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<blockquote data-quote="Fndwheelie" data-source="post: 2132791" data-attributes="member: 447317"><p>My thoughts are that I’d continued to eat healthy as suggested by the nurse, cutting out sugar and cakes, but was eating a huge amount of carbs, cereal for breakfast, main meal with potatoes or pasta and rice and a couple of slices of bread, supper was a few slices of toast or bread rolls, no one told me that was bad, it is almost the commonly accepted diet. </p><p></p><p>I think I was too far gone for LCHF to work on its own, I started it for about 4 weeks, my numbers dropped from the teens & 20s to 6-7 but I was still spiking 11-12. And still required my 50+ units of insulin a day. Further research I came across the direct study, and total food replacement 800 calorie shakes, as soon as I started this I came off insulin and have been for a month. My target range is 4.5 to 7.5 on the libre and most days I’m in that 100% of the time.</p><p></p><p>This is a very difficult diet, I find myself slipping up often (though I try to keep slip ups to egg and bacon), and not sustainable long term, and when I finish my 8 weeks of shakes I will be returning to LCHF. I hope the VLCD is the kick start my body needs to start working for itself. If I’d been given the information of LCHF when I’d been diagnosed I think that would have been enough for me to achieve remission, but I’d slipped too far down the progressive condition that is diabetes. </p><p></p><p>While the VLCD does work for some, I think if my diabetic nurse had pushed for me to go on it I would have pushed back. Felt miserable and not continued with it. Nothing but shakes for 8-12 weeks is not fun, and I put myself on this diet I have a lot invested into getting better, if someone wasn’t 100% committed this diet isn’t for them.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand if the nurse handed me out something about carbs being the enemy in the beginning I might have made them adjustments from the off and never ended up on insulin, yes going very low carb is a substantial change, but cutting out the highest carb culprits more often than not, can be quite easily achieved at the start. This will reflect in the hab1c and then people can work towards lowering carbs further if needed.</p><p></p><p>But diabetes is different than most conditions, if you break a leg, or have an infection or cancer you go to the doctor they give you treatment and the condition goes away or is managed. Too many people use this mindset with diabetes, take medication and then the condition is managed. Diabetes and especially type 2 is a diagnosis that requires the patient to take action themselves, and in taking action and finding the way of life that works for them it won’t be a deteriorating life sentence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fndwheelie, post: 2132791, member: 447317"] My thoughts are that I’d continued to eat healthy as suggested by the nurse, cutting out sugar and cakes, but was eating a huge amount of carbs, cereal for breakfast, main meal with potatoes or pasta and rice and a couple of slices of bread, supper was a few slices of toast or bread rolls, no one told me that was bad, it is almost the commonly accepted diet. I think I was too far gone for LCHF to work on its own, I started it for about 4 weeks, my numbers dropped from the teens & 20s to 6-7 but I was still spiking 11-12. And still required my 50+ units of insulin a day. Further research I came across the direct study, and total food replacement 800 calorie shakes, as soon as I started this I came off insulin and have been for a month. My target range is 4.5 to 7.5 on the libre and most days I’m in that 100% of the time. This is a very difficult diet, I find myself slipping up often (though I try to keep slip ups to egg and bacon), and not sustainable long term, and when I finish my 8 weeks of shakes I will be returning to LCHF. I hope the VLCD is the kick start my body needs to start working for itself. If I’d been given the information of LCHF when I’d been diagnosed I think that would have been enough for me to achieve remission, but I’d slipped too far down the progressive condition that is diabetes. While the VLCD does work for some, I think if my diabetic nurse had pushed for me to go on it I would have pushed back. Felt miserable and not continued with it. Nothing but shakes for 8-12 weeks is not fun, and I put myself on this diet I have a lot invested into getting better, if someone wasn’t 100% committed this diet isn’t for them. On the other hand if the nurse handed me out something about carbs being the enemy in the beginning I might have made them adjustments from the off and never ended up on insulin, yes going very low carb is a substantial change, but cutting out the highest carb culprits more often than not, can be quite easily achieved at the start. This will reflect in the hab1c and then people can work towards lowering carbs further if needed. But diabetes is different than most conditions, if you break a leg, or have an infection or cancer you go to the doctor they give you treatment and the condition goes away or is managed. Too many people use this mindset with diabetes, take medication and then the condition is managed. Diabetes and especially type 2 is a diagnosis that requires the patient to take action themselves, and in taking action and finding the way of life that works for them it won’t be a deteriorating life sentence. [/QUOTE]
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