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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlcalaBob" data-source="post: 1660196" data-attributes="member: 30529">Week 4 Day 24 Wednesday 3rd January. FBG 6.7 Weight 101.1kgAgain no clear reason as to why the blood should have risen again.  Nothing at all eaten that could explain this. I've been at 30 units of insulin for five days.  Insulin of course slows down weight loss and the liver recovery is slowed down if weight loss is slowed down. Potentially that means that I could slow the weight loss so much that recovery of the pancreas will take an inordinately long time to occur, which would consequently leave me dependent on insulin for a long time and the treatment could stall in a loop. So I'm trying a mini-experiment.  Today I've reduced my insulin to 20 units and we'll see what that does to the blood glucose level.  If it goes up by not too much, I'll stick with it and see what happens to the weight loss.  More weight loss should result in less insulin resistance and therefore better control again. If it goes up too much, I'll have to increase the insulin again. (I'll be pondering what might be too much.) It seems like a rock and a hard place, or at least somewhere between cold turkey and a cold shake...Thanks to [USER=410240]@ringi[/USER] for stimulating consideration of this mini-experiment. It's almost as if, at this stage in the diet, those on insulin might have to manage the dose down to a level below that which prevents weight loss. I wouldn't recommend stopping the insulin totally at the outset unless you have the support of your GP.  In my case, he's not supportive and he'd just tell me to go back on all the meds...  It'll be interesting to see what happens over the next few days.</blockquote>

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