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Message: <blockquote data-quote="youngmanfrank" data-source="post: 265488" data-attributes="member: 29375">Newcastle say that their diet works by de-fatting the pancreas and liver,following which your insulin is produced normally and starts to work normally,ie insulin sensitivity is restored.Combine this with life style changes,including permanent weight loss and you might have won the battle.The problem with medication/supplements/exotic diets is that they are controlling the symptoms of the condition and not addressing the underlying cause.It amused me at the time I did my diet that people were solemly stating that Slimfast was bad because it contains too much carbohydrate.The bottles are only 230 calories so three of them amount to 690 calories,add in your salad vegetables and you have only 800-900 calories per day.On that amount of energy they could have been 100% high GI carbohydrate and your blood sugars would still have been too low.On some days I was burning that amount of calories on exercise alone.The body survives by metabolising fat into energy,starting with fat in the pancreas and liver ,moving on to visceral fat later in the diet,hence the extreme weight loss.In the end it was only 8 weeks and I am now most certainly not on a low calorie diet,but still weigh 12 stones.I downloaded some software for graphing my fasting blood sugars and this shows (graphically!) that off medication I am naturally controlling my fasting blood sugars in a fairly narrow range,with an average reading over the month of 5.2.Other than that I don't test any more.Next Hb due March 2013.</blockquote>

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