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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ianf0ster" data-source="post: 2654156" data-attributes="member: 506169">Congrats on bringing your BG readings down. You don't say which Michael Mosely plan you are using, whether it's the earlier ultra-low calorie approach, or the more recent variant which focusses more on keeping the carbohydrates down.You are right to prioritise getting the blood glucose and HbA1C numbers down. For overweight Type 2 diabetics, it's usually the Diabetes that causes most of the weight gain and so getting back to 'normal' Blood Glucose levels means having less insulin sloshing around which makes weight control/loss much easier (insulin is a fat storage hormone).Nobody really gets into remission within 2-3 months. Those that say they did are bending the definition of remission - which include maintaining non-diabetic HbA1C numbers. It took me around 4 months before I had a 'pre-diabetic; HbA1C (that just so happened to be the time before my next HbA1C after diagnosis), but my finger-prick BG readings 2hrs after first bite of each meal were at 'normal' levels (on a Low Carb way of eating) in just a few weeks.However upon my 'pre-diabetic' HbA1C my GP scheduled my next HBA1C test for another 6 months. Thus it was impossible for me to be in remission until at least 10 months after initial diagnosis! Not that there was any accepted definition of remission back then in 2019/20.</blockquote>

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