My Story

Putting my diabetes into remission over 15 years ago

Back in 2011, after a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, I switched to a lower carb way of eating - losing 2 1/2 stone to get to a size 10 waist and a normal BMI. I also put my diabetes into remission improving my health dramatically. 

My mother was diabetic, my grandmother was diabetic, my brother is diabetic and I had gestational diabetes when pregnant. It seemed inevitable I too would become diabetic. In 2011 I finally faced up to my creeping weight gain, tiredness and niggling health issues to get checked out and was not surprised to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It was still a shock.

My mother had a major heart attack when she was in her mid 50s, through un-diagnosed diabetes. I did not want the same thing to happen to me. I wanted to be around to see my kids grow up.

I started reading up on the science and latest thinking, adopting the lower carbohydrate diet which I believed was the best way to control my condition.

Within 3 months I had lost my excess weight, got my waist back and my 20 year old body shape re-emerged from the flab. I also reduced my long term blood sugar HbA1c metric from 7.9%/63 down to a normal 5.5%/37. And I was told by my GP that I was no longer officially diabetic. 

A decade and a half later I still have my waist, my diabetes remains in remission and I am metabolically healthy, demonstrating that the lower carb approach is a sustainable way of eating and living. Not just a 'diet' for a short period of time after which the weight and inches go back on.

I have learnt so much over the last few years and have become truly evangelical about how eating well can transform health. I now work as a Nutrition and Health Coach to help others lose weight and better manage, or put into remission, their diabetes.