"Low carb IS too restrictive when adopted as a new lifestyle.
It’s stupid."
If you're diabetic type II, a low-carb life-style is almost "A MUST" ...
IF YOU WANT TO LIVE VERY LONG !
I was diagnosed as Diabetic type II a little over 12 years ago, and I've had my ups and downs with this health problem.
What I've learned is that, if you want to lose weight,
it's almost impossible if you're taking insulin shots every day. Now I'm on pills and shots, and a "BYDUREON B'Cise" Pen, taken once a week, has helped me to lower the amount of insulin I take in my daily shot.
Also, I'm retired and having to take care of my aging parents, one of whom has Diabetes Type II.
I follow a few thru-hikers on YouTube who are diabetic, and Ilve learned that daily hiking can lower the amount of insulin you need to take daily,
But watching what you eat and drink ...
is at the very heart of controlling ... and even reversing diabetes type II.
I recommend the following information FOR EVERYONE TO WATCH AND READ:
I also wrote “people believe what they want to believe.”
“Low-carb” is a dangerous euphemism. Every single person I’ve ever met rationalizes their own predicament and poor choices, proclaiming that they are “managing” their pre-diabetes by engaging “low-carb” while being a hypocrite and proclaiming that 80/20 “works”.
As you point out, TII diabetes IS reversible, but lo-carb does NOT need to be a new lifestyle. I cannot elaborate without giving away my little secret, but suffice to state that most people make a choice and live their choice with one foot in the grave.
Low-carb is NOT a solution unless adopted as part of a broad, comprehensive regimen to address health issues. This requires much more than simply following a ‘diet’.
It’s not merely “watching what you eat & drink” as you write, but making a choice to not poison yourself into such a precipitous state of health in which your organs fail to function properly (diabetes, among other conditions with varied names all referencing the same thing: Patient-induced symptoms).
I reversed my TII 20 years ago and STILL had follow on health conditions due to my own ignorance, part of which was the search for the perfect ‘diet’.
I have one important distinction to make between my experience and your own:
I recognized the symptoms of TII and permanently-reversed them, now able to consume ANY natural food I choose (with obvious exceptions to toxic compounds, given my “choices”).
You’re promoting sites which proffer to reverse TII but you have not (yet, I hope).
I urge you to find a local ND to assist you in guiding your body to a healing state. Including myself, I know others who saw progress of TII reversal in 6 months. If your condition is not too far progressed, you CAN still recover, but it will take potentially 1-2 years of dedication to save your life.
A small price to pay.
