The Tonight Programme

barry1010 | 21:48 Thu 29th Apr 2021 | Body & Soul

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About sugar. I have cried all the way through it because I have been there and still struggle every day. Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes after a lifetime of diets and obesity. Lost 8 stone, reversed diabetes and fight constantly to keep the weight off. I feel that nobody around me really understands just how bloody hard it is and how frightened I am of putting the weight on - again. Over the years I've lost 4 stone, 5 stone, 6 stone... And put it on again.
I'm at the age where I really can't put that weight on again, for the sake of my own health and to keep up with my responsibilities.
I think the big problem is that I don't know anyone that has lost such a lot of weight and has kept it off. If you are that person I would love to hear from you for mutual support and understanding. Also advice on how to cope with the excess skin. I need to live with it, not chop it off.
Is there anyone out there like me?

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ummmm

I say mild as it was controlled by tablets and then by diet. So no medication whatsoever.

I don't mean to play it down but it was just a few lifestyle tweaks.

Diabetes in my family is age related. My mother has always had a healthy lifestyle, doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, exercises daily...but she's still diabetic, completely controlled by diet. The first thing she done was to give up sugar.

barry1010

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Thanks, Pixie, your friend has a great attitude. Sorry about your dad's amputation, though. I think it was watching Michael Mosley's tv programme about diabetes a few years that shook me in doing something about it.
This chap was in hospital and the doctor told him he was to have his foot amputated the next day due to diabetes and he just shrugged and said 'okay'. What else could he have done, really, but I didn't want that happening to me.

barry1010

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Thanks, ummmm. My brother is Type 1, he found out when he collapsed at work and went in to a coma in his early 30s.
There are no other diabetics in the family, my type 2 is purely due to being overweight although my mother and grandmother were both morbidly obese but never developed it. Luck of the draw, I suppose.

ummmm

Sadly it is luck. My sister is obese (I hate that word) and she's fighting fit.

Your diet sounds really healthy.

barry1010

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It is, ummm. The only thing I eat that comes out of a tin or packet is tinned tomatoes which I use in bolognese and things like that :)

jennyjoan

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ummmm

My diet is healthy as well. I'm so grateful that I dislike pastry, sausages, bacon and anything oily.

Did you know that fried eggs are actually really healthy? I watched it on one of those foodie programmes. Put them in hot oil and it forms a seal instantly so doesn't absorb the oil. Nice to know, I like eggs.

tamborine

My scleroderma son is 5stone now having lost 7stone in 3y. He lives by IVs for plasma & protein as his gut has failed & needs 24/7 nursing; presently he is trying to chew grated raw carrot. Be thankful for the health you have as things can change unexpectadly tomoro.

barry1010

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Ummm, fried are healthier than traditional scrambled because of the butter and milk or cream that is added to scrambled. I eat a lot of eggs, boiled for salads and poached in salt water to top my fish.

barry1010

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So sorry about your son, tambo.

tamborine

and his skin has tightened to leather & cant fist his hands, bend his arms or legs.

pastafreak

I thjnk I've read that diabetes costs the NHS billions due to complications and the toll it takes on the body in other ways.

I had a workmate who had been quite fit and active when she was younger. But no longer was, had a terrible diet due partly to her own very limited preferences and a problems with her gut that meant a lot of healthy foods were off the menu for her. She was a stress eater and ate total sugary rubbish. She had what should have been a wake up call when she was told she was pre diabetic. Her attitude was that she couldn't/wouldn't change her ways. During the time I knew her she only lost weight when her partner had to lose weight to get pregnant, and the partner was doing all the cooking.
I often wonder if she's got full blown diabetes now.

tamborine

His job was managing this island. He is in a white shirt driving the ferry.

https://youtu.be/vTX9ueyOzBY

pixie374

Thanks Barry x it did take her a few years to properly accept it. Please don't be put off by other people- you have and are managing it. It isn't easy, I know, but you can and you are.
Take care x