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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Defren" data-source="post: 313974" data-attributes="member: 41817">I do count calories. The reason being, it has taken until pretty recently to find a way for me to eat enough +/- to make sure I have steady weight loss. When first diagnosed, many will remember Metformin decimated my appetite and a lot of days I was struggling to eat 400 calories. After the Newcastle Diet, I had shrunken tummy, and still struggled to eat enough. So, bit by bit, I fiddled around with my calories until I found a figure that worked for me. I worked out 1,500 calories a day gave me a pretty steady weight loss, I was never hungry, so stuck to that.I finished week four of the 5:2 fast yesterday, with very low calories, and I often struggle to make the 1,500. But, I try very hard to reach that as it does help. With diabetes I strongly think it's all personal choice. There is no right or wrong way. By Monday I will have reached normal BMI - I hope, and want to get to around the middle of the normal range. Once I do and I am maintaining, my calories will have to rise, but for now, it's working fine for me the way I am doing it. I still put carbs above calories and always will.</blockquote>

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