The Reversal Trials

NoCrbs4Me said:

This looks quite interesting. I've been doing something similar for the last couple of months with a lot of success, although my blood sugar numbers were not as high as yours. Since you are presenting this as a bit of a scientific experiment I have a few suggestions that might make it more useful for us followers of your new blog, since I am extremely interested to see how you do (forgive me if any of these are already addressed in your blog):

1. What meds are you on now?
2. What were your daily BG numbers the week before you started? What kind of diet were you on just before you started? What was your A1C before you started?
3. Can you present your tracking results for your BMI and blood pressure?
4. How many grams of carbs you eat daily or even at each meal? (I find carbs at breakfast raises my BG more than the same amount of carbs at other times of the day; I know you say you don't have time to figure out how many grams of carbs you consume, but without that info I think it will be difficult to draw conclusions regarding the results since carbs are what effects postprandial BG levels the most; I am under 50 g of carbs a day, so because it's so low I find it quite easy to track and I don't bother tracking fat or protein).
5. Can you present your tracking of how much exercise you do daily and before/after BG? (I find that when I run a few kms my BG sometimes go up and sometimes goes down, but seems to head towards 5.6 mmol/L)
6. When you present postprandial numbers, are these the peak numbers after you eat? Or exactly 1 hr after? 2 hours? (For me, my bg peaks just about exactly 1 hr after the mid point of my meal).
7. What are your lipid numbers? I found that LCHF diet has improved my numbers after only a short time, especially triglycerides and LDL. It would be interesting to see how your diet and exercise affects your lipids.
8. How do you define "reversal"? Blood sugar levels at non-diabetic levels while still on low carb diet? Blood sugar levels at non-diabetic levels if you go back on a standard high carb diet? Although I'm on LCHF diet, once a month I do what I call my "pasta challenge": I'll eat a pasta (85 g of whole wheat spaghetti) and meat sauce (home made, no sugar) and see how high my BG spikes. At first, when I had just started LCHF, it went to 10 mmol/L, then a month later 8.9, then last week only to 8.1. Perhaps you could do something similar.

As a comment, I think maybe the 3 month time frame is ambitious, but who knows? I have definitely seen a significant improvement in my BG numbers in about that time frame, although my morning BG does not seem to have changed much.

Sorry for so much writing. Thanks in advance and good luck.

P.S. I disagree with you on not eating bacon or sausage, but that's just me. Then again, I don't eat that much of it.

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NoCrbs4Me said:

1. Is the no meds based on advice from a doctor? I would have thought they'd at least have you on metformin.
2. Actually, I was wondering if you tracked your BG numbers before you started in a similar manner as you are now (morning, after meals, before bed) for comparison. Your HBA1C seems quite low in comparison to your daily numbers. 40 is almost normal, but your daily numbers are clearly elevated. Do you have a diabetic nurse or endocrinologist? What do they say about your numbers?
4. I think the grams of carbs you have at each meal is extremely important to sort out the results. Maybe you can just take a guess for each meal or use calorieking.com to help you make a guess.
6. But generally you check when you expect your peak postprandial to occur?

Well, I have to admit I really don't eat much bacon or sausage. Maybe two strips of bacon or 1 small breakfast sausage at breakfast. I doubt I'd eat any meat at all if I visited an abattoir.

Thanks.

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