8 week Blood Sugar Diet

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  • xmichaelyx
    xmichaelyx Posts: 883 Member
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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.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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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.
  • zalmann919
    zalmann919 Posts: 24 Member
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    cathipa wrote: »
    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.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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    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.
  • K8w83
    K8w83 Posts: 12 Member
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    yarwell wrote: »
    Pebblish wrote: »
    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).

    yep, then they take their feet away. #fail

    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...
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
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    Pebblish wrote: »
    yarwell wrote: »
    Pebblish wrote: »
    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).

    yep, then they take their feet away. #fail

    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...
    Good job on your A1C. :)
    I do not know about the UK but the government advice in the US is making people with diabetes sicker.

  • moobaloo13
    moobaloo13 Posts: 11 Member
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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!
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