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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eggs11" data-source="post: 1706618" data-attributes="member: 468168">Hi [USER=469348]@89HysteriaCottage[/USER] - welcome to the forum! I'm tagging [USER=25759]@daisy1[/USER] who will be along soon with some great info for new forum users. re. your VLCD - so far this is working for me. I recommend taking a look, if you haven't seen it already, The Blood Sugar Diet by Michael Mosley and also the recipe book that followed it - he really talks about the 800 calories a day process in detail and give low-carb recipes that will help fill you up and not spike your blood sugars. He uses real food rather than meal replacements - depends how you want to do it really – I've found low carbing has greatly reduced my appetite and enabled me to keep at a much lower calorie level than I've ever done on a diet before.  I have been following this at roughly at 950-1000 calories a day, so expect it to take longer for me, and have now lost 24 pounds in a couple of months. My blood sugars are improving, and a recent, 2 weeks after diagnosis, hba1c result showed my weight loss, as well as a low carb diet, is helping. Check out the low calorie diet section here: <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/low-calorie-diets.24/" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/low-calorie-diets.24/</a>  for lots more tips and info - you'll find help from members who have been doing it much longer than I have. My other tip would be to make sure you drink at least 2 litres of water a day as your body will have been used to getting some of its water from the food you ate, and drastically cutting it can lead to dehydration if you don't keep topped up with water.</blockquote>

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