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<blockquote data-quote="Art Of Flowers" data-source="post: 1650095" data-attributes="member: 375067"><p>I stopped taking metformin and now have no diabetes medication. Despite that, I have managed to reduce my HbA1C blood sugars from 99 to 43. I did this my eating a LCHF diet ... see <a href="https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb" target="_blank">https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb</a> for some ideas of what to eat on a low carb diet. I also did some intermittent fasting. Check out the videos by Jason Fung on the benefits of intermittent fasting for people with type 2 diabetes. </p><p></p><p>You need to get a blood glucose meter to find out which foods to avoid. Typically you need to cut out breakfast cereals, bread, potatoes rice and pasta. Also avoid fruit juice and fruit like bananas and grapes. You should find you blood sugars decrease if you avoid high carb foods. You glucose meter will give you the confidence that you are making progress.</p><p></p><p>Initially my blood glucose was about 13 at diagnosis. After five weeks of cutting out food high in sugar it had decreased to 9.8 and I then got a meter. I slowly reduced high carb foods and my fasting blood glucose numbers reduced to about 6.5 over the next few weeks. </p><p></p><p>Drugs like metformin don’t lower blood glucose by much. Diet is a lot more effective, but you need to be doing something to lower blood glucose or otherwise you may get complications like blindness or painful neuropathy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Art Of Flowers, post: 1650095, member: 375067"] I stopped taking metformin and now have no diabetes medication. Despite that, I have managed to reduce my HbA1C blood sugars from 99 to 43. I did this my eating a LCHF diet ... see [URL]https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb[/URL] for some ideas of what to eat on a low carb diet. I also did some intermittent fasting. Check out the videos by Jason Fung on the benefits of intermittent fasting for people with type 2 diabetes. You need to get a blood glucose meter to find out which foods to avoid. Typically you need to cut out breakfast cereals, bread, potatoes rice and pasta. Also avoid fruit juice and fruit like bananas and grapes. You should find you blood sugars decrease if you avoid high carb foods. You glucose meter will give you the confidence that you are making progress. Initially my blood glucose was about 13 at diagnosis. After five weeks of cutting out food high in sugar it had decreased to 9.8 and I then got a meter. I slowly reduced high carb foods and my fasting blood glucose numbers reduced to about 6.5 over the next few weeks. Drugs like metformin don’t lower blood glucose by much. Diet is a lot more effective, but you need to be doing something to lower blood glucose or otherwise you may get complications like blindness or painful neuropathy. [/QUOTE]
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