I apologize in advance, this is pretty long and not well written
I just wanted to share something with those of you who may have been diagnosed with type 2 or know someone who is. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in January of 2017, I had gained a ton of weight, was eating terribly, drinking soda like it was water and just treating my body like crap. Anyway an A1C test measures your average blood sugar for the past 3 months, a normal non diabetic A1C is 5.7 and below, 5.7-6.5 is pre diabetic and then anything above that is considered type 2 diabetic. My A1C was 10 which means my average blood sugar was around 240, generally speaking you want it to be 100 or below.
So my Doctor at the time prescribed all kinds of medications and just said "watch the sugar" and that was it, he didn't have any real advice on life changes that would help, he just said that I'd need to take the medication for the rest of my life and it'd probably need to increase the doses over time.
Anyway the medications made me feel awful and I had to stop one of them right away because it was making my blood sugar drop into the 50's. After going through that I decided to look into some alternative treatments and I saw a ton of people talking about how the Keto diet worked for them so I figured I'd give it a try. Keto for those who don't know is a diet where you eat mostly healthy fat, some protein and keep the carbs really low, like 20 Net carbs per day. Now I'll be honest I probably eat more protein than a typical Keto diet recommends, it's probably more like a keto/atkins thing for me but whatever you want to call it it's working. My blood sugar normalized within a few days and within a month I was off all of the medication and my blood sugar was still normal.
When you are diabetic they recommend you check your blood sugar 3 times a day (at least I was told this) when you wake up, two hours after one of your meals and before bed. My blood sugar was never high after I started this way of eating and my next A1C which was taken 2 months later had already dropped down to 6, every three months I get it checked and it keeps going down, my last A1C was 4.8. I've lost over 160lbs (without any extra exercise) and all of my blood markers have either improved or stayed the same, I had slightly high triglycerides when I was first diagnosed (in the 155 range) but now they are at 55, HDL (good cholesterol) was low but it's now normal and LDL (Bad cholesterol) went down a bit as well but wasn't high to begin with. I've eaten more red meat, eggs, bacon, avocado, grass fed butter, chicken with the skin on it and vegetables in the past year and a half than I probably had in the previous 10 years lol but everything has improved.
All we are ever told is stay away from fat when sugar and carbs are the real problem, hell the ADA tells diabetics to eat things like fruit, pasta, rice and whole grain bread (it's really not any better for you than white bread) it's no wonder modern medicine hasn't made much progress in this area, they keep telling people to eat the things that are making them sick.
I no longer have to check my blood sugar, I've changed Doctors in the time I've been doing this and he says that I'm no longer considered diabetic because it's been over a year since I had an A1C that was in the diabetic range and I haven't been taking medication. I just thought I'd put this up in case anyone else here was going through something similar, it may be worth your time to give this a try, I can't say it'll work for you for sure but it has worked for a lot of people and it's worked for me.
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Almost forgot to mention I also do intermittent fasting, I only eat or take anything with calories in between 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. but the combo of keto and IF has really done a lot of good for me and I hope if anyone here gives it a try that it does the same for them as well.
I just wanted to share something with those of you who may have been diagnosed with type 2 or know someone who is. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in January of 2017, I had gained a ton of weight, was eating terribly, drinking soda like it was water and just treating my body like crap. Anyway an A1C test measures your average blood sugar for the past 3 months, a normal non diabetic A1C is 5.7 and below, 5.7-6.5 is pre diabetic and then anything above that is considered type 2 diabetic. My A1C was 10 which means my average blood sugar was around 240, generally speaking you want it to be 100 or below.
So my Doctor at the time prescribed all kinds of medications and just said "watch the sugar" and that was it, he didn't have any real advice on life changes that would help, he just said that I'd need to take the medication for the rest of my life and it'd probably need to increase the doses over time.
Anyway the medications made me feel awful and I had to stop one of them right away because it was making my blood sugar drop into the 50's. After going through that I decided to look into some alternative treatments and I saw a ton of people talking about how the Keto diet worked for them so I figured I'd give it a try. Keto for those who don't know is a diet where you eat mostly healthy fat, some protein and keep the carbs really low, like 20 Net carbs per day. Now I'll be honest I probably eat more protein than a typical Keto diet recommends, it's probably more like a keto/atkins thing for me but whatever you want to call it it's working. My blood sugar normalized within a few days and within a month I was off all of the medication and my blood sugar was still normal.
When you are diabetic they recommend you check your blood sugar 3 times a day (at least I was told this) when you wake up, two hours after one of your meals and before bed. My blood sugar was never high after I started this way of eating and my next A1C which was taken 2 months later had already dropped down to 6, every three months I get it checked and it keeps going down, my last A1C was 4.8. I've lost over 160lbs (without any extra exercise) and all of my blood markers have either improved or stayed the same, I had slightly high triglycerides when I was first diagnosed (in the 155 range) but now they are at 55, HDL (good cholesterol) was low but it's now normal and LDL (Bad cholesterol) went down a bit as well but wasn't high to begin with. I've eaten more red meat, eggs, bacon, avocado, grass fed butter, chicken with the skin on it and vegetables in the past year and a half than I probably had in the previous 10 years lol but everything has improved.
All we are ever told is stay away from fat when sugar and carbs are the real problem, hell the ADA tells diabetics to eat things like fruit, pasta, rice and whole grain bread (it's really not any better for you than white bread) it's no wonder modern medicine hasn't made much progress in this area, they keep telling people to eat the things that are making them sick.
I no longer have to check my blood sugar, I've changed Doctors in the time I've been doing this and he says that I'm no longer considered diabetic because it's been over a year since I had an A1C that was in the diabetic range and I haven't been taking medication. I just thought I'd put this up in case anyone else here was going through something similar, it may be worth your time to give this a try, I can't say it'll work for you for sure but it has worked for a lot of people and it's worked for me.
Edit:
Almost forgot to mention I also do intermittent fasting, I only eat or take anything with calories in between 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. but the combo of keto and IF has really done a lot of good for me and I hope if anyone here gives it a try that it does the same for them as well.
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