Yes it really can. If what you have been eating has been making you ill then stopping it is like ceasing banging your head against a wall.I've been feeling pretty rubbish for years, type 2 diagnosis felt like just another blow. Yet it's also a possible answer. I'm sick, really sick, I'm not imagining this. Diet change (low carb and fasting) in one week has made me feel so much better. Can it really be as simple as this?
seriously yes, i'm like an over excited teenagerYes it really can. If what you have been eating has been making you ill then stopping it is like ceasing banging your head against a wall.
The relief can be palpable. Great isn't it..
Dunno if you have any weight to lose but if you do then just wait until the pounds start to drop off as well!seriously yes, i'm like an over excited teenager
thing is this feels like "normal". I'm a classic brought up on a post rationing UK diet then switched to low fat high carb because it's healthy.great news but it is a lifestyle change ... not a 6 week diet .. i wish you much success in avoiding the type 2 pathway ( uk )
Or not...low fat high carb because it's healthy.
i have an open mind but from my personal experience which is NOT scientific evidence i don't believe in low fat high carbohydrate at all (since one week ago) laugh nowOr not...
Not really. Green veg. No processed foods. No sugar added to everything secretly but yes a large amount added openly it seems. No mention of bread, rice pasta or potatoes. Probably a very active lifestyle. And crucially I very much doubt anyone got diagnosed as type 2 back then or at least not til it became extremely severe.the weirdest things have happened in diet. see this from George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier -
"The miner’s family spend only tenpence a week on green vegetables and tenpence half-penny on milk (remember that one of them is a child less than three years old), and nothing on fruit; but they spend one and nine on sugar (about eight pounds of sugar, that is) and a shilling on tea."
Eight pounds of sugar a week for a family of 4: the miner's wife and two children, one aged two years and five months and the other ten months.
These people had no teeth but didn't have (as far as we know diabetes). So I'm seeing something other than LCHF going on here.
What about t’ Hovis?just for interest this is the week consumption by cost (shillings and pence) as it appears in the book (the book is great):
Rent 9 0 1/2
Clothing Club 3 0
Coal 2 0
Gas 1 3
Milk 0 10 1/2
Union Fees 0 3
Insurance (on the children) 0 2
Meat 2 6
Flour (2 stone) 3 4
Yeast 0 4
Potatoes 1 0
Dripping 0 10
Margarine 0 10
Bacon 1 2
Sugar 1 9
Tea 1 0
Jam 0 7 1/2
Peas and cabbage 0 6
Carrots and onions 0 4
Quaker oats 0 4 1/2
Soap, powders, blue, etc. 0 10
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Total L1 12 0
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yup about 30kg to lose, but I've lost loads already (i don't weigh I use the "jeans are too tight" method) i think mostly fluid as the body has been flushing out glucose but i'm happy with that. Historically, when i was young, weight used to fall off me and I feel like that person again. I never used to get cravings, i could skip meals without any stress, so many things feel familiar.
...I felt like I was on death's door when I got diagnosed and discovered carbs were my kryptonite. I can walk long distances now, while I used to faceplant just trying to get around in my own home. My rheumatism is a lot better, the fatigue too, dizziness, palpatations, pain, weight... I never understood people celebrating their diaversaries until I noticed just how much that bit of knowledge, and my acting on it, changed my quality of life. So you bet I'll be celebrating it next week! Yes, it can be as simple as this.I've been feeling pretty rubbish for years, type 2 diagnosis felt like just another blow. Yet it's also a possible answer. I'm sick, really sick, I'm not imagining this. Diet change (low carb and fasting) in one week has made me feel so much better. Can it really be as simple as this?
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