LOW CARB SUCCESS STORIES

busydiabeticmum said:

My weight loss is slow but steady (or slower than i would like!) Every now and then i hit a platue. Since starting the diet in june i have lost 19kg, i went feom a bmi of 33 to now 27 (i dont look at the decimals tbh) i went from obese to over weight. I exercise and can say am seeing a massive improvement. I have started drinking vinegar at night to help speed weight loss and tackle dawn phenomena... only just started so will have to let you know how that goes if it works or not.

As to sustainable i have been on it since june... doing well, enjoying it, have energy... i know not all people can do it! Not all people fit into that box but i struggled to eat more than the 400 and looks as if before the diet i was only eating about 800 calories a day (and not loosing weight).

From may 2015 to june 2016 i was abke to loose the birth weight (started at 110kg down to my "normal" weight of 85kg) to be a healthy weight i have just 7kg more to loose! My waist (i have an ambilical hernia from having big babies) has shrunk by 19cm.

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busydiabeticmum said:

Just realised... not june. I started diet april the 2nd hba1c was in june, i didnt start seeing a proper weight loss until june though. First hba1c was 85 in feb, given result end of feb beginning of march, april researched lchf diet and reversal of diabetes as wasnt seeing much change in bgl on the diet they put me on. 6 weeks on lchf diet until 2nd hba1c.given result of 48 with a 1 month over lap and only 6 weeks on the diet so they agreed to re test in 3 months to make sure there was no over lap. There was a long time between doing hba1cs, getting results and speaking to the doctors.

But like i said it took a while to start seeing a weight loss (which was quite depressing). June i was 84kg.

Sorry for mix up as is really quite complicated.

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KevinPotts said:

But even with the slower weight drop than you wanted that A1C difference is excellent...you must have been so pleased


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Galja said:

Noth blood pressures and blood sugars go down with chant....

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busydiabeticmum said:

Suprised... and pleased yes... i didnt expect the diet to help so quickly, i am seeing a massive difference and on the road to healing but it has taken years to get here so will take a while to undo the damage!

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Galja said:

Lots of cultures have chant. Actually doing the chant yourself is important to the health properties of chant

In England, I think your monks and nuns have a kind of plain chant. For example, I hear a kind of chant in the Call the Midwife programs.

Buddhists have their own kinds of chant, ex.: http://www.sgi.org/about-us/videos/how-to-chant1.html

Muslim Bektashi Alevi, Turkey:
Albanian:
modern liturgical song whose lyrics were composed by 20th c. saint to 3 traditional chant melodies in Greek, here in Albanian:
same translated into Ukrainian:
Latin chant:
Terrerirem chants, here by a famous Byzantine composer, are composed of nonsense syllables, and can go on for hours as people meditate: https://youtu.be/KjLG2u6VVsg

A te re ri rem chant
to the Bulgarian Woman (his mother) written by the same 14th c. composer: https://youtu.be/1x7wrZWDiaU

Georgian chant has many schools and difference, but here is one: https://youtu.be/4K61xMHfzaY

Bosnian Mevlevi Dervish chant: https://youtu.be/WIaCUo-93JM

https://youtu.be/WIaCUo-93JM

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BenQuebec said:

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forums, and thought I'd share my success story. First a brief autobio: I'm a 41 y/o male living in Canada. On January 29, 2016, I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, with an A1C of 7.5. I'd recently taken a provoked hyperglycemia test, and my blood glucose was tested at 11.5 mmol/L. I immediately started looking for ways to beat this naturally, and found two solutions: (1) intermittent fasting (16:8) and (2) a low-carb diet. After 3 months of this, my A1C had fallen from 7.5 to 5.7; my blood pressure dropped from 150/100 to 125/83; my triglycerides dropped from 2.42 to 1.28, and my weight dropped from 273 pounds (124.1 kg) to 236 pounds (107.27 kg). Here I am nearly 6 months later, waiting for my next blood test to check my A1C and lipids. My blood pressure was 116/75 last night, and my weight is now at 217 pounds (98.6 kg), with a BMI of 27.9 (height is 6' 2").
I told my doc about the IF (intermittent fasting) and LCHF, told him my results and how I felt. I also confessed that I did this instead of taking metformin (as he'd prescribed). He said "not bad," and that with those results, he saw no reason for me not to continue. I love my new low-carb lifestyle. My wife is more tolerant than supportive, but at least she's not opposed. Either way, glad to be part of the team.

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BenQuebec said:

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forums, and thought I'd share my success story. First a brief autobio: I'm a 41 y/o male living in Canada. On January 29, 2016, I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, with an A1C of 7.5. I'd recently taken a provoked hyperglycemia test, and my blood glucose was tested at 11.5 mmol/L. I immediately started looking for ways to beat this naturally, and found two solutions: (1) intermittent fasting (16:8) and (2) a low-carb diet. After 3 months of this, my A1C had fallen from 7.5 to 5.7; my blood pressure dropped from 150/100 to 125/83; my triglycerides dropped from 2.42 to 1.28, and my weight dropped from 273 pounds (124.1 kg) to 236 pounds (107.27 kg). Here I am nearly 6 months later, waiting for my next blood test to check my A1C and lipids. My blood pressure was 116/75 last night, and my weight is now at 217 pounds (98.6 kg), with a BMI of 27.9 (height is 6' 2").
I told my doc about the IF (intermittent fasting) and LCHF, told him my results and how I felt. I also confessed that I did this instead of taking metformin (as he'd prescribed). He said "not bad," and that with those results, he saw no reason for me not to continue. I love my new low-carb lifestyle. My wife is more tolerant than supportive, but at least she's not opposed. Either way, glad to be part of the team.

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Galja said:

hmm, is husband tolerant?

Saw new internal medicine guy today and just when I was about to leave, asked him "Could someone like me do intermittent fasting?" and the dude actually answered "Jason Fung?" and I said yes. His answer was for someone my age with a complex of disorders and since the jury is out on Jason Fung, I could probably get away with skipping a meal while not stressed and while not in extreme weather and not if feeling at all faint. And by the way, I didn't have to lose weight so be cautious and weigh myself So, I have run into someone who actually knows about this.

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Galja said:

hmm, is husband tolerant?

Saw new internal medicine guy today and just when I was about to leave, asked him "Could someone like me do intermittent fasting?" and the dude actually answered "Jason Fung?" and I said yes. His answer was for someone my age with a complex of disorders and since the jury is out on Jason Fung, I could probably get away with skipping a meal while not stressed and while not in extreme weather and not if feeling at all faint. And by the way, I didn't have to lose weight so be cautious and weigh myself So, I have run into someone who actually knows about this.

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Galja said:

I enjoyed both your posts. I was actually questioning myself over whether my husband, who does not cook nor prep for cooking nor shop for anything but basics (milk, eggs, agribusiness apples, bread I won't eat and when he goes wild and only if I ask celery and carrots in bags) is tolerant.

My next door neighbor and her husband go to each other's health appointments.

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Wraakian said:

I have been on low carb food now for almost a year and when I am strict with myself my blood glucose levels remain low. I am finding it difficult however to find alternatives when I get fed up of just eating meat, fish, green vegetables and berries. I mix flax seed and chia seed for my breakfast every day and combine these with all sorts of things such as berries, mixed fruit, cocoa powder, plain yoghurt, cream and milk. On looking for other things to add to my diet I find everything that is made for the low carb market is extremely expensive for what you get. Things like low carb granola come in the smallest packages which are only half filled and cost a fortune especially when I am also purchasing the main breakfast ingredients of flax meal and chia seed. I have also purchased low carb chocolate cakes and biscuits and again they are so very tiny and expensive! If I were to keep buying these products I'd go broke! Unfortunately everything in the supermarkets has over 50 grams of carbs per 100g of product and that spikes my glucose levels well above the norm. I am at a good weight at 11 stone for my height of 5ft 8" but fear that because I cannot see myself totally sticking to a low carb regime due to the real lack of reasonably priced good low carb cake and breakfast products in our supermarkets that my glucose levels will be constantly up and down rather than stable. I have seen more flax meal on the shelves lately so I am hopeful that more low carb alternatives might come from the big manufacturers like Kellogg's or Nestle rather than the less healthy products they currently produce.

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Wraakian said:

I have been on low carb food now for almost a year and when I am strict with myself my blood glucose levels remain low. I am finding it difficult however to find alternatives when I get fed up of just eating meat, fish, green vegetables and berries. I mix flax seed and chia seed for my breakfast every day and combine these with all sorts of things such as berries, mixed fruit, cocoa powder, plain yoghurt, cream and milk. On looking for other things to add to my diet I find everything that is made for the low carb market is extremely expensive for what you get. Things like low carb granola come in the smallest packages which are only half filled and cost a fortune especially when I am also purchasing the main breakfast ingredients of flax meal and chia seed. I have also purchased low carb chocolate cakes and biscuits and again they are so very tiny and expensive! If I were to keep buying these products I'd go broke! Unfortunately everything in the supermarkets has over 50 grams of carbs per 100g of product and that spikes my glucose levels well above the norm. I am at a good weight at 11 stone for my height of 5ft 8" but fear that because I cannot see myself totally sticking to a low carb regime due to the real lack of reasonably priced good low carb cake and breakfast products in our supermarkets that my glucose levels will be constantly up and down rather than stable. I have seen more flax meal on the shelves lately so I am hopeful that more low carb alternatives might come from the big manufacturers like Kellogg's or Nestle rather than the less healthy products they currently produce.

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