@SlyFox I am colder than a corpse in a morgue lol. A cuppa warns me up.
Most of the time I am eating what I ate before but cut right back on the carbs( didn't eat much anyway for the passed few years) . I've found it pretty easy to stick to about 850 Cals most of the time , a little meat and loads of veg.
When you say you have 'other problems' would you mind explaining what they are and what to look for .
Thankyou
Curt answer, yes lots
Long answer; (yes I talk too much but figure more info is more helpful)
Remember this is 'my problem', and may not necessarily be yours, but is here to inform both yourself and a wider audience. My wish is merely to forewarn of a potential problem should you go down the CR route.
I was forced down that route by circumstance and had I known this all before hand would probably have done it anyway.
Being cold all of the time is a minor inconvenience to the out of control hba1c I had at the time, as I had no other way of getting it under control. Why that came about is a long story, but it is done now. The equation in my head at the time was CR = low HBA1C and probable good health, high HBA1c = probable loss of sight, feet, legs, kidneys.... Go figure. That was a very dark time for me.
The fact of the case here is that just after I started loosing weight on 'my' newcastle diet, I started getting cold, where I was formerly hot all the time. That cold has not changed Since ~ June 2014. There was a permanent switch from hot all the time, to cold all of the time ~ 10 days into the ND. this effect was published in teh daily mail article when that reported tried it for himself.
In all likelihood I have damaged my metabolism in a subtle and permanent way. Either due to CR, or it was a little damaged anyway but pushed over the edge by CR.
The cold intolerance is probably an effect of a misfiring metabolism rooted in the Thyroid / Pituitary / Adrenal glands. My suspicions are that I now have a reverse T3 issue. The NHS will not test me for this.
What we are talking about here is the most mind bogglingly complicated system of chemical control outside of the brain. I have been learning about it for 2 years and reading everything that was written on the subject I mostly read scholarly articles (
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) and try and understand them, and I think I now know what my problem always was and what caused my diabetes to hit me when I turned 49. However, I cannot undo what I did, and there is probably no fixing it, only understanding it and dealing with it.
My GP used to think I was wrong (barking mad actually), but, after a 2 hour talk with him two weeks ago he now agrees that I may be right, and is at last, open to helping out to research this privately at least. The NHS won't help me do this, period and official. It will support the treatment of my diabetes but wont help me find out what is really wrong!
I shall tell everyone here what I finally find out. One day.
Perhaps of further interest to you all, there are over 400 medically recognised symptoms of thyroid problems. I have suffered at some time many of them. I have a spreadsheet listing them all. There are more for women than men. Thyroid is a major component of the metabolism, and the metabolism is the major fault line of diabetes. They are intimately bound up in a chemical hormone dance. Insulin is one of those hormones. BTW: I collect sort rationalise and analyse data for a living, which helps a bit.
To answer your question in bullet points, some of the problems I have (and still have) had that may be a factor;
- I have suffered urticaria all my life in one form or another.(Immune system)
- My immune response is drastic to insect bites. (Immune system)
- I have shorter that average legs (Linked to diabetes,and cardio vascular problems via the caerphilly study)
- I have shortened 5th metacarpal (Pinkie) (which is linked to insulin resistance type A, and hereditary pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism)
- I have acquired a low libido (linked to thyroid problems)
- I have lichen sclerosis (since 1984) (self diagnosed, but linked to thyroid problems)
- I have a terrible stress response. (Adrenaline and cortisol get significantly perturbed (yet to prove this))
- I am cold all the time. (Linked to Thyroid problems)
- I have trouble sleeping, either too little or too much. I wake at 3 am bright as a button or 10 am like death warmed up, or cannot shut down to get to sleep. (Linked to Thyroid/Adrenal problems)
- Both my sisters have age onset hypothyroidism, and all my nephews have the same blood sugar control problems I did at their age. (Probably makes it hereditary then)
- My heart rate will sometimes bounce from 80 bpm to 130 just by standing up, or getting into a car as high as 180. (linked to stress response, adrenaline)
- I suffered for years from IBS (linked to Thyroid, but 'cured' by going through the newcastle diet!).
- I have GERD all the time now (Linked to hormone imbalance, may be stress induced).
- I used to suffer acute and chronic migraine, now cured by dietary liquid magnesium therapy. Magnesium is a big layer in the hormone system. They come back if I stop the LM therapy.
I only take medication for my GERD. It got really bad in January.
I no longer take Metformin because it triggers IBS after a week. (There is another story here)
I suspect that this was caused by two instances of glandular fever when I was 8 & 11. Six months after the second time I suffered my first 'false hypo'.
All of these metabolic calamities (lol) upset my glucose control for 40+ years before I became diabetic, and still do, and the 10- 20 self tests with my new JAZZ meter that I do a day show it clearly. I have the dawn effect on my glucose levels expressed every day in numbers.
The newcastle diet is not a 'free' cure but it helped me a lot. I think I may have been lucky. You might be as well. So that is why I say learn what you can, but please talk to the professionals before making that choice. Show them this if you need to.
Based on what I know (and haven't the space to tell) is that my personal recommendation is to stay above 1200 Kcal / day and make sure your vitamins and minerals are good or more, keep your protein levels UP. Then wait it out.
Here's some last thoughts for you. I was 96 Kg at Jan 2014, by July 2014 I was 73 Kg. I am still around that (73.8 Kg) this am but sometimes consume 2500-3000 Kcal a day for days on end (I sit down for a living) and my weight sometimes goes down when I do that! Something is not right about that. My metabolism is very strange and almost unpredictable.
Whatever you do,
Good luck and be well.