Recent Content by deb1960

I have been type 2 for about 6 years well controlled on metformin until I was put on steroids about 3 years ago. This caused my bs to go sky high and I was started on insulin. The steroids and insulin caused weight gain and even after I was weaned off steroids my bs remained high. I started to...

I don't have a particularly sweet tooth but I do like the odd piece of Cadburys chocolate ( I know it's just sugar and very little chocolate, but I'm obviously a bit of a pleb ) I tried some lindt 85% chocolate but it was really unpleasant to me, no creaminess. It was my grandsons 5th birthday...

My feelings exactly eggs! I've dieted on and off for the last 37 years. My birthday is in January and I was always on a diet as I always rejoined WW or SW at the beginning of January. I struggled to eat fat as it had been drummed into me for donkeys years that fat was the ultimate sin!

Wow! You sound exactly like I feel. It's difficult when you've spent so much of your life being told that low fat is good and high fat is the work of the devil. I tried to lose weight with SW but being on insulin and steroids made it virtually impossible. Being told that I should eat as much...

I am a very keen shopper and love a bargain.Before lchf I was a size 20/22 top and 18 bottom. I am a proper apple shape. I am going on a cruise at the end of April and had bought lots of tops in a previous m&s sale. Needless to say most of them are far too big now that I'm a size 14/16.I have...

Stayed the same .13 stone 2lb. I eat breakfast (oats) around 9am then nothing til 6pm. Does this count as a 9 hour fast? Or would I be better eating something at lunchtime? I rarely feel hungry at lunch though. I rarely eat more than half of my dinner but feel hungry about 9pm

I have been lchf since January this year and have lost 30 lb. I have stopped using insulin and my hba1c was 38 last month. I was having a lot of palpitations and a very fast heartbeat, I had to wear a monitor for a week and push a button every time I was having palpitations. I was told to start...

Grehlin is no longer released when a patient has a gastric bypass. It is called the hunger hormone.

I speak as someone who had a gastric band fitted in 2007 and lost about 4 stone..mostly due to the fact that I vomited after every meal. It was never really successful and is rarely done these days. I put all the weight back on and some. My friend had a gastric sleeve a couple of years ago...

Yes, I started taking them last week but gp said it can take up to 8 weeks before you feel better.

My friend had a gastric sleeve and is now seriously anaemic, she also gained the 5 stone she originally lost back. She's now on the Cambridge diet and has lost the 5 stone again but still needs to lose another 5 stone. Her sister joined her on the Cambridge diet and is now at her goal weight. I...

I'm anaemic too. I don't know if it's due to low carbing though. I'm seeing a haematologist in may to find out the cause.

To be honest I just took the doctor at his word that it was inevitable that I would be diabetic as there are so many family members who are diabetic (my uncle died whilst in a diabetic coma) plus having one endocrine condition ( started off with graves disease ) the chances of having another...

I have completely stopped my insulin and so far so good. I am still taking metformin though as it doesn't cause any side effects for me. I have come down from 99.7kgs to 82.8 kgs. So I'm sticking with the lchf. That is from January this year.