[Chickensoup]

Please search paleo diet for diabetics. You don’t need a powder diet. You need a life change to ward off the diabetes and get healthy and trim.

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I understand that...and did it for years... but need the lift and boost of a diet liquid to get me started.

[mouse_35]

Check out ‘The 6 Week Cure for the Middle Age Middle’ by the Drs. Eades. They're a husband and wife team that have successfully treated many people with metabolic issues. It alternates with one week eating 3 shakes plus a meal and then the next week a low carb diet with three meals. The title says six weeks but in the book they say you can keep up the alternating weeks for as long as necessary if you have more than 20-30 pounds to lose.

You said you were pre-diabetic. If it hasn't already been done, see if you can get your insulin levels checked as well as having your blood sugar tested.

My daughter was diagnosed with PCOS and her insulin levels were three times higher than the normal range. She had tried different diets for the last 8 years and been unable to lose much weight. The doctor told her that she would have permanently damaged her heart because her body would have started consuming her muscles before she lost much fat. They put her on Metformin to help lower her insulin and she lost 35 lbs. in two months.

She didn't change her diet much because she was already eating a low carb diet. The only thing that changed was the new medication. Fat isn't always the moral failing some people in this forum think it is and simple calories in/calories out doesn't work if your hormones are seriously out of whack.

Good luck with everything! I know how frustrating it is trying to lose weight when your body is actively fighting you.