I didn't say that! What I can say from personal experience is that after 3 to 4 years of no bread/rice/potato/past which meant I was consuming less than 40gms carb a day, confirmed by weighing everything I ate and put it into Weight By Date software to get the amount of carb along with calories, cholesterol, fat etc, my BG started to go all over the place, backed up by an HbA1c of 68 mmol/mol.
I would be very very very surprised if meat or eggs spike your BG, with a carb count of zero percent.
It isn't just carb that converts to glucose. This link will make interesting reading
http://journal.diabetes.org/diabetesspectrum/00v13n3/pg132.htm
Again, my personal experience of a very low calorie diet, eating veg only backs that up. Eating no meat has resulted in a lovely straight line (ish) on my FreeStyle Libre between 5 and 7 and no dawn phenomenon. As soon as I re-introduce protein, and fat in the form of yogurt mainly my BG climbs and the dawn phenomenon is much more evident.
the whole saturated fat debate about being bad is a loooooonnnnggg and horrible story. Even WHO can only say they can't rule out meat being bad for folk, not that it is bad. Charitable organisations funded by the food industry - they still talk about fat clogging arteries and causing CVDs.
I'm well read on the whole fat/cholesterol story, not necessarily remembering everything. Another thing I can say about my personal experience, when I ate meat and yogurt my total cholesterol was 5.7, after 3 months of a very low calorie diet with considerably less meat and no yogurt it was 4. I'm not suggesting that's good, just what it was. I suffered statins for 17 years before giving them up, at least a total cholesterol of 4 means my GP and DN don't give me any grief at all. In fairness they didn't say that much when it was 5.7 because they knew I was changing things in my diet.
Follow the money in the debate, and follow your blood glucose meter! And I recommend a fabulous book and associated youtube presentations
The FreeStyle Libre has been a boon, it's like an electronic tag, it will soon tell me when I'm doing something wrong,so it keeps me on the straight and narrow. I am familiar with the Youtube videos and the book.
Anyway. About diabetes being progressive - I sure hope not! Many of us lot in here are the test cases for it not being? I sure hope so!
I hope not, which is why I suggest possibly. I've had three c-peptide tests in 2 years which show my pancreas is producing an amount of insulin in the normal range. I have also had my insulin resistance measured 3 times in 2 years and that gives a slightly interesting result. It has gone down and then up again, even higher than before. However, from what I've recently started to read, beta cell dysfunction is more of a problem, the suggestion being that beta cell mass in a large percentage of diabetics is less than it should be, the remaining beta cells possibly making up for the shortfall, but for how long. I'm only just reading this and suggest googling "type II beta cell dysfunction", I may not be 100% correct and would welcome comments from someone with a greater understanding.