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Try small, consistent meals, with a small amount of carbs per meal (like 20-40 grams of slowly-digesting carbs). Have a mix of fat, protein and carbs. Aim for 1200-1500 calories in a day and eat like this for a few weeks and see what happens. No point in going extreme straight away. Eating 500...

No, mono-unsaturated aren't so bad, ie olive oil. Would say saturated is best.

Definitely.. root veg roasted in coconut oil would digest far slower than plain. Was just trying to say cookies would hit the blood stream very quickly.

Have you ever had your progesterone to estrogen ratio tested? This is the primary marker of good fertility. It's relatively cheap to get done privately if you can't get it done on NHS.

Volume of carbs, plus speed of absorption, plus lack of protein, plus high fat (means less sugar can be metabolised). I just did a look at a Fox's chocolate chip cookie calories online: it has 45% calories from fat, and 52% from carbs. 50g of glucose from chunky root veg will affect your BG...

She listed her current food in another thread as this: Which is at most, 500 calories, and 20g of protein!

Avoid liquid vegetable oils (poisonous to the energy production and liver), and eat adequate protein. You need 80g of protein per day at least. Protein helps liver performance.

High creatinine can be a sing of thyroid issues. Would suggest you get a full thyroid panel (total T3, total T4, TSH, free t3/t4). Everything is linked, body "diseases" are created by the whole environment, and often you will get multiple issues from the same problematic inputs. LC or VLC, and...

Calories are important to live. Your diet has 20 grams of protein in it. Protein is incredibly important for allowing the liver to work. The liver doesn't function well in diabetes already. You should aim for 80 grams of protein. Eating 500 calories is starving yourself. There is only so long...

If you are eating 500 calories, and very little protein, then yes it's probably the wrong diet. Can you list your daily foods again? In your other post you listed this, which adds up to 500 calories, but in another post you say 1200 calories

I know that PCOS stands for polycystic ovarium syndrome. It's caused by high estrogen, and low progesterone. Estrogen is a signal to the uterus/ovaries that the internal environment is not suitable for gestation. Pro-gesterone is a signal that the body is a positive environment for gestation...

PCOS means low progesterone: https://www.sepalika.com/pcos/progesterone-pcos/

While the current "OK" range is up to 4 for TSH, many thyroid specialists say below 2 is optimal. You should get your total T3, total T4, free t3/t4, and reverse t3 measured. In another post, you wrote your current diet which showed you eating about 500 calories per day at the moment, with...

I did a quick count of this, and it looks like you are eating 400 calories per day, at max 500. Of course you'll lose weight quickly, but you will also destroy your body. This is completely insane. Edit: Calories: egg: 70 cals apple: 80-90 cals chapati: 80cals 2 cups veg: 50 cals 1 guava: 40...

Well you may find that regularity and control (eating same time, same amounts, smaller meals), with a minor calorie deficit, is enough to create lasting changes. Going to 800 calories is very extreme, and will cause metabolic rate problems. It's the equivalent of never working out then going...

Blood glucose is maintained in the absence of carbs, by your body breaking down protein and fat with cortisol and other glucocorticoids. Especially during fasting periods like sleep. This is why your BG can still be around 6, without carbs. "Over the 6-9 hours that one sleeps (without food)...

Do you know how many calories you were eating before? Did you have any food plan, or were you just eating randomly before?

Firstly, cholesterol has a protective effect in the presence of stressors, and is the start of an incredibly important pathway. Arbitrarily forcing it to drop is unlikely to have good consequences. Pregnenolone, progesterone, DHEA, testosterone, DHT, are all highly protective. SECOND, there...

She is half correct, in that fatty acids can directly be metabolised for energy, and often are, preferentially by the heart and other organs/tissues, before ketone bodies are used. The liver can't use ketone bodies for energy, the brain can. But this is a good start for those wishing to...

Fair enough, but remember the above is starting point. I can eat 250/300/350 carbs (basically glucose from tubers and fructose from fruit) without having BG spikes, if I eat in the right way. The higher amount if I Exercise. If I eat the wrong way, I can't handle 150. Agreed, it's a sliding...