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 averaged a loss of one kilo a month. I often thought of writing here for advice as the loneliness of the long distance dieter after six months does not seem to be well covered. Anyhow I kept recording weight and food intake daily and keeping carbs below 40g, sometimes below 20g and calories around 1200-1400 a day. And apart from one pub Yorkshire pudding (on a day when I lost a kilo!) I have shunned carbs, grains, alcohol and the like. I can say at least that I seem to have lost the taste for them.
So after a visit to my GP today I can reveal that my weight is about 31-32 kilos lower than this time last year, on their scales, and my HbA1c is 34. A year ago I was taking Metformin twice daily and at least 72 units of insulin. But for the last six months, no medication at all for diabetes.
Oh, and despite advancing years I am walking between five and seven miles most days. Hope that doesn't sound too smug, but a year ago, my ultra- obese former self could never have imagined any of this. The low carb diet was just a try out of a last resort after years of trying to get thin. (I was originally diagnosed as diabetic around 2000.) But let me confess, I think I still have another 20 kilos to lose. No reason to be very smug as yet--though I have reverted from a spherical to a 'normal' shape.
So after a visit to my GP today I can reveal that my weight is about 31-32 kilos lower than this time last year, on their scales, and my HbA1c is 34. A year ago I was taking Metformin twice daily and at least 72 units of insulin. But for the last six months, no medication at all for diabetes.
Oh, and despite advancing years I am walking between five and seven miles most days. Hope that doesn't sound too smug, but a year ago, my ultra- obese former self could never have imagined any of this. The low carb diet was just a try out of a last resort after years of trying to get thin. (I was originally diagnosed as diabetic around 2000.) But let me confess, I think I still have another 20 kilos to lose. No reason to be very smug as yet--though I have reverted from a spherical to a 'normal' shape.
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