Recent Content by BarbaraG

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    T2 or NAFLD? ...or, a funny thing happened on the way to the surgery

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the twin cycle hypothesis, and potential implications for particular scenarios. Here are a couple. Two people reach what Roy Taylor calls their “personal fat threshold”. It doesn’t matter what their actual weight is, or their BMI. Their liver and pancreas are...
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    Share Your Progress!

    OK, I’m signing in here to share my progress towards better control…. hopefully remission, but the odds seem stacked against that. I’ve had T2D for 26 years. Secondary to having binge eating disorder/obesity for most of my life - not an easy combination. In 2012/13 I lost over 7 stone and...
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    Newcastle Diet - currently 15 months in

    I hope you don’t mind if I ask a few sneaky questions. Had you tried to lose weight before? If so, by what method? Why do you think that didn’t stick, but this did? Did you continue to lose weight after you finished the 12 week programme? Have you needed to go back on the shakes at all, or...
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    T2 or NAFLD? ...or, a funny thing happened on the way to the surgery

    Forgive me, I’m not good on paying attention to details….. but if I’ve got this right, you seem to be suggesting that you had NAFLD all along, and the diagnosis of diabetes was incorrect? But you did have alarmingly high BG levels, so you do (or did) have diabetes. The type is open to...
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    Remission

    Fantastic - well done. Don’t be surprised if your HbA1C rises slightly off the metformin, but it should only be a few points at most - not enough to get you even into prediabetic range. As long as you keep the weight off, that is. I speak as one who was there briefly but rebounded.
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    I don’t care about the mechanism as long as it works

    @AndBreathe Yes, I meant you. With a history of anorexia, I imagine weighing is best avoided. I also have a history of disordered eating, but in my case it is binge eating disorder. Suffice it to say that my relationship with food and weight is tortured, to say the least. Been living with it...
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    I don’t care about the mechanism as long as it works

    Thank you again. You say you didn’t set out to trim up….. have you ever deliberately tried to lose weight? I have, many times. I think that makes a difference psychologically at the very least. Maybe physiologically as well, I don’t know.
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    I don’t care about the mechanism as long as it works

    Oh, thank you. That’s kind of the conclusion I was coming to. it’s several years since I first came across Taylor’s work, and to be honest, when I did, I was very angry with him. Because of his emphasis on low calorie without mentioning carbs and the low cal diet shakes thing. Why does that...
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    I don’t care about the mechanism as long as it works

    It doesn’t assume all T2’s are fat. He gives examples of people who had BMI’s in the normal range, with T2 - who were found to also have fat deposited within their liver and pancreas. He suggested they try losing some weight (about 10%) and the diabetes resolved. As a result of this, he now...
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    Hunger

    When you do low carb, you get a lot of calories from fat. As long as it’s minimally processed (so not highly processed seed oils or trans fats) then it’s fine. I use mainly olive oil and butter. Fat carries flavour and is highly satiating.
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    I don’t care about the mechanism as long as it works

    I’ve had T2 for more than 25 years, currently on metformin and Trulicity. Over 10 years ago I lost a ton of weight and got off all medication, and HbA1C stayed in the prediabetic range for a few months. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep it up. About 8 years ago I tried again with LCHF, then keto...
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    Hunger

    What is glargine? And rybelsus?
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    T2 or NAFLD? ...or, a funny thing happened on the way to the surgery

    Fair dos. You’re right, we are all different. Perhaps you are a TOFI (thin outside, fat inside) - not noticeably overweight to look at, but carrying more visceral fat than is healthy. My gym has a body scanner and according to that my visceral fat is towards the top of the amber zone, but not...
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    T2 or NAFLD? ...or, a funny thing happened on the way to the surgery

    All power to you with all you are doing. A question: have you been officially diagnosed with NAFLD? I listened to a podcast about it the other day, and iirc then it is considerably more common than T2D. But diagnosis isn’t straightforward, because it is essentially symptom-free until it’s...
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    T2 or NAFLD? ...or, a funny thing happened on the way to the surgery

    *HbA1C is 42 and I'm on zero meds.* Which is excellent, congratulations on all your hard work. But you are achieving this by - if I’ve understood you correctly - eating extremely low carb one day and nothing at all the next. I have great admiration for you having the discipline to do that. I...