An extreme diet to cure Type II diabetes?

I’m looking into this. My problem with this is that my body has always been extremely resistant to weight changes. As I got older the weight increased but not by that much.  In my 20’s, it was 170# (77Kg) and it gradually increased to 185#(83.9Kg) and I am 57 now. There is very little that I can do to change it. In the past, I’ve tried fasting for days at a time and it will not change.

The folks in this study averaged 220# (98Kg), much higher than my present weight. I am 5’8” (1.73m) tall. I wouldn’t mind getting back down to 170#, if it is possible.

Taylor reported Saturday at a San Diego meeting of the American Diabetes Assn. and in the journal Diabetologia that, after one week on the diet, each of the patients’ fasting blood sugar, taken before breakfast, had returned to normal. At the end of the eight weeks, the patients had lost an average of 33 pounds and had no signs of diabetes. Three months after returning to a normal diet, seven of them remained free of the disease. Average weight gain in that three months was 6.5 pounds.

It sounds promising and I will have to talk to my doctor about it.

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It has been 2 whole years!

Zhinn Lao Tzu, our brown tabby, moved in with us exactly two years ago (20Jul2009). At the time, we already thought that he was fully grown. The size of his paws should have told us otherwise. He was barely 4kg (8.8#) when he moved in and grew to his present 5.5kg (12.1#), of lean and healthy tomcat,  in less than 6 months.

I don’t talk about it much but at the time I had already been on anti-depressants for a few months. Having Zhinn around helped me to get off them. Cats are good companions and Zhinn watches me like a hawk. He will not let me collapse in the computer chair without getting a loud “meow” directly in the ear. This pleases SG to no end because, since my stroke (May, 2007), she worries about me constantly. She worries less with my buddy Zhinn around.

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