Soryr, not an answer to your actual question, but just a comment regarding something you said at the beginning.
We all will eventually end up on pointless medication because that is what they are trying to do. It feeds into the pharmaceutical industry. Its like Cancer etc.. there are 'cures' out there, but they do NOT go for natural, the pharmaceutical industry (worth a number i cannot count to!) does not research alternatives, that also includes foods we already have. Sadly.
Like I said in my own post earlier, my nurse encouraged me to go back eating more carbs as I need this for brain activity and energy, when Im losing weight AT LAST and feeling ALOT better without all the ****** carbs (excuse my french) that on top of everything make me CRAVE naughty foods. Why making it more difficult for me to lose weight and holding me back even more now I have found something that is working for me? In all my previous appointments with my GPs, asking and begging for help to lose weight, NO ONE ever helped me. You just get dumped into this box of 'exercise and eat healthily'.
To go back to what i originally wanted to say, well my nurse encourages me to eat carbs for certain reasons, when you tell me about Ketosis, so she should know about that instead of holding me back from losing more weight and feeling better with myself! I find it shocking and tbh i shall do some more research on that subject and will have a word with her about that (no doubt she's find something else to say why i still need carbs). I do still eat carbs but very little and not every day. Have tried to stick to once or twice a week. Thats enough!
Hi, I think that has been my overall opinion after all of this. I don't trust my doctor's opinion anymore. If they come near with medication, I back away, do some research and check all the side effects before any more **** goes into my body. I don't think the doctors and nurses are to blame here. They're trained a certain way. No matter how good their intentions are, a lot depends on where they get their information from. The results they use for information come from medical testing. Medical testing is funded by the food industry and drug companies in most cases, who benefit from cheap carby foods and getting people hooked on drugs. Perhaps I'm a bit jaded by it all, but I'm not willing to risk my life on a result that comes from a greedy company.
And, I know, we should listen to our doctors, but they keep misdiagnosing me and giving me bad advice, so they're gonna have to earn my trust I think. When they actually cure me of something, I'll trust their opinion again.
I think you should do your low carb diet if it make you feel better, and the weight is coming off. My old doctor, who has since retired, used to say that it was dangerous to cut fat out of your diet (I tend to agree). He also used to say that you know how you feel better than anyone else. If you feel healthy on your diet, and the weight is coming off, you're probably on the right diet for you. I certainly believe that the low carb diet is the one for me. I never plan to come off it. It's not a diet. It's a healthy lifestyle change where I can eat things that I like and not get ill or fat. It also reverses the effects of diabetes.
Watch out drugs like statins. If you're not on medication, avoid it like the plague!
Here's what I got told by an expert in low carb diets and diabetes: Go on a low carb diet. Don't tell your nurse. She won't agree with it and will try to stop you by using BS out-of-date reasons. Don't let them give you any medication. Lose weight and avoid all that pointless suffering they've got lined up for you. Low carb diets have an 80% chance of reversing the effects of T2 diabetes.
So, I went for no more than 20g carbs a day. The first two weeks suck of course. The weight falls off at around 7-10lbs per month. Your blood sugar drops to a safe all-time-low. Your cholesterol may rise, but that's a BS number anyway. 2 weeks in I'd lost enough weight to avoid medication (they had a prescription waiting for me that I made them tear up). Two months in I'd lowered my blood sugar to be declared 'no longer diabetic'. 7 months in, I hit my perfect weight and am still no longer diabetic. I feel healthier than ever, I look great, I'm not diabetic and I eat food that I like.
The alternative: A low fat diet, starvation, depression, killing yourself at the gym, illness and medication for life. Nope, I no longer listen to my doctor TBH.
I think the thing is that no one pays to test out the T2 diabetes/low carb diet solution. Food companies won't pay to prove that their food is deadly. Drug companies won't pay to prove that their drugs are useless. The only person who ever paid to test a low carb diet was Dr Atkins, and he died bankrupt, trying to prove that point. I think it all comes down to money and greed.
My HDL is 1.1 which means the remainder is made from the other components. My last cholesterol test was pre Christmas (23rd). The result was 5. I was told that my HDL has increased by 0.1. The word statins came into the convo. I've been on this diet two weeks and one day. I honestly don't know what to think. 
