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newly diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic
I am on a low carb diet (not a no carb diet) as I need to eat less carbs and sugars because of my diabetes diagnosis. My fasting blood sugar was 126, which is just the cut off to get the diagnosis of diabetes. My A1c was 6.7.. Neither extremely high but I am still diabetic. I recently had my eyes checked and my doctor did…
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Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes this past February.
I have been battling with my weight my whole life. I went through the era that encouraged us to eat low fat and high carb. Well, instead of losing weight with this advice I simply gained weight and the scale steadily went up. I questioned whether or not I was insulin resistant. I had not been to a doctor for a physical in…
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Sugar
I have been on one diet after another my whole life. I finally got to the point where I would not eat or skip meals to try and lose weight. I was very frustrated to say the least. I would ask seemingly, "naturally skinny people" what they would eat and more often than not their answer would be, "Why I eat all the time!"…