Greetings to you all!

[Eddy Edson]

Eddy that is awesome news to read. My blood sugars are for the most part normal though I struggle with dawn phenomenon often. I still have 20 more to go but realistically for my height and comorbidities (hypertension and high cholesterol) I want to lose 40 to 50 more. I have a hoilday planned in May for a trip to Hawaii and another one for France in October so that's my short term motivation. How do you like the Mediterranean diet? I've read that it's great for diabetics and heart health.

I eat Mediterranean=ish partly because it's what I enjoy & partly for CV health.

For T2D, really I think that any way of eating which results in calorie deficit => weight loss is beneficial for T2D, usually, but Mediterranean is a good way to do that while promoting CV health.

Anyway, with statins, weight loss, exercise and diet I've gotten my LDL down to 27 mg/dl in US terms, and BP down to sub 120/80, so things are working for the moment.

Have you seen Roy Taylor's stuff on weight loss for T2D remission? https://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal/#publicinformation

His book is worth reading, more than most diabetes books I've seen. "Life Without Diabetes", released in the UK in December and this month sometime in the US, I believe.

 

[Drummer]

I eat a low carb diet because it is so easy to do and maintain a low Hba1c.
The diabetes has been officially in remission for some time now. The loss in weight, regaining strength, energy and a feeling of wellbeing all just arrived soon after diagnosis and I burned the diet sheets from the GP and dietician to start a barbecue the following day. I have been able to resume working with knitting machines, hauling them around to do servicing and repairs, and to expand my presence in the English folk scene, singing and playing the music for dancing.
I eat a maximum of 40 gm of carbs these days, so my meals are meat, fish, eggs, cheese, seafood with either salad or low carb vegetables. I have full fat Greek yoghurt, with berries, cream in my coffee - need to eat just twice a day and I see normal blood glucose levels whenever I test. I have never been able to cope with the stodge which is pushed as part of a 'healthy' diet - I avoid most grain, potatoes and other starchy stuff, sweet stuff is just too sickly these days to be at all enticing. I do have low carb bread at 4 gm of carbs a slice when I have kippers, but not as an everyday part of my diet.
I do wonder what are the starches you eat and find so enticing.

 

[Wirrallass]

Hi Statesidesally and welcome. I was dx (diagnosed) with an HbA1c of 53 and reduced this to 31 by following a low carb diet and exercise
only. No meds. So I say my Diabetes is in 'remission'. which is non-diabetic but.....I still consider myself a person living with Diabetes and still keep a watchful eye on the amount of Carborhydrate I eat.

I too have to lower my cholesterol level and have purchased the following two books from Amazon as a guide to help me achieve a more realistic number of which I'm happy to recommend to you.......

Tap on books to expand.
Good luck and do please stay in touch as to your progress.
WL

 

[Docb]

Trouble is that the proponents of these "magic" diets have the same motivation as the man selling those ridiculous sandwiches. They are trying to get their hands on your money and will push whatever buttons are necessary to do it.

For me, the way to lose weight is to listen to yourself and not to others. By all means look at the general principles they propose and take from them anything that suits you but don't forget the simple fact that you get the weight down by consuming fewer calories. You can do that with the existing range of foods you eat, you just have to consume less. The biggest problem is to ignore the world around you that has a vested interest in making you consume more.

Anyway, whatever you are doing seems to be working so well done and if you keep it up you will be able to go to France and blend in with the population and really enjoy it.

 

[ianf0ster]

Trouble is that the proponents of these "magic" diets have the same motivation as the man selling those ridiculous sandwiches. They are trying to get their hands on your money and will push whatever buttons are necessary to do it.

For me, the way to lose weight is to listen to yourself and not to others. By all means look at the general principles they propose and take from them anything that suits you but don't forget the simple fact that you get the weight down by consuming fewer calories. You can do that with the existing range of foods you eat, you just have to consume less. The biggest problem is to ignore the world around you that has a vested interest in making you consume more.

Anyway, whatever you are doing seems to be working so well done and if you keep it up you will be able to go to France and blend in with the population and really enjoy it.

A T2Diabetic can also reduce weight without reducing total Calorie intake! Just get your Blood Glucose down and your Insulin will follow - insulin is the fat storage hormone, so once that is lower it is much easier to 'burn off' excess body fat.
This is what those of us who went LCHF to control our BG, rather than to lose weight, we call being 'Fat Adapted' or 'Dual Fuel'.
I say that using a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) if it can be maintained, can help to control BG, but it also raises the Basic resting Metabolic Rate - which makes the required calorie reduction even greater and consequently the willpower.
In my opinion it is easier to take the Low Carb High(er) Fat approach which has been shown by Virta Health, Dr David Unwin, the CEO of the American Diabetes Association, the USA Veterans Association and many more low carb GPs to have a much higher success rate - up to 60% for Virta, 50% for Dr Unwin.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @Statesidesally

Congratulations in your impressive weight loss and great A1c reduction.

Glad you found an approach which worked for you and which you can sustain long term.