Firstly, it's hilarious you all have south park characters as your avatars!
Secondly, great with the weight loss and reduction in BG's..
Thirdly.. few points for this one..
Your not following the herbalife as you should, as you've found the shakes are 'orrible. So your eating alot of veg and soup. To me this just sounds like a very low-carb diet?
Secondly to monitor if you are infact 'curing' your diabetes, shouldn't you be testing more? not just fasting tests either, the whole point of 'curing' your diabetes is that you are dieting to enable your pancreas to 'de-fatize' so it may process carbs like someone without diabetes could. but if your not testing after meals and during the day you can't fully be aware of how the diet is affecting you? other than obvious signs like your legs and eyesight problems improving.
In no way am i trying to undermine what your doing, as i believe it is each to their own, i'm just curious that's all and it seems your aren't quite following what your original post outlined. Although you are getting great results.
To me the bottom line of a 'cure' would be..
If this 600Kal diet worked, you would de-fat (i can't keep looking to spell that word which i'm sure was made up? lol) your pancreas. It would them be re-vamped and work perfectly fine. (i'm clearly not a scientist)
If you then have indeed cured your diabetes. you could then eat what the heck you wanted, mars bars, bags of crisps. Homer sized sandwiches. because if you can't, i'm sorry you do still have diabetes, because your body still cant process carbs like someone without diabetes can.
Which i haven't heard of ANYONE be able to do that. That's why i'm so dubious about the whole thing.
I am reading yours and patch's posts with interest as i'm not one to rule things out, it's just if something doesn't seem justified or logical then to me it seems a bit ball of pants unless proven scientifically.
You are DEFINATELY getting results, i can see that, and im pleased for you, its always great to see anyone progress and acheive what they set out to do.
I'm just really wondering if your are 'curing' your diabetes or following a glorified very low-carb diet which will give the notion your cured, yet when you scoff that mars bar, your back to square one?
i'm also putting the word cured into '' because i can't physically write it as i simply do not believe diabetes can be cured.
But of course, if you think you can do it, go for it!! lead the way. With your south park avatars. You cure your diabetes and i will happily re-voke all my questions, ponderings and doubts!!! Heck, you do it and i'll get a south park avatar!
Although i won't be on a conquest to cure my diabetes as my pancreas is completely written off! :wink: