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Hi. Choco. I find it pretty easy. I read somewhere that this type of diet blunts the appetite I think as time progresses it will get boring. At present I reckon its only about 3 out of 10 for difficulty. Breakfast: grilled tomatoes/mushrooms/onion black pepper 40cals 1pm : Shake...

Hi. Nice to see that the weight is still coming off. I think that the odd slip is not too important seeing as we have a daily energy deficit of about 1500 cals!! I weighed in this morning at 200.8lbs so a loss of nearly 10lbs. BG this morning 4.9. Visceral fat down another %age point to 15%...

Hi. I am with Superams this thread is a great way of supporting each other through the next 6 weeks. I dont believe it will cure us but hopefully we will all be in a better place with regards to our condition than we were before we started. I lost weight a few years back (about 3.5 stone) and...

Hi. Sorry my previous post was not very clear. I was replying to a post asking the difference between calories and carbs and I replied with reference to the diet we are on. I totally agree that knowing the weight of carbohydrate you are consuming is of vital importance to diabetics who are not...

Hi. Carbs -short for carbohydrates - are a class of food Protein and fats are other classes of food. They dont relate directly to calories. For example sugar is high in carbs and high in calories but cheese is low in carbs but high in calories. As far as I know the number of grams of carb...

Hi. As I understand it ANY diet where the total calorie intake is less than the body requires will result in ketosis. It just means the body is burning fat to make up for the shortfall. In the standard ketosis type diet you restrict the carbs but eat lots of calories by continuing to consume...

Hi The scales I have are Salter MiBody 9119 . They Measure weight/total body fat/water %/BMI/Visceral fat/basal metabolic rate/muscle%. Has a USB slot so can download data to memory stick and put it on the PC. Comes with software and it plots a graph of the results. Cant remember where I got...

Hi. Everyone is doing well sticking to the diet, nobody seems to have dropped out yet! I agree it is strangley much easier to keep to than I feared - I dont seem to get ravenously hungry like I have on normal diets. Good news on the BG - down to 5.4 this morning. Other trends good too - I have a...

Hi. From what I have read our bodies should now be in Ketosis. i.e.burning fat cells for energy. The fat cells do not break down to form glucose but form fatty acids which are then used by our bodies for energy. From what I have read the fatty acids are good for sustained excercise but not...

Hi. Strange that your Bg used to go up after the gym. When I was on Metformin if I had a high Bg I would do some excersise and it would drop fairly quickly. I mentioned that I had a prescription for optifast. Just been to chemist to try to get it. They said the £22 for 9 sachets was the trade...

Hi. Well done with the weight loss. Your BG measurements are brilliant!! Mine are not quite as good but going in the right direction. 6.4 this morning - as I said before it may be because I have been type 2 for 10years and my beta cells will require a **** good kicking before they "wake up"-...

Hi. I started the Newcastle diet on the same day as you so it will be interesting to compare notes as we progress. I have been type 2 for about 10 years so I am not sure that my outcome be be as posative as the subjects in the study who have had type 2 for less than 4yrs. I see some of the...