{"id":145296,"date":"2010-01-06T12:53:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47300-my-intro.html"},"modified":"2010-01-06T12:53:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:53:30","slug":"my-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/145296","title":{"rendered":"My Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi everyone! My name is Melissa and I&#8217;m a middle school teacher in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>I was diagnosed as a Type 2 on December 1st. I had suspected for a while that something was going on. I currently weigh 266 (after losing 60 pounds) and was having some tingling in my feet and toes. I hadn&#8217;t seen a doctor in 20 years (severe phobia) but screwed up my courage and went.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been taking metformin for a month now (500mg in the morning and 500mg with my evening meal) and I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m seeing any results. I&#8217;ve been eating fewer carbs than I had been and avoiding white potatoes, bread and pasta).<\/p>\n<p>My 2hour after eating bg levels are under 140 where my doctor said they should be, but my morning fasting number is consistently in the 130s. It doesn&#8217;t matter what I eat the night before. I could have xmas dinner or a salad, it&#8217;s 135 in the morning. My doctor wants that down to 100. I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m doing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I look forward to participating here. I&#8217;ve already learned so much from reading the posts.<\/p>\n<p>\nMelissa<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone! My name is Melissa and I&#8217;m a middle school teacher in Texas. I was diagnosed as a Type 2 on December 1st. I had suspected for a while that something was going on. I currently weigh 266 (after losing 60 pounds) and was having some tingling in my feet and toes. I hadn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}