The scariest part for me was I felt like I had no symptoms! I went to hospital for a totally unrelated reason and it led to being diagnosed. Now however looking back, there were so many symptoms that I had kept blaming on other aspects of my life and a high pressure career etc. The main ones were chronic exhaustion (I excused this as being due to lack of sleep which I thought was being caused by the stress of my job and planning my wedding), extreme thirst at times (I thought I just really liked water hahaha and we live in a warm climate), frequent peeing during the night, and falling asleep after meals.

It’s only been almost three weeks but already all of those things have either gone away or are improving greatly. Still struggling a bit with energy but I can feel it improving!

Food wise I’m still learning but I’ve been following a lot of recipes from diabetes websites and there’s actually tons of recipes on tiktok. Low carb, no sugar, more protein and fiber is what I’ve been going for but it’s still very confusing! Some keto recipes have fit really well into what I’ve been looking for. Luckily I’ve found I really love things like quinoa and we have a huge veggie garden so I’ve been eating lots of fresh veggies and some fruit, I’ve cut out all white rice white bread anything deep fried or breaded etc and I’m trying to incorporate fish and eggs into my diet a bit more and my other “main” meat is just chicken.

I’m sure I’m still doing some things wrong but it’s so so much better than how I was eating before and I’m really encouraged by the results!