............Wallycorker (who I've not seen around here for some time) even cautiously suggested that it seemed like he could now 'get away' with occasionally eating carbs which would have previously been difficult, wondering perhaps whether loss of fat around organs was allowing things to work a little more again............
Yes Mike - the article being discussed describes almost exactly what happened to me.
More than ten years after diagnosis and after my HbA1c rising to 9.4% and being prescribed 2000mg of metformin per day - i.e. not far away from needing to inject insulin. These days I take no metformin medication at all for around six months now. My last several HbA1c readings have been in the 5s - also, my one hour after finishing eating readings are almost always in what I understand to be normal levels - i.e. between 4.0 and 7.8 mmol/L (around 92% of the time).
Most days, I eat chips with my lunch or occasionally a jacket potato - also loads of fruit. However, I do eat much less starchy carbohydrate than I had been encouraged to eat previously by the various healthcare professonals that I met. I will never go back to eating cereals, bread, pasta and pizza etc in any significant quantities because I believe that it is those foods that caused my problems in the first place.
Tonight, I pushed the boat out by eating a big pile of cottage pie. I expected the worst! My reading one hour after finishing eating that meal was 8.4 mmol/L. Yes - higher than I like these days but nowhere near as bad as I thought that it might have been.
Yes - you are right I don't post much these days - either on this forum or on the many others too. I can't post on several because I've been banned. Why? Because the moderators don't seem to like me talking about what I've achieved simply through slightly changing my diet. All quite weird really!
Please don't worry about me - I'm doing just fine and I don't expect anything to change.
Good luck and best wishes to all.
John
