BobbyT
07-23-2006, 05:54 AM
Hello Folks
My name is Bobby and I was just diagnosed 6-27 with diabetes. My GP is a decent guy but from reading this forum and other reasearch, he is lacking when it comes to diabetes. When my reading came back at 414, he went nuts, like he was po'ed at himself for not catching it sooner.(been seeing him for 8 yrs) Only thing he did was give me a prescription for Avandia and sent me home with a "cut back on your sugar".
This is where the huge thanks to you folks comes in. After some extensive readung here and some very helpful links I hope I have a good start on what I need to be doing. I cut out all bread, pasta, cookies, candy, most fruit, and most other stuff that is bad for us.
I try to get in about 45 minutes to an hour of weight training in the morning and then the wife and I walk 2 miles every day and sometimes twice a day. I can't be real precise on the weight loss because the last time my GP weighed me was in april and I was 281. This morning I tipped the scales at 215.
My next appointment will be 7-27 at which time I guess I'll get a meter and start testing so I can keep track of what's going on. I feel so much better than I did the week I was diagnosed and I feel I owe a lot of it to this forum for all the helpful info that's posted here. THANKS!!!:)
My name is Bobby and I was just diagnosed 6-27 with diabetes. My GP is a decent guy but from reading this forum and other reasearch, he is lacking when it comes to diabetes. When my reading came back at 414, he went nuts, like he was po'ed at himself for not catching it sooner.(been seeing him for 8 yrs) Only thing he did was give me a prescription for Avandia and sent me home with a "cut back on your sugar".
This is where the huge thanks to you folks comes in. After some extensive readung here and some very helpful links I hope I have a good start on what I need to be doing. I cut out all bread, pasta, cookies, candy, most fruit, and most other stuff that is bad for us.
I try to get in about 45 minutes to an hour of weight training in the morning and then the wife and I walk 2 miles every day and sometimes twice a day. I can't be real precise on the weight loss because the last time my GP weighed me was in april and I was 281. This morning I tipped the scales at 215.
My next appointment will be 7-27 at which time I guess I'll get a meter and start testing so I can keep track of what's going on. I feel so much better than I did the week I was diagnosed and I feel I owe a lot of it to this forum for all the helpful info that's posted here. THANKS!!!:)