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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
I am over sensitive to the weightloss concept - I have been told that I am overweight all my life - even when I had a 24 inch waist - but that was when Twiggy was the ideal body image.
I got down to a Hba1c of 41 a year ago just by sticking to under 50 gm of carbs a day. That was the rule - under 50 gm of carbs per day and from low carb foods, limit of 10 percent carbs except for such essentials as small amounts of high cocoa chocolate.
I found it no trouble to stick to the rule, I really enjoyed the 'restricted' diet. Even the lobster.
When I realized I'd lost 40 lb without trying I was astonished.
Keeping things simple and helping with perseverance should be the aim of anyone wishing to help diabetics with a diet which will hopefully be of great use to them.
Yep I wouldn't have said I was massively overweight myself - so getting diagnosed was a shock - but apparently reading up on it - it's all to do with the concept of personal fat threshold. So lots of thin people can get this condition too. But you know that. And I love that idea of that rule. Sounds like a winner.
"Keeping things simple and helping with perseverance should be the aim of anyone wishing to help diabetics with a diet which will hopefully be of great use to them"
Great stuff.