Welcome Joey! I'm glad you are here!

Thank you
I will. Its nice to meet people who are in the same place I am. I am going to do this
I just need people to talk to.

Hey I'm new to the group and new diagnosed type 2 diabetic. Im currently trying to lose 150+ pounds .

OMG... if I had known this was here a year ago...

diagnosed as t2d on aug 22 2013 a1c 8.3% blood sugar almost 500 at the er.
latest blood work showed vast improvements! a1c 4.7% off all meds, using diet and exercise to control it.

Hi Everyone!
My name is Nannez and I started out with gestational diabetes in 1987. I became full fledge insulin dependent in 1995. I am married and have 3 wonderful daughters. I live in Kentucky. I struggle constantly with controlling my diabetes. My weight is terrible and I'm always forgetting to take my meds. I know that sounds crazy...how can someone forget to take their insulin...but somehow I manage that quite often. I take 1000 mg of Metformin, Crestor, Plavix and 60 units of Novolog x2 daily. I've recently started working from home and that has helped me to be a little better about taking my meds. I also have trouble monitoring my blood sugars....getting better though. Got a FitBit recently and am trying to eat better, and exercise more. But getting in those steps when you literally go from bedroom to downstairs to work is a bit difficult. My daughter is helping by walking in the evenings with me, so hopefully I'll stick with this and see a big difference in my A1C by my next doctor's visit in 6 months. Latest A1C was 7.3. Looking forward to being a part of this group. Love the encouraging words I've read in previous post.

I am hoping to gain some motivation and support from this group. I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes in Oct/Nov. I tracked my sugars daily for a while and was frustrated that diet changes seemed to have no effect. In January, I was at an up all night event with my girls scout troops. I did everything possibly wrong diet wise., from soda, to Auntie Ann's pretzels, to ice cream at 5am in the morning. To my surprise my blood sugars were the lowest I ever recorded. A frustrating meeting with dietician offered no explanations. I basically gave up. I hate to admit I have not checked my sugars since January. Yesterday I weighed myself and I am at my all time highest weight. I know I must make some changes in my life again. Two years ago I lost 40 rather quickly on MFP. Adding to this is a very busy schedule, requiring eating out a lot, and a food allergy that this common almost all foods. So my fall back is pastas (usually whole wheat), not the best for carbs. I have, not followed up with any doctor visits and other than my husband and one coworker I have not disclosed my diagnosis to family and friends. My family has a bad history with diabetes.

Greetings from the world of D2 in South Dakota. I've been a diabetic since 1998, and pretty much controlled by Janumet; amaryl and the occassional units of humalog.....but today after much begging, I get to start Lantus. A little scared, a little excited to be more controlled....and even more so to drop one pill from my assorted pill boxes.

I am married for 36 years to a wonderful newly diagnosed T2, also.....he is a chef/retired/ man-about-the=house guy. We have two grown sons, Chris and Mike, and Chris' wife Bethaney who is a nurse at a children's traumatic brain injury hospital. They are great kids....just don't make it home enough. We also have a wonderful beagle boy, Casie who is 6 and the joy of my life. We are in the process of finding him a baby bro ---- so if you have hound puppies, let me know:flowerforyou:

I love scrap booking, making cards, having coffee with friends, and knitting. I love music of all kinds (except rap), love to dance in the rain.....and right now feel like I am writing information to get a date, but no thank you.

I'm not a big fan of South Dakota, even tho' I was born and raised here. I long for a life in the mountains with nothing but sky, eagles and hawks to watch. Soon I hope.


Can't wait to get to know you all better. Stay safe and well.:smooched:

Hi. Recently diagnosed with T2, 16 hr fasting BG 313, A1C of 11.4. About 4 weeks into my diagnosis now, but looking back on symptoms, I've been symptomatic for more than a year. Currently on what was described as a max dose for Metformin, the extended release variety, along with a small dose of glyburide with my 'breakfast' (which is currently lunch; not waking up until 1030 makes lunch breakfast, or something like that).

Since that diagnosis, I've been following the recommendation from my dr, which has included basically eliminating as much sugars from my diet as possible (I went from 2L+ a day of soda, for example, to none - the caffeine withdrawal was awesome - second time in my life decaffeinating) along with massive reduction in carbs... currently around 15%. Been doing this for four weeks now - it sucks, but every time I'm tempted I just remind myself that I'll die if I break the diet.

Lead a pretty sedentary lifestyle... computers, from the time I wake up (email on phone, emergencies on laptop), to the time I get into the office, and then even once I get home. My favorite non-work activity is reading - but basically, fiction only. Primarily sci fi or fantasy, but do branch out into other areas. Well, fiction only or stuff related to computers, I guess. I'll read to enhance my knowledge or skillset.

As prescribed by my dr, currently walking a minimum of 30 minutes a day. Been fun rearranging things to make that work, but again, I tell myself if I don't, I die. (Side note: I oftentimes joke that I am a literal rules processing engine, and that I do that so I don't need to occupy headspace - calculate the rule, impute the rule, follow the rule. Therefore, both things listed above as 'I tell myself' have been imputed as absolute rules. I'm weird like that.)

I started weight tracking and activity tracking as an offshoot of this, the driver behind that being the dr's either assigned or implied need to lose weight. I think I'm down about 14lbs so far, some of which has to be water / liquid.

It's a little frustrating that no 2 services that I can use to try and track 'exercise' can agree on what the burn is. Strava's numbers always seem high, though, and just to be sure, I end up disregarding whatever they say. It's not like 30 (well, lately more like 40-45, as I've finally got some consistent courses worked out) minutes of walking will make that big of a difference anyways. Still not consistently reaching 10k steps, for example - those 30-40 minutes of walking are only 5-6k steps, depending on the activity tracker.

I'm back in to see the dr for a follow up in a week and a half, to see how the numbers are coming along. Was referred to a diabetes education thing, where I'll also get to talk to a RD about more specifics for meals, but that's not for another 2-3 weeks yet. Really looking forward to that, because one of my imputed rules from the dr is 'no fruit'. Well, it was actually given something like 'maybe a slice of an apple or a part of a banana, taken with a regular meal, maybe 1-2 times a week'. Since that rule is too complicated to be easily followed, it got boiled down to 'no fruit'. Especially since I'm at least somewhat allergic to bananas. I understand why the dr said what they said - trying to get BG under control as fast as possible, because it was so far out of whack.

Anyways, I've rambled on quite a bit here, but hello. I'm very not good at the whole 'social' thing. In fact, I have a very strong inherent distrust of all things social media, which is why it's taken me 3 weeks (since I started using MFP) to actually write a post. And another 30 minutes or so deciding if I actually want to click 'post reply'. In fact, this could very well be my only post, and if you're reading it... it means I did end up deciding to hit 'post reply' after all. Hnn.

Hello everyone-

I am a recently diagnosed T2 (April 2014). My father had T2 and lost both of his feet due to complications and went years before being diagnosed. Deep down inside I knew this was coming for me but living in denial seemed like a better fix than making changes.

I was diagnosed after my retirement discharge physical from the military. A1c was 7.0 and fasting glucose was 132- not as dire as compared to some but enough to turn my life around and make the changes I should've made years ago. My three month blood work follow up was: A1c 6.3 and fasting glucose 94 and 22lbs lost so I'm heading in the right direction and would like to lose an additional 30 more pounds. The medication I'm on is 500mg of Metformin twice a day. I bicycle 5 days a week for about an hour each day.

I have metabolic syndrome which terrifies me the most. My LDL is actually fantastic but my HDL is low (although raised since last labs) and my triglycerides were high (coming down slowly).

It has been an emotional struggle balancing a good diet while balancing the concerns for diabetes and cholesterol management.

Anyways, thanks for letting me go on and on. It gets lonely in the real world being a diabetic so it's nice to find a support group.