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Thanks, that is helpful, at least the bit about the 24-48 hours before,and that eating a fatty meal in that period might elevate trigylcerides and give a skewed reading. That's what I was wondering. What is more controversial IMHO is the "usual" " saturated fat intake causes dangerous...

catherinecherub, thanks for your reply. I am convinced the diet is right for me, and I hope the cholesterol test will confirm that. However, the dilemma is because they specify NO fatty foods on the day before the test. I want the reading to be as accurate as can be, but if eating fat...

Hello everyone Just to recap: I am non-diabetic but my spouse is Type 2. His HBA1C was 11.4, then 6.5 now 5.5 following low carb high fat diet, and I have joined him on this regime. After a few adaptation problems we are both loving low-carb and feeling great. I have just been called for a...

Hi all My husband has Type 2 and was diagnosed about 6 months ago, has lost about 2 stone, and his last HBA1c was 6.5, down from 11.4. His bg is better than at diagnosis. He now eats low carb (about 40-60g per day) and is feeling much better for it. He is testing his BS and is finding that...

Thanks Ehlana and Synonym for your replies. I have been on another forum more about the weight loss aspect of low carbing, and got some answers there by lurking. I have now got the plot - on a high-fat low-carb diet, it is said that you cannot gain weight, as the extra fat is excreted, but in...

Thanks Ehlana Whilst I would not claim that crisps are the better part of our diet, (I think I would find myself on a sticky wicket there!) it is almost our only high-ish carb indulgence (oops, sorry Synonym, used that word again! :lol: ) I am intrigued though Ehlana about what you mean by...

Synonym No offence taken in fact we appreciate your directness, and take on board your comments about negativity. We have lost (and regained) weight many times on low-fat regimes in the past so are veterans of dieting. Let's face it. it's only human nature to want to have your cheese and eat...

Thanks for your replies betic and Ardberg. We are both maintaining our weight well on this high-fat low carb regime. Our carbs are about 40g - 60g per day. My husband's bg is good, but not spectacularly so (about 5.8 to 7 most of the time). However neither of us is losing any weight, still...

Ha! After my triumphalism yesterday having done my 2 and a half hour workout, and weight loss very small but steady every day for a week or so, I have put on 3 pounds this morning! Perhaps I ate too close to bedtime, hope it is that. Type 2 hubby Ray had a similar thing a day or so ago, put 2...

Well, I will get the resistance bands maybe for my hubby - but he has such difficulty finding the time for exercise. At least we had a good walk (with dogs, and then round the zoo!) yesterday, and again with dogs today. We are beginning to find that we are losing weight - albeit nice and...

Anyway, to go back to my original question, which was about how long it takes for what I now understand to be called the "Metabolic Shift" to fat-burning to take place... I have now received the ketone strips and I seem to be just in the "trace" zone for ketones, 0.5 or so. Hubby (the Type 2)...

Human biology is indeed constant, but I think magicaldebs is trying to make the point that our knowledge and understanding of it seems to be constantly changing. :)

Indeed I imagine exercise comes into it, and I am expecting better weight loss results when I start teaching my dance classes again (hopefully tonight, weather permitting!) My husband though, sue to back trouble, joint problems etc, can only manage a bit of light walking every day, with the...

So, what I am deducing from all this is that: Low carbing does help with fat loss. That means, burning fat instead of glucose, and not setting down excess glucose as fat. But if you need to lose weight, then calories still count just as much as if you were high-carb. Everyones calorific...

Thanks wiflib, that is very interesting, and well done you for losing all that weight! But...when you cut out the pieces of bread/crispbread etc, did you replace that part of the meal with the calorie equivalent in fat or protein? Or did you do without that meal (or part of that meal)...

No cugila, I apologise - I may have put words in your mouth. Sorry! I am still confused though, concerning the weight loss aspect, about the issue of greater fat burning on a low-carb diet and whether this has an appreciable effect, as opposed to it all being down to calorie control.

Ah, now, of course I do understand that for diabetics the low-carb method is about much more than losing weight. But as a non-diabetic, from the weight-loss point of view, if we are coming back to the basic equation calories in vs. calories out, then I suppose I could have more carbs in my...

Yes, I know the usual weight-loss advice is to cut calories, but we have read these books advocating low-carb: Trick and Treat by Barry Groves, and I am currently reading The Great Cholesterol Con by Dr Malcolm Kendrick. The impression given is that you can rely on the chemical nature of your...

Hello I am the wife of Ray who was diagnosed Type 2 last July and put on Metformin and the usual dietary advice by the Doctors. He started with a HBA1C of 11.4 and has got that down to 6.5 in his first 4 months. When that reading was taken he had been low-carbing for about 3 weeks, and had...

Hello all I am the wife of someone who was diagnosed Type 2 last summer. He has been following a low carb diet for about two months and I have now joined him in it. I have joined because he doesn't have a lot of time to post and I have a few things I need to clear up about our diet etc, and...