Just Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes

i have type 2, although since may first i've lowered my fasting blood sugar down from 300 to 130 or under through diet and exercise, and lowered my after-walk blood sugar from about 240 to 99. walking rocks!

Great job!!! :happy:

Edited: No, not just great, but AWESOME! I bet you feel so much better now than with your numbers higher, really proud of you as I know it's not something that comes easy without dedication.

Welcome to MFP Chris:drinker: good to have you. You'll likely have the same type of change happen to you as did the poster above when you make life altering changes, it's amazing what getting healthy does for our mind & our body.

You might like to check out the groups section as there are likely T2 groups you might like to join in on.

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For the last 4 years I have tried to keep track of what works bringing down my sugar numbers and what hurts. WALKING WALKING WALKING is the best for bringing down your numbers. I have to make sure i watch my portion size. I now know before I go to the gym i have to check my blood sugar if it is low I have to run on the treadmill or lift weights these activities raise my sugar slightly walking will drop it. If I walk at a 120 blood sugar i will bottom out before i get home. I agree the low carb helps a bunch.

I was diagnosed with T2 a little over a week ago. I am doing fine during the day with keeping my BS in line, but my fasting BS in the am is always higher than what it is when I go to bed. Has anyone had this problem?

I was also diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. As far as your fasting blood/glucose levels being higher in the mornings, yes, I had that problem as well until I began to play around with my diet and the timing of my meals. In the evenings, I try to stay away from meals high in carbs and I have smaller portions. Protein is key; keep the protein serving size at the recommended 3 to 4 oz. I end each meal with a clementine, as it is just sweet enough to satisfy the desires for sugary stuff, yet with natural sugars which your body can handle in moderate quantities.

When it came to the timing, I began to make sure I ate at the same time each evening, within about thirty minutes. I also put at least three hours between bedtime and supper as well. I went from having fasting blood/glucose levels from between 128-140 to now, I range from 70 to 85. It works for me is all I am saying.

Diagnosed on September 11, 2012. A1C was 14.5, 370 reading. The doctor said, quite bluntly, that if I didn't make changes, I would die before I hit 50 years old.

Nearly two years later, my A1C is 4.9, averages between 75 and 90, and I've lost (to date) 113 pounds. Still a ways to go but I'm CLEARLY better.

I can say, with no hesitation, that getting T2 diabetes has actually been the best thing that could have ever happened to me, because it forced me to WAKE UP and start changing my life for the better. Kind of an unorthodox attitude, I know, but it's how I truly feel about it.

But it's hard when you're first diagnosed. I know. I felt like my world had crashed all around me.

Feel free to add me if you like. You'll get through this. Promise!

Type 2er here too--was diagnosed a few years ago, and yes I also have the "dawn effect" in the mornings.

I remember when I was first diagnosed...what a reality check! I would go as far as saying that I went through a few weeks of depression...wondering how did I let myself get so far out of control?? But like someone else stated above...it was a good thing it happened. Hard telling what condition my body would be in if I hadn't gotten the wake up call as well.

I'm managed to lose some weight and my numbers have stayed pretty good--now I'm really focusing on getting my carb count under control!! I love my carbs! :sad:

Goal: to get off of my Metformin completely!!

Good luck to you OP and feel free to add me if you'd like.

My doctor says I have pre diabetes, I've hit the elliptical, upped the fruit/veggies while cutting the carbs & fat. Next appointmenr in October. Hope to see a big improvement .

There is hope:flowerforyou:

I was diagnosed with Type 2 May 11,2012 ....A1C 6.9%....Glucose was 108:sad:
I joined MFP June 7, 2012
I was taken off Metformin (as well as 2 Rx for HTN & 2 for chol/trig) on Sept 13,2013:bigsmile:
In June 2014...A1C 5.3% ... Glucose 86

I AM a walker, everyday, for at least an hour (tracked via Runkeeper, Fitbit Flex & Garmin Vivofit)
My starting BMI 44%...Current BMI 22%

I was a type 2 in April last year and now I am a pre diabetic. Lost 25 pounds and have 45 more to go. Eating better and exercise. Not easy but doable.

Read up on low-carb diets. Atkins, South Beach...while you may not follow those diets exactly, knowing about them can help you make better food choices.

You absolutely must exercise though. The primary problem in type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance in your muscles.

Normally insulin signals muscles to uptake sugar from the blood. Type 2 happens when you've been putting so much sugar into your blood via your diet, and your muscles have been getting the 'insulin! uptake sugar!" signal for so long, that your muscles have basically said "enough of this noise!" and down-regulated their insulin receptors.

The only way to get your muscles to up-regulate those receptors is to exercise and work off their stored glycogen repeatedly, so that they actually "want" to respond to the insulin again.

Then you have to hope that you succeed in this before your pancreas burns out from secreting too much insulin for a prolonged period, at which point the diabetes becomes irreversible and you wind up on insulin because your pancreas can no longer produce it.

(gross oversimplification but good enough for dieter use).