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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2207530" data-attributes="member: 480869">There’s a vegetarian section (where the vegans also contribute) on here that might help <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/vegetarian-diet-forum.71/" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/vegetarian-diet-forum.71/</a>ultimately as a type 2 it’s all about carbs.  We cannot process them properly and actually most of the latest research shows the best way to manage/reverse/put into remission is to cut an awful lot of them out. If you don’t eat them they can’t damage you. Doing so brings blood glucose into line, allows weight loss once your body is no longer flooded with the fat storing and saving hormone insulin, and will help reverse any fatty liver that frequently comes alongside type 2.  Allowing the internal organs to shed their fat allows them to work more efficiently for a lot of people.  So yes weight loss helps but weight loss from around the internal organs specifically. The difficulty you’ll face is as a vegetarian it’s easy to turn to carb heavy foods or to go hungry avoiding them. Fats will become your friend as they don’t spike blood glucose and protein doesn’t for most type 2 or very little.  So it will limit your food choices even more than you have currently elected to do. Keeping the eggs will help a lot though, as would cheese and other dairy.There’s lots of links that can be provided about the science behind what I’ve said - just read around or ask.  There is a school of thought that vegan and very low fat might work but the evidence doesn’t seem strong to me but it’s worth you looking that up too and forming your own opinion.  Then there’s also the very low calorie stuff it sounds like you’ve heard about (Newcastle diet is one of these). It’s a short term very low cal effort designed to drop significant weight , including from around the organs.  To me sounds like starvation and torture and lots of hunger when the same thing can be done much more pleasantly low carb.The other .org website is renowned on here for not advocating the most up to date info with regards to low carb. The American diabetes association have just this month advocated low carb as showing the most evidence for improvements in type 2.  I’m sure other countries will be following suit in the near future.</blockquote>

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