Hi! Thanks for the welcome. It was around 32. Currently after 5 days, it’s around 7-11. I’ve been very strict during that time. I had Subway once which no sauce and chicken and vegetables in it. My aim is to reduce as much weight as I can in the next couple of months. Im currently doing my own diet which consists of strictly vegetables and low sugar fruits but in juice form. All bought freshly and using my juicer. I’ve experimented with this in the past and it’s the fastest way I’ve lost weight so I feel like this is the best option for me. Do you eat 50-100 grams of carbs per day?
Hi JordySloan,
Rather than deciding what I was going to do before asking what works for others, I asked what worked for others before deciding what might work best for me.
Are you morbidly Obese? - If not why do you want to lose weight fast, surely it is better to reduce your Blood Glucose back to normal levels (which will reduce your weight as a result) and to do so in manner which is sustainable over the long term!
Although I've heard of many hundreds of T2's getting into remission, I have never seen any convincing evidence that a single T2 was able to cure their condition i.e. being able to go back to how they ate before with no adverse consequences.
I have been criticized for not being precise enough on my posts, but there are only 3 general approaches (so far as I know) which have good success rates of remission for Type 2 Diabetes. I list them in order of how easy they are for the majority of people:
1. Low Carb way of life (counting Carbs not calories). This is an individual thing, some need to go very low carb or Keto, others just dip below 120gms of carbs per day, we are all different in how bad our reaction to carbs is. The success rate in am NHS GP's practice is between 40% and 50% at the 2yr mark. This is made even easier for those who are bold enough to go Low Carb and Higher (traditional) - because there is then no need to be hungry (since fat is very satisfying). Most of us who do this do so with the help of a Blood Glucose Meter, but at least one just followed what seemed to work for others.
2.Time Restricted Eating (or Intermittent Fasting, or 16:8, or OMAD). This approach has fewer studies supporting it, but the way it works is that it is almost impossible to burn body fat when you have recently digested a high Carb meal because it spike Insulin (which both stores fat and inhibits the burning of previously stored body fat). So maximising the time when both Blood Glucose and Insulin is low maximise the time your Blood Glucose is in normal levels and gives you a better chance of losing weight. Studies (both in peo9ple and in animals) have found that there is a natural unintentional Calorie reduction when eating in only a smaller time window.
3. Severe Calorie Restriction:
A). Longer term fasts care needed since supplements for electrolytes and vitamins will probably be required).
B). Crash Diets such as the Newcastle Diet (DIRECT study) or Dr Michaels Mosely's 'Blood Sugar Diet' or even Weigh Watchers etc. But these tend to result in yoyo results in weight, since the basal metabolic rate tends to slow making maintain weight harder and harder.
C). Bariatric Surgery. There are several forms of this and results are very good in the very short term, however after more than 1yr the results are only about the same as for Low Carb.
I suggest that you try using one which appears to suit you best.