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Mellampard

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Hi everyone! Last year I had 3 months on the Lighterlife Diet, with stunning results! I did it all with my doctors permission and I lost 3 stones and my blood sugars came down to near perfect and hence my insulin came down to virtually nil! At Christmas I started introducing food, and basically, once I started eating (as I had to give up Lighterlife due to its extreme costs ) I then started to put the weight back on. I decided that even if I could not afford Lighterlife, I could try a similar diet with Slimfast. Now with the LL my blood sugars dropped almost immediately, but with SF, they are staying quite high (between 7 -10). Does anyone know if the SF diet is higher in sugars and not as suitable? I have had to put my insulin dosage back up to! I felt so well on LL, just wish I could get it on NHS, it would save them a fortune in the long run!!!
Any advice would be appreciated :wave:
 
Mellampard said:
Hi everyone! Last year I had 3 months on the Lighterlife Diet, with stunning results! I did it all with my doctors permission and I lost 3 stones and my blood sugars came down to near perfect and hence my insulin came down to virtually nil! At Christmas I started introducing food, and basically, once I started eating (as I had to give up Lighterlife due to its extreme costs ) I then started to put the weight back on. I decided that even if I could not afford Lighterlife, I could try a similar diet with Slimfast. Now with the LL my blood sugars dropped almost immediately, but with SF, they are staying quite high (between 7 -10). Does anyone know if the SF diet is higher in sugars and not as suitable? I have had to put my insulin dosage back up to! I felt so well on LL, just wish I could get it on NHS, it would save them a fortune in the long run!!!
Any advice would be appreciated :wave:
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I did the Newcastle diet earlier this year and used Atkins shakes. They are 3g of carbs per shake. The downside there is only two flavours. Once I finished the ND I came across slim and save, they have a huge selection of meal replacement shakes, much cheaper, and are on average 13g of carbs per shake.
 
The only way of losing weight and keeping it off is to maintain a balanced diet full of basic food and vitamins. I'm not sure about SF specifically but check the carb content and compare to LL. I know that the SF bars are quite high in carbs so you would require more insulin for those.
 
bethan90 said:
The only way of losing weight and keeping it off is to maintain a balanced diet full of basic food and vitamins. I'm not sure about SF specifically but check the carb content and compare to LL. I know that the SF bars are quite high in carbs so you would require more insulin for those.
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Piffle!! I did the Newcastle diet at 500 calories a day, then after that onto a normal (low carb) diet. Not only did I keep the weight off, I am still losing 1-2lbs a week.
 
I don't know anything about the Newcastle diet but 500 calories a day is a dangerous amount of calories to live off! What were you eating for 500 cals? Did you exercise with that too? Are you type 1? I don't think I could manage eating so little even if I wanted to!
 
bethan90 said:
I don't know anything about the Newcastle diet but 500 calories a day is a dangerous amount of calories to live off! What were you eating for 500 cals? Did you exercise with that too? Are you type 1? I don't think I could manage eating so little even if I wanted to!
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So dangerous that after doing the Newcastle diet I am the fittest and healthiest I have been in years, and I am still here to tell the tale. The Newcastle diet is a diet for T2 diabetics to help rid their bodies of visceral fat. It was devised by Professor Roy Taylor at the University of Newcastle, hence the name. My 500 calories were three meal replacement shakes, which I lived on for four weeks, then I added a small meal of a small amount of protein and loads of low carb veg. Yes, I also exercised. I bought a treadmill and used that. No, I am T2, it is on my signature. I don't comment on T1 as I wouldn't presume to have the knowledge to help them.

I wanted to eat so little because I wanted to give my pancreas a fighting chance, I also completed the entire 8 weeks, my diary of the whole experience is here: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=28731
 
Wow, defensive reply! I have just read about the trial and I still dont think it's healthy.
Sorry couldn't see your signature as I am on the mobile site not the full site.
 
bethan90 said:
Wow, defensive reply! I have just read about the trial and I still dont think it's healthy.
Sorry couldn't see your signature as I am on the mobile site not the full site.
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Not defensive at all, why should I be defensive? I have lived through the ND so still say your post is piffle. There is nothing wrong with a diet comprised of meal replacement shakes, they are openly and legally available to buy anywhere.
 
But they're not as healthy as say a meal of chicken breast, whole grain carb and a big plate of veggies are they? And as soon as you start eating normally again 1200+ cals then the weight will creep back on. Unless you go the rest of your life relying on shakes and scarce amounts of food. That was my original argument and I'm sticking to it :)
Just looked at your diary. Congratulations with the success but you're still not eating normally by fasting which is again dangerous! Anyway enough of my preaching, whatever works for some people doesn't for others. X
 
bethan90 said:
But they're not as healthy as say a meal of chicken breast, whole grain carb and a big plate of veggies are they? And as soon as you start eating normally again 1200+ cals then the weight will creep back on. Unless you go the rest of your life relying on shakes and scarce amounts of food. That was my original argument and I'm sticking to it :)
Just looked at your diary. Congratulations with the success but you're still not eating normally by fasting which is again dangerous! Anyway enough of my preaching, whatever works for some people doesn't for others. X
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Much healthier for me, a plate of wholegrain carbs would have my BG sky high, the meal replacement shakes helped me got and HbA1c of 4.9. I now eat 1,500 calories a day, and as I said am still losing 1-2lbs a week. So, your argument doesn't hold water. 1,500 calories is more than enough for me, I am never hungry, and run around with bags of energy, so something I am doing is right.

If the fasting I am doing is dangerous, perhaps you ought to inform the professors and professionals in this documentary, as it's their fasting I am following. Or maybe the results speak for themselves. :wink:

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