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LCHF - How long have you been on it?

Fleegle

Fleegle

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
I was following link after link on the Diet Doctor web site, various MDs blogs when I came across a group of people who were asking for help. Type 2s. And some of them were suggesting that they had done LCHF for a while and had really great results but overtime the BG starts to rise - even though their diet was the same and they were on less than 20G carbs a day.

I wanted to see how many people here have done this LCHF diet for years and are still finding it delivering their desired BG levels.

So my question - how long have you been LCHF?
 
I have been on LCHF for over 3 years and am fine.
You can't go by what happens to others because you don't know what meds they are on, how advanced their diabetes was as far as pancreatic damage was concerned, and what they regarded as great results.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I have been on LCHF for over 3 years and am fine.
You can't go by what happens to others because you don't know what meds they are on, how advanced their diabetes was as far as pancreatic damage was concerned, and what they regarded as great results.
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Thank you, yes completely agree that you cannot draw conclusions from other peoples situations. Really I was just interested in sharing the longer term perspectives.

3 years is excellent.
 
@Fleegle - Whilst I term my way of eating to be Reduced Carb with Balancing Fats, I have been doing it getting on for 3.5 years. My HbA1c was 73 on diagnosis, reducing to 37 at the first review, reducing further after that, to mean my last few have been 31-33, with the 33 directly matching a period when I was undergoing quite significant stress when undergoing medical investigations which had scary potential.

Edited to correct an errant number that had potential to mislead.
 
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To answer the OP's question,nearly 3 years and doing well.
 
I started eating low carb in the early 70s, when I was about 20 years old, purely because I felt better on that way of eating. Whenever I have been pushed, bullied and threatened into eating carbs I have been so ill, but I was never tested for diabetes, even when I had pre eclampsia when pregnant back in 1985. Both babies were over 9lb when delivered, but I got away with eatiing low carb foods with the first one because I never mentioned it.
 
I have been doing LCHF for six months. It has enabled me to come off all medication, lose weight and reduce HbA1C from 99 down to 44. For the majority of people, LCHF is the best way to manage diabetes and avert the risks of serious complications.

I also do intermittent fasting, which further helps.
 
Coming up two years ago my T2 was out of control even though I was injecting insulin. I made a mistake with the insulin one day and decided enough was enough so I had a virtually carb free week of just meat and fat which brought my BG down to the teens and then started on a more sensible low carb way of eating that, over time, has been reduced to very low carb and normal BG levels - which is where I feel best. I was on large doses of Lantus and Novorapid so it took me about two months after starting low carb to be finally able to stop injecting insulin.
 
Several posts have been deleted from this thread due to off-topic and in some cases an argumentative style of posting.

Please respect the OP's thread content when responding. Argumentativeness and bickering should not take place on threads. Where individuals cannot agree, please take your issues away from the discussion topic.

Thank you.
 
25 years, 20 g of carbs or less per day. Type 1 as of 3 years ago. Vlc is still my prefered way of eating. I did however have to tweak and lower protien along the way. Best bs for me.
 
21 months of LCHF + Intermittent Fasting, no medication, no insulin, no exercise, no will power and still holding...
 

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My lchf is a bit of an evolution

Started cutting carbs down around 33 years go and then went through 10 years of on/off, with alternate low carbs and out of control carb binges (when the cravings got me)

Some time in the 90s I read Montignac, did it strictly, and felt so amazingly better, that my carb events became rarer and rarer. That was probably 50-100g carbs a day on average.

Since finding this forum I have been below 50g carbs for 4+ years, and below 20g carbs for the last 5 months.

Am now feeling better than ever, and my blood glucose is under better control than ever.
My bg readings have definitely not been rising.
 
12 months and counting so far on Lowish Carb Healthy Fat (under 80g of carbs a day - I usually average about 60g). Date of diagnosis 31/05/16 and started the new regime after I found this website during the next couple of days after diagnosis:)
At diagnosis my fasting glucose tolerance test was 9.7 m/mol before and 17.7 m/mol at 2 hrs., random was 10.7 m/mol.
My first HbA1c result after 3 months trial of diet and exercise management was 39, the second at 9 months was 29.
(I was very obese at diagnosis and am still in the obese range but have lost significant weight).
As @bulkbiker says above I'm a work in progress.
 
About two years now A1c still below pre-diabetic levels, down from 64 when diagnosed, lost 8 and a half stone but do count calories in addition to LCMF,. MF = Moderate or Medium Fats.
 
I have been doing LCHF incorporated with 5:2 for the last 2 years, have managed to come off metformin and so am medication free, from diagnosis 4 years ago of 96 down to 37! it's definitely worth a go, I do understand that it doesn't work for everybody x
 
Low carb higher fat for over 3 and a half years now - for me it's been a permanent (and enjoyable) lifestyle change rather than a "fix it diet". I started by just cutting down on sugar according to advice given by DN on diagnosis (HbA1c 60-61). Then I cut out all high carb food when I realised that all carbs were a potential issue. My GP suggested the Atkins diet for weight loss and I discovered our low carb section of the forum while researching this. As per Atkins I cut right down to 20-25g carbs for several weeks to get into ketosis and lost a lot of weight very quickly. Since then I've increased carbs slightly and have eaten a very low carb/ketogenic diet (generally well under 50g daily) since then.

Within several months of diagnosis I'd got my HbA1c down to non-diabetic level for a short while and I'm now bouncing around a bit at pre-diabetic levels. I finally stopped taking metformin in March this year and this has made very little difference to my current levels, but refusing to continue taking statins a while back definitely made a noticeable difference to them. In general I've found things like medications, pain, illness, stress, can often have as much impact on my glucose levels as my diet.

Robbity
(A permanent work in progress...:p)
 
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