Carbs, percentages, fats oh my!
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msnewbootie
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Hello Everyone! True newb to diabetes. Just diagnosed less than seven days. Well told I'm at the ceiling of prediabetic to type 2 diabetic, with a1c of 6.9
Sooooo....I AM CONFIDENT I CAN BEAT THIS aka reduce my numbers by losing weight, Exercising more, and eating healthy. Yet...diabetes is a new world for me and I could use some help. Any tips on how to set my macros to balance my diet in favor of one with diabetes. I've read 40-40-20, but then I also came across others. Am I thinking too hard by focusing on macros???
Please help! Thanks in advance
Sooooo....I AM CONFIDENT I CAN BEAT THIS aka reduce my numbers by losing weight, Exercising more, and eating healthy. Yet...diabetes is a new world for me and I could use some help. Any tips on how to set my macros to balance my diet in favor of one with diabetes. I've read 40-40-20, but then I also came across others. Am I thinking too hard by focusing on macros???
Please help! Thanks in advance
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I found that the lower carbs were the trick for me. Some people seem to respond well to weight loss. The best you can do it be wise with your choices and figure out what works for you.
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Thanks 2t9nty0
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msnewbootie wrote: »Thanks 2t9nty
I am confident you can do it. I went from a normal fasting glucose number to one in the 300's just from one annual checkup to the next. My A1C at diagnosis was 12.8. I did not get the prediabetic warning.
I found it was helpful to me to check glucose to see how I was responding to things. I was on metformin and not responding very well UNTIL I started reducing carbs and being really strict with what I was eating. By really strict I mean weigh/measure and log everything. I told my nurse I was going to get off meds, and she said no one ever did. They just added new ones as the disease progressed.
18 months later, my doctor was taking me off metformin. My A1C has been in the 5's ever since.5
