Basics: The importance of a routine

Treating T2 diabetes isn't easy. It requires information, research, planning, monitoring, adjusting, and sacrifice. There is no one size fits all. You have to take into account your objectives, your body, the advancement of the disease, your personality, etc. Making a plan that works for you is a big job in itself.

For these re

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Day to day: another day in my food

As it's summer and it's hot (we often hover in the upper 30sC), we eat mostly salads at the moment. But it doesn't have to be boring, there are a lot of combinations you can use.

First, breakfast and the traditional eggs.

During the morning I took my blood pressure and it was 117/81. Pretty decent given that I had high blo

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First year of diabetes retrospective

I wrote this post to start a new Reddit community on reversing diabetes. I grew tired of the other communities where the credo is that diabetes is forever, that it can't be reversed, and that it can only get worse. This isn't supported by recent research, isn't my experience, and shouldn't be imposed on faith.

Just over a year ago

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Progress: 1 year anniversary

This is the first year anniversary of my diabetes diagnosis. To celebrate, I had a quarterly blood test done this morning.

The results are in: fasting sugar 86mg/dl, HbA1c 5.4% (down from 5.44% the last time). So, everything is still good, post-diabetes is sticking as expected.

Below is a graph of all my data over the last year: daily average

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Day to day: rice

The one thing that I'm still not entirely happy eating is rice. Pasta, wheat, and everything else doesn't spike me much anymore. But rice keeps my blood sugar high for a long time.

For example, the other night I ate a big bowl of rice and vegetables with breaded "chicken" (wheat since I'm vegetarian). So a nasty combination of rice and wheat in several forms. Before I

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Day to day: a day in my food

Another day of my food with associated numbers.

For breakfast, like most days, 2 eggs and a coffee. I miss my eggs when I change my menu.

I took my blood pressure in the morning and got 114/81. Fairly good. It goes up a bit with stress.

Then for lunch, I had avocado and (cold) pasta salad. Since I've reintroduced pasta in my diet, I have it sometimes. But always in reasonable

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Tips: sucralose is evil

When I looked at artificial sweeteners, I had earmarked sucralose as the worst of the bunch. It had been linked to increase in glucose levels, increase in insulin levels, and an 18% increase in insulin resistance. So I ruled it out as a usable sweetener.

I can now confirm that it is in fact evil. A few days ago, my blood sugar stopped making sense. After months of being low and predictable, it su

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Basics: motivation

I see a lot of people saying they can't find the motivation to make the efforts fighting their diabetes would require.

I think part of it is that the consequences of diabetes are often disconnected from the disease, both in effect and in time. It's for example not entirely obvious that a headache is due to high blood glucose. Or that the destruction of the pancreas' Beta cells is due to diet 20 years ear

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Day to day: a day in my food

One of the things we used to eat before I was diagnosed was bread and cheese for dinner about once a week. Very simple: slices of bread with melted cheese on top. My wife adds barbecue sauce, but I'm not that keen on it.

First, breakfast, which is often eggs and coffee.

At lunch time, we had a huge cucumber, courgette, tomato, avocado, cheese, and fried onion salad to avoid getti

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