Hi I just want to thank everyone for your responses and I have decided to go ahead with the diet, I decided last week that this would be a good week to start as I have a week off work so it would be easier to settle into the diet like this.
As for once I have completed the diet my plan and I don’t know if I am being naive here was to carry on as I am now, the way I read Professor Taylor’s recommendations were to eat a third of what you eat before the diet or before diagnosis, now if I skip back two and half years and explain my whole adult life I was probably eating and drinking 3000-4000 calories a day of mostly pure junk, I was living off takeaways I would go to McDonald’s and order two burgers fries and a large coke, I would eat a large pizza by myself, I smoked 20-25 fags a day with no physical activity I was single and would get home and play my PlayStation for hours, the only thing I could "cook" was warming up ready meals, the heaviest I have weighed is 17st plus in my late 20s and I lost around 2 stone through slimming world before stopping as people were telling me I looked so much better when I should have carried on looking back the biggest surprise is that I was only 15st 4 upon diagnosis,
Fast forward to today and my life is totally different I eat a average of 1700-2000 calories a day I go cycling 2-3 times a week for a total distance of around 100 kilometres, I do resistance training twice a week I wear a Apple Watch to monitor my activity, on most days I walk between 12-15000 steps without trying, I am also now engaged so I’m not sat in front of a PlayStation for hours and just simply live a healthy lifestyle I feel so much better within myself, my biggest regret was that I let myself get into this situation before I changed my lifestyle and I have zero intention of going back to my old ways as I have never felt better my whole life.
At diagnoses my target was just to be on as little medication as I can get away with, however it has now ending on me being of all medication already and maybe this sounds weird but my concern and cold feet wobble yesterday was that this diet was just getting people to where I already am and off medication, I feel if this gives me the chance to completely "reset" my diabetes I owe it to myself to at least give it a try.
Anyway I will post updates in this topic of my progress with the diet I know this is day 1 and I am currently only one shake down but for what it’s worth this morning I weighed 11st 6lbs and my fasting glucose was 6.6.