I want to say thank you to all of you that have posted to this thread. My doctor told me I had diabetes a couple of years ago and wanted to put me on metformin. After reading the scare sheet on that, I decided there was no way that was going to happen. That’s about the time I ran across this thread and I read every last page. Lots of good info here.
So 2-1/2 years ago, A1C was 7.7and I weighed 210-215. Eric, I believe it was you who posted a lot of info about a low carb, high fat diet. I decided to give it a shot. I started walking a couple miles 3-4 times per week. Results a year later were A1C down to 6.0 and weight down to 170-175. As of yesterday, down to 5.8 A1C and 174 lbs.
God is good!
Edit: one thing I failed to mention is that I’m a cardio patient. As of spring of 2025, I was able to get off of my blood pressure meds, which I was told would never happen due to having had a double bypass 13 years ago. I’m still on a statin drug (simvastatin), which I am convinced is the cause of my diabetes. My doctor told me yesterday that there is evidence of that very thing. There are different types of statin drugs apparently, and we will be discussing changes when I see him again in 6 months.