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Is type 2 reversible with Prof Roy Taylor

Andrew Colvin said:
I have posted some of my graphs previously and I saw a step changed at about 15% reduction. That step change was not only tightening up my levels but also a step change in my blood pressure. Blood pressure hasn't really change from that point but as I have lost more I hve found a reduction in the peak level after eating but this may be caused by eating more carbs.
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I've found my BP has improved with weight loss . I have lost about 4st and upped my exercise from zero to 30 minutes a day so it should have some effect!! Currently averaging 5.4 on my meter though of course there will be higher levels I'm not seeing. I don't eat many carbs and avoid bread , pasta , rice and most forms of spuds - some of that isn't diabetes related as I had issues with wheat for years prior to diagnosis so am doing my gut a favour as well as my BG levels. I do miss the ease of carbs but not the pain post eating.
 
cold ethyl said:
I've found my BP has improved with weight loss . I have lost about 4st and upped my exercise from zero to 30 minutes a day so it should have some effect!! Currently averaging 5.4 on my meter though of course there will be higher levels I'm not seeing. I don't eat many carbs and avoid bread , pasta , rice and most forms of spuds - some of that isn't diabetes related as I had issues with wheat for years prior to diagnosis so am doing my gut a favour as well as my BG levels. I do miss the ease of carbs but not the pain post eating.
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Only good thing about my heath really is that I have never had high BP. Cold and Andrew, how many carbs do you think you were having per day pre diagnosis?
 
just prior to diagnosis - probably about 10000000000 g per hour

So 4 slices taost for breakfast glass of orange juice or 2, baguette for lunch with bottle coke (not diet), dinner would be pie & chips with lots of chips and huge bowl of ice cream, pint of milk to drink. During the day probably 2 or 3 snickers and 2 doughnuts, hot choclate several times throughout the day. The important thing is my exercise was the walk from the car to the lift at work (about 100 yards)

So all in all 300g/day is low carb as far as my body is concerned

edit: Oh and I forgot the couple of dreaded bananas at lunch
 
Andrew Colvin said:
just prior to diagnosis - probably about 10000000000 g per hour

So 4 slices taost for breakfast glass of orange juice or 2, baguette for lunch with bottle coke (not diet), dinner would be pie & chips with lots of chips and huge bowl of ice cream, pint of milk to drink. During the day probably 2 or 3 snickers and 2 doughnuts, hot choclate several times throughout the day. The important thing is my exercise was the walk from the car to the lift at work (about 100 yards)

So all in all 300g/day is low carb as far as my body is concerned

edit: Oh and I forgot the couple of dreaded bananas at lunch
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Ye Gods Andrew - no wonder something gave out.

Glad you survived to tell the tale!
 
yep I put it down to stress of the job I was working on for the last 5 years where I was doing 8AM to 9PM every day

However, I was always hungry for more sugar until I overdosed and I could not get the taste from my mouth and was then having to drink loads of water. Classic symptoms really
 
Before diagnosis bacon sandwich most mornings - two slices whole grain bread or even low cal nimble if being good , if not a white bun or some french stick.
Lunch most days jacket spud beans cheese coleslaw salad
Dinner curry with onion bajhias, naan, rice, or pasta dish or jacket spud and chilli - massive pile of carbs whatever I had.
Snacks apples, occasional magnum, more french bread and cheese or ham.
Looking back I was eating enough for two of me, and certainly enough carbs for a whole family. And yet I was always hungry and craving more of them.
 
this is too difficult two said:
Bloody hell. So that's what self inflicted means:p
Sounds more like an overdose.
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Interesting that you say that but it was like I would stuff it down me until my body couldn't take any more and I would feel sick

this is too difficult two said:
Do you think that there is a chance you were just overwhelming your system rather than being fully diabetic?
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I overwhelmed it but my question is why did I need to? Was it stress, greed, lack of control, insulin resistance? If I hadn't become sensitive to bananas 2 years earlier would I never have gotten diabetic levels and be dead now?
 
cold ethyl said:
Before diagnosis bacon sandwich most mornings - two slices whole grain bread or even low cal nimble if being good , if not a white bun or some french stick.
Lunch most days jacket spud beans cheese coleslaw salad
Dinner curry with onion bajhias, naan, rice, or pasta dish or jacket spud and chilli - massive pile of carbs whatever I had.
Snacks apples, occasional magnum, more french bread and cheese or ham.
Looking back I was eating enough for two of me, and certainly enough carbs for a whole family. And yet I was always hungry and craving more of them.
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Andrew makes you sound like Dr Atkins.
 
Although interestingly my cholesterol levels were fine with just my trigs a little higher than they should be and HDL down correspondingly - one of the reasons I focused on hazelnuts along with the arginine in them
 
Andrew Colvin said:
Although interestingly my cholesterol levels were fine with just my trigs a little higher than they should be and HDL down correspondingly - one of the reasons I focused on hazelnuts along with the arginine in them
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Andrew - Aside from the obvious of there being less of you to love, has your wife commented on any changes in you as you have progressed through your journey?
 
AndBreathe said:
Andrew - Aside from the obvious of there being less of you to love, has your wife commented on any changes in you as you have progressed through your journey?
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Oh she is really proud and doesn't understand why I never did it previously. She tells people it is like having a new husband. I have so much more energy, life in me and just willing to do things instead of just sit on my computer
 
Lol.

I am soooo jealous. All those gorgeous carbs.

I've been cutting down on carbs for 30 years. Never buying bread. Or potatoes. Only treating myself to bread, rice, pasta or potatoes if was out for a meal. No sugar except for my chocolate addiction. I used palm sugar, then agave nectar, then xylitol as fashions changed...

For me, a terribly high carb day would never have gone over 150g carbs.

Ok, so I may have delayed getting type 2 for decades, but those whole 30 years were a constant grind of carb cravings. And I still got fat!

My goodness, I'm off to cry in a corner, weeping green tears of jealousy...
 
Brunneria said:
Lol.

I am soooo jealous. All those gorgeous carbs.

I've been cutting down on carbs for 30 years. Never buying bread. Or potatoes. Only treating myself to bread, rice, pasta or potatoes if was out for a meal. No sugar except for my chocolate addiction. I used palm sugar, then agave nectar, then xylitol as fashions changed...

For me, a terribly high carb day would never have gone over 150g carbs.

Ok, so I may have delayed getting type 2 for decades, but those whole 30 years were a constant grind of carb cravings. And I still got fat!

My goodness, I'm off to cry in a corner, weeping green tears of jealousy...
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I gave up bread at uni along with pasta and felt better for it but started again when I married and worked. Over the years I ate more carbs as I felt I needed food but didn't dare eat more of the heart threatening meat part of any dish... Guess the joke was on me.
 
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