Low cal diet and Newcastle diet

Hello again. (sorry in advance for the long post)
It's been a while since I last posted,
My question has more than likely been asked already, but here goes again.
I did the Newcastle diet about 2 years ago, (well i did it for 7 weeks) I lost just under 2 stone, putting me at around 11 and a half stone, for the life of me I can't remember what my numbers went down to.
But here goes, 2 years later and back up to 13.9, I know how I got back up to this level again,but for the last 6 months I have been eating the things a diabetic should avoid, all the **** that shoot your numbers up high,
So here goes, I have decided to try and lose some weight and try and bring my numbers back down. Has anyone tried the Newcastle diet Monday to Friday, then eat normally at the weekend, but still low carbs.
My fasting numbers have been in the 9 and 10's recently and with me eating all the **** can get into mid teens,
So I started this diet last week, Asda shakes made up with water to bring down the carbs and my veg at evening meal.
Monday's fasting number was 9.2, just before lunch shake 6.8, shakes seem to put it up 2 points on average so 8.8
Tuesday's fasting 7.7 then before lunch 6.7 before evening meal 6.7 veg put it up .2 to 6.9 bed time down to 6.0
Wed's fasting 5.9 for some reason didn't test before lunch, before evening meal 4.9 after 5.7
Thur's fasting 5.9 before lunch 6.7 evening meal 5.8 after 5.9
Friday's fasting 4.4 before lunch 4.3 evening meal 4.6 after 4.2
Sat's fasting 4.4
Sunday, awoke with a sore head, (nothing to do with my white wine lol, must have been my daughters chocolate that I pinched) fasting number was 5.9 then before I had eaten anything it was 8.4 had some ham went to 8.8 just checked sitting at 7.7
Now here goes, as I'm going to eat "normally" at the weekends and have my white wine at night time (Sat only) and the odd treat, I will keep this thread updated on my results.
Has anyone else tried this way and if so what were your results?
also if anyone has any thoughts (good or bad) I would be happy to hear them.
PS weighted my self this morning and sitting at 13.3 so a six pound loss.
PPS I have stopped my glimepiride on the Friday, also I had to take a few sugar tablets as I was feeling like ****.

Thanks Celeriac,
Thanks Saltyseas, Like I said for the life of me I can't remember what numbers I got down to, but I think I would have remembered if I got down to normal levels, so I think not, I have been looking at the 5:2 diet, seems to look good and has good effects on bg levels, might try that if my (like you said) 2:5 diet gets to hard or even a 3:4 diet, so a bit of trial and error. Like I said on 1st post, the last 6 months I have been eating a lot of ****, so even if it only kick starts me again into eating better and to stop eating the ****.
Good luck on your ND.

Thought I would try a test with my evening meal tonight.
very small plate of pasta bog
started at BG 4.0
1 hour later 6.2
2 hour later 7.5
3 hours later 9.2
not good but only an early test.

Hi saltyseas.
If I try and remember, my numbers did come down, I can't remember what they actual came down to but I do remember that after eating a rice dish they shot right up, so no not non-diabetic,maybe I hadn't lost enough weight, but I was eating a low carb diet after that ND, It has only been in the last 6 months to a year that I have been really bad with my eating and once I started getting numbers in double figures that I knew I had to do something about it.
Yes I have kept it going for this week also, I was going to keep it going until I had lost a decent amount of weight, as my thinking was I could still eat at the weekend, I don't know if it will work but I can only try.
When I did my fasting sugars this morning it was 8.0 so I was a bit disappointed as I have had good numbers last week, I was trying to think if it was the pasta dish that I ate the night before, so I will see how it goes for the next couple of weeks.

hi,
Roytaylorjasonfunglover - yes I put back on all the weight I lost, it goes on slowly again and I just got back into old habits. Thanks for the good luck

saltyseas- I know how hard it can be on the ND your mind does weird things, keep up the good work a day at a time. I am also doing a bit of lifting weights to build a bit of muscle, so I'm not sure how that would effect my bmi.

Hereweareagain- good luck to your hubby, cure maybe not, but remission yes, If we eat how we know we should eat hopefully our numbers will stay low. also it is not easy for the people we live with as we can be pretty annoying with it at times,