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hilsonpils, a walk is apparently a great way of keeping the blood fats at a low level (see the BBC2 horizon program last Tuesday for more info), which seems to be an important part of the plan . Exercise was not included in the original study, in order to exclude an unknown variable, but our...

Just from my own experience, I would encourage any (otherwise) reasonably fit person to give it a try. Like others, I did not have access to the diet sheet or the Optifast, but just kept my calorie intake to an average of 600 cals/day and fats around 15 gms/day. I ate plenty of green veg and...

I started at 15st 2 and finished at 12st 8. The last couple of weeks saw a much reduced rate of loss. I think that I was beginning to adapt, and that's mainly why I stopped the diet phase at that point. The last three weeks, i have adopted a more relaxed approach, (just no white stuff except...

Please keep posting, Geordie. This thread has been so helpful for many people, and will serve as a record for the future as well. For me the diet is only the start. Given that three months after the original study nearly half of the participants had reverted, I want to stay in the non reverting...

Bluehills, I am so sorry to hear this. I have not got a good opinion of the healthcare professionals generally, but this is outrageous. The lesson appears to be to pretend that you are still taking the pills, so that you can have access to the resources you need to manage your condition...

How can you tell how much visceral fat you have? I thought that this could only be found out by means of a MRI scan?

I did a (home based) glucose tolerance test on Sunday. Fbg was 4.0 and 2 hours after drinking 75grams of glucose disoved in water, it was 7.5. That's .3 below the limit for non-diabetics! It is now 2 weeks since I completed the diet, and I have not really constrained myself at all, although I...

Catherinecherub: Yes, that's the one. Sorry I couldn't reply earlier, if I access video from my work PC it set off all sorts of alarm bells in the IT dept.

Immis: Thanks. Yes, I thought that was the reasoning, but I would like maybe one of the diet architects to give a full explanation of each of the choices and restructions, and the reasoning behind each. I also suspect that the reason for Optifast was used was that it is approved for use in...

Last night the Irish national broadcaster RTE aired a show called 'Operation Transformation', the sixth in the current series. It is a weight loss production, featuring dieting leaders and a panel of fitness, diet and coaching experts. One of the sub-stories concerned Michael Casey a 5 year T2...

Immis: I did lose control a bit :oops: But I'm back on the wagon this morning. I need to loose about another stone to get my BMI firmly into the normal range. Over the 8 weeks my blood pressure has come down from 170/95 to 125/80 as well. I had my bloods taken yesterday morning at my local...

I finished my version of the Newcastle diet about a week ago. Last night I had my usual tea, plus 150g of peanuts, a generous slice of cream cake, several jelly babies, almost a whole tube of pringles and a couple of cream crackers, spread over the remainder of the evening. Result : This...