Please could someone tell me what you are meant to eat for breakfast and dinner on the Newcastle diet? I looked at various shakes but they were all either loaded with carbohydrates or sugar. Does just greatly restricting calorie intake work as well as the suggested shakes?
I'd like to do it but think I would struggle to know what to eat. I am intrigued though. I have lost a fair bit of weight since diagnosis which allowed me to come off all meds including insulin, but I know I still have belly fat to get rid of. Maybe this would be the final push I need as although my levels are now very normal, if I relax my diet, they rise again.
I have used meal replacement and also reduced amounts of normal foods. First instance did Total food replacement using Lipotrim. That brought BG levels into non-diabetic range, even though I still had a lot of weight to lose. Next used foods such as mushrooms, boiled egg for breakfast, homemade veg soup for lunch, homemade veg curry for dinner, small amount of low fat protein each day, e.g. fish or chicken. Currently using Shake that Weight VLCD products. These are low carb meal replacements, with a good variety such as porridge, soups, shakes and muesli bars. They were recommended to me by forum member
@paulins, and I am very grateful to her, because they are working very well. With these you can have a low calorie meal as well as the products but still keep to less than 800 calories a day.
Hope this helps.