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Agreed, if your goal is merely to lose weight, if you aren't being supervised by a doctor, and if you plan to remain on it for longer than 8 weeks. I disagree as a blanket statement. The diet was designed to induce diabetic (as the name blood sugar implies) remission by mimicking the dramatic calorie reduction that…

Last A1c I had was higher. My doctor was dancing all around it, expecting me to be upset - even though he thinks it is a perfectly fine number (5.9, I think). I'm like, '"Doc - I check my blood glucose at least 4x a day. I don't know why you think it is a sruprise that it's higher than the previous A1c . . . " The reason…

You might want to do a bit of research before condemning something merely becuase it includes the word diet. This is a specific way of eating, with an extreme calorie cap, designed to be used for a specific purpose for a very limited period of time that is directly related to what it is being used for: blood sugar control…

If you are doing this on your own, to lose weight, this is a stupid idea. If you are doing this because you are diabetic, under a doctor's supervision, to try to reach diabetic remission, and following it for 8 weeks and no more: It is safe for most people (see the doctor's supervision caveat) and can work. To those who…

The thing I don't see mentioned is calorie consumption. Keto isn't magic - so if your eating habits changed to increase your calorie consumption (even though your carb consumption is steady), you may need to also count calories.

Once you have a glucometer, I recommend both 1 and 2 hours tests. People with truly normal glucose metabolism rarely go above 120. Testing only at 2 hours misses the peak of the spike. My personal goal is to keep my BG below 40 at all times (and preferaly below 120)

You'd have to eat about 5,700 calories more than you need to function each and every day to put on 11 lbs. That's really unlikely! As to FBG, it will go back down once you cut back on the carbs. Just get back into eating the way you need to eat. After a couple of days you'll find out that you didn't actually gain more than…

I don't know that it's meal related, but when I eat higher calories overall for several days in a row my fasting BG tends to be higher, as well as the baseline between meals. As to frequency/intensity of spikes - I haven't found any good research. Remember - the "weightiest" movers and shakers in diabetes care still…

First - it is pretty common, so even relatively low costs will cost more overall because of quantity. And little things add up. The test strips I use retail for $127/box. I use 2.4 boxes per month. That's $3600/year. Instead of one mandatory visit a year, I have two visits. That's an extra $150/year (plus testing, whichI…

If you're using 80-100 as normal, then we are in agreement as to 2-hr pp levels. Our disagreement is whether it is ever a normal response for non-diabetics to go higher than 140 mg/dL. All my research points to anything above 140, at any time, being at least an early sign of a metabolic disorder.

That was my point - an elevated blood glucose reading and a BG of 145 at any time are consistent AND suggest the beginning, at least, of metabolic issues.

My research suggests that normal daytime BG for a non-diabetic person is generally 80-100. So when you say the BG should return to normal in 2 hours, a much larger class of individuals would meet your standard of normal - because your normal goes up to 140. You seem to be using the ranges most diabetics are given on…

No we actually don't agree. Non-diabetics at 2 hours would normally be back in the 80-100 range. I based my cap on the consensus for the absolute peak for non-diabetics (based on the studies and medical literature I reviewed about a year and a half) - which is 140. Standard medical textbooks put it at 120, but other…

See the information I added after you responded. It links to a study with the actual data. 180 is outside of the normal range for non-diabetics. Yes, there is a PP spike, but it is considerably lower than 180 for non-diabetics (see the charts in the article I linked to). Anything above 140 suggests movement toward…

The results are consistent with each other (and with prediabetes). For a healthy person 145 mg/dl is on the high side - even after drinking a can of coke. Yes, there is an increase after eating high carb foods - but in a healthy person it rarely goes above 140 mg/dl. "Healthy, non-diabetic people normally have blood…

There are data-based studies documenting hypocaloric diets depleting glycogen stores (Specifically two studies by Taylor, and a number of post-bariatric surgery studies). Most of what I've found on fasting (and I've tracked down pretty much everything Fung has commented on) is theoretical/predictive. I believe I've found a…

Two separate things - carb limits created T2D control immediately - no weight loss necessary. But since I had to watch every bite I ate in order to control the diabetes, I used it as an excuse to lose the weight. Dr. Taylor's method was an attempt to induce remission (a step beyond control). I've beem partially successful…

I target protein consumption at the quantity needed to maintain lean body mass - around 60 grams, for me. (carbs below net 20 in any 2 hour period, target of 60 grams of protein, target of ?? (I haven't figured out maintenance calories yet, but somewhere around 1400). The rest comes from fat, since there isn't any other…

That's pretty much how I managed my diabetes from the day I was diagnosed. I was lucky in that mine was easy to get under control - my doctor had been regularly testing me so we caught it early. (After most of about 7 months of control, I started actively working on remission via Taylor's research (Blood Sugar Diet), which…

Very low calorie seems to be the key for me. Very low carb, moderately low calories, didn't get there for me - I ever got to consistently have fasting blood glucose readings in the 70s & 80s on a 1200 calorie, 20 net carbs/2 hours diet. When I dropped to 800 calories a day (the Taylor/blood sugar diet - with doctor's…

The liver is good at storing matter it can turn into glucose (so if it has stored quite a bit, it may take a bit of diligence to deplete your stores). Otherwise your blood glucose level (aside from the dawn phenomenon) is usually a pretty instantaneous response to what you put in your mouth. To start with I tested 4-10…

Two things seem to influence my dawn phenomenon: Elevated reading when I go to sleep Higher calorie consumption for several days I was diagnosed with diabetes 15 months ago - and have largely kept my BG readings within the normal ranges. Dawn phenomenon has been the hardest to conquer. Eating the Blood Sugar Diet (a very…

All the more reason it should be kept off of the scroll of recent activity that is on the front page of the site for those of us who choose to hide it. I wasn't complaining about the chit-chat section per se, just asking that my choice not to have to look at that garbage when I use this site be honored - by keeping it out…

I've complained about the recent forum topics (if you have a forum ignored, it should not be showing up in recent forum topics). I sent a screen capture with it - and they zapped two of the most offensiv ediscussions as inappropriate for the forum . . . but they didn't act on applying a filter to the recent forum topics to…

TSH is the thyroid stimulating hormone. It may be reliable at measuring TSH, but TSH is not a direct measure of thyroid function.

I frequently use a food scale because I need to be precise about carb intake for medical reasons. But I've lost far more weight not using a scale than using one. Aside from diabetes - I would never use one. I'm very good at estimating closely enough for a 1200 -1500 calorie diet and good at estimating for 20 net grams of…

I've been diagnosed with Hashimoto's hypothyroidism (a little over a year). In my experience the hype over hypothyroidsm is vastly overrated. Do make sure, as others have noted, that your doc is testing your thyroid hormone levels directly: T4, T3, and rT3. TSH is less directly useful, but provides some information. Your…

There is nothing inherently harmful about carbs. There are medical reasons to avoid them (diabetes, and the cravings triggered cause you to eat enough carbs that you are skipping other essential nutrients in order to stay within your calorie limit, as two examples). There are quality of life reasons to avoid them (because…

Ditto. Generally, nutrients concentrate near the skin in most vegetables - so when the skin is edible you get more bang for your buck if you eat it.

Unless you're using your body-weight scale to change your eating habits over that short a period I wouldn't. (My grandmother had a target weight range - when she went out of that range she cut back on what she was eating.) I do bring my food scales along anytime I will be preparing meals. When I expect to be eating out, I…