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<blockquote data-quote="StevoUK" data-source="post: 1085803" data-attributes="member: 277632"><p>After years (since diagnosed in 2001) believing that diabetes type 2 was "an incurable progressive disease" and been handed increasing tablets to take I read about <strong>"The 8 week blood sugar diet" a book by Dr Micael Moseley.</strong></p><p>I went on a Very low calorie diet as he recommends.</p><p>After 3 weeks I have lost 5 lbs. I cut out rice, bread, potato and pasta and increased fish. Its easy to do and maintain.</p><p>My HBA1c tested this week is 54 / 7.1 (a record low) and my cholesterol has dropped from 5.5 to 3.9. </p><p>These are remarkable as I have not taken any Metformin since I started the diet, just a reduced dose of gliclazide (one or two 30mg tabs per day instead of 3). </p><p>The nurse recommends I take the metformin and stop the gliclazide to avoid the possibility of hypos.</p><p>My diabetic nurse was so impressed she is buying the book - her husband is type 2 diabetic.</p><p></p><p>An app (apple and Android) and mentioned in the book is <strong>MyFitnessPal</strong> which allows you to set targets and enter food each day with automatic provision of calorie and fat/carbs/sodium etc from the app database. </p><p>It also links up with the apple iphone HEALTH app giving combined results. There is also a web site for entry of data and review of progress.</p><p></p><p><strong>There should be a word wide emphasis on diet instead of drugs!</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StevoUK, post: 1085803, member: 277632"] After years (since diagnosed in 2001) believing that diabetes type 2 was "an incurable progressive disease" and been handed increasing tablets to take I read about [B]"The 8 week blood sugar diet" a book by Dr Micael Moseley.[/B] I went on a Very low calorie diet as he recommends. After 3 weeks I have lost 5 lbs. I cut out rice, bread, potato and pasta and increased fish. Its easy to do and maintain. My HBA1c tested this week is 54 / 7.1 (a record low) and my cholesterol has dropped from 5.5 to 3.9. These are remarkable as I have not taken any Metformin since I started the diet, just a reduced dose of gliclazide (one or two 30mg tabs per day instead of 3). The nurse recommends I take the metformin and stop the gliclazide to avoid the possibility of hypos. My diabetic nurse was so impressed she is buying the book - her husband is type 2 diabetic. An app (apple and Android) and mentioned in the book is [B]MyFitnessPal[/B] which allows you to set targets and enter food each day with automatic provision of calorie and fat/carbs/sodium etc from the app database. It also links up with the apple iphone HEALTH app giving combined results. There is also a web site for entry of data and review of progress. [B]There should be a word wide emphasis on diet instead of drugs![/B] [/QUOTE]
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