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  • I'm back.....I've been on a health improvement journey starting about 2 years ago. I started at 215, today I am 181, and I've just joined a research study on bone health and am using the Optavia 4-2-1 diet. My ultimate goal is 166, what Weight Watchers established was my goal weight 30 years ago.
  • I'm wondering if it is realistic for me to think I might get off ALL of my diabetes medications? In the last month, I have radically improved my diet, exercise habits, etc. I have managed to stop taking 2 meds that were additions to metformin. Now I'm down to metformin only. As I understand it, once diagnosed as type 2…
  • Thanks for the Welcome Heidi. I've been a diabetic for about 8 years. I immediately went Vegan for about a year....very disciplined and experimental....My blood results were incredible, BUT my wife hated my diet AND it was difficult to maintain on the road (I'm a consultant, and til recently, have traveled tremendously.…
  • haha after writing my previous post re the blood sugar diet. I followed a link and did a quick review. I don't care about the science.....I happen to know that NO diet at 600 calories a day would be of interest to me!
  • I enjoyed this thread.....all the discussion regarding whether someone who went to medical school and then specialized in Psychiatry is not a scientist and thus not worthy to present a diet that others perhaps hypothesized first. I've had a lifelong struggle with weight and thus have probably got a Masters level education…
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