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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 371625" data-source="post: 1521238">Not magic, lots of exercise and weight loss. It took a while at 100g carbs and 1500 Cal coupled with 2 or 3 hours exercise every day to go from 17 to 12 stone over 5 months. I hope that removing the visceral fat around the liver and pancreas may have stopped the insulin resistance and enabled me to metabolise carbs properly again, but it is too early to say. Only 6 months ago my FBG was in double figures,I don't want to lose any more weight so have upped my intake to an average of 175g carbs/1800 Cal or thereabouts. Time will tell whether I can do this or whether I need to be on 100g carbs a day for life. A week on holiday without the same exercise and with a pretty poor diet and I felt lousy. Plenty of exercise and low fat today and I feel much better. I find that I need the carbs to exercise, walking is fine but the rowing machine without carbs feels really tough (eat a 'nana and t seems much easier). I don't go low fat all the time, just the odd day every now and then, I find that I feel better if I do this.And no, I take no meds at all. I was given insulin on diagnosis, and BP meds too. I packed both in pretty quickly as I found the weight loss was curing both issues (last BP was 104/62 when I got my HbA1c done)</blockquote>

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