My name is Alessandro (Alex) – I’m italian and I live in Ireland.
I am 28 and since the age of 23 I have been diagnosed diabetes type 2.
At the time I was living in the Netherlands.
After some medical exams, I was prescribed a drug called Amaryl (generic name GLIMEPIRIDE) - I should have taken 3 tables a day (6mg per day). Also, i should have followed some kind of diet, I was told. I wasn’t given a real diet, just some generic guidelines which I can’t remember now.
My diet wasn’t that strict. Surely i quit with sugars, but I kept on eating everything else. I tried to eat wholemeal bread, and whole pasta. yet, i was very unbalanced and not moderated.
In 2005, an italian doctor got the idea that the medication might be non effective. I quit Amaryl to find out that my blood glicemic values were exactly the same. This means for years I’ve been taking a completely unuseful drug. However, i went on with my diet, trying to get as good as I could.
I was only eating wholegrain food, yet I was still unbalanced (I love eating), and most of all I was still purchasing those sweets advertised as “sugar free” or for diabetics. Also occasionally I was eating yogurts and very often cheeses, once a week or more I was eating takeaway indian food (did I mention I love eating?) and everyday a liter or two of aspartame-sweetened soft drinks.
This was not the worst diet ever for the average person, but for me it clearly wasn’t the “nirvana” diet, my glucose level were slightly off the mark.
5 years later, in December 2006, I purchased the magazine “Nexus” and found a letter from a guy who tried a new approach to his diet. This new approach was inspired by Mr. Thomas Smith (http://www.healingmatters.com/).
I found the content of the letter extremely interesting. Apparently, there was a way to cure diabetes type 2. It was just a matter of diet. Exercising, avoiding industrial processed food and fats seemed to be the key.
On December the 18th, 2006, I have started my new diet, and I am planning to stay on this diet possibly forever. In the meanwhile, I will often check my blood glucose levels and I will report them on this blog.
To know more about my diet, click on the link above.
also make sure to read this pdf
The Diabetes Deception – By Thomas Smith
also available online at:
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/DiabetesDeception.html
The following site, also by Thomas Smith, contains lots of information:
Love,
Alex
Hello Alex,
Tony Hall sent me your blog so I could see what was happening to you. I too was diagnosed with type 2 a few years a go, I read a letter from Tony in a diabetic magazine, got in touch with him and he put me in touch with Thomas. I bought Thomas’s book and learned about the processing of our foods by large companies. I eat as little processed foos as possible and have kept my BSL to between 5 and 5.5
for almost a year, (since I started the diet). I’m not sure I would say Diabetes can be cured because as soon as I stray from the strict regime of what I eat my BSL rises again. However I am very happy that I can control it.
I wish you well and urge you to stick to the non-processed diet as you are too young and complications can arise
if the BSL is not kept under control. I am old but still value myself enough to try and live as healthy as possible.
I am orginally from Ireland, but have lived in Australia for a long time.
Best Wishes
Betty
Best Wishes
Hi, I just read a few of your posts and after reading your about page, I’m scared. I don’t know if I have diabetes and frankly, I’m scared to get tested.
What I wanted to say was that it would be very helpful if along with the statistics and your medical results, you also post about living with diabetes. How does it interfear or does it in your daily life compared to what it used to be before you were diagnosed.
Hello
Thanks for your comment. From a lifestyle point of view, I must say that, although in the beginning I had problems dealing with my condition, after a while I accepted it and finally fought back. Now, I am much more healty than I was 6 years ago before being diagnosed. My life is more active, I am more attractive
andmy body feels great. So I would say you shouldn’t have fear and see the condition as an opportunity to improve your habits.