That's why i said " carbs cals", ie 333 calories from carbs at each meal (total 1000 calories from carbs a day.) 75 g carbs in the OGT is 300 cals, ie less than normal people eat at each meal
I am basing my decision on all 3 outcomes of all 3 tests available to me, as they all have slightly different pros and cons. That's why I take FBGs every morning (but these are influenced by liver fat and sometimes by Dawn Phenomenon), plus OGT which I think is the most accurate measure of Beta Cell function available at home. Plus, what prompted me to re-start my diet, ie the HBA1C shock comment by @JimLahey, who pointed out that my HBA1C was much higher on the diabetic scale than I had previously realised - so I obviously needed to lose more weight because I had stopped before reaching my Personal Fat Threshold. Albeit without realising that at the time. I had not realised that my HBA1C put me in the diabetic range on at least one scale and firmly in the pre diabetic range in all the others I have seen. I trust the HBA1C itself but not the scale the NHS uses. However,it too, has it's drawbacks as it is in slow time and can't tell me for ages when to stop dieting. I need something more immediate. My own would not be distorted by low carbing as I eat around 55% carbs I think, though it's not something I look at often. For someone who was low carbing it would be difficult to tell how much of any improvement was caused by simply mechanical means ie less carbs input, as opposed to normal carbs being better processed by the beta cells. I would aim to get all 3 different tests into the normoglycaemic range before deciding whether or not the diet had worked. That may not be possible with HBA1C because of the period of time it covers (6weeks to 3 months) and the time it takes to get one in a pandemic.
I see a mod edited your post after I had replied. My point stands, including the one about spikes.
Not what I am doing, nor how I understand others. We are using it as a measure of how much glucose we have circulating and how much damage is likely to be occurring as a result. Simply counting carbs doesn’t do that. One person might eat 300 carbs a day and have the same hb1ac as me at 30 carbs a day.
Can you point me toward a single anti weight loss person or where anyone expects it to works in days please?
"so would be interested if you can direct me to any that are lower and specifically any that diagnose sub 42 as diabetes. You’ve never actually said what the hb1ac level was you found unacceptable was, just under 42. Are you happy to share?"
Yes I could stop my 1000 cal diet at any time. But the risk would be grave. We have only around 4 years post diagnosis to have a reasonable chance of reversing our T2 with this diet. I have already lost one of my "nine lives" as it were, by doing the diet in 2017 but stopping before it was finished. There is such a short window of opportunity that it would be madness to give up before it was finished. I doubt if I'll ever get another chance. And I certainly absolutely dread the prospect of a lifetime of T2 that can no longer be reversed.
This is making assumptions that I am not clear is applicable in all instances. Where is the 4 year cut off evidence?
Isn't this just a hypothesis (i.e. guess) by Professor Taylor which he uses to justify cherry picking his candidates for his study? As @Andydragon says, his own experiences disprove this 'fact'.
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