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“Is there a specific book or two you might recommend,....”

We have never read any of the ketogenic diet books or any of the other popular diet books, aside from the conventional diets recommended by the USDA, AMA, AHA, ADA, and other official alphabet government and health associations. We have never used any of the popular Weight Watcher type dietary products, specialty shakes, vegan, health food supplements, or so forth. We have only used our country style traditional balanced meal plans with the exception of tailoring them to be low calorie and no/low sugar daily meals and snacks. The one major failing was the need to eat out too often because of work and travel and consuming too much in sugary sodas. What led us to the ketogenic diets was the search for a means to further limit our intake of carbohydrates already down to around 100-150 grams per day off and on again for some decades.

We knew that we had been successful in losing weight easily in brief periods in earlier years, but we couldn’t figure out how we did it. The physicians, many of them, were of absolutely no help in figuring it out. So, we had to do it for ourselves. Looking around on the Internet in searches for ways to remove glucose from the bloodstream, I found a topic that I had learned about a half century earlier about the metabolism using glucose and/or ketones for nutrition. That caught my attention, because I used to discuss it with a physician who was a member of my family in the 1960s across the dinner table. Looking into it further this year through the videos and webpages I’m now posting, we were surprised to see how so much new content has been added on the subject in just the last few years, especially on YouTube. Since we were already well adapted to a low carbohydrate diet for so many years, it took very little effort to simply drop breads, pasta, flour, and rice from our menu plans and replace them with more green leafy vegetables, salad dressings, and eggs. We have actually reduced our intake of meat, fish, and poultry to maintain a 4 to 1 ratio to the fats we consume within our caloric limits. Until my blood glucose returns to normal without medications, I’m remaining on a diet which divides the daily calories into 80 percent fats, 5 percent carbohydrates, and 15 percent protein. As blood glucose and weight returns to normal levels, those proportions will change to allow up to 50 grams of carbohydrates per day. That will still be far less than our previous 100 to 150 grams of carbohydrates per day, much less the 300 grams per day recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) or the 500 grams per day recommended by the USDA Dietary Guidelines.

A surprising number of FreeRepublic posters have come forward in these posts to report their own successes in reversing diabetes with the ketogenic diet. Perhaps they have read some of the ketogenic diet books mentioned in these videos and can recommend some that are more useful?