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Prior to formal T2 dx I gained quite a bit of weight. At various times in that ten year period from 2010 on I tried calorie controlled diets - the 5-2, whatever. They were very successful in making me very hungry and very unhappy. I lost no weight, my weight gain continued. I was told (firmly) I wasn't diabetic as my BG wasn't high, so saw no point in starting a low carb diet (that was then).
Fast forward to December 2019. Formal T2 diagnosis at last, started on 20g carb/day. No calorie restriction, no hunger, I eat as much as I want providing I keep to the ~20g carb limit. April 2020 BG is 36. Weight loss follows, and now (after four years) totals >30kg. From the point of view of the current official advice I have done all the wrong things, and shouldn't be getting these results.
I was helped early on by a very good NHS dietitian on my "so you're a newly diagnosed T2" course who confirmed that low carb was a) safe b) nothing new c) effective and d) openly contrary to the current NHS calorie-fixated approach. He recommended this forum. His view was that dietitians currently coming out of training were much more likely to have been trained in low carb approaches, and therefore more likely to understand and support/endorse low carb, compared to those who trained 15 or 20 years ago.
That's my experience. I don't argue that what I do would have the same impact for everyone, because how would I know that? It's just that it may well be worth trying to see if it does.
Any complex system is capable of failure at a number of points. My car won't start - blown fuse? flat battery? no petrol? burnt out coil? wrong key? etc. If someone has high BGs, who can be sure where the point of failure is, particularly if nobody looks?
Fast forward to December 2019. Formal T2 diagnosis at last, started on 20g carb/day. No calorie restriction, no hunger, I eat as much as I want providing I keep to the ~20g carb limit. April 2020 BG is 36. Weight loss follows, and now (after four years) totals >30kg. From the point of view of the current official advice I have done all the wrong things, and shouldn't be getting these results.
I was helped early on by a very good NHS dietitian on my "so you're a newly diagnosed T2" course who confirmed that low carb was a) safe b) nothing new c) effective and d) openly contrary to the current NHS calorie-fixated approach. He recommended this forum. His view was that dietitians currently coming out of training were much more likely to have been trained in low carb approaches, and therefore more likely to understand and support/endorse low carb, compared to those who trained 15 or 20 years ago.
That's my experience. I don't argue that what I do would have the same impact for everyone, because how would I know that? It's just that it may well be worth trying to see if it does.
Any complex system is capable of failure at a number of points. My car won't start - blown fuse? flat battery? no petrol? burnt out coil? wrong key? etc. If someone has high BGs, who can be sure where the point of failure is, particularly if nobody looks?
