I want to cure my type 2 diabetes before it turns me into a rotting zombie. The doctors do not want to hear any of it, they just want to pump me full of Metformin, Lantus and Novorapid.
Here's my plan: intermittent fasting, no food allowed from 8PM to 12AM. 1000 calories every day, mainly beans, rice, green vegetables, lean meat. Only drinks allowed are coffee or tea without milk or sugar, sparkling water.
Following this guidelines, I had my blood sugar at 7, without taking any insulin or metformin. I am going to speak with my diabetic nurse next week and ask what she thinks of it.
Exactly. I am going for foods with the lowest GI possible, like string beans or wholegrain pasta/rice. I measure my blood sugar several times at day, until now I got no hypos or hyper. When injecting insulin I had frequent hypos.
Read up on some more on intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets, but remember, there's a lot of quackery mixed in alongside information that's backed up by decent science. And it can be hard to tell which is which unless you're scientifically minded and prepared to put the time into reading through cited literature.
Also, anecdotally a hell of a lot of people are having success at curing or mitigating type 2 diabetes with these sorts of diets, but always keep in mind that there are still huge differences from person to person. There may be particular foods which are a problem for you so the advice is to always keep a detailed diary of everything you eat and how you feel along with your blood sugar levels for a couple of months or so.
Regarding your choices, intermittent fasts and calorie restriction aren't always the best choice. You might want to go down the route of low/zero carb instead. Low carb diets are best if you allow yourself some carbs sometimes, like a portion of rice or pasta once or twice a week.
I will talk with the nurse about that. There is a lot of controversy about the diabetic diet, for example when I was in the hospital they gave me boiled potatoes in every single goddamn meal, claiming that it was the best choice for diabetics.
>>4621 Canned fruit and veg have a higher nutrient density than fresh fruit and veg.
I know this because Biotechnology was the focus of my studies and I replicated the results of a journal I found corroborating my theory in a pissing Uni lab, of all places.
"Nutritionists", especially armchair ones who browse /fit/, are complete charlatans.
>Canned fruit and veg have a higher nutrient density than fresh fruit and veg.
They do, but they also tend to have a significant amount of added salt. The effects of sodium on cardiovascular health aren't entirely clear, but we do know that at least some proportion of the population are susceptible to elevated blood pressure due to excess sodium intake. I'm fine with canned veg and think that frozen is probably best for nutrition, albeit not for taste.
Forgive me if I say that, but you think you missed the point. Canned fruit/veg is denser, so you end up eating much less volume and feeling hungrier. Last time I suffered a food craving I just made a big bowl of fresh string beans and spent at least half an hour munching and chewing like a cow on pasture. In the end, I was sated and I ate almost nothing.
Frozen veg isn't, most canned products like tomatoes are sealed in the field it was picked in meaning the flavonoids and anti-oxidants don't have time to degrade and they taste more or less as they would + salt. Frozen stuff is more acutely affected by the oxidation of esters, which alters the taste, and often the freezing/unfreezing process can denature the protiens and rupture the cell walls causing lysis, affecting the texture as well as the flavour.
Nutrient density is what you want from a low volume, high nutrition diet though.
Eating high volumes of low calorie foods is a fat person thing and a fat person thing only, because your stomachs are cavernous and if you don't fill them your appetite will decimate your willpower, like so many twigs breaking under your enormous girth.
This is fully anecdotal but my cousin cured his type 2 with a ketogenic diet. Suggested by his doctor. He's happy with it, though it's not the most convenient of diets for eating out etc.
He was about the same weight as you, i.e it wasn't an obesity thing that was his problem either. His doctor apparently mentioned it's the same diet he tries to reduce or often stop fits in epilepsy patients, too. Mental.
170cm and 77kg isn't that overweight, you are one of the unlucky ones. :/
I hope the crash diet works for you in the short term, in the long term I think your daily lifestyle in other respects will be more important. You should try find a sport you actually like do it regularly and strive to get better at it. The more exercise is a passive result of something you want to do the better.
I would also recommend you get and take as much metformin as they will allow. There are some early studies that suggest it actually prevents aging, you could increase your lifespan by taking it. I would get and take it if I could.
Cannot do much sport, got some unrelated problems with mobility.
Metformin gives a lot of of side effects, not crippling but annoying. By the way, it's not even a restricted medication. You can get it from online pharmacies quite cheaply.