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'Newcastle diet' advice

That seems to be incredibly low! My conversion table says that's between 2-2.5!

No wonder you are feeling the cold.
 
paulins said:
That seems to be incredibly low! My conversion table says that's between 2-2.5!

No wonder you are feeling the cold.
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Paulins

What is too low?
Do you mean my readings 36 to 38? I thought that was approx 5.5?

Haven't been tested for 3 months, due this week, at GP surgery. I am thinking of asking if I need to stop taking Metformin. Only on one tablet a day, and took it at lunch time today instead of evening.

Feel a lot better today, not as cold. Think perhaps BG went a bit low last couple of days. Stayed with the Newcastle regime, but ate a custard cream yesterday evening when I felt really cold and not too well. Felt better soon after, though not sure if that was just placebo effect.

Thank you for advice and support, folks. Much appreciated.

Pipp
 


Looking at wrong conversion chart! Sorry - you are right!

P
 
paulins said:
Looking at wrong conversion chart! Sorry - you are right!

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Thank you. I feel much better today. Also using myfitnesspal app recommended by many on forum. Hopefully that is the last of the negative feelings on Newcastle diet.

Very grateful to all who support and advise.

Pipp
 
Today at work I really fancied a big sandwich - brown bread with ham and tomato and lettuce and cucumber and mayo - hard to watch others tuck in! And then there was the lemon drizzle cake made by a colleague! Today has been a hard day to be good. When sipping my lunch time soup.
 
But, you remained strong, and focussed!

Keep going, you are doing so well, and inspiring me. The social situations can be so hard though.



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But it's hard! However I had to buy new jeans at the weekend and I haven't been that size for years. Such a good feeling. And this morning BS level was 4.3. So will keep going.


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paulins said:
But it's hard! However I had to buy new jeans at the weekend and I haven't been that size for years. Such a good feeling. And this morning BS level was 4.3. So will keep going.


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That is inspiring, Paulins.

Thank you
 
Hi All
Some good achievements around well done!
I am at a bit of a crossroads, 8 weeks complete this weekend, weight loss good. Another 2 lb (13st 9lb this morning and I will have done 2st in 8 weeks. BP also down nicely 118/79 (still with meds) however..... BS seems to have bottomed out at 6.3 - 6.8 fasted mornings and will not move? I am very envious of all who are reporting 'normals' around the mid 4s. Is it possible I am just one of those for whom the Newcastle will not work and how do I tell? Still taking 4 x 500 Metformin daily.
I have bit the bullet and arranged Hba1c sample for Monday with GP review next Friday

Kim
 
Pipp, I'm amazed that you don't occasional test any more - especially as you are radically changing your eating patterns.

I appreciate you consider your diabetes to have gone away, and you have restarted the diet to lose weight solely.

In your shoes I might feel absolutely zero testing + rising weight might be riding my luck a little too far. I'd be testing, driven by fear, I think.

Have you considered testing, see if the diet further impact your blood scores?
 
Kim, I wouldn't get despondent. From what I have read the newcastle works by taking the fat out of the liver and pancreas and everyone's BMI is different when this will happen. If you are a T2 insulin resistant and your pancreas is in good shape. Dr can do blood tests for this.
ask your Dr but I'd be inclined to either go another 4 weeks to get your BMI down more, or back off to a LCHF diet for a couple of months and have a break, then reevaluate whether to go back on the newcastle or continue with the LCHF
 

Thank you, AndBreathe, I don't really consider my diabetes to have gone away. It is lurking somewhere ready to pounce just when I don't expect it. i am not dieting solely to lose weight, I am doing so to make sure I don't get elevated BG again. I do have 3monthly HbA1c checks by GP nurse. So I am not really zero testing.

I have had a lot of quite scary health stuff going on since I first lost the weight so rapidly a few years ago. This was due to my accident 20 odd years ago. I have had two major operations requiring me to be in intensive care. A reason or possibly excuse for my lapse. I have recently been in and out of hospital, where they insisted on doing BG tests 4 times a day, and even in the days, which were frequent, when I wasn't eating BGs were averaging 4.2.

My GP nurse told me to stop doing tests myself when I finished my first stint of Newcastle dieting. Whether this was an acknowledgement of my achievement or cost cutting I am not sure. I have, only this morning retrieved my BG monitor from the bag to go to the tip, having already thought about the wisdom of doing such a radical eating regime and not testing. Of course the test strips are out of date so I have sent for some more. In the meantime, I got a diabetic mate to test for me. Post prandial 2 hours, 4.8.

I am monitored by GP and local weight management service, who know what I am doing. I am awaiting latest HbA1c results, and will discuss with nurse, but you are right to flag up the wisdom of testing when changing diet. I am grateful to you. It is important that others do not misunderstand what I am doing.That is what is so good about this forum. We, have just as much, if not more, knowledge as health professionals.

Many thanks
Pipp
 
Are you drinking enough water Kim?
 
Are you exercising as well kim. This helps remove the fat from the liver alongside the diet (well it did for me) as the liver needs to give you glucose much more often and thereby using its fat stores
 
 
Andrew Colvin said:
Are you exercising as well kim. This helps remove the fat from the liver alongside the diet (well it did for me) as the liver needs to give you glucose much more often and thereby using its fat stores
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hi Andrew
thanks, i am doing some but not intense currently, do need to push a bi:t more,

regards
Kim
 
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