{"id":195731,"date":"2010-01-18T18:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47751-new-to-forum-diabetes.html"},"modified":"2010-01-18T18:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:55:55","slug":"new-to-forum-and-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/195731","title":{"rendered":"New to Forum and Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Was diagnosed with type 2 in July of 2009. My A1c at time of diagnosis was 6.7 and after 3 months it was 6.1! We had already stopped using white sugar and white flour the previous year as part of treatment of DH&#8217;s cancer treatment but it wasn&#8217;t enough to head off diabetes. I am using a Freestyle lite meter and am taking 500 mg of Metformin twice a day. Still having a hard time giving up carbs but am really trying to use more complex carbs and trying to make time to walk daily. Still trying to figure out what works and why. I am halfway through my first goal of losing 50 pounds and will set a new goal when I get there.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was diagnosed with type 2 in July of 2009. My A1c at time of diagnosis was 6.7 and after 3 months it was 6.1! We had already stopped using white sugar and white flour the previous year as part of treatment of DH&#8217;s cancer treatment but it wasn&#8217;t enough to head off diabetes. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195731","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\/3423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}