I have physically eaten more since my diagnosis. More regularly and more food - just LESS CARBS. My stomach upsets have stopped since eating less/brown carbs. The problem I have with her 'experiment' is that once your body gets used to the weight it is harder to lose it. So it was easier for her to shift it - she'd only just put it on.
Over the last 12 months I had put on about 2 stone (severe anaemia, no physical exertion allowed). Once I started eating low carbs it just fell off. Now I have got back to the weight I had been for the previous 20+ years I am finding it hard/slow losing any more - my body thinks this is the correct weight for me. My blood sugars never go above 6.0 in a morning (usually between 4.7 and 5.4). I feel better than I have in ages (look younger too). I have also started a new job (less stressful even though less money). Being overweight is only one small part of who we are, and why we have this condition. Katie Hopkins is just an attention seeking parasite. I can come up with excuses for being overweight (under active thyroid - busy stressful life) but the fact is I ate the wrong things, I accept that - my responsibility. But the genes, the underactive thyroid, the illness just before my diagnosis, the fact I had a baby weighing over 9lbs were not my 'fault'. Maybe if the media gave a more balanced view of the various things that increase your risk of Type 2 instead of blaming everything on being overweight I would have seen that I ticked a heck of a lot of the boxes and acted sooner.
Glad the media and Katie Hopkins know exactly what causes Type 2 because one thing I have learned from this forum is that the experts don't know the cause - and therefore don't agree on how to 'treat' it. That all we can do is share what works for us - and help others find a way that helps them too.