8 week Blood Sugar Diet
briggsykim
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With a lot of research I have decided to follow this diet. I don't have diabetes but, I am overweight and could be at risk. Does anyone else want to try it with me?
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Please link to the diet.0
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800 calories a day? Please do more research......
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It's a starvation diet, completely unnecessary. Please reconsider. Take care of your health!4
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Please don't. It is unsafe, unhealthy and unsustainable.
Plug your info into MFP. Select a reasonable rate of weight loss. Weigh and log your food while eating within the calorie goal given to you by MFP. See results without risking your health and sanity.3 -
A diabetic diet can be very helpful for weight loss. But this sounds like a gimmick diet that is doomed to fail. I agree with Carlos_421. Use MFP to set realistic goals and you will see success and be much more likely to stick with it. Good luck.0
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Why not just make lifestyle changes and eat at a deficit? What is the plan after 8 weeks?1
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Has your "research" been with either your doctor or a registered dietician? Otherwise, you're setting up yourself for failure. No fad diet is sustainable. Long-term CI vs CO has been scientifically proven to be the most successful way to lose the weight and keep it off.1
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There is no such thing as a diabetic diet. The medical advice to diabetics these days is that they should eat the healthy balanced diet that the rest of the population should strive for (in the UK anyway).4
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After the 8 weeks your blood sugar is reset to normal, from there it is advisable to eat a Mediterranean style diet, low carb0
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briggsykim wrote: »After the 8 weeks your blood sugar is reset to normal, from there it is advisable to eat a Mediterranean style diet, low carb
Your blood sugar doesn't reset. It constantly changes. If you're having trouble with blood sugar, talk to a doctor and/or a dietician.8 -
mmm I could eat blood sugar all day!1
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This diet was researched by doctors for bariatric patients.0
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Eating 800 calories a day will NOT reset your blood sugar to normal....Why not just eat the foods in the Medditerean diet (which is just healthy fresh food) in moderate amounts according to your MFP calorie goal? Eating 800 calories a day for 8 weeks will be bad....1
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OP, as you keep on arguing the benefits of your fad diet instead or listening to advice (which you asked for) why don't you just go and do it..... Let us know how it worked for you, if you are still healthy enough that is...
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briggsykim wrote: »This diet was researched by doctors for bariatric patients.
I'm sure it was, but there is no such thing as a diet that resets blood sugar, and if it did, it wouldn't address your particular problem, whatever that problem may be. Yes, diet is a part of controlling blood sugar, but it doesn't take a crash diet followed by a reasonable one. If you are going to end up on the Mediterranean diet, skip the 800 calories/day part and go straight to Mediterranean at a sensible number of calories.
But, you're going to do it anyway. See how it works for you.3 -
briggsykim wrote: »This diet was researched by doctors for bariatric patients.
Are you a bariatric patient? VLCD should be followed closely by the prescribing physician (typically with training in weight loss/bariatric). Not recommended for the general population. And you blood sugar does not "reset". It constantly fluctuates (dependent on diet, stress, medications, infection, alcohol, etc.).
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No.
More precisely, *kitten* no.
Seriously.
More seriously, it's quite frankly a stupid idea, unless your doctor has specifically recommended this for a particular reason/problem.1 -
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"Going on a diet" is 100% of the time a recipe for failure. Just live a healthy lifestyle and your blood sugar will be fine.2
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briggsykim wrote: »After the 8 weeks your blood sugar is reset to normal, from there it is advisable to eat a Mediterranean style diet, low carb
it's a spin off from Prof Roy Taylor's work on reversing diabetes, short sharp weight loss to de-fat the pancreas or similar idea.
Don't scare the Americans.0 -
briggsykim wrote: »With a lot of research I have decided to follow this diet. I don't have diabetes but, I am overweight and could be at risk. Does anyone else want to try it with me?
Losing weight may lessen your risk for developing Type II Diabetes, and though a "fasting" diet like this one (there are many out there like it) can be effective, it's never sustainable.
The more you study this disease, the more you will realize the truth that sustainability is everything. You HAVE to be able to keep it up long term, or you run the risk of getting into ever more extreme yo-yo cycles of weight loss/gain.
Go to your physician and discuss this, get some pre-diabetic screening if you feel like you need it, and find out if you are beginning to experience elevated serum glucose. These tests will ultimately determine what the role of carb restriction will play in your weight loss plan, but it will certainly need to combine calorie intake reduction with increased activity. And that's basically how it works, in a nutshell.
However, just being overweight doesn't necessarily mean that you have or will develop diabetes. I know morbidly obese people who have entirely normal fasting blood glucose levels. Better to get screened and find out what is true, rather than act on what might be true.
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briggsykim wrote: »This diet was researched by doctors for bariatric patients.
Are you a bariatric patient? VLCD should be followed closely by the prescribing physician (typically with training in weight loss/bariatric). Not recommended for the general population. And you blood sugar does not "reset". It constantly fluctuates (dependent on diet, stress, medications, infection, alcohol, etc.).
Yup. The insulin/glucose metabolic cycle is a constant ebb and flow. There is a point however, called "glucose homeostasis," which is the point the serum glucose level returns to during the night. That's why the primary diagnostic criteria for type II diabetes is the fasting blood glucose level, taken first thing in the morning before eating. The normal range is between 70-80 and 100 mg/dL, depending on which source you're reading. I would presume that "reset" would be referring to this range.
The thing about bariatric patients is that they're seeing complete disappearance of type II diabetes symptoms in some cases; that would be an even more convincing sort of "reset," to be sure. It's not reasonable to assume, however, that what works for bariatric patients works for anyone else, given that little wrinkle. And there's the surgery thing, and the portion size thing, etc. etc.2 -
Why is it necessary to be able to sustain a hypocaloric diet (of any sort) beyond achieving a target weight loss ? This makes no sense at all.1
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Not really sure what you mean by this, I'm diabetic and have a normal diet and an almost perfect hba1c. Not sure why that is a fail myself...1 -
Good job on your A1C.
Not really sure what you mean by this, I'm diabetic and have a normal diet and an almost perfect hba1c. Not sure why that is a fail myself...
I do not know about the UK but the government advice in the US is making people with diabetes sicker.
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I just started this diet after discussing it with my doctor. I'm not diabetic, but am somewhat disabled, overweight and regular CICO is not effective for me. I am a vegetarian, cook healthy meals from scratch, plenty of fresh veg & healthy protein sources such as pulses & tofu, yet still can't shift weight (partly because of the cocktail of medications I'm on, which include steroids).
I am having all my blood work done tomorrow just to check there's nothing else going on, but so far this diet is working for me & I definitely don't feel like I'm starving. Dr Mosely wrote the 5:2 diet, and the advice for the blood sugar diet is to do it for up to 8 weeks, not indefinitely! In fact, he recommends an evaluation after 2 weeks to see if it's working for you (in terms of being able to stick to it) and if it's not, then to switch to the 5:2 way of eating.
OP, I'll happily buddy-up with you if you're doi g the diet or still considering it!3 -
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