My husband started low carb in March. He is not following strict Keto, but his A1C has decreased from 13 to 8, much to the delight of his endocrinologist.
Wow!
Wouldn't it be great if he could drop it below 6.5?
Congrats to your hubby!
I was 325 and on the way to Metformin. Started keto about 18 months ago. Very little exercise.
230 and an A1C below 6.
Now they are looking at it for cancer. Turns out cancer thrives on glucose. Who knew.
Now that I’m exercising, the idea is to slowly get to 200/190 or so. Exercising just allows you to eat more fat, which is fun.
The whole process over 18 months is to find zero/low carb equivalents for lifestyle foods that make living more enjoyable.
Pasta is now officially back. So is Pizza. Ice cream and chocolate has been back for almost a year. Most of pie is back. I need to find a zero/low carb crust. Blueberry pie can be very low carb if you can replace the crust. Cheesecake and Chocolate cake were relatively easy to replace.
I just consider carbs to be poisonous, which for all intents and purposes (soluble carbs) are.
Getting going was very tough. So much easier now - getting started and staying on it.