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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lupf" data-source="post: 2227589" data-attributes="member: 518059">[USER=223921]@JohnEGreen[/USER]  [USER=480869]@HSSS[/USER] [USER=245335]@DavidGrahamJones[/USER]Our arguing seems to be a case of "violent agreement" if you know the term.  We all agree that eating too much carbs is what  makes us fat and causes T2 diabetes  and that LHCF works. Of course I understand that the relation between my weight loss and blood sugar is a correlation and not a causation.  I never meant to imply otherwise.Only recently I learned (on these fora) that LCHF can reduce Hb1Ac very rapidly as e.g. David reports. This is very interesting as I came from a slightly different angle where it was all about weight loss. Soon after I was diagnosed with T2,  I read about the Newcastle diet (Dr Taylor) where you only eat 600 calories for 8 weeks, which possibly can reverse diabetes. At the time I decided  that I would not be able to do this. Since long I  had my suspicions about (low-fat) diets which almost always fail. Before a year ago I never dieted in my life. The books by Michael Moseley also seemed to focus on losing weight, especially belly fat. Thus when a year ago I was asked to take additional medicine apart from Metformin, I decided to give 5+2 a go and I wrote down that I want to lose 10 kg. It turned out that for me intermittent fasting worked and that I achieved my goal. I now weigh the same as I did when I was a 19 year-old athlete. I am very happy about this and that (despite the recent setback) my Hb1Ac has come down considerably and my GP agreed that I stop taking metformin.Over this year I learned a lot. In particle the "The Diabetes Code" by Jason Fung puts all of it on a scientific basis. It all makes sense now. The medical establishment had it all wrong, in particular the cause of getting fat and T2 diabetes - (Hyperinsulinemia) and insulin resistance is - and the vilification of fat.Regarding my future steps I am continuing with fast days and as someone suggested I try to reproduce the situation I was at the end of last November. I hope the weather improves soon so that I can go cycling again.</blockquote>

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