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Haha! The thing is though, I'm also thinking of the whole picture, and trying to reduce my appetite especially after a weekend of walking. Whatever is going on inside, having a pear didn't raise my blood glucose levels, and now that I've had my dinner as well, I actually feel full. This is a...

I think the fact that only the liver can metabolise fructose is very interesting, but I'm still not sure what that makes fructose bad in small amounts. And that's exactly my question: is it bad in small amounts, such as one pear a day? Also, if just before going on a walk? It seems to me that...

I'd go along with that. Though funnily enough my mum has just phoned. I think there's a layman, a lay layman, a lay lay layman, and then there's my mum. Actually that's a terrible thing to say, she can do mental feats that I can't get my head around, but people's minds seem to be wired for...

I took a further reading at 3 hours and was still flat-lining. This made me hopeful that I can expand my very small repertoire of 'desserts' without going down the artificial sweetener route (which I'm on the brink of thanks to the idea of keto key lime pie!), so I did some reading around for...

I've never actually checked the effect on my bg come to think of it, but I love them too. I liked that the lowest-carb ones (the ones you show) out of the 3 varieties they do also tasted the nicest to me. I think they are very pricey but a bargain compared to a lot of the low-carb / high protein...

So far in my diabetic adventures I'd agree about the observation in this documentary that something like broccoli, in spite of having carbs, is a 'good source' of carbs. I can have literally 'a whole one', with the horrible stem bit removed of course, coming in at 14g carbs and my blood sugar as...

That was my guess as well - they'd used cgms to predict an HbA1c result. I don't think they explained this though.

I think we're making the same point but possibly getting annoyed for subtly different reasons. If the show had been more clear about what their observations were showing, then I presume you'd also be happier, as would I? Because it would make it clear to the viewer than you can't go back to the...

Yes that was my main issue in an otherwise positive programme.

Thank you! It looks like I need to start stocking things I've never bought before. I've never bought gelatin or artificial sweetener. I did wonder on the programme whether they must have used a sweetener of some sort for their recipe which impressed the presenter. Controversial, and a whole...

I used to store bread in the freezer mainly because I'm a lonely old man who lives by himself and so it would go stale before I'd finished it otherwise. I didn't know it was supposed to make it healthier in terms of carbohydrate structure. I also toasted it straight from the freezer just as...

One bit I liked was when the presenter, not convinced that any low-carb dessert could be any good, seemed genuinely impressed by the key lime pie. Key lime pie is one of the approximately 1,000,000 foods I miss. Did anyone recognise it from the way it looked, or has anyone found a great keto /...

I liked the programme on the whole. In terms of negatives, the thing that most frustrated me was exactly the same thing that most frustrated me about the 'crash diet' programme last week. The whole idea of diabetes and reversal and what it is they actually measured. In last week's crash diet...

I was a bit fearful of keto originally, as a lot of doctors regard it as a very technical diet which is best used in emergencies or for treating epilepsy and under medical supervision. Also my fist foray into severely reducing carbs had nothing to do with keto, I was just eating to my meter and...

For public entertainment. Times haven't really changed have they?

I'm not sure whether it would be classed as calorie restricted or regular keto tbh. I can't find info on the calories the contestants were on, from memory I think it was something like 1200-1500. But the exercise they were doing was crazy, and the aim was to be burning far in excess of the...

It certainly doesn't make sense to choose higher carbs especially for someone with T2. On a practical level however, many people watching that documentary are likely to be seeking out the Cambridge Diet stuff or going to get the shakes from Tesco and Asda after reading up on the ND, and they...

Is that referring to the bit where I was wondering if someone doing no weight training wouldn't get such great results even on low carbs? To be clear, I'm talking about the remarkable lack of RMR reduction in that VLCK diet study. Not blood glucose control. I know you're a great example of...

Do you think there is something to be said for the idea that, for one given individual, eating 50g carbs a day and doing a bit of weight training may give them similar results as eating 100g of carbs a day and doing a bit more weight training? Both in terms of weight loss and preservation of...

I wonder if the amazing results in that recent VLCK diet could be due to something as simple as preserving muscle mass. Certainly the most positive results I'd seen before this study was all about making every effort to preserve muscle mass via resistance exercise. It compared just weight loss...