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"It's the carbs." For me those words should be written in giant letters. Since going low carb and losing over 25 kilos, I have been in remission. But any carbs above 50-60g a day send the scales spinning upwards. I love cheese biscuits and bread and succumb occasionally, repenting at leisure...

I am also three years in remission but would never go without the flu vaccine. It isn't 100% guaranteed by the way. 70% I seem to recall. But with no side effects and no flu, why go without it? Before I started getting it annually, I skipped flu most years but would get it badly one year in four...

As someone also in remission and fond of eggs, I am very relieved to hear of people like you. For the last week, I had been minimizing the number of eggs I eat, but I'll have an omlette this evening after all. Thanks for your posting.

Well there are 68 million of the same people who can vote for Donald Trump after four years of President Trump. Very sad and very worrying. Refusal to vaccinate isn't 'populist sceptical neo-liberal sentiment'--it's just crazy rejection of science and knowledge, stupid and dangerous,

I haven't posted here for about 18 months, but I am very interested in the question of long term weight loss after the first year. I am now in year four of a low carb/low calorie diet. Easy to maintain underlock down. But I seem to be trapped in a 2-3kg weight band which is about 10 kg higher...

Yes I have heard twice -- though thanks to low carb diet, I have not had a diabetic sugar level for approaching three years and have been off all medication for nearly three years too. I had a blood test in the local hospital in mid-March just before lockdown and it was apparently one of the...

Yes please! Good idea. Thanks.

4.8 this morning at 7.30. Yesterday consumed under 1200 calories and 46g carbohydrates. 0.9g protein per kilo,

Only just noticed this string. I have wanted for some time to start a discussion of long term low carb and the difficulty of continuing to lose weight after the first year. I started in June 2017 when I was grossly overweight and taking metformin, insulin four times a day etc after seven...

Can you say what the results of this diet have been in blood sugar terms? Have you reduced medication for example? And it would be interesting to know how many grams of carbohydrate you take each day. It sounds like probably 40g or 50g Yes I too take the middle out of sandwiches and (on the very...

I've been going now for over a year and a half and have lost somewhere between 32 and 35 kilos, come off all diabetes medication, got back into suits not worn for a quarter of a century. The diet is relatively easy provided one is not exposed to temptation at parties and the weight melted during...

Agreed! But "what is actually happening" is (in my experience) always a mystery. The science isn't there -- so far as I have been able to discover. If you wanted a reliable figure, an average weight over (say) a week or even a month might be the best guide. But I look for encouragement and...

Those examples are misleading. Weight increases in my experience are not of the order you suggest but then as you say for you weight is not a concern. It is for me. A few incremental increases of a few hundred grammes for a week can be very hard to shake off, believe me. The best way to keep...

Only if you are the right weight and that weight is stable. If you want it to remain under control and not go up, or if you need to lose a substantial amount of weight, then you need to watch closely what is happening. Believe me the 'weigh yourself just once in a while and you will find your...

It sounds as if you are someone whose diet and weight are stable and so that is indeed fine for you.

Yes it can and does vary a bit every day, but no -- if you are trying to keep your weight under control or reduce it -- it is not a waste of time but an essential tool. And also, how much time do you waste, just stepping on to the scales to take a look once a day?

I have been fighting the flab my whole life and managed to defeat it on occasion-- most of all in the last year when I have lost over 30 kilos. All the periods in my life when I have put on weight, sometimes massive amounts of weight, have been the times I took my eyes off the scales. Daily...

On proteins, there certainly can be an upper limit for some people as high protein can and does cause kidney damage to them.

Well he is behind the times because the NHS attitudes are changing, driven by the experience of patients like myself who have had quite bad diabetes for over a decade, gone on a low carb diets, lost more than 30 kilos, and are formally discharged as diabetics. Why argue with him? But where...

He's delighted. I kept him informed of what I was doing once I was under way and he has not opposed it. I did take care to show him I knew what I was doing, over proteins, vegetables etc. We don't really mention the dreaded words 'low carb' though, slightly steer off that aspect. I also see a...