall’s and others websites it just seems that it’s only me struggling. I reasonably sure that this is not the case.
I am also confused when it comes to what figures should be after 1 and 2 hours
Your help is much appreciated and thank you in advance. I happy to share more info about my situation if you need it.
I have been a type 2 diabetic for over 10 years. I have lost weight and have for many years followed a mainly vegetarian type diet. I mostly avoided oil and eggs. I have lost a good amount of weight with a BMI of 25. I’m 6’2” and weight just a fraction under 14 stones (196lb). I do not take insulin.
Please can anyone advise me. At the moment the whole diabetes situation is getting me down. My morning figures are between 8 and 9 mmol (144 – 162 mg/dl). I have tried having a snack at night and tried not eating after 6 or 8 pm. Nothing works to get my morning figures down. Obviously, anything I then eat throughout the day is elevated.
The second problem is that I tried eating some of the whole food plant based recipes and sticking to them rigidly for a couple of weeks. For example, oats feature in many recipes but they send my blood glucose up by about 5 or 6 mmol. After about 2 hours they very slowly come down. My body is obviously not processing them. I love bread but just one piece of good quality wholewheat sourdough (and any other type of bread) plays havoc with my blood sugars. A number of recipes on the McDougall sites and other use wholewheat flour! Rice sends my blood sugar high and yet again rice features quite a lot in the recipes. If I ate all these things for say 2 months, will my body adapt? Will my blood glucose levels come down after these eating the things mentioned, especially my morning figures?
I took a test to see if I was producing enough insulin and apparently, I am. So, it’s just a case that I am insulin resistant.
Please forgive me for my many questions but I genuinely am at my wits end and on the verge of doing and eating what I want. While I am happy for the people I read about on McDougall’s and others websites it just seems that it’s only me struggling. I reasonably sure that this is not the case.
I am also confused when it comes to what figures should be after 1 and 2 hours
Your help is much appreciated and thank you in advance. I happy to share more info about my situation if you need it.