Mark
Six years with type 2 · now off all medication
HbA1c, mmol/mol
Mark had been living with type 2 for six years when he got in touch. He’d tried calorie counting, he had a high-pressure job that left him exhausted most of the time, and he was fed up of every diabetes appointment ending with another prescription. He told me that in business meetings he’d spend half his time worrying about what he was going to eat and what it would do to his blood sugar.
Rather than another calorie target, we dealt with what was actually driving it for him. Over a few months his HbA1c came down from 94 to 39 and he lost three stone eight pounds along the way. He’s off all his medication now and has more energy for his work than he’s had in years.
When he went back to his diabetic nurse she was dumbfounded, and almost brushed it off, because in her experience people with type 2 don’t just get better like that.