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I do worry about the comment " it certainly wont do them any harm" reducing overall carb intake ?- absolutely agree, very low carb? High fat? - the jury's out IMOWe certainly are.. 2 years ago I was a newly diagnosed Type 2 and decided that very low carb was probably a great idea for me so I did it and had great success. I still can't see why that advice isn't good for all newly diagnosed to try. It certainly won't do them any harm and may well bring their deranged metabolism back under control. As you say you are different and have had Type 2 for many years but still low carb to control it.. When switching away from a high carb diet then the higher fat intake stops hunger and so there is less incentive to "cheat".
A lot less harm than the "Eatwell Plate" advice surely though..?I do worry about the comment " it certainly wont do them any harm" reducing overall carb intake ?- absolutely agree, very low carb? High fat? - the jury's out IMO
No argument there but vlcarb and hf arent even the be all and end all of carb reduction let alone of potentially helpful dietary approaches to type 2A lot less harm than the "Eatwell Plate" advice surely though..?
Grey hair? I started going grey at 22. No one else in my family went grey until their late fifties. It is absolutely nothing to do with age. My father went bald in his twenties as my eldest son did. My middle son at 25 is receding but my youngest shows no signs. Sometimes it's just the luck of the draw.I mentioned my age to someone I met recently and she was surprised.
We have, from time to time met up with people from our youth and as a couple we seem to be wearing a lot better.
My husband does eat more carbs than me, but I have a limit of about 60gm per day, so he could be considered to be low carbing by some standards.
My sister, three years younger than me, has aged far faster, and has had grey hair for a very long time, whilst mine is still mostly dark.
I have been accused of having a portrait in the attic a few times.
I hate doing the ND. I am hungry a lot of the time and absolutely ravenous some of the time. I find it very hard. However I am so grateful to have the opportunity of reversing my T2 that I am more than willing to put up with it. After all it is only for a few weeks and the prize is so great. When I am flagging I think of all those diabetes complications I shall be missing out on!
Thank you for your confidence in me AlexMagd!You can do it! You have the right attitude
I don't post on many ND threads but I follow them - still continuously impressed at people's determination to get them done. Best of luck with yours!!
But when newly diagnosed and wishing to reduce high blood sugar levels quickly that is probably the best advice. Cut out as many carbs as possible.. if you want to reintroduce some later then try it. Hopefully you will have had such good results by cutting out carbs then you won't want to re-introduce and you will in the meantime re-educated your palate to not seek sugar or sweet things. When you first start out you don't need to track macros and certainly in my case I didn't need to watch calories for the weight to fall off me. Yes I have stalled a couple of times but a bit of fasting has helped through those and I'm now nearing target weight. (or at least where my mind tells me I want to be although my body is maybe saying something else).
BETA cells have died - how would you produce any insulin then?I think ND is for those diagnosed under 4 years ago, when there is an 87% chance of its working. You might try it up to 8 years after diagnosis there's still a 50% chance of its working. Much longer than that, say 10 years after diagnosis its likely your beta cells will have died. If so, all you can do is LCHF to prevent many sugars going into your body.
very low carbs for me, a newbie T2, didn't work and set back my motivation to do anything at all for many months as i couldn't follow it. I hear that LC works for many ppl but we are not all the same. I am making a new start with 100gr carbs per day abd i ll give it 3 months. I find the tone of some comments about low-carb-intake "dogmatic" and for me that is off putting. Remember that science findings change all the time: what we considered beneficial in (recent) past is an anathema nowadays. So pls hold your fire.But when newly diagnosed and wishing to reduce high blood sugar levels quickly that is probably the best advice. Cut out as many carbs as possible.. if you want to reintroduce some later then try it. Hopefully you will have had such good results by cutting out carbs then you won't want to re-introduce and you will in the meantime re-educated your palate to not seek sugar or sweet things. When you first start out you don't need to track macros and certainly in my case I didn't need to watch calories for the weight to fall off me. Yes I have stalled a couple of times but a bit of fasting has helped through those and I'm now nearing target weight. (or at least where my mind tells me I want to be although my body is maybe saying something else).
very low carbs for me, a newbie T2, didn't work and set back my motivation to do anything at all for many months as i couldn't follow it. I hear that LC works for many ppl but we are not all the same. I am making a new start with 100gr carbs per day abd i ll give it 3 months. I find the tone of some comments about low-carb-intake "dogmatic" and for me that is off putting. Remember that science findings change all the time: what we considered beneficial in (recent) past is an anathema nowadays. So pls hold your fire.
BETA cells have died - how would you produce any insulin then?
Expert multi-disciplinary groups will be reviewing the evidence and making recommendations later this year both on defining T2DM remission and on the use of LCHF diets for diabetes.
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