Cheers
@Muzzer, You have done great. I wont be quitting so don't worry. I was so ill I can not describe it, my BG was in the high teens after fasting and high twenties low thirties after eating. I am now down to the high 4s fasting and 6s 7s 8s after eating.
I have at times felt weak on this diet strength wise but I have felt so well, its so nice to feel normal that I just have to see it through.
I was taking 9 x T2 meds a day 4 metformin, 4 gliclazide, and a sitagliptin and with all that medication was still getting those high numbers. On day one of this diet my BG after fasting was 17.6 (my avatar) and that was after taking all those meds. I took my last meds on the day before the diet and for the most part my BG has dropped every day to the point where it is in the 4s now.
I accept that it is lower now because of my restricted calorie intake but I am losing the weight and hope that this can reverse my T2 rather than just control it.
Having said that I will not return to the same number of carbs I was eating again. I have never actually been that big, I am 6'3" and I was 104 KG at my heaviest but over the past 2 - 2.5 years got down to 84KG. That was not by dieting it was from wastage, being unwell. I was 77KG at my last weigh in and I suspect it has slowed a little although according to the ketostix I am still in ketosis so maybe I have done better than I think, I will know Monday when I do my weigh in.
Although I was not over weight I have obvious fat around my abdomen which has started to melt away. I have decided that once I hit the 72KG (15%) I will change to a ketogenic diet, my theory is that as long as I continue burning fat the visceral fat will reduce but I can maintain/increase muscle mass. Any lower than this takes me into the under weight category so I want to remain sensible.