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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2272229" data-attributes="member: 480869">Can I clarify what medication you are currently on please? You talked about starting with insulin and being on insulin and Victoza in the past but not what the current regime is.  Also when you go and discuss low carb with the diabetes nurse/dr be fully prepared for resistance. Some are quite up to date and supportive, others live in the dark ages and either dismiss or actively discourage it, usually with little justification. It is usually lack of knowledge on their part. They don’t all know it is NHS endorsed, there is an NHS paid for low carb program, professional learning modules for them to study about it and there are guidelines to help them reduce and manage medications safely in conjunction with low carb to avoid hypos.   We can give you links to it all if you want or need them.   They might tell you it only works for newly diagnosed diabetics.  Again, rubbish. There’s some in here that have come off long term insulin use and others that have reduced all sorts of medications. Many that have stopped all diabetes medication as a result too.  They might try and get you to do Something known as the Newcastle diet By Professor Roy Taylor or an extremely low calories diet instead. It works, short term, so is an option but is definitely not for everyone.  Most of us choose to eat real food not shakes and not go hungry. if you’re getting the resistance a lot get then they’ll probably faint at the idea of eating more fats but again many of us find we get better cholesterol results on this way of eating as again it’s the carbs that cause the rise not the fats. Lots of science about that too when you’re ready for it. You can do this and improve so many aspects of life. Not even a custard cream is worth giving up the chance to achieve that and from me that’s saying something.</blockquote>

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