Diabetics on South Beach Diet #2

Cetaganda · Tue Aug 10, 2004 6:11 pm

Hi everyone on the beach!

I have diabetes type 2. I am posting this topic on all of the subforums to find out if there is enough interest in having a subforum for Diabetics on South Beach. Otherwise, we might ask our administrator for a subforum for health related problems/issues. What do you think? Feel free to respond to this post or send me a PM (private message ... button at the bottom of this post).

Thanks! :D

TwinMom · Tue Aug 10, 2004 6:56 pm

Hi, new here. Definately interested in diabetic topics. I am border line diabetic. I have PCOS a female problem which made it difficult to get pregenant. Dr. put me on Metformin and it helped my infertility (lowered the inslin in my body)...too well I have 4 mo. old twin boys now. I have been on SBD for 6 days now and not sure if I need to continue taking the Met....I would love to talk to more people who are type II and their experiences with this diet.

thanks.

SJGolden · Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:25 pm

I was also starting to have trouble with my sugar.

I have always been low blood sugar not realizing it eventually turns into type 2. Usually I would have trouble around my TOM time.

I have been on this for 6.5 weeks now and feel great.

No problem with high's and lows.

I wish I knew that my body was telling me years ago this was my problem. I used to go off carbs for a bit here and there and never realized why all of a sudden I wasn't hungry. Never put the issue of blood sugar as the reason I could go from one day not hungry to the next day not stopping.

If everyone only understood what I have learned here we wouldn't have an obesity problem arising.

I know a lot of people who have been on weight watchers and lost weight. It may be good for some people but even with weight watchers counting points does not help you determine that cravings are sugar/insulin related. I personally have noticed and will continue to watch what foods work for me and what foods do not.

I could not care less about living life using a point system. There is something to be said about food allergies that exist. Weight watchers does not look at that issue and maybe that is the biggist problem.

I refuse to let anyone tell me to eat only a half a cup of this or 3 ozs of that. I refuse to use a scale to weigh my food. Eating shouldn't be so much of a burden.

...ok thanks for letting me rant......did I go off topic that much.

:?

Dariad254 · Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:18 pm

Hi
I am interested as well. I recently got my blood work back and while everything was headed in the right direction... my blood sugar and glycohemiblobin was NOT. My doc has given me another 2 months to get this under control and if i dont i go on meds or insulin. I really dont want to do that so this is a big incentive for me. So any help i can find i will take
thanks!!

OldGreyBob · Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:01 am

Dariad254 wrote: My doc has given me another 2 months to get this under control and if i dont i go on meds or insulin.
My Physician gave me 6 weeks! I am already taking Synthroid for the results of treatment for atypical Graves and I do not want/need to take another meds. If I can control the diabetis with diet, I will!

Cetaganda · Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:01 am

TwinMom wrote: Hi, new here. Definately interested in diabetic topics. Dr. put me on Metformin and it helped my infertility (lowered the inslin in my body)...too well I have 4 mo. old twin boys now.

I have been on SBD for 6 days now and not sure if I need to continue taking the Met....I would love to talk to more people who are type II and their experiences with this diet.

Hey TwinMom,

Welcome to the South Beach Diet. I am also a newbie ... am doing the best that I can to follow the guidelines for phase II. I probably won't do phase I. Are you doing phase I or phase II? Congratulations for making it through 6 days. If you are doing phase I, then things are going to get easier for you in about a week ... phase I seems too restrictive to me so I have so far not committed to doing it. Some diabetics are not able to do phase I because they become hypoglycemic without the good carbs in phase II.

It is *wonderful* to hear that you were able to have babies after having PCOS. How fortunate and doubly blessed you are to have twins!

When do you see your doctor next? Are you measuring your blood glucose levels? I think that you should not stop taking Metformin until your doctor says to do so.

Our situations are different ... I am definitely diabetic, though long in denial about it. Even with measurements that indicate that my diabetes is under control, there is room for improvement, according to my doctor.

When I was diagnosed about a year and a half ago with diabetes, my doctor told me to start measuring my blood glucose levels, to go to diabetes education classes, to see a dietician, and to lose weight because I am 100 pounds heavier than I should be. And my doctor recommended the South Beach Diet to me.

Well, I went right out and bought the SDB book and the One Touch Ultra meter and put them aside, unread and unused. And I did little until very recently other than take Avandia once a day (couldn't tolerate Glucophage /metformin) and seeing the doctor every 6 weeks and getting blood drawn every 3 months.

I now know more about what happens to diabetics who do not take very good care of themselves. And I am finally taking this disease seriously.

I read Dr Agatston's book, South Beach Diet, a couple of times. And I bought the SDB cookbook and the Good Fats, Good Carbs book. Then I threw out about 90% of the refined foods (lots of pasta, pancake syrup, Costco sized pancake mix, etc.) and foods with trans fats. I am about to give away the rest of the food (6 cans of creamed corn, brownie mix, pasta mixes, etc.), because I just hate to throw away food.

I am taking things one day at a time on the SDB, learning from the Internet, the SDB books, and from others in this forum. I am following the phase II guidelines, getting better at it day by day. This is so very important for both my health and my husband's health, as well as our future.

One very significant change I have made is to prepare almost all of our meals at home (we used to eat out most meals, like a lot of people these days). I am grateful to Burdle for her "bean thread", which contains many recipes for legumes (beans and lentils). Her Greek Beans (also called Pizza Beans) are very nutritious and delicious and are low on the Glycemic Index (and part of phase I).

I look forward to getting to know the other diabetics and pre-diabetics and border line diabetics in this forum. We can learn from each other's experience with diabetes and the South Beach Diet.

lilac · Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:31 am

twinmom I soo envy you. DH and I have been trying for a year and no luck yet, and I'm reluctant to go on fertility drugs.

I have PCOS with insulin resistance (pre-diabetes), I tried metformin but couldn't tolerate it, I'm hoping to try the metformin XR once it becomes available here, I've heard from other cysters that the side effects are not as severe.

marilyn

Cetaganda · Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:04 pm

Hello everyone,

Thanks for joining us here. We now have several diabetics on the SBD threads running in this new health and medical issues forum. That must be very confusing for everyone. Also, I think that it would be better for us to all get together in one thread.

So, I created a new thread called "Diabetics on the Beach" in the Health and Medical Issues subforum.

Won't you please join us there? Let's all move to the new thread. Again, it is called "Diabetics on the Beach".

Looking forward to getting to know you all and to learn from each of your experiences.

Thanks! :D

TwinMom · Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:23 pm

lilac wrote: twinmom I soo envy you. DH and I have been trying for a year and no luck yet, and I'm reluctant to go on fertility drugs.

I have PCOS with insulin resistance (pre-diabetes), I tried metformin but couldn't tolerate it, I'm hoping to try the metformin XR once it becomes available here, I've heard from other cysters that the side effects are not as severe.

marilyn

Lilac,

I hope you get this message. Just an FYI to you. I tried the Met a year before I got pregnant and I could not tollerate the side effects....however once I started it again...well I was only on it for a month and a half (tollerating the side effects) and I got preg....Try it again who knows....Also I honestly think there could be some connection between SBD and fertility.... if the diet does for me what the drug did then possibly...who knows!! Good luck to you!!!

Cetaganda · Sat Aug 14, 2004 3:54 pm

Good morning Twinmom, SJGordon, and OldGreyBob,

There were too many Diabetics on South Beach threads ... so I started a new thread called DIABETICS ON THE BEACH.

Some of us on this thread have already gone there ... please join us soon.

Thanks!


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