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    Anyone here on low carb doing for long time?

    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...
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    After One Year

    This week sees the ending of my first year on a low carb diet. The past six months have been a challenge with my body sometimes struggling to fatten itself up again and me desperately resisting, and a long slow plateau in which my weight sometimes went up a bit, and where I did well if I...
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    Seven months into the low carb diet...

    The seven months anniversary has come up and I am now 23.8 kilos (54 lbs) lighter than I was. Trousers will have to be taken in again. Best of all, my hospital consultant has now advised me to discontinue Metformin completely. I had written to tell him I had cut out insulin. My HbA1c is, he...
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    Advice please

    I hope this doesn't sound feeble but I need some advice about what I should do. In November I had a blood test in my local hospital for the half yearly meeting with the HCP. I duly went to and attended the appointment with her. She was bowled over to discover I had lost around 20 kg thanks to...
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    Not quite a hypo but why....

    As I posted elsewhere, I am a Type 2 of long standing (16 years) who went on a LC diet in June and has so far shed 13kg. I was on 36 unites of Lantus and about ten units of Novorapid when I started and two metformin a day. Consultations with the diabetic nurse (who has not objected to my diet)...
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    NHS advice on low carbohydrate diets

    When the local hospital got to hear that I am losing weight rapidly on a very careful low carbohydrate diet, they rang me up to see how I was getting along and wanted to check that I am getting 'all the nutrients'. I think I am -- green vegetables and about 50g of berries a day, all carefully...