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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Art Of Flowers" data-source="post: 2702127" data-attributes="member: 375067">I took Metformin for about 6 months and stopped (with agreement from my diabetes nurse) once my blood glucose levels were down in the normal range (below 7.0).When I first was diagnosed my blood glucose level was over 13, so I looked at what I ate and stopped eating anything containing sugar. My "healthy" breakfast cereal Jordan's Country Crisp actually contains 25% sugar, so I stopped eating that. When I saw my diabetes nurse, she have me a blood glucose meter (Accu Chek Mobile) and the initial reading was over 9.0. Over the next 3 months I managed to reduce these glucose levels by changing what I ate using a low carb diet. I also lost a lot of weight (14Kg) during this time, going from obese to merely overweight.The foods I stopped eating were breakfast cereal, bread, potatoes, rice, bananas, pasta, pizza. I ate more high fat food including cheese, cream, nuts, avocados. I learned a lot about reversing type 2 diabetes from watching youtube videos as such as ...[MEDIA=youtube]da1vvigy5tQ[/MEDIA]There is a low carb forum here  ... <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/low-carb-diet-forum.18/" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/low-carb-diet-forum.18/</a> plus there is some educational and diet advice available here too.</blockquote>

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