We are gathering stories of type 2 diabetes remission with fasting stories for a petition to the ADA to publicise that fasting is a reasonable and 100% natural treatment.
We're looking to hear from people who have used therapeutic fasting to help manage their health conditions - and the benefits people have seen. If you have used fasting and have reduced your weight, medication dependency or anything else - please share your story for others to see.
If you could share before and after details on weight, and medication that would be ideal - and optionally a before/after photo if you also have one!
Thank you!
I started on a very low-carb / zero processed food & drink / zero added sugar / moderate fat and protein diet on 1Feb ‘19, just after the diabetes diagnosis - tallying a good continuous 7 weeks by now. I mainly eat twice daily that includes a very light breakfast and a small-ish dinner, with about 12 hours in between meals. I eat mixed nuts for snack when hungry in the daytime. The calorie in-take would be low .... but I don’t know how to measure it scientifically. While not sure if mine can be considered fasting, I’d like to tell my story .... an interesting on I think. I walk up- down- hill for at least 1 hour daily which is little change than before.
About the meals -
1. Breakfast : 1 avocado, 1 - 1.5 piece pre-sliced Kraft cheddar cheese, 1 - 2 boiled eggs, 1 medium sized bitter melon, 1 glass of Veges/carrot juice with ginger.
2. Dinner : Mainly cooked green vegetables, some lean red - white meat and / or fish (like salmon) ; occasionally adding tofu & meatballs. Very little refined carb of about 4 tablespoons of rice or a tiny bit of noodle / pasta.
3. Snack : Mainly mixed nuts max quantity is a handful.
And the result (blood test results taken 3.5 weeks after new diet) is :
1. Weight loss - ~ 7 kg, now @ ~ 73 kg; lost 5 kg after ~4 weeks; my height is 5’ 10”. I even fit back into trousers bought some 15 years ago (50 y.o. then) now with a reduced waist-line.
2. Blood pressure is now overall very normal, but @ early morning it is marginal for probably 2-3 hours I think; btw, my blood pressure had been bugging me for at least 15 years prior.
3. Cholesterols - all normal now except non-HDL is 0.3 mmol too high (doctor not unhappy) - they had been bugging me for a long time (~ 10 years) .... always a little too high.
4. Some liver enzymes - GGT, Bilirubin are now within the normal ranges Vs a little too high before for ~ 10 years. ALT had been a little out-of-range twice in 10 years and fortunately it is now very normal.
5. Blood glucose - still early days .... anyway doctor and diabetes educator are happy with it. A re-test of A1c in 7 weeks’ should be more indicative of progress, I think.
6. Energy level - more energetic compared to 2018 .... I don’t fall asleep during daytime now.
I’d suggest that :
For those with or without diabetes who want to lose some weight especially around the belly, improve their a little out-of-range liver enzymes, they could consider switching to a diet of very low-carb with no processed food & drinks, no added sugar, no alcohol.
My wishes :
1. I hope I’m doing the right thing switching to my new diet plan. (Comments from participants will be very welcomed. I’m not getting any professional advice from doctor or nutritionist.)
2. I really really wish the gov’ts around the world, the doctors, nutritionists, other health carers put more efforts immediately to genuinely improving health of the general public by changing the current dietary recommendations of low-fat and seemingly no-limit-carb represented by that ‘killer’ food pyramid. Change to something else that works urgently.
And btw, I’d say that ‘food pyramid’ is the cause of the syndrome-X / obesity / diabetes epidemic that’s hurting ‘00 of millions of us today.