I AM TOTALLY CONFUSED
I have been diabetic since 2002. I was told that my diabetes would progress and so it did. First Metformin then I started using insulin 7 years ago. The dosage was gradually increased.
Four years ago I read Dr David Cavan’s book “Reversing your Diabetes”. As I result I changed my eating lifestyle. As a result I halved my insulin intake overnight and lost almost 10kg in about 10 weeks. Great. Perhaps, as Dr Cavan suggests my diabetes may not be progressive after all.
However further reductions in insulin have not followed and I seemed to have plateaued.
Earlier this year my diabetic specialist prescribed Jardiance. At first I thought that this would be the answer. I started losing more weight and was able to halve my insulin intake again. However, within a month I was in hospital for the first time in 50 years with a serious urinary infection.
This has made me determined to get off insulin and diabetes medication altogether and reverse my diabetes. But how?
This is my dilemma – everywhere I look I get conflicting evidence and “advice”.
1. I could follow the Diabetes UK Healthy eating sheet given to me recently which recommends “Avoid skipping meals”, “eat pasta, easy cook rice, new potatoes”, “Cut down on fat – eat low fat or diet yoghurts”, “a small glass of fruit juice or fruit smoothie” etc.
2. In total contrast to “Avoid skipping meals”, Dr Jason Fung recommends Intermittent Fasting as a solution.
3. Dr Eric Berg recommends “carbs must be reduced. Fats can be increased”
4. Dr. Neal Barnard of PCRM tells us that it is the fat in the cells that makes them insulin resistant. “The old approach had us cutting down on carbohydrates.” “A low-fat vegetarian approach recognizes that whole-food carbohydrates are fine; it’s the fat in our diets that is the problem.”
You see my problem, and I believe the problem facing all type 2 diabetics. These recommendations are contradictory and in some cases mutually exclusive. In fact you only need to look at this website to see the abundance of diets and methods suggested.
There are probably other non-medicine solutions out there. Does it matter which one I choose? This is so important to me that I don’t want to make a bad choice. Do I have to give them all a go to find out for myself what actually works?
nolly53
I have been diabetic since 2002. I was told that my diabetes would progress and so it did. First Metformin then I started using insulin 7 years ago. The dosage was gradually increased.
Four years ago I read Dr David Cavan’s book “Reversing your Diabetes”. As I result I changed my eating lifestyle. As a result I halved my insulin intake overnight and lost almost 10kg in about 10 weeks. Great. Perhaps, as Dr Cavan suggests my diabetes may not be progressive after all.
However further reductions in insulin have not followed and I seemed to have plateaued.
Earlier this year my diabetic specialist prescribed Jardiance. At first I thought that this would be the answer. I started losing more weight and was able to halve my insulin intake again. However, within a month I was in hospital for the first time in 50 years with a serious urinary infection.
This has made me determined to get off insulin and diabetes medication altogether and reverse my diabetes. But how?
This is my dilemma – everywhere I look I get conflicting evidence and “advice”.
1. I could follow the Diabetes UK Healthy eating sheet given to me recently which recommends “Avoid skipping meals”, “eat pasta, easy cook rice, new potatoes”, “Cut down on fat – eat low fat or diet yoghurts”, “a small glass of fruit juice or fruit smoothie” etc.
2. In total contrast to “Avoid skipping meals”, Dr Jason Fung recommends Intermittent Fasting as a solution.
3. Dr Eric Berg recommends “carbs must be reduced. Fats can be increased”
4. Dr. Neal Barnard of PCRM tells us that it is the fat in the cells that makes them insulin resistant. “The old approach had us cutting down on carbohydrates.” “A low-fat vegetarian approach recognizes that whole-food carbohydrates are fine; it’s the fat in our diets that is the problem.”
You see my problem, and I believe the problem facing all type 2 diabetics. These recommendations are contradictory and in some cases mutually exclusive. In fact you only need to look at this website to see the abundance of diets and methods suggested.
There are probably other non-medicine solutions out there. Does it matter which one I choose? This is so important to me that I don’t want to make a bad choice. Do I have to give them all a go to find out for myself what actually works?
nolly53