Potential cure for obesity-related type 2 Diabetes

I heard about this this morning too! Aparently going on a 600 calories per day diet for 8 weeks, kick starts your body to produce its glucose or whatever itself!?!

Yer, wondering about the 'starvation mode' myself!

My mom (who is 63) has been a type 2 diabetic for about 15 years and has seen amazing results by just eating a strict vegan diet. She's been vegan for about 7 years and is now off all of her diabetes meds. She has regular doctor visits and always checks out fine. She still has certain cookies and breads (which are vegan), but watches her blood sugar.
That's another alternative.

I personally don't believe that starvation mode happens at just under 1200 calories or even at 600 calories. I have read enough to believe that your metabolism will adjust to lower calorie intake eventually (meaning slow a bit in response to it after a very long time). This is why, without having tried it personally, I can see zigzagging calories being a reasonable approach to breaking a plateau. But, I think people who are concerned about being in "starvation" mode, even if you were eating just 600 calories a day for 8 weeks, are taking the starvation mode theory a bit too literally. It's actually something that bugs me about entering my daily calories. I am not going hungry.....I am eating plenty and plenty of good things and I'm eating just under 1200 calories a day. I'd rather see MFP have a warning about people living on low-fat processed junk food and hardly a fruit or vegetable in sight. Getting your 1200 calories from those foods is far more risky than some bogeyman starvation mode, IMHO.

LOL, I think I did this on my own last year when I had a relapse of anorexic behaviors. I'm off my diabetes medicine because of that now, bittersweet as that is :-)

As far as the starvation mode thing goes - I was talking about this with someone else earlier today. There is a difference between hitting a plateau because you're eating a little less than you are supposed to and eating like a person with anorexia - which is essentially what this diabetes diet is. People following severe calorie restrictions - like anorexic or CRON diets - are in starvation mode and their bodies STILL cannot maintain a healthy weight because the deprivation is so severe. A person slipping into starvation mode because they are shorting themselves a few hundred calories can plateau or even gain because their bodies are able to compensate for that level of restriction. Also, 2 months of severe dieting will not destroy your metabolism the way long term self-starvation will.

I had lap band surgery in August 2011. By November my A1C went from 7.4 (on 3 meds/day) to 5.8 on no meds. I have maintained the 5.8 and am anxious to see what it is in June. After a 70# loss, it's obvious, for some, that weight loss is the answer to curing/controlling type 2 diabetes. I know that WLS is not for everyone and some think it is the easy way out (that's another argument for another day) but for me it was the answer and I would not change anything (other than doing it sooner than I did).