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Excellent news - well done. By coincidence I had my first face-to-face appointment with the GP since over 4 years ago (end of 2019) when we agreed that I come off medication. At the time I would have signed immediately if he would have told me that I can sustain this for years. What you are...

I suggest that you google "olive oil diabetes" and you will find lots of links to studies that all point to olive oil being beneficial to blood sugar levels Olive oil is your friend. I use it for everything,

on the risk of derailing the discussion, Why are you saying "stop drinking alcohol" as a general statement? There are many benefits of reducing or stopping drinking alcohol, including losing or not gaining weight. Regarding T2, some alcoholic beverages give spikes, for example beer is "liquid...

Excellent, well done @KeithAnd. I second @KennyA putting this in success stories, please. How did you make this change sustainable, what is your diet now?

I will let the surgery know

I went so see the nurse for my annual review today and was rather pleasantly surprised. Someone at the surgery must have seen the light. The nurse gave me a five page guide called "Aiming for Remission in Type 2 Diabetes - Information Sheet. If I understood correctly, the document was written...

When discussing recently on another thread @aris pointed to a TEDx talk by Ruben Meerman, author of the paper When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go? on which this thread was based on. While this discussion took place almost 3 years ago, this is all still relevant, so for...

Apologies, I stand corrected and I learned something. I hadn't thought about a possible connection between basal body temperature and metabolic base rate. Thus I can't make a scientific comment on this. I recall a very tragic accident where seven people died in an avalanche. One was a friend of...

It appears that you mistyped: "basal temperature" is used to monitor if a woman ovulates. Assuming you meant to say "having a low metabolic base rate" then correct you burn fewer calories. You can read a lot, which is not true, jogging = walking is one of these. When we do sports we say we burn...

I read through this thread just now and see people arguing about laws of physics, calorie-in-calorie-out (CICO) and more. This is an example of disagreement between people using terms differently due to their background, there is also a bit of what I call "violent agreement", where people argue...

i used to fly a lot, less so since the pandemic. My solution is to use travel days as intermittent fasting days, I never liked airport or airline food anyway. On short flights I simply don't eat and fill up my water bottle after security, I know where the fountains are in airports.I rarely do...

Hi @TOnline welcome to the forum. Regarding fizzy drinks, I had the same cravings when I was diagnosed with T2. I immediately went cold turkey and just stopped drinking cola et al. It worked. I don't drink sugar free cola et al. either, as this still makes me hungry 2 hours later. Basically, I...

@lovinglife thanks for saying this. I agree with you. It is so important to say this. If you are diagnosed with diabetes and are actively trying to improve your health, you are never failing, you are already winning. I would not use the word "magic", an HbA1c in the 30s is simply an Hb1Ac in the...

Hi @itsnotme welcome to the forum. You will get lots of useful information here. First rule is don't panic. Diabetes is a marathon not a sprint. While some people have had quick success by going very low carb (below 50 g), addressing the issues one step at a time is also a way forward and easier...

Hi @AndBreathe, thanks for kind words and letting me know your experience. It's good to hear that eating differently can actually work. I am of course discussing this with my partner. To be clear, she is great and would support me, we are discussing this regulalry. It is me who would like to...

Hi @Lisa5 , welcome to the forum. Fasting seems to have benefits in many ways. I've reduced my HbA1c into the 40s with intermittent fasting IF), and have a thread with my story https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/my-story-so-far-with-regular-updates.202342/ Note that we are all...

It is now a bit over 4 years that I lowered by HbA1c into the 40s, and I have been off medication since Dec 2019. Since then I have been continuing with intermittent fasting (IF) (5+2) with no almost carbs on fast days, i.e. lots of vegetables, soups, salads, an egg, a bit of fish or chicken...

I've realised that I posted my results in random threads so far, thus I've decided to collect these posts here. I will give the latest update in the next post. My first post is from Dec 2019, when I joined the forum. I copy the first few paragraphs here as this gives my back story. "I am a 59...

Let me add my congratulations on lowering your HbA1c. well done @IanBish I noted that my Cholesterol numbers have been coming down with time, so I definitely wouldn't rush a decision. I've just posted a link regarding statins that I posted some time ago, to a question by @Mr Hairyman, see...

Let me add my congratulations on lowering your HbA1c. well done @Mr Hairyman. QRisk calculators (there are several versions) are very crude. I played with them and realised the following. They basically add roughly 10% to your risk of heart disease, when you tick the T2D box, independent of how...