Type 2 The Newcastle diet advice

Hi Cazza. 3 lbs this week so starting to plateau. Feels a bit disappointing afterwards the first three weeks but it’s still half a stone in two weeks and 41 lbs since January 23 so I’m happy. Need to lose at least the same again so will keep going. Be happy if I can average 2/3 lbs of the final seven weeks of phase 1 and 2 of the diet.

Blood sugar levels are mainly in the 5’s (4.9 this morning) which I’m happy with and blood pressure seems to be coming downwards.

Hope you’re getting the results you deserve for your efforts.

Hi Cazza. Hope you’re well.

Well, my eight weeks finished last Tuesday. To be honest, for the last ten days I was eating food - about 800 calories per day and keeping carbs below 50g per day. I’m now concentrating on eating real food but keeping carbs below 40g.

In eight weeks I lost 30lbs. I had lost 18lbs prior to starting. So in total 16% of my body weight in ten weeks and I aim to lose another 62 before Christmas. Interestingly, in the end I was losing around 3lb per week - the same as I am now losing whilst eating food. For the last few weeks my blood sugars have been between 5.1 and 6.7. Mainly in the 5’s. I will get an HbA1c next week (ten weeks after my last one) and hope to have reduced from my previous 56 mmol/mol.

My blood pressure is now regularly in the 120/70 range which has also been a good result.

I’d recommend the ND as a quick fix start but it’s clearly not sustainable and doesn’t claim to be. Once you can control your appetite (I have found low carbing achieves this), find a sustainable low carb diet and move onto it.