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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr Hairyman" data-source="post: 2612087" data-attributes="member: 573589">Hi all. My first post, so be gentle!Received my Type 2 diagnosis last week. HbA1C of 80. Weight is 152kg. 49 years oldObviously I need to lose weight, as well as bring down my mmol score. Have started exercising, have removed 'white carbs' and am going down what resembles a "low GI" diet. I've been prescribed Metformin - building up to 2000mg and a statin. I would very much like to put the diabetes into remission. From reading around the forums, a lot of people seem to favour, and have found success with going very low carb, and Ketogenic. The initial information I received was to cut out the 'white carbs' and switch to wholemeal flour, brown rice, sweet potato etc - along with taking in less carbs. I'm measuring that using MyFitnessPal. Even though I've reduced my Carb target - it's still at 165gI'm confident that I can definitely lose weight through exercise and the GI approach, but I'm concerned that this won't really put a dent into my  HbA1C of 80. Keto seems very challenging. I cook for my whole family, which makes it even more of a challenge. Would appreciate peoples thoughts.</blockquote>

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