Hi all,
I just want to let you know about my experience with keto and type 2 diabetes.
I have been type 2 diabetic for around four years. Initially I took Metformin. Later, as Metformin wasn’t cutting it, I started on Jardiance which made me pee like a race horse.
Eventually it turned out to not be enough, and I started Victoza. But to no avail: my blood sugar levels would still skyrocket, and I woke up 3-4 times every night because I had to pee.
Naturally my energy levels were sun zero and I was headed for disaster. As a last attemot to keep my blood sugar levels down, I started doing Tresiba which is insulin.
That was sort of it for me: I was a full-blown diabetic. I hated my life, my body, and I hated the fact that I had let it come to that.
Then, one day, I stumbled upon keto. I tried it without any real faith that it would work for me. I’d made half-ass atempts before that didn’t work, so naturally I didn’t believe I’d succeed this time either. But I figured I’d give it a week, which I did.
The keto flu hit me like a ton of bricks:
Nausea, headaches, sugar cravings etc.
Despite the nausea, I still ate my fatty, protein-rich foods, and the headaches I killed with Aspirins.
The sugar cravings I’d feared the most, because I used to have such a sweet tooth.
I felt the cravings eat at me, but I indulged in my only guilty please: whip cream with artificial sweeteners. Yum! Well, the first two spoonfuls were yum, the following ones not so much.
There is a natural limit to how much sweetened cream I can eat regardless of sugar cravings. It made the sugar cracings go away by the way.
A week into keto the cravings had subsided, I was finally free of my addiction to sugar, and it all went relatively easier than I had expected.
But the most important thing:
It showed on my blood sugar levels. They were down by I don’t know how much.
Soon I stopped insulin and Victoza, and now - 11 week into keto - I’ve stopped taking medication all together, and my blood work is absolutely beautiful. My blood sugar level is stable, it’s low, and everything is as it was before I was even pre-diabetic.
I’m a happy puppy!
