Starting the Newcastle Diet...

[MrsWooster]

Started yesterday after breakfast at 105.2kg. I've got a hba1c test today to track it.
So far so Good! Im using exante products as meal replacement and the almond vanilla shake was ok- quite marzipan y. The veg stir fry mixed with the laksa soup mix would have been OK if I'd added a LOT more garlic, chili and ginger. This morning's cherry berry shake was properly nasty- like thick old skool cough mixture. Live and learn.
Any hot tips, companions, advice are welcome.
Wish me luck.

93.5kg
Clearly the diet gods love a sinner. Apart from too many mixed seeds and nuts replacing the lost beloved peanut butter, things have been pretty on target. So I bought another bar of chocolate.

Keep going Mrs W you are doing great and keep posting! You will feel the benefits as you progress.

92.9kg
Excellent . Despite biscuits etc, and too few veg, my total calorie intake has been down. Also have such a disgusting cold that I have coughed up / blown out at least two litres of snot, so that helps.

Hmm
I have taken my eye off the ball: i started this to get rid of my diabetes, which it has, then have become focused on the weight loss. This means I have been rather cavalierly scoffing sugar, provided that the calories stay low enough to keep the weight down. After two days of biscuits and best part of a box of Quality Street, my morning blood sugars have been rotten. I only just started retesting. To mis quote my nephew Bertie, I never knew I had an unconcious but I suppose I must have had one all along without knowing.

What are your blood sugars now?

Last few days were 113, 114 ish and this morning was 144. The running average, according to the machine, not a proper hba1c, is still ok but it's been a useful shot across the bows.

Had to look that up as I measure in mmols! Are you in the uk? Under 140 is not dangerous. I have an hba1c test this week. Hoping for a good result as I tend to sway between 80-100. Just got to get the weight down now the sugars are under control.

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And the blood sugar was still up, at 145. A touch of the old denial has crept in: just a Nairns biscuit; they don't count... just a few revels... just a custard doughnut... my mistaken freedom had gone to my head.. only last week, I told someone that my devastating and uncontrolled craving for sugar
sweet tooth had more or less gone and I rewarded my achievement by a choc bar, or several, more or less within my calorie limits. While the weight is in its average zone, my blood sugars are fucked and my craving and habitual behaviours have come roaring back out of the crypt like a vampire at a blood donors convention.
I have done this and I can do it again. It is in my control.

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I have a slight theory about the sugar levels: They can rise after exercise, due to lack of insulin to deal with the glucose dumped as a response to the muscles' needs. My tests have been after I walked the hound so it COULD be that... Had I remembered to test this morning before I went for a walk, this might be a good theory.

I find mine are really affected by lack of water/hydration. Hence the early morning highs. (wee'd all my liquid out by the morning) I exercise for an hour each day and find they can be lower at the end, but hey- everyone is different; but then again, I don't have a prob with blood sugar anymore - the Newcastle diet worked for me! Just trying to work on reducing the weight now :-)

Hmm, interesting. I am absolutely parched in the mornings so that may well be a factor too. I will try and test before the walk tomorrow and see if that is different and then try to drink more in the night despite the fact I will be weeing all night because I am old... and test again. Practically a scientific experiment! I hope it is ok because i was only testing for a bit of quiet self congratulation as I thought I had cracked it. Fingers crossed.

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veeeeery interesting blood sugar readings though: 116 (i only use these readings because that's what the new meter came with!)on waking, before I took the dog out, and 152 immediately after getting back. It was only 20 minutes of fairly slow walking , with plenty of standing still and whistling as the hound hared off with a rogue collie. AND I was absolutely parched when I woke up.

I think I might actually mention this to a doc / diabetes nurse as somewhere in my head I am sure there is two types of type two! : Insulin resistant and lacking insulin production but I may be wrong.

I am also very thirsty in the mornings. Generally I lose about 4lbs overnight. ( yes, I can be very obsessive, weighing just before I go to bed!) So a lot of that is wee, and also the vapour lost through respiration. I go swimming every morning at 6, and test before and after ( I have a freestyle libre, so constantly monitored) This morning was 5.1 on waking, then 5.3 when I got back, 10 mins after swim) I only needed to lose 4 stones to kick the BS in check. I still have another 6-7 stones to lose :-(

After about 9/10 oclock in the morning my level drops to 4-4.5 and stays there all day, unless I eat something then it goes to 6/7 for an hour or two. Weirdly, if I have an odd piece of protein, say a chunk of cheese or slice of ham, my bs goes right down, to 3-3.5 .

Your progress is amazing. Love your use of "only" for a loss of four stone!

Ha ha! yes 'only' doesn't do the job justice. I thought it would take a much bigger loss to reverse the diabetes. Trouble is, I now have to tell myself the job isn't finished yet. At 6-7 stones still to lose I can't stop now, for the sake of my general health although subconciously I do, I think. I can't rest on my laurels, I am still seriously overweight.

95.4kg
Huge blow out yesterday, out for Sunday lunch. Despite no tea, there's no compensating for a bazillion calories. I've been a bit slack all round, so time to focus on the long game.

95.5kg
I'm being a tit. I had a clarity of mind, seeing the worth of health outweighing the instant pleasure of a biscuit or extra bowl of cereal, but i cant seem to retrieve it.

94.8kg
Calories not too bad but made up almost entirely of cake and biscuits. Am comfort eating with a vengeance.

997.7kg
this is silly.
I think it might be time to get back on the shake shake boogie and reboot myself up the arse the programme.

that is actually 95.7kg; I haven't turned into Godzilla yet

My HBa1c finally came back. 41!!! At it's worst, it was 115 (horror)

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or something; I can't remember as I am too pissed off with the whole shebang. My BS was also 13s0omething this morning, which is more worrying. That was before exercise too, so no excuse there.
Yesterday was pretty legit, calorie-wise, on the surface but a/ a bit carby and b/ two jammy dodgers and a fair handful of mixed seeds before teatime. I need to get my head round the fact that I have no leeway on this. I sort of had, but have lost it again - back to the 'poor me' mindset, wherein its not FAIR that I can't have a treat(s), everyone else can have a biscuit... Yep, not fair. Suck it up and appreciate the payoff that at least I can / will be increasingly able to fit into 'normal size clothes and my innards are not slowly grinding to a deadly halt in a blizzard of glucose.

Nnice one buxton. That is well in the not-diabetic zone. No blizzard of glucose for your innards either!!

Yea, but i had my nor,al hba1c post test treat of a sugar binge. Chocolate, ice cream etc etc :-0
So yesterday there was a complete blizzard. Shot up to 15.2 at one point! oops!