Mellor – sounds like a really good plan – do keep us posted with your progress.
Blood sugar 4.4 this morning. Am really really really happy.
Head has been mulling over everything I read yesterday. Had noticed over the past 6 months that my food intake had really crept up (2700 cals a day at least with blood sugars staying higher than ideal. A real puzzle as carbs were never higher than 35g. Not so puzzling was the 5lb weight rise that resulted.
On starting the one week challenges i had to cut down on something – and the 3 things I that had got seriously out of control were cream, nuts, yoghurt and kefir. All very healthy foods. But on cutting them drastically down blood sugars and weight plummeted on 1200 calories a day.
Was stunned to read in Gary Taubes book that – some people – although not many – have an abnormal insulin response to cream and nuts! I did note he puts yoghurt on the banned list of food which I actually don’t agree with!. So if I eat these things in excess it sends me down the diabetes road. On the challenges I cut nuts to 10g, cream to just a splash in my coffee, kefir to 100g and yoghurt to 25g as a topping to my kefir, flaxseed and blueberry breakfast sprinkled with 10g flaked almonds. No cravings – awesome BS and very decent weight loss.
Have noticed on this forum just how good we are at tailoring the BSD to work successfully for us – and how we are all continuing to learn – which is just what the book says. We are all different – we are all genetically predisposed to be affected by the carbs but there is no one size fits all.
Apologies for my ramblings – just trying to get my head round this new info and to mull over my new status. Diabetes ‘cured’ or reversed but still with a genetic disposition to have an abnormal insulin response to starchy carbs but also some other foods that do not cause most other people problems. So will always have to keep off the starchy carbs and limit the nuts etc to stay diabetes free. You wouldn’t believe how good I feel now I understand what is going on.