'Newcastle diet' advice

[brettsza]

Great reply and we'll [email protected] is my big worry....u diet cut the weight bg ok....and then....u fall into old habits and before u know it the insulin resistance is back.

Not for me mate I will do everything now for the rest of my life to keep diabetes and weight off me.
I forgot to mention I am off medications since 4 months now, out of 10 months when I was diagnosed so took hold of it the moment I got to know about it, hopefully I will stay off them. Who knows in 5 or 10 years we have something, some medicine or vaccine that can cure it completely ( In literal terms ) till then I am happy with what I am doing now to keep bg levels and weight in check.

 

[Pipp]

I feel a lot of us think or take ND as a quick 8 week cure to diabetes and weight loss, but its not, I am sure if we go back to our old ways of eating, we might get it back. As paulins said treats are good, It also helps you stay focused, I feel you only have one life to live, so at times you need it but post ND i really think exercise and keeping the weight off is as important.
I am still only 6+ weeks out of ND and I might be talking out of my skin but if post nd we eat right and do exercise we should be able to stay off diabetes, I still remember doc telling me its a progressive disease inevitably leading to loss of limbs and all that, and had i not found this forum, I would have had no option to but to listen to the doc and live the way he wanted me to, I definitely did not want to give in and I will not.
I have just adopted a low carb diet and I am so used to it I dont like the old high carb refined flour diet anymore. Neither is it unhealthy for me to drop back on it, Its not correct way of eating for nobody.
I dont think i have the strength to do ND again but definitely working very hard to keep the weight off me. 16:8 IF with exercise is what I am doing, trying a combination of HIT with normal walks, and staying low carb. Few things I still do even after coming off ND ( Or i should rather say very good things I picked up off ND ) is I make soups I used to make on ND And add loads of water to it before having them, keeps me full and helps me skip a meal sometime, and have sparkling water to keep hunger away.
But definitely there are days when I let myself loose for some social gathering or if I feel I really need to spend time out with family and have no option but to eat what is available (which is not always LCHF)
@paulins @Andrew Colvin @Pipp have stayed reversed and I really look upto them and feel if I could achieve half of what they have done I would be happy.

Pipp is still under diabetic BG, JUST. After almost 4 years and some weight gain, so not really earning elevated status.
Learnt from this, that Newcastle diet is not the end to diabetes, but the beginning of a new way of life. The examples of @paulins and @Andrew Colvin are better models to follow. I am less of a role model because I have not been as vigilant about weight gain as they have. Still working on it, but need to remember low carbs and smaller portions.

 

[andcol]

umm we havent been 4 years so time will tell

 

[Pipp]

umm we havent been 4 years so time will tell

Fair comment @Andrew Colvin . I think both you and @paulins achieved a good BMI though? Maybe that is the key?
What I have found is that I don't get spikes in BG. Therein lies a problem. As those spikes carry a warning, and help control. Obviously my main aim was to achieve the 'reversal'. Now that needs to be maintained. It appears that I am still under personal fat threshold, but perhaps my best chance to remain reversed is to lose some more weight.

 

[Wildrover]

I feel a lot of us think or take ND as a quick 8 week cure to diabetes and weight loss, but its not, I am sure if we go back to our old ways of eating, we might get it back. As paulins said treats are good, It also helps you stay focused, I feel you only have one life to live, so at times you need it but post ND i really think exercise and keeping the weight off is as important.
I am still only 6+ weeks out of ND and I might be talking out of my skin but if post nd we eat right and do exercise we should be able to stay off diabetes, I still remember doc telling me its a progressive disease inevitably leading to loss of limbs and all that, and had i not found this forum, I would have had no option to but to listen to the doc and live the way he wanted me to, I definitely did not want to give in and I will not.
I have just adopted a low carb diet and I am so used to it I dont like the old high carb refined flour diet anymore. Neither is it unhealthy for me to drop back on it, Its not correct way of eating for nobody.
I dont think i have the strength to do ND again but definitely working very hard to keep the weight off me. 16:8 IF with exercise is what I am doing, trying a combination of HIT with normal walks, and staying low carb. Few things I still do even after coming off ND ( Or i should rather say very good things I picked up off ND ) is I make soups I used to make on ND And add loads of water to it before having them, keeps me full and helps me skip a meal sometime, and have sparkling water to keep hunger away.
But definitely there are days when I let myself loose for some social gathering or if I feel I really need to spend time out with family and have no option but to eat what is available (which is not always LCHF)
@paulins @Andrew Colvin @Pipp have stayed reversed and I really look upto them and feel if I could achieve half of what they have done I would be happy.

Really brilliant post Brettsza, Just illustrates how good this thread is and the impact it has with the knowledge that abounds here

 

[Wildrover]

Pipp is still under diabetic BG, JUST. After almost 4 years and some weight gain, so not really earning elevated status.
Learnt from this, that Newcastle diet is not the end to diabetes, but the beginning of a new way of life. The examples of @paulins and @Andrew Colvin are better models to follow. I am less of a role model because I have not been as vigilant about weight gain as they have. Still working on it, but need to remember low carbs and smaller portions.

Hi Pipp, Don't knock yourself down, The positive is that your "Still here AND still fighting" and as others have said, Diabetes I'd a ***** and we all have to keep fighting it, You've been there and done it once and for newcomers like me , your a roll model