Recent Content by KennyA

Hi and welcome. Anything under 130g carb/day (ish) is usually accepted as "low carb". A keto diet is one that induces ketosis - ie using body fat as a primary source of energy - and that usually needs a lower intake. The exact amount varies from person to person and over time - eg I needed...

Hi and welcome. The issue with T2D, and the reason why T2D is so prevalent now and wasn't (say) 40-50 years ago is (in my opinion) the greatly increased amount of processed carbohydrate and sugar in the modern diet, coupled with official advice to eat as much carb as possible and as little fat...

Hi The thing is that the peak blood glucose post eating is usually seen around 40-45 minutes after the meal. It's perfectly normal, happens to non-diabetic people as well. Your digestive system is converting the carb into glucose, and your insulin reponse is following on but it will take around...

Have never taken metformin, so you might use my experience as a control (n=1). I've found no difficulty recently in building and maintaining muscle (I'm 68) although it's maybe a little slower than say thirty years ago. However I'm probably doing less exercise now than I was then. There seems...

Hi BBGrammy - tagging @Melgar so she'll see your question. For me, I'd recommend starting with something like Dr David Cavan's book "How to Reverse Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes". Review available at link below -...

I wouldn't say inconsistent. Loss overall to the effect that I lost around 90lbs in about three years from 2020 to 2023. Rate of loss was what varied, but here I am (using the waist/height ratio) maintaining it and somewhat lighter than expected for my height. Fruit, bread, and potatoes have...

Hello and welcome. I found with a very low carb diet (~20g/day) that weight loss was entirely inconsistent. In my case weight loss followed my BG returning to normal - so in my case at least weight loss was unnecessary to achieve normal levels. Over the years that followed I plateaued...

Don't think that's a factor, although there is some indication that metformin may improve insulin action. However, the main impact (I take this from the Handbook of Diabetes, and from other accounts, as I have never used metformin myself) is that it just lowers the amount of glucose made in the...

Hi, and best of luck. Metformin stops your liver making new glucose from body stores - it has no impact on the carb/glucose in the food you eat. Most people report a drop of a few mmol/mol in HbA1c. Needless to say(?), I disagree with your GP about "pre-diabetes being asymptomatic" or about...

It's a bit more than a nod to low carb. Taken alongside the American College of Cardiology's statement six years ago (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109720356874?via%3Dihub=&utm_source=arrow.proteinpower.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-arrow-188) that there...

Whatever definition of remission is used (there are many) makes no difference at all. As far as the NHS is concerned, once diagnosed T2, we will always be diabetic, even if blood glucose is normal (ie under 42mmol/mol). You might find this interesting...

I've never counted calories, only carbs. What's worked for me is carbs at 20g/day, leading to eating when I want to, and only when I want to. This isn't "hunger" the way I used to experience it. I find it very difficult to overeat now, no desire to. In contrast I can go lengthy periods (24-48...

If I recall correctly this is the sixth anniversary of my last ever "non-normal" HbA1c in January 2020.

Outlier - you can recommend a company that you use. I often recommend SRSLY for some of their bread substitutes, for example. What you can't do on the forum is recommend or promote a company in which you or a friend or relative has any actual or potential financial interest. On berberine - no...

Agree. It really doesn't matter what terminology anyone uses - what counts is the food's impact on blood glucose, and how well one's insulin response system can cope with that impact. And the only way to know that is to test blood glucose - eg before eating, and then at +2 hrs, or use a CGM...