Thanks, I'll certainly have a look at those. However the claim "I reversed my diabetes" always arouses my suspicions, to put it mildly. If it means, "Due to lifestyle measures my bg numbers have been going down instead of up" that's credible, but IMO the terminology is (deliberately?) misleading and actually encourages people to entertain false hopes of a complete cure.
I know it is early days but I would like to "stand up" for the "I've reversed my diabetes" and the prospect of a complete cure. After 1 month of <800 calories, real food , low carb diet (as per Dr. Moseley) my blood sugars started responding normally (i.e. fasted and 2hr after meals were within the "normal" ranges). I carried on to lose more weight.
I then experimented with re-introducing carbs as the proper Newcastle diet was never "low carb".
I have, for many months now eaten everything that I used to eat, even to the extent of bingeing and my blood sugars 2 hours after meals are invariably within the normal range (below 7.8). The highest level I have seen was after Naan bread with 12.4 which lasted less than 15 mins and the time over 7.8 was less than an hour.
Even while binge eating and drinking my bloods are normal.
I am not advocating that anyone binges! I allow binges and counter the weight gain with intermittent fasting and watching my calories.
I would expect that if I put back the 3 1/2 stone that I have lost then I would become diabetic again. It is still early days as to whether the liver and pancreatic weight loss caused by the low calorie diets reverses and T2 comes back even if I don't bloat up again so I'm not saying that "I'm cured and everything will be OK" but it does concern me that no-one suggests that it might be possible for some of us lucky ones to effectively "cure" their diabetes at least in the short term. I don't want to raise people's hopes unrealistically but my experience should give hope to newly diagnosed T2's.
If anyone has managed to read this far into this long post could I ask why many people seem to be saying that being obese doesn't cause diabetes? Where is my misunderstanding? I was obese then I got diabetes then I got more obese. Diabetes didn't cause my obesity but it did fuel it. Surely if I hadn't been obese then I wouldn't have developed diabetes? Presumably this wouldn't apply to skinny-fat types but for the fatty-fat types like me...