A while back I posted another thread to find out the various ways folk had achieved remission.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...to-achieve-remission-excl-lchf-and-nd.156354/
I have just read through all of the replies and it seems that reducing carbs (whether directly or as a consequence of a calorie reduction) features in every one of the reversals mentioned on that thread. The extent to which carbs were reduced varied from person to person, as did the addition (or not) of extra exercise, but having fewer carbs appears to be the key to remission.
This morning someone said that we always mention LCHF on this forum but we don't give any credit to HCLF, particularly with plant based whole foods. I have seen a few threads that claim to have had remission using this method in my 6+ years of reading this forum, but the ones I remember still had BGs in the diabetic range. So I am starting this thread to see if any of us achieved remission using HCLF. I myself tried it and had disastrous results and very quickly changed back to LCHF. I was hoping that a plant based diet would help me achieve remission because I prefer veggies to animal products, however it was not to be in my case. Perhaps I just didn't do it in the right way?
To clarify -
1. By 'high carb' I mean over 225g carbs daily. I am using Trudi Deakin's definition of moderate carb being 130g to 225g, so anything above this is high carb.
2. Remission for me means achieving an HbA1c of 47 mmol/mol (6.4%) or lower, so no longer technically T2 at that point. Some of us will have achieved that and then drifted back over the line to 48+, but for the purposes of this thread I would like to hear from anyone who has ever achieved remission, even temporarily via HCLF. If someone has achieved remission for just one HbA1c then their tips might be useful to someone else. It could be that other factors got thrown into the mix after the HbA1c of 47 or less to cause the person to go back into diabetic readings, eg other health issues.
3. For the purposes of this thread, I mean remission without diabetic drugs (except Metformin which is sometimes used for its protective qualities against other health problems).
Over to you then
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...to-achieve-remission-excl-lchf-and-nd.156354/
I have just read through all of the replies and it seems that reducing carbs (whether directly or as a consequence of a calorie reduction) features in every one of the reversals mentioned on that thread. The extent to which carbs were reduced varied from person to person, as did the addition (or not) of extra exercise, but having fewer carbs appears to be the key to remission.
This morning someone said that we always mention LCHF on this forum but we don't give any credit to HCLF, particularly with plant based whole foods. I have seen a few threads that claim to have had remission using this method in my 6+ years of reading this forum, but the ones I remember still had BGs in the diabetic range. So I am starting this thread to see if any of us achieved remission using HCLF. I myself tried it and had disastrous results and very quickly changed back to LCHF. I was hoping that a plant based diet would help me achieve remission because I prefer veggies to animal products, however it was not to be in my case. Perhaps I just didn't do it in the right way?
To clarify -
1. By 'high carb' I mean over 225g carbs daily. I am using Trudi Deakin's definition of moderate carb being 130g to 225g, so anything above this is high carb.
2. Remission for me means achieving an HbA1c of 47 mmol/mol (6.4%) or lower, so no longer technically T2 at that point. Some of us will have achieved that and then drifted back over the line to 48+, but for the purposes of this thread I would like to hear from anyone who has ever achieved remission, even temporarily via HCLF. If someone has achieved remission for just one HbA1c then their tips might be useful to someone else. It could be that other factors got thrown into the mix after the HbA1c of 47 or less to cause the person to go back into diabetic readings, eg other health issues.
3. For the purposes of this thread, I mean remission without diabetic drugs (except Metformin which is sometimes used for its protective qualities against other health problems).
Over to you then