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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Resurgam" data-source="post: 1438117" data-attributes="member: 355878">You have no need to keep up energy levels by eating - your body is perfectly able to store and release energy as required when working properly, and for a type 2 diabetic it is probably better to allow that to happen rather than be constantly topping up with anything likely to give rise to a release of insulin.Low carb eating reduces the stimulation of the pancreas to make and release insulin, as type 2 is a resistance to further storage of glucose from the blood, which is why blood glucose levels rise and remain high.Like many people on this forum I am baffled that there should be advice such as the 'eatwell' plate being handed out, when from the results on my meter I can see that high carb foods can push my levels up to about where they were at diagnosis, and low carb will drop them down to about normal, and keep normalising for as long as I stick to it.I eat only twice a day, and fairly frugally, as I have always had to maintain a meagre input to fight my ever so efficient metabolism. It is perfectly easy to keep your weight constant even if you avoid carbs - the Atkins diet was developed as part of a regime to assist Dr Atkins medical practice, and was only put out to a wider public as it proved so effective for weightloss too.</blockquote>

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