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Update: forty minutes of a very hilly walk, which typically brings the numbers down three points resulted in a rise of 0.2 which means it would have gone up by much more in the time without the walk. That's pretty clear evidence of liver-dumping so until my liver readjusts some more, I'd be...

Week 5 Day 31 Wednesday 10th January FBG 10.3 Weight 99.5kg Another day starting with raised BG so not that good. My blood stayed over 10 all day yesterday clearly because there's nothing to clear it out of my system. I don't want it to be reconverted to triglycerides so I'm off for a brisk...

That's brilliant. Thanks very much for posting the link. The de-differentiation explains completely why long-standing T2 patients have a lower success rate. We've lost a lot of the cells. Our recovery would then depend on the growth of new alpha cells which can then differentiate. But that's a...

No chance of me getting protein deficient. I only dropped the shakes today to get complete control over the carb intake. Fung also said that even going without food for a couple of days is no big deal. As he jokingly put it "No-one dies!" I'll keep an eye on the nutrients. Thanks for the advice.

I think this is most likely a liver dump, the BG dropping below the trigger level and gluconeogenesis kicking in, probably just before I got up and then there being low insulin to deal with it. I cut out the shakes today but I don't see them as the problem particularly. I haven't had breakfast...

Week 5 Day 30 Tuesday 9th January. FBG 9.7 Weight 99.5kg Not much change today so it's a case of just waiting. Intake was well under 800 kcals yesterday. I really want to see those numbers coming down now. I hope today's peak will be lower than yesterday. Let's get that liver and pancreas...

Week 5 Day 29 Monday 8th January. FBG 10.0 Weight 98.5kg As expected, the blood has gone up because there's now no additional insulin so I just have to keep my nerve and wait a few days to see what happens. It all depends on how much my pancreas can do at present. I'd like to be positive about...

Update: I've had some higher numbers today, 11 and 12, but as it's on no meds I think I just need to stay calm about it. I recall @Peerless67 had numbers up to 17 when he started after stopping all the meds, but it came down very quickly. I hope the same thing happens here. We get quite...

Week 4 Day 28 Sunday 7th January. FBG 8.8 Weight 99.7kg This is day 2 of no meds so no surprise the BG is a little up but I've seen numbers like that when I was on the full dose of insulin. I have an odd sensation of actually being in complete control for the first time with better results to...

I felt a bit cold for the first few days on the ND but then it passed. I wouldn't worry about the heart rate or the rise for an hour up to 9. That's pretty normal I think with this kind of diet. Although the shakes seem high in carbs, Taylor advised that we can easily copy with that because the...

Week 4 Day 27 Saturday 6th January. FBG 7.3 Weight 100.7kg Blood is reasonable so this is the first day off meds in thirteen years which feels rather strange. I'm a little apprehensive though I know in my mind there won't be any massive spikes. The three drivers of the vicious cycles according...

Minor update: since my numbers today are all slightly below yesterday's I'll move onto zero insulin tomorrow to see what happens. That'll be the first day with no medication at all in over thirteen years. I never imagined it would ever be possible for me so I'm rather pleased about that.

Great minds... I was wondering about that as well but I'd like to get off all medications and until I've seen how it works with none, I'm not too keen to reintroduce anything. At the end of the day I might have to have some medication but I want to give it a good shot first. I think with no...

Week 4 Day 26 Friday 5th January. FBG 6.7 Weight 101.2kg Very pleased with the BG because I've been two days on only 20 units of insulin. Earlier in the diet I had levels in the 5s and even 4s but with a lot more insulin, over forty units. Having cut the insulin right down, the BG has not...

I've been on low carb for a long time so that won't change. And I won't be making any major changes until I've seen a lot of weight loss and very stable BG. If that means extending the ND then fine. I don't want to stop too early as Taylor warns about the consequences of insufficient weight loss...

At the start of the ND I was on 56 units of Toujeo plus vildaglyptin and metformin. I cut the pills straight away but kept the insulin, worrying perhaps too much about liver dumping. In the event, even when I started cutting the insulin, I didn't see the liver dumping. I've been on a low carb...

Those levels for GPs in the UK are pretty awful as the evidence is solid that FBG of over 6 nearly always leads to secondary complications. I've seen the ACCORD study before and, as I understand it, their results showed that patients treated with multiple high does of medications faired worse...

Week 4 Day 25 Thursday 4th January. FBG 7.1 Weight 101.1kg No surprise that the blood is a little raised but I'm pleased it's not raised by much. As my wife just told me, I'd have been delighted with that number just six months ago. I dropped the insulin from 30 units to 20 units yesterday but...

I've just noticed that my levels during the day are a little lower than the equivalents yesterday and that's with 20 units of insulin compared to 30 yesterday. Cutting the insulin hasn't pushed the levels up. I'll see what the FBG is tomorrow morning but unless it's high, I'll stick to 20 units...

It'll be interesting to see those results. With such a dramatic change to the diet there must be a fairly high risk of hypos initially. Perhaps that's why they need the GP support 24/7. It would be interesting to know the occurrence of hypos. It would certainly shock the liver into dumping its...