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Hi from fat guy in the US

I think you may either have a typo in that highlighted sentence above or you are confusing HbA1c and BG. You would not be alive with a BG of 100mmol/l!!! BG meters only read up to 33mmols/l.
Either 100 was your HbA1c which would be in mmols/mol and cannot be compared with a finger prick reading, as they are measuring very different things, or perhaps you were meaning a finger prick of 10mmols/l and it was a typo error, which then came down to 5.8mols after 7 days. Even then it depends when those two readings were taken as to any inference you can draw from them. A non diabetic person could have a BG of 10mmols/l (180mg/dl) after a very carb rich meal and a BG of 5.8mmols/l (104mg/dl) 3 hours later in the same day. If they were both waking fasting readings then that would make sense, although waking/fasting readings usually take several weeks/months even to come down that much and are usually the last to respond to dietary changes.
Yes, sent in haste. Over 17 mmol/l fasting blood test result- now corrected in post
 
@Trenton Tony

From my experience of a self-managed programme, I'd say the primary value of Soups and Shakes is the rapid reduction in BG levels and liver fat in the first four weeks. After that I think it makes sense go back to real food to avoid too much muscle loss. When his results were first announced c.2010 Roy Taylor advised do-it-yourselfers to follow a portion controlled diet instead.

Articles and books which have helped me find my way forward include:
- https://phcuk.org/wp-content/uploads/A_5_page_low_carb_diet_leaflet_Unwin_2021-converted.pdf
- What should we eat? https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2021/08/what-should-we-eat/ [see Weight Loss section]
- https://www.lowcarbfreshwell.com/documents/8/Freshwell_Red_Amber_Green.pdf
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zfenN1cLfGNHa7qBp9KDh1u1iqxvTGJF/view
- https://realmealrevolution.com/the-books/

Of course soups and shakes can still be useful as time-savers as you go along.

Good luck.
 
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