Hi All,
I was recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes after being hospitalised with cellulitis. The routine blood test results came back with a blood sugar level of 21 mmol/dL. Over the next week in hospital on IV antibiotics I lost about 10% of my body weight. Despite being on metformin my blood sugar remained in the 13-18 range. After discharge, I spent another week on oral antibiotics at home and lost another kg. During that week my blood sugar levels actually rose despite following the recommended low fat diet from the hospital and my GP. My metformin dose was increased from 2 tablets a day to three and then my Hb1ac results came back at 9.8%. My GP increased my metformin dose to four tablets a day and started me on Jardiance. My wife bought me the Blood sugar diet book and after checking with my GP, I started to follow it. Withing 48 hours my fasting BSL had dropped to 3.7, I halved my dose of metformin, no change. The following day I stopped taking the metformin completely and the Jardiance. My fasting BSL bumped slightly to 6.0. I started taking a walk straight after dinner and my BSL has been in the normal range every day for the last week.
This has been a dramatic improvement for me. I go back to see my GP tomorrow and expect him to be more than a little surprised as I think he was expecting to be starting me on insulin. I will be sticking with this way of eating although I am going straight onto a maintenance type approach as I got a pretty good head start due to the infection and rapid weight loss in hospital. I’m really looking forward to getting a lower Hb1ac result and being able to say “I used to be diabetic”.
I just wanted to share these results so far and say a huge thank you to Dr Mosely and all the researchers for their work in developng and publicising this diet and the research it’s based on. What a shame that i didn’t get pointed straight at this diet by my treating doctors as soon as I was diagnosed. The medical profession here in Australia is a little behind the eight ball as far as diabetic diet is concerned. In hospital the diabetic diet was low fat high carb and the diet sheet handed out by the GP was the same. It didn’t work for me, the Blood Sugar Diet has worked beyond my wildest hopes.
Kind regards,
John