Diabetic for 6 years, 5 insulin shots a day - something had to change - so I created my own diet based on the low-calorie Newcastle University Biomedicine diet.
It's a 600-calorie a day diet, which I just couldn't stick with - yeah, it's OK for a six week reversal but I wanted to stay off insulin for good - so I had to change a few of the things they suggested and after three months - I started weaning myself off the insulin - under the watchful eyes of my diabetic nurse of course. (You can't mess around with this stuff, so get the advice before you start the diet.) I've written some more posts about this so have a look.
I'll be adding to the blog most days, I found out a lot and I want to share the info with others to stop the suffering. Life doesn't have to be like this.
When you're a diabetic you think about food all the while, You have to balance your entire life around taking insulin and eating food at set times, and if something goes wrong in your planning or an unexpected event happens, then the anxiety levels are off the scale.
I'm not peddling any snake-oil, or get quick-rich-books, I just feel that some good information is not getting through to many diabetics because either the health services haven't been trained in detail or nurses/doctors have to follow government policies. The advice I was getting from the medics regarding diabetes was not right. Five pieces of fruit a day is not good for a diabetic. C'mon folks.
I'm former journalist used to doing research for news stories, now I was doing research for myself so I was doing it for a reason. Me.
Some of my findings made my hair stand on end. The biggest - discovering the additives in food with long names that were a form of sugar and equally food preservatives also masquerading as sugar. I mean you are stuffed! So now shopping takes four times as long as I read the labels now. My husband has abandoned coming shopping with me. (That could be a good thing thinking about it.)
So I'm passing on my diet to anyone who wants to read it and I hope that it will help someone somewhere.
#switchoff diabetes