Cut your Carbs? Maybe! Here's Why.

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Yet another med I have never heard of! How the hell many ways are there to deal with aspects of type 2? Really interesting.

What is it about Glimeperide that helps with a low carb diet? I need to research that. UPDATE: I read about it but it sounds about like Metformin! The possible side-effects sound a little worse. I hope you ask your doctor what advantage there is?

"harder to control with Metformin and Victoza" Explain, please. Were the meds all you were doing? And switching to a low carb - high fat diet sounds like a keto diet? Are you now taking that new Glimp stuff to handle that fat? Again, I want to read about that stuff. You missed my bad attempt to spent Sept. doing the keto diet. I stocked on meats and "good fats", mostly in the form of avocados. Since I normally eat very little meat (chicken and salmon, no red meat), that was an adjustment. My avocados went south fast (I can't shop every day) and bananas ripened to brown spotted before my very eye 〈I'm down one due to type 2.〉| So I was not doing it correctly, I decided within a week that this was not the right approach. I do have a friend who has done well with the diet, dropping 30 pounds in maybe eight weeks.

But it's that high fat part the bothers me. Why ingest the very thing the diet is going to use when the carbs aren't there? It seems you supply more instead of burning what you body already has onboard?

Based on my fake start, I rather quickly found it easy to just stop eating carbs in the first place, no added fats. Note that I mean extra fats. I eat avocado several time a month and my salads are always dressed with olive oil and vinegar. I confess that my weight is a concern when it seems I am destined to be 233 forever. I'm 6' 1" so I don't feel way out of control, but I know my BMI is not where it should be.

It is easy for me to simply not eat carbs. My breakfast is typically one hash brown patty and two eggs. That patty is 14g, the eggs zero. I can skip lunch or mix a can of tuna or salmon, so no carbs. Dinner is chicken and steamed veg. Very limited carbs there. I cheat with a cup of pudding or even smaller Jello snack cup. This works for me.

My fasting numbers are typically from 90 to 110, and my BP this morning was 111. I'll take it.

Please continue to add frequent updates, with numbers. This is what I was hoping for. And good luck.