I guess I should have wrote a longer opening post to include that I have read all of the NC diet studies and know about the fat threshold claim. However how do you calculate that threshold ? I am some 25 KG lighter now than I was when I was diagnosed but I still have diabetes. There must be more to this than just an 8 week time frame or 15% weight loss.
I read the link above some time ago and I believe it has a classification all of its own.
As I understand it, nobody can calculate the personal fat threshold, and of course that is Professor Taylor's working theory. By the end of this current 5-year study he may have a clearer or even different idea about it.
Unfortunately, the ND doesn't work for everyone, in terms of reversing (or whatever) their diabetes. This has been known since the very first of his studies, with less than a dozen subjects. Not all of those reversed.
One constant in the management of T2 diabetes seems to be the desire that T2s stay trim. In a discussion a few months ago with an Endo, about something other than diabetes, I explained that I had been experimenting with my food intake; experimenting with swapping my main meal from evening to lunchtime, and a few other things. His only comment was, "Don't put weight on."
On a more general note, I call T2 a portfolio condition; meaning that it covers a wide range of symptoms, and is pretty much a catch-all for anything that isn't in the T1 portfolio (T1, T1.5, LADA and) or Gestational, so it feels reasonable to consider that one size won't fit all for improvements when the true cause of the individual's T2 may differ from the next man.
I have said many times that I was lucky that my T2 was diagnosed when it was, because my body was still healthy enough to recover itself, very quickly, into the great place I'm in today. Sadly, not everybody achieves that and/or for some people it takes a lot longer to achieve. It's such a frustratingly individual thing.
I do hope you achieve what you hope for with your diabetes.
