Alison Carr
Active Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Just want to suggest an alternative method of 'reversing type 2 pre-diabetes', in case it helps anyone else in the same stage to amke the decision to go onto Metaformin, or not.
The end of last year I was warned I was pre-diabetes, but since then I haven't really done anything to help myself I guess, and about a month ago they said my blood sugar was way up and out of control and I had to start Metaformin. Well I read up about the latter and did not like what I read about it; decided to look for a better solution to actually reverse the diabetes Type 2.
So I researched diets and articles on diabetes/reversal on the net and found that there is a new theory that doctors have been telling us wrong things about food/what to eat for 40 years or more.
Intrigued I read on - what we should be eating is in fact 'HIGH fat, LOW carb, and as little sugar as is possible (due to all the 'hidden' sugars in what we can buy - cereals for a start seem to all contain sugar, and why? We can add that ourselves if we want to!).
It takes some getting one's head round to change the way one eats, but I can already tell you that my urine test strip (Diastix) results are already Sooooooo much reduced! From being 20+ and brown two weeks ago - last night I was down to 0 (yes ZERO). Fair enough I have to wait a few weeks to go back to the nurse to check my blood-counts, but I am now certain they will also be way down.
Thus I am indeed managing to reverse the diabetes on this diet. It is strange to be able to eat fats (butter, olive oil, sunflower oil), full cream natural yoghurt, cream cheese, eggs, bacon, full fat cheese, etc., but one has to think it through - ie get one's head round it. Don't go out and eat a load of full-fat things if one wants to loose weight! Eating high fat, low carb, no sugar will make one's body slowly metabolise the food and thus one will not have the insulin resistance problems as the body HAS to use body fat for it's fuel. Theory sounded good, and so far it is working for me (and many others - read up on this diet/way of life change).
Yes cut down on carbs as much as possible, but not totally - try eating Burgen Linseed & Soya bread or Lidl/Aldi Low GI bread, but only for a couple of slices of toast perhaps for breakfast. Though one can eat bacon and eggs and cheese! Eggs are good and eat plenty as they fill one up so one does not binge. Then I take a Easy-yo lunch box tub of full cream natural yoghurt (any you like), mixed with mixed seeds & mixed nuts for lunch. No dried food as toooo much sugar; though fresh blueberries added are also good at lowering diabetes. Dinner eat oily fish, or actually any meat with limited potatoes, brown rice, couscous, quinoa is good too, but plenty of green vegetables (I often make a mash of sweet potatoes and normal potatoes, but have green veg too). Put a bit butter on the veg. No desserts. I find that this type of food in a day makes one feel full, and I don't go looking for sweet stuff.
There's loads of recipe books for the Keto/ Ketogenic diets on the net - just type that in or high fat, low carb diets and the books will be there (books or Kindle ebooks).
Anyway - it's working for me - but it has to become 'a way of life eating'. Once one has reversed the diabetes problem one can allow oneself a weekly treat of one's favourite food and it shouldn't make a lot of difference over all. Hope this is helpful to others on Metaformin or nearing a point where they might have to. It's working for my friends too, and they are losing weight gradually.
The end of last year I was warned I was pre-diabetes, but since then I haven't really done anything to help myself I guess, and about a month ago they said my blood sugar was way up and out of control and I had to start Metaformin. Well I read up about the latter and did not like what I read about it; decided to look for a better solution to actually reverse the diabetes Type 2.
So I researched diets and articles on diabetes/reversal on the net and found that there is a new theory that doctors have been telling us wrong things about food/what to eat for 40 years or more.
Intrigued I read on - what we should be eating is in fact 'HIGH fat, LOW carb, and as little sugar as is possible (due to all the 'hidden' sugars in what we can buy - cereals for a start seem to all contain sugar, and why? We can add that ourselves if we want to!).
It takes some getting one's head round to change the way one eats, but I can already tell you that my urine test strip (Diastix) results are already Sooooooo much reduced! From being 20+ and brown two weeks ago - last night I was down to 0 (yes ZERO). Fair enough I have to wait a few weeks to go back to the nurse to check my blood-counts, but I am now certain they will also be way down.
Thus I am indeed managing to reverse the diabetes on this diet. It is strange to be able to eat fats (butter, olive oil, sunflower oil), full cream natural yoghurt, cream cheese, eggs, bacon, full fat cheese, etc., but one has to think it through - ie get one's head round it. Don't go out and eat a load of full-fat things if one wants to loose weight! Eating high fat, low carb, no sugar will make one's body slowly metabolise the food and thus one will not have the insulin resistance problems as the body HAS to use body fat for it's fuel. Theory sounded good, and so far it is working for me (and many others - read up on this diet/way of life change).
Yes cut down on carbs as much as possible, but not totally - try eating Burgen Linseed & Soya bread or Lidl/Aldi Low GI bread, but only for a couple of slices of toast perhaps for breakfast. Though one can eat bacon and eggs and cheese! Eggs are good and eat plenty as they fill one up so one does not binge. Then I take a Easy-yo lunch box tub of full cream natural yoghurt (any you like), mixed with mixed seeds & mixed nuts for lunch. No dried food as toooo much sugar; though fresh blueberries added are also good at lowering diabetes. Dinner eat oily fish, or actually any meat with limited potatoes, brown rice, couscous, quinoa is good too, but plenty of green vegetables (I often make a mash of sweet potatoes and normal potatoes, but have green veg too). Put a bit butter on the veg. No desserts. I find that this type of food in a day makes one feel full, and I don't go looking for sweet stuff.
There's loads of recipe books for the Keto/ Ketogenic diets on the net - just type that in or high fat, low carb diets and the books will be there (books or Kindle ebooks).
Anyway - it's working for me - but it has to become 'a way of life eating'. Once one has reversed the diabetes problem one can allow oneself a weekly treat of one's favourite food and it shouldn't make a lot of difference over all. Hope this is helpful to others on Metaformin or nearing a point where they might have to. It's working for my friends too, and they are losing weight gradually.
