Like the journalist Richard Doughty I was stunned when I was diagnosed type 2 several years ago, as I had been active outdoors for most of my life (I’m now 58) and only once slightly overweight. One thing always bothered me though – however fit I was or at ‘fighting weight’ I always seemed to have a pot belly kind of thing going on.
A couple of years ago I watched Mr Mosley’s series on health during which he tests for Diabetes and turns out to be prediabetic. Scans subsequently illustrated quite clearly that his organs were slathered with fatty tissue – he was what became known as a TOFI, and this had me thinking about my condition and the reasons for it…
Some time ago I read about Professor Taylor’s work at Newcastle and the results achieved – now that really got me thinking about my condition and my pot belly – I’m surely slathered in there!
Having thought that the Newcastle study was obviously a specialist, medically supervised, lab conditions trial, I looked forward to hearing about further progress in the future. And then I came across Richard Doughty’s article… And then I came across The Blood Sugar Diet…Everyone was doing it!!!! At home!!!
So, last week I got stuck in as per the Newcastle diet – shakes and veg with an egg or two here and there and some chicken and Salmon this weekend (got to live it up a bit at weekend!).

Started off at 61.8 Kilos with blood sugars at 7.8MM. Whatever I’d tried I’d never managed to get below this since being diagnosed.

Today, 7 days later, I weighed in at 59.5 Kilos and my blood sugar reads 5.8MM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To say I’m thrilled is a slight understatement, but this illustrates the fact that, as Mr Mosley states in The Blood Sugar Diet book, that people that are not vastly overweight may not need to complete the full 8 weeks diet (as Mr Doughty found, achieving the desired result in 11 days).

I’ll check figure again in 3 or 4 days and post back, hopefully with news to encourage others to get stuck in. Well, er, actually keep stuck out really, of the fridge, biscuit tin, cake shop…

They are brilliant results Mick but be careful with the sugar readings.
I had excellent blood sugar results first 4 weeks but having slight issues with them now.
I would suggest that you go for 3 weeks of good readings before you think of stopping the BSD and maybe go on to the Med diet but keep an eye on how the sugar readings are performing.

Well done on your success,that will be an encouragement to others on here. Amazing what results the low carb/ cal diet achieved. Makes you wonder why it’s not taking the diabetes world by storm!!

Cherrianne, I’m hearing about loads of people doing the BSD who have never been on the forums.
I get the feeling that we are the tip of a quickly growing iceberg on here and there are potentially thousands doing this lifestyle now.

Bill, my thoughts exactly. Probably my body depleted of sugar anyway rather than controlling it! It’s a step in the direction that others have successfully taken so I’m heartened by that but am very mindful of what you say, thanks.