trackin64's Journal, 21 July 2016

The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet

I've completed 3 days on Dr. Moseley's 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet and I'm liking it. The diet is low calorie - 800 per day - and based on the Mediterranean style with a low carb emphasis. I'm going lower carb than he would have a person go and working to keep up a decent level of protein and fat. There is a big and long-term study with humans in the UK on very low calorie diets and reversing type 2 diabetes. The interest sprang from a small study by researcher Dr. Roy Taylor using a 600 calorie diet on type 2 diabetics with excellent results "reversing" the disease. Dr. Taylor prefers to say the disease is "in remission." I suppose that is true because if you stop doing what it takes to keep the tendency at bay the blood sugar issues will return. What Dr. Taylor found (through imaging) is that fat around the liver and pancreas are at the root of blood sugar issues. A person can actually be normal weight and have this fat storage. While the fat around the liver is fairly quickly dissolved through weight loss, the fat around the pancreas takes a little longer to remove. Interestingly, he says some people may have to get their weight in the lower ranges of normal to restore their insulin sensitivity - that how the body responds is quite individual.

BTW, though my weigh-in reflects .2 weight loss, I actually started at a higher weight and have lost 6 lbs since I started this 3 days ago.

183.0 lb Lost so far: 9.0 lb.    Still to go: 23.0 lb.    Diet followed 100%.

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837 kcal

Fat: 59.94g | Prot: 36.10g | Carb: 39.70g.   Breakfast: Grapefruit, Coffee, Frigo Natural String Cheese Part Skim, Whole Milk, Spectrum Chia Seeds, Bob's Red Mill Flaxseed Meal. Lunch: Trader Joe's Country Italian Salad. Dinner: Bertolli Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Zig Zags, Tillamook Pepper Jack Cheese, Kirkland Signature Wild Alaskan Pink Salmon. Snacks/Other: Coffee, Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream. more...