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You can throw all your diabetic medications away by becoming a strict Vegan
I find that for me anyways any diet like a vegan diet or any other strict diet such as this is NOT sustainable. What is sustainable is a LCHF diet or also know as a ketogenic diet. It differs from a paleo diet in that it allows dairy. This diet for me has brought my numbers down.
There are supplements that help. I hesitate to name the ones I use for fear of being labelled a kook.
I've losy 60 lbs over the past two years and have been hovering around 190 for several weeks now. Some of this loss was due to a digestive problem that made it difficult to keep food down, Since I began including probiotics into my supplement regimen, that problem no longer exists.
I eat three vegetable salads every two days, no lettuce or spinach or other leafy greens included. I switched from blue cheese to Italian dressing. I am not perfect. Sometime I eat ice cream or cake, but not very often.
As I have trouble walking sometimes, I dont get the kind of exercise I should. I have to eat smaller portions, and I try no to eat after 7 PM and if I am struck with insomnia, as happens to me now and again, I do my damnedest not to snack overnight.
If you have more money than you know what do do with, there is a place called Tree of Life that is doing land office business "curing" type 2 people. They do the whole number - feed you, teach you how and what to cook and eat, and using the supplements I refer to above.
In other words, there is good reason to hope, but you have to want to change. Dr Berman's book is excellent. You may also want to check out Dr Mark Hyman's The Blood Sugar Solution also.
One thing for sure if your diet is devoid of vegetables and fruit and consists mainly of fried or fatty meat smothered in cheese then wrapped in bread accompanied with a bucket of fizzy sugar water in conjunction with a sedentary lifestyle,you wont be seeing any improvement in your diabetic condition..
That, along with one tablet of Invokana has my blood sugar under control. I suspect that if I followed it more religiously, I'd be able to stop the meds completely... baby steps
I was diagnosed three years ago. Metformin had no effect, other than to make me nauseous. Insulin shots were not consistently controlling it. Then I started these pills, it dropped a good bit and finally had a one on one with a registered dietician and my numbers are now perfect, some days a little low
That, along with one tablet of Invokana has my blood sugar under control. I suspect that if I followed it more religiously, I'd be able to stop the meds completely... baby steps
I was diagnosed three years ago. Metformin had no effect, other than to make me nauseous. Insulin shots were not consistently controlling it. Then I started these pills, it dropped a good bit and finally had a one on one with a registered dietician and my numbers are now perfect, some days a little low
Where is the diet on that link/site?
On a higher-protein, low-carb diet, you can eventually go off diabetes meds. A husband/wife MD team published one that their patients have done very well on, called Protein Power. Available on Amazon for a couple of bucks. The diet requires working out 3x/week in order to make good progress lowering sugars and building lean muscle mass.
It's not just what you eat and how much, when you have diabetes it's also WHEN you eat what
I learned that I was actually not eating enough carbs at each meal, which is why I would always fail when trying to follow online diets. I follow the 1800 cal sample, knowing that it's more than I need, but I can cut back one carb per meal for weight loss, without starving myself
It's all automatic for me now, but I think the guideline is 68g of carbs (4 carbs) for each of the 3 meals - no saving of carbs, no skimping on protein either - eating too little hurts just as much in the long run as too much. All allowances per meal are use em or lose em. No less than 3 per meal will keep you full. The snack has to have a carb and a protein too.
Saving calories/carbs and then binging all at once will not keep blood sugar stable
This is a link to a great talk on why the standard diabetes diet advice is flawed... Excellent concept and worth watching all the way thru. LCHF = low carb, moderate protein and high fat really works. Insulin actually makes diabetes / insulin resistance worse.
I will add, since it seems necessary, that Type I diabetics, such as myself, cannot control blood sugar levels by diet alone. Since we do not produce insulin out of our pancreas, we must have insulin shots.
Just saying.
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