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Eight week battle starts here!

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Hi
I am 60 years old and was diagnosed in October 2015, it shocked me and i went on a diet going from 16st to 13st 4 using low carb for a month then three month low calorie, however the weight has crept back on and the peeing every two hours has returned!, so on Wednesday 27th May i have embarked on a 700 calorie a day diet for eight weeks to try once and for all to rid myself of this condition.
Im am using food, not shakes, 200 calories at lunch, then 500 in the evening. I'll let you know how i get on.
 
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Hi bennyboy and welcome.
I wish you well and hope you reach your goal.
Adam.
 
Hi Bennyboy, and welcome to the forum!
Please keep us up to date with how you’re getting on and don’t be reluctant to share the tough times with us too. We are here to learn and to support.
I’m following the advice of Prof Roy Taylor and am doing 800cal a day (3 x shakes - plus one salad or a soup). Just about to stand on the scales and log the weight today!
 
ColinUK said:
Hi Bennyboy, and welcome to the forum!
Please keep us up to date with how you’re getting on and don’t be reluctant to share the tough times with us too. We are here to learn and to support.
I’m following the advice of Prof Roy Taylor and am doing 800cal a day (3 x shakes - plus one salad or a soup). Just about to stand on the scales and log the weight today!
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Great Colin!
Be great to hear your experience!
 
Hello @bennyboy and welcome to the forum.
Very best wishes with your weight loss plan, and also to you @ColinUK.
You both have good track records in that you have done it before, so hopefully remembering the motivations that got you there, and that great feeling when you reach goals will help you.

We are all here to help and support, so please keep posting and let us know how it goes.
 
Toucan said:
Hello @bennyboy and welcome to the forum.
Very best wishes with your weight loss plan, and also to you @ColinUK.
You both have good track records in that you have done it before, so hopefully remembering the motivations that got you there, and that great feeling when you reach goals will help you.

We are all here to help and support, so please keep posting and let us know how it goes.
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Thank you!
Looking at my weight chart it’s wrote clear that moving house two days prior to lockdown and then becoming unemployed took a toll on my mental health. So I reverted to type and to 50 odd years of habit and turned to sweet things and crunchy things. It was a misguided attempt at self soothing but there was a point in there where I clearly recall thinking why am I eating this c**p when I know it’s going to kill me... I think I was scoffing a pack of crisps at the time... so I put the pack down and sealed them before putting them back on the cupboard. Then I took Downsizing off the shelf again and carried on reading from where I’d stopped prior to the move.
I’m a little apprehensive about the segue into a keto way of eating but it’s also about learning. I can cook. I can afford to buy ingredients. I’m lucky as I’m within walking distance of high street supermarkets as well as award winning specialists plus places like Borough Market, Chinatown, Selfridges Food Hall, Whole Foods, Planet Organic and even Fortnum & Masons so there is nothing food wise that I can’t get. So I have no excuse really. 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum @bennyboy

Do keep us posted with how your efforts are going - not for the faint hearted, but i really hope it works well for you.

Sorry to hear you had a tough time @ColinUK, but huge kudos to you for having the strength and determination to recognise it and do something about it.

Do we know how @zoombapup is getting on with the 800 cal / Newcastle diet?
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Welcome to the forum @bennyboy

Do keep us posted with how your efforts are going - not for the faint hearted, but i really hope it works well for you.

Sorry to hear you had a tough time @ColinUK, but huge kudos to you for having the strength and determination to recognise it and do something about it.

Do we know how @zoombapup is getting on with the 800 cal / Newcastle diet?
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Thank you 🙂
 
Hi all
I wasn't going to do it till the end , but i decided to do a fasting blood test this morning and it was 5.6 ! I have been dieting on 1500 cals for a couple of weeks before starting the 700 cal a day diet on Wednesday. Since Wednesday i'm down 4lb. I'm 15st now on a 5'10'' frame so aim to get down to under 12st.I wont take my blood again till the end.I'm not finding it too difficult, although i'm sure there are tough times ahead!.
 
That's a great blood test result @bennyboy, and a good weight loss as well.
May be there will be some tough times, but if you keep focusing on the success that you already have, I'm sure that you will get through.
 
I'm rather surprised that anybody starting with Low Carb would switch to Low Calorie or Ultra Low Calorie - since Ultra low Calorie definitely isn't sustainable and I seriously doubt if Low Calorie is either.
I know that Low Carb High(er natural) Fat, or what is also known as 'Real Food' is sustainable for most. I'm a comparative newby to it, having done it for just over 1yr so far. I know of others who are over 10yrs on it. and kept their T2 Diabetes in remission and their weight down with a few 'wobbles' over all that time.

The Ultra Low Carb 800 or 700 Calories, or the serious long term fasting both have the same ultimate problem in that eventually in order to get sufficient nutrients people need to switch to a sustainable T2 friendly way of eating. They can't just go back to what they ate before because their T2D and their weight will just come back!
 
Hi
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Im one of those people who keep dieting and giving up after a few weeks, so while lock down is on ive decided to smash the weight once and for all. Its proving easier than i thought because i practice the 16:8, and i am used to it . I have a 200grm can of ham or chicken (200cals) for lunch, then i have 500 cals to eat at night which is a decent meal.
Once i have lost the required weight, i will eat low carb. We are all on a journey and in my case at sixty years old i need to crack it or i wont be able to enjoy my retirement in a few years.
Whatever diet you follow, you have to go below your personal fat threshold for your liver and pancreas to have a chance to function normally and free you from this lifetime curse.
 
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And of course it depends on if you are focusing on management or reversal
What ever you do i wish you the best.
 
Hi @bennyboy 🙂
How are you getting on?
 
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