Anyone else doing the Newcastle diet?

results = HbA1c 33, eat whatever carbs I like, fortune spent on new clothes

started two weeks today so far lost 14lb , now 14 stone , average 7 day glucose 6.0, blood pressure average 125/85 target weight is 13stone.
feel much more alert, no hunger pangs, designing my own meals plus vitamin pill - so far so good. Understanding food pitfalls much more

Yes, I intend to start in about a week's time. I an going out tonight and to the O2 to the Elvis exhibition on Monday and have then crammed in all the things I need to do in that week, including seeing my diabetic nurse to tell her (I have never actually seen a doctor).

I have bought the powder to make my drinks (Superdrug own make) and am thinking of having two per day plus one meal of just veg + a dash of oil (extra virgin olive/coconut oil. Good luck to you all and wish me luck.

I have no weight to lose (in fact I really need to put some on) but I think I must be the classic case of "thin outside, fat inside! Hopefully the diet will shift any liver and pancreas fat and I won't disappear altogether!!!

Andrew, I have already had to buy new clothes as since diagnosis and reducing my carbs I have lost a stone and a half taking me from 8 and a half (good weight for me) to 7 stone. My jeans were falling off me. I now wear a size 6 jeans and have no idea where I can get smaller ones as all the usual makes (M&S, Next etc.) onlyu go down to a size 6 and I refuse to pay a fortune for designer jeans that I will hopefully only need for a few months.

Flashtash2014 said:

I have just over 2 weeks left my meds have been reduced my BG levels rarely go above 5 lowest has been 2.7 but still feel fine. Lost over 2 stone so far aiming to get under 10 stone so shouldn't be a problem at 10 now GP reckons at this rate I will be off the meds in 4-6 months result

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Wow, great to hear, good luck. I am only on metformin twice a day plus statin so it would be great to be drug free; I have never been on anything before except the occasional ibuprofen for a headache! I was on Januvia (sitaglyptin) but reading about it I refused to take it ever again.

Flashtash2014 said:

But it's the hard work that starts after the diet I still want to enjoy all the foods that I'm not supposed to eat ie pasta bread potatoes etc but in moderation

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Did you see the programme a couple of months ago where when you cooked pasta and ate it hot the BS went up more than if you ate it later cold. If you reheated it the next day the BS went up even less? The theory was that it altered something in the structure of the pasta to make it less well absorbed by the gut. Worth knowing. At the moment I couldn't eat it any which way but it would be lovely to have a small amount of things while sticking to the LCHF diet most of the time. I really miss having fresh fruit and it would be fantastic to be able to go back to eating it in moderation.