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youngmanfrank

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Don't dismiss the 600 cal diet as rubbish without trying it.I have just completed a version of it with spectacular results.Fasting blood sugars on a normal diet (for non-diabetics) are now averaging 4.7 (down from 6.0-6.6).Within 2 hours of each meal I return to about 4.8-5.1.Finally I duplicated my practises version of the GTT test,which involves consuming a 390ml bottle of lucozade (56gms of glucose!) and re-testing after 2 hours.This was 5.5 compared with the 8.2 I achieved when first diagnosed three years ago.And I knocked off the last 1.5 stones of fat,bringing me down to the 12 stones I weighed throughout my 20,s (I am now 62).When I started just prior to diagnosis I was @16 stone.

All this having abandoned my 3 metformin a day around week 4 of the diet,which will have my quaintly old fashioned diabetic nurse and doctor scratching their heads,because as we all know diabetes is not reversible.Unless of course you are like my friend who had gastric band surgery following diagnosis as a type 2 and has now remained clear of all symptoms for 4 years.

A lifetime of diabetes or 8 weeks of discomfort?
 
Thats fantastic Frank :clap:

Make sure you tell us how you are doing again in 6 months and a year :thumbup:
 
Tell me Frank,

what was 'the version' of the 600 k diet as i would be interested plus how you managed?

Thanks

Andy
 
I have been diabetic for a long time but undiagnosed.I had early cataract surgery aged 54,which is a classic diabetic complication.At 57 sugar was found in my urine following another operation,which had me placed in the pre-diabetic stage,controlling my condition with exercise and diet,until finally aged 60 I was diagnosed as a full blown type 2 and placed on Metformin.Two years on I was getting despondent as my fasting blood sugars were rising and I was constantly running out of energy when exercising.

I was attracted to the Newcastle approach because it fitted with a number of ideas I had gleaned from my researches,and I personally knew a gastric band patient whose type 2 symptoms disappeared shortly after surgery.If it happened to her ,why not to me?

I don't think Newcastle have got it completely right,in that intellectually I am not attacted to the idea that fat on the pancreas causes diabetes.I produce insulin but the problem is it was not working.I tend to the concept that contaminants in the fat cause metabolic disturbances which result in diabetic symptoms.Get rid of the fat and you are back to a clean slate condition.Resume an unhealthy diet and you are back to square one,eat healthily and you will remain symptom free.
 
What was the actual diet, and how did you get onto it?
 
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