I've already reversed my diabetes a while ago on LCHF, so why would I lose sleep over this? You should ask your doctor about trying the 8 week low calorie diet. I can already guess his response.
I will not lower my self to having a fight with you, so I will allow your comments to pass and I will try to talk to you like a grown up. So NoCrbs4Me, as a fully recovered type two diabetic, what do you think was or is your trigger weight?
I was fully diagnosed as being Type Two Diabetic, August 2nd 2014 and I was around 18 stone at the time. During November 2014 I took up cycling and I have rode many many miles completing three long distance charity cycle rides during the summer of 2015. Not long after I started cycling my weigh reduced to around 17s 8lb on no diet, in fact my carbs intake went up during this time to compensate for the extra efforts during long distance cycling. Since then I have been lucky and I have reduced my weight further to around 16s 8lb, mostly between January 2016 and present day (sadly through illness not diet). Recently my wife and I have take up some carbs dodging. At the moment my weight remains around the 16 st 8 lb mark. I have noticed a huge change in my blood sugar levels they have dropped off like they have fallen off a cliff. I am fairly confident should I continue to further reduce my weight, my blood sugar could drop even further, and this is with out any drastic diets. I am not suggesting any one gets desperately ill to achieve this weight loss, I am trying to point out my weight loss has come about as a result of hard work and more recently a fluke. This weight loss has alone had a big effect on my blood sugar levels with out a drastic diet being involved..Because of recent illness I have had to reduce my cycling but I hope to fully return to it shortly. I have two cycling charity events lined up for summer 2016.
The News paper article suggests you can go back to normal eating after you go below your personal trigger weight. Naturally any one would advise smaller portions and keeping an eye on the carbs intake less bread and fewer pizza's. But none the less you could again enjoy the meany food options available to you with out going as over board as you did in the past. Combine this with regular exercise such as cycling or jogging a few miles three times a week and you are good to go.
Very often I read about people who have used the HFLC diet and achieved fantastic results. But very rarely is there any mention of exercise included as being a part of the end result. I would go so far as to say gluttony and lazyness is what caused the problem in the first place. I openly used carb loading sports drinks during my first year of being diabetic as an aid to achieving my cycling goals and simply burnt them off when cycling. I know now this was a wrong approach but I still lost weight all be it slowly.
For me I see the HFLC diet as a means to an end rather than a total life style change. Shift the weight and you remove the diabetes problem I feel it really is that simple.
I have a fun question for you. If you take the flat bread out of a small dona kebab what is left has to be good for you on the HFLC diet. As what is left is just meat, fat and some salad. Am I right or wrong?