ebony321 said:
Your not following the herbalife as you should, as you've found the shakes are 'orrible. So your eating alot of veg and soup. To me this just sounds like a very low-carb diet?
Yes, I'm not following herbalife strictly. I don't care. I'm in charge. In any case, the original study used optifast not herbalife. The main thing is that I am restricting my calorie intake to 600-800 cals per day.
ebony321 said:
Secondly to monitor if you are infact 'curing' your diabetes, shouldn't you be testing more?
Not at this stage, no. The only test that really matters is the oral glucose tolerance test that I will take when I reach a BMI of 24. Complete weight loss will mean complete defatizing of my pancreas, thereby restoration of insulin secretion, and restoration of peripheral insulin sensitivity.
ebony321 said:
If you then have indeed cured your diabetes. you could then eat what the heck you wanted, mars bars, bags of crisps. Homer sized sandwiches. because if you can't, i'm sorry you do still have diabetes, because your body still cant process carbs like someone without diabetes can.
Which i haven't heard of ANYONE be able to do that.
Read the success stories thread. A girl with terrible diabetes went on some radical diet and ended up being turned away by a clinic when she asked for follow up care. The clinic said "You don't have diabetes". Others say that they still take care of what they eat but that if they pig out occasionally, like at Christmas, their blood sugar readings remain non-diabetic.
Of course, if I were cured and then started to eat the way I did before I became diabetic, then naturally diabetes would recur. In my case I think the damage was done when I was living as a bachelor in France. Half a baguette filled with cheese, onion, tomato and mayonnaise with a big bag of crisps and half a liter of coca cola. Hyperinsulinemia, overeating, obesity, fatty liver, hey presto diabetes.
ebony321 said:
i simply do not believe diabetes can be cured.
Oh ye of little faith! I was reading last night that some doctors view diabetes as a natural condition of the body as a defense mechanism for when there is too much lipid content in muscle cells; in other words, diabetes is not even a 'disease' or 'disorder'. Apparently excess lipids in cells are difficult to shift. Perhaps the total cure is a combination of weight loss and the time (3 years?) necessary for the cells to die and be replaced.
ebony321 said:
With your south park avatars. You cure your diabetes and i will happily re-voke all my questions, ponderings and doubts!!! Heck, you do it and i'll get a south park avatar!
If you read the study carefully, very carefully, I mean in the small print, you will see that having a south park avatar is an essential part of the protocol. Come join us, friend.