GP's unless progressive and have an interest in diabetes are not taught anything about nutrition and diabetes training is mainly about maintaining your BS levels with medication. Do not expect too much on your first appointment and more than likely you will be booked, if you haven't already, for a blood test and referral to the local diabetes clinic. I hope that the clinics have improved since I attended in 2014 and have caught up with the research on T2D Reversal. You are obviously researching the subject yourself and more than likely will know as much if not more than your GP by the time you get to your appointment.I got diagnosed type 2 this week but won’t have my appointment with my GP where she can go over everything with me til after Easter. This two weeks I’ve gone very low calorie as low carb and I’m going to alternate day fast to see what it does to my blood sugar. So far I’ve tested after not eating anything for 36 hours (that’s including sleeping obviously!) and my mmol/L when I tested it for the very first time was 6.8. So I’m not worried about hypo attacks.
In the past when I’ve had to drop a couple of dress sizes quickly and sustain it for a limited period of time (ie to fit into an outfit etc) I’ve had the most success with alternate day fasting. So once I know all my bloods and FINGERS CROSSED my GP will decide I don’t need medication or insulin, I’ll have a go at returning to that but long term and with much fewer carbs!
From my own experience, and everyone is different, ignore calories and concentrate on cutting the carbs. As you are used to fasting your are already half way towards reversing your T2D. Keep up the good work.
