When I was first diagnosed with diabetes my spontaneous blood sugar was 23 mmol/l = 414 mg/dl and my fasting sugar was 18 mmol/l = 324 mg/dl. My Hb1Ac was off the chart at 11.4% - Woops! That means my 90 day average blood sugar was 18.3 mmol/l or 329 mg/dl. You cannot live for long at that level of blood sugar. Get yours tested! I had not been to a doctor in 20 years - Big mistake!
I am 55 years old and had spent my adult life eating around 3000 kcal per day and not moving much from a computer screen. I used to drink one litre of milk (650 kcal) and one litre of fruit juice (450 kcal) per day. And then I would eat around 2000 kcal on top of that with loads of carbs. I had no idea what damage this could do. I thought that the milk and the fruit juice were good for me! I used to love lamb donner kebabs (the well made ones) and any fatty food. I would also eat a bar of Cadbury's dairy milk chocolate, which is basically a bar of sugar, each day for good measure. How I did not weigh 300 lbs I do not know. I would typically weigh 180 lbs.
I had actually had Type 2 for probably around 3 years, because I had had neuralgia in my toes for at least 18 months before the diagnosis and that isn't the first symptom of diabetes. My doctor said he had seen someone with a blood sugar higher than mine, actually 40 mmol/l = 720 mg/dl. I did not have the courage to ask him whether or not that guy was still living! I do not have the experience of most other diabetics at handling this disease since I was only diagnosed on November 26th 2012. I am not a doctor and this website has not as yet been endorsed by a doctor. But my father was a professor of surgery and I am a mathematics scholar from Cambridge University and have spent my life in research of one form or another. So understanding the shortcomings in logical thought of mankind and especially in financially driven professionals is something I have more experience in than most. My doctors have been supportive and great. But the internet has been amazing and has cured my disease. This is why I wrote this site. I would like to give back to the net what it gave to me. Hope, understanding and a future without diabetes or diabetic complications.
Incidentally a very low calorie diet (less than 800 kcal) will cause constipation or apparent constipation. You will not go regularly once a day because there is nothing much in your gut! Expect to go once every two or three days and do not push it before you are ready. Just drink plenty of fluids, take salt with your meals, and wait until your body is ready to go - then push it. Keep up the fibre - NOT Kellog's all bran which should be renamed Kellog's all carb. Eat swede and spinach and spring onions and raw french beans, raw carrots, raw broccoli etc to get some real fibre into your system.
It is incredibly unlikely but just possible to go Hypo-glycaemic on this program if you exercise too vigorously after having eaten too little. It happened to me just once ( I am not on any meds). I just felt like I wanted to go to sleep and had zero energy (I stopped at a cafe had a cappuccino). Do not take a bar of chocolate with you in case you think you have gone hypo. You will most certainly persuade yourself that you have gone hypo and that will be the end of the chocolate!
But be careful not to go mad with a really brisk walk for more than 2 hours if you have eaten nothing before. I mean normal people would go hypo-glycaemic in those circumstances. Just walk at a pace that is comfortable. The more you walk, the faster that pace will become naturally anyway. Any movement is good for the human body. In fact in my final understanding you eat first and walk second to burn off the sugar from the meal.
100 years ago the average person walked 50 miles per week further than we walk today. That is 7 miles per day or a 2 hour brisk walk or a 2½ hour moderate walk. To cure diabetes you need to more or less do that again. So all I am proposing is a return to what our forefathers did as a matter of course. That should not be a big ask.
By 31 January 2013 I had overshot my target weight and reached 142 lbs. This is a fall of 34 lbs (15.5Kg) since diagnosis on November 26, 2012. This represents 19% of my body weight being lost in 9½ weeks. So it overshoots the Newcastle reversal target (losing 15% of body weight in 8 weeks, which was 15kg in the cases of the 100kg subjects of their test). So if losing 15% of your BMI in a short time fixes type 2 then I am now fixed. I tried a half OGTT the next day and was better but not fixed!
By 15 December 2013, I completely aced a 50% OGTT with figures that would have passed a 100% OGTT. So I was cured from that day. The cure lay not in losing weight but in rebuilding my muscles to the strength and size that they had when I was not diabetic - see the cure.