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<blockquote data-quote="sally and james" data-source="post: 614618" data-attributes="member: 93504"><p>[USER=121583]@Sidbear[/USER] wrote, "To what do you put it down to??</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Very detailed record keeping of everything eaten at every meal, including weight of relevant items, timings, exercise, using my own spreadsheet, which changed and developed as needs arose. Making use of coloured highlights to help me spot patterns and highlight certain ingredients. Spending quite a lot of time pouring over it, working out what was doing what. Testing ever decreasing amounts of some items, such as porridge. Testing before and after meals and sometimes several times after meals, to make sure we developed a good understanding of the effects of foods. In other words, being obsessed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Being a bad tempered old bag, who had total hysterics if he so much as looked at a banned foodstuff, plus following the same diet myself., so a supportive bad tempered old bag!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Being a competent cook, with a good knowledge of what is in what and having some scientific knowledge of nutrition. - Not essential, but almost certainly gave me a head start.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A steely determination not to be beaten.</li> </ul><p>And after all of that, it turned out to be simply case of cutting out almost all cereals, flour products, bread, pasta, rice, sugars, fruit, potatoes, anything at all sweet. This is what we both continue to do, over a year later. Spreadsheets, temper tantrums and frequent testing all went with the last of the metformin - as our doctor said, when told that he had stopped taking it, "well, you don't need it, do you".</p><p></p><p>Sally</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sally and james, post: 614618, member: 93504"] [USER=121583]@Sidbear[/USER] wrote, "To what do you put it down to?? [LIST] [*]Very detailed record keeping of everything eaten at every meal, including weight of relevant items, timings, exercise, using my own spreadsheet, which changed and developed as needs arose. Making use of coloured highlights to help me spot patterns and highlight certain ingredients. Spending quite a lot of time pouring over it, working out what was doing what. Testing ever decreasing amounts of some items, such as porridge. Testing before and after meals and sometimes several times after meals, to make sure we developed a good understanding of the effects of foods. In other words, being obsessed. [*]Being a bad tempered old bag, who had total hysterics if he so much as looked at a banned foodstuff, plus following the same diet myself., so a supportive bad tempered old bag! [*]Being a competent cook, with a good knowledge of what is in what and having some scientific knowledge of nutrition. - Not essential, but almost certainly gave me a head start. [*]A steely determination not to be beaten. [/LIST] And after all of that, it turned out to be simply case of cutting out almost all cereals, flour products, bread, pasta, rice, sugars, fruit, potatoes, anything at all sweet. This is what we both continue to do, over a year later. Spreadsheets, temper tantrums and frequent testing all went with the last of the metformin - as our doctor said, when told that he had stopped taking it, "well, you don't need it, do you". Sally [/QUOTE]
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