AloeSvea
Well-Known Member
Hi there @KeithAnd, 21 kg - wow! What a weight loss, indeed.
I just read back to find the steps 2 and 3 you are referring to -
"From what I have read, reintroducing a healthy diet in step 2 and then totally dropping the shakes by step 3 is a challenge too. I'm 'armed' with the Hairy Bikers book, "Eat to Beat Type 2 Diabetes", so planning to follow use that as a guide to what I should be eating and what ingredients I should be avoiding (along with all the other research and reading I've been doing these past few weeks)."
It does feel super-exciting, as this is the beginning of your new eating-life, which is how I look back at those early post-diagnosis days, and post various experiments.
For me it was about developing a new relationship with lower-carb food, and embracing healthy fats again (that was a big shock to the system, the brain system at least - my body responded super-well to that for sure).
I had a quick look online at the King and Myers book ' Eat to Beat type two Diabetes'. I see that it is the low-calorie approach, so I guess - portion control too? As that is part of that approach? Some of those recipes look very delicious. Banana ice cream - wo ho! And - baked potatoes more 'wo ho'!s Folks with diabetes can keep good control/stay in remission with such foods? I guess some folks must be able to. My type two joke about myself is I only need to look at a piece of conventional wheat-flour toast (also on the menu with advocado, but maybe it was almond flour toasted bread?) for my blood glucose to go sky high,and I imagine my waist line too. But this is where our individual physical make up comes in, and how type two plays out in each of our bodies - so this will be your second big experiment for sure. Small portions of otherwise higher carb food, sometimes?
I've thought about Prof Taylor's suggestion that folks with type two practice eating much smaller amounts for the duration, to maintain lower blood glucose levels, many times over the years. I can't do it - I need to eat to satiety or else my life isn't worth living, but I do see that the whole fasting and intermittent fasting protocols are to the same end - just in a different way.
I look forward to hearing more!
I just read back to find the steps 2 and 3 you are referring to -
"From what I have read, reintroducing a healthy diet in step 2 and then totally dropping the shakes by step 3 is a challenge too. I'm 'armed' with the Hairy Bikers book, "Eat to Beat Type 2 Diabetes", so planning to follow use that as a guide to what I should be eating and what ingredients I should be avoiding (along with all the other research and reading I've been doing these past few weeks)."
It does feel super-exciting, as this is the beginning of your new eating-life, which is how I look back at those early post-diagnosis days, and post various experiments.
For me it was about developing a new relationship with lower-carb food, and embracing healthy fats again (that was a big shock to the system, the brain system at least - my body responded super-well to that for sure).
I had a quick look online at the King and Myers book ' Eat to Beat type two Diabetes'. I see that it is the low-calorie approach, so I guess - portion control too? As that is part of that approach? Some of those recipes look very delicious. Banana ice cream - wo ho! And - baked potatoes more 'wo ho'!s Folks with diabetes can keep good control/stay in remission with such foods? I guess some folks must be able to. My type two joke about myself is I only need to look at a piece of conventional wheat-flour toast (also on the menu with advocado, but maybe it was almond flour toasted bread?) for my blood glucose to go sky high,and I imagine my waist line too. But this is where our individual physical make up comes in, and how type two plays out in each of our bodies - so this will be your second big experiment for sure. Small portions of otherwise higher carb food, sometimes?
I've thought about Prof Taylor's suggestion that folks with type two practice eating much smaller amounts for the duration, to maintain lower blood glucose levels, many times over the years. I can't do it - I need to eat to satiety or else my life isn't worth living, but I do see that the whole fasting and intermittent fasting protocols are to the same end - just in a different way.
I look forward to hearing more!