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In my opinion, Of course ingesting too much fructose in the form of fruits -with juiced fruit being far worse ( because they have no fibre- which helps slow the ingestion ) will not assist in the quest for low fructose. However as far as I understand it , yes it probably IS mainly fructose...

You may find that concentrating the food you do it into bigger meals less frequently enables you to start eating a bit more at each meal without actually putting it back .. It seems that if you leave enough time between meals to enable your insulin levels back to base then that also helps...

I'm no doctor, but everything I've read suggests that one of the ways your body tries to conserve weight when dieting is by shutting down " non essential" activities and thus reducing your base metabolic rate to match your intake. This is one of the prime reasons weight loss slows and one of the...

if metformin gives you a problem then a low carb diet on its own is quite likely to achieve a good an effect - worked fine for me and many others here without metformin, Metformin comes into its own when people don't change diet. Its action does not seem to be much different from a low carb...

I have nothing but total respect for anyone keeping up an 800 calorie diet for 30 days . As a matter of interest, how much weight have you lost over the 30days so far? I'm down 7kg via this method at the moment. I did lose 35kg myself using a very low calorie diet a long time ago...

well the bucket is now quite heavy already but I would like to chuck another couple of pints in :)

Well its still suggesting eating canned fruits and vegetables and two portions of toast every day so its slow progress !

I was running around those levels on diagnosis . I used to have to sit down after spending ten minutes at the sink washing dishes. I went to bed in the afternoons at every opportunity. I missed all tv programs after the first ten minutes. I coughed incessantly. I felt dizzy when I bent down...

I do so like my foods :) , but yes I have steeled myself to the idea that probably on the switch over one should probably give the whole thing a kick start by a proper fast if you can. My thinking on that one, is that if every month is actually a "new diet" push instead of a " same old same...

I think both of those still make the basic assumption that you are trying to restrict calories a lot of the time by going very low calorie as a " fast or pretend fast" for a few days then eating what you like or some variation of it for the rest of the time. I think I might be saying -...

So new decision - I started this on 27th Sept in 14 days by the 11th Oct I had got down to 84.2 - since then I have been fluctuating around 85 for 8 days and excluding the binge yesterday I have been eating an average of 1430 calories a day - so it looks to me like I might have brought my...

When your blood sugars are too high, lots of things go awry including both the ability and desire to exercise, getting hot on exertion, shortness of breath. and generally feeling much older than you did before. Luckily all of that is resolvable by getting the glucose back down. its...

That's very interesting. It just goes to show just how hard your body will fight you to keep you where it is used to being ! Interestingly this research indicates that actually if you want to loss weight most easily the goal should be a two week diet, followed by two weeks of energy...

Day 20 of the Low Insulin Diet (starting weight 91.6 kg, current 86.0 kg ) Waist size 86.0 cm (starting 94 cm) Well a slightly different experiment yesterday , I've been stalled at around 85 for a week now and also confused as to whether the 1500 calories a day I was eating constituted a...

That's great news , glad to be of assistance. One of the things that was bothering me about eating quite so low carb, was that I was getting the odd heart palpitation. which even though the general message seems to be - no need to worry - it can happen on LCHF , it didn't seem quite right...

Hi there, do you know why your doctor changed his diagnosis, ? are you now only on metformin? what type of diet do you eat? The reason I ask is that I had an hba1c of 90 at diagnosis, but I don't take any medications at all, instead I adjusted my diet and that was enough. I notice...

I suspect on that basis I could probably supply my own loudness !

Day 19 of the Low Insulin Diet (starting weight 91.6 kg, current 85.3 kg 6.7% down) Waist size 86.0 cm (starting 94 cm) So my meal out last night gave me back the 0.7 kg I lost the day before .( it as worth it though) Yesterday's meal I estimated at 1600 calories though hard to tell what...

In my opinion, Put simply - the " normal " range shown on the testing sheet will be something like 2-25 iUI/ml. Normal is basically an average of however many people are considered to be statistically significant in setting the test Unfortunately , practically everyone today is affected by...

Welcome ! @daisy1 will be along shortly to give you some general advice, in the meantime take a look round, especially at the testimonials thread which will give you an idea of the successes being achieved here. You don't mention why you joined, its very helpful to everyone if you can give a...