Anniversary Post
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Work has been very demanding and I haven't been on top of the data gathering etc.
I've been reflecting a lot on
@ColinUK decision to re-run the Newcastle Diet. It will be my anniversary next week.
15th May 2021: 101kg with fasting Blood sugars at 10.3
13 weeks later - 20th August 2021 : 80.6 Kg and fasting Blood sugars @ 5.5
I stayed at 80.6 till March this year and since then the average is 83.5. This coincided with my 60th Birthday, and if I'm honest with myself, I lost my commitment and grip once I'd reached this mental milestone.
I enrolled for a half marathon (June 14th), and started training 6 weeks ago hoping this would result in more training and weight loss.
BUT, The data . . .
Fitbit Very Active Minutes (Green Columns)
up - average calories burned (Blue Line)
down.
Even though I've read Burn by
Herman Pontzer and his theory of “
constrained daily energy expenditure,” our bodies adjust how we spend our capped number of calories based on lifestyle. I was still surprised.

I should know this by now -
you can only lose weight by dieting. I think it would be daft to think about dieting whilst training for a half marathon. But I might 'do a Colin' and hit the 800 calories a day after this.
I would like to stress that my blood sugars are great - and this is the point of the Newcastle Diet.
I'm eating well (less carbs) drinking beer (less than I was) and it seems I can eat the occasional chocolate etc without any problem

So, a year on, I can thoroughly recommend the Newcastle Diet for putting Type 2 Diabetes into remission.