The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet: How to Beat Diabetes Fast (and Stay Off Medication)

This is a must read book , it has helped many people who I know to get back good health by following this diet

Good book if you are more likely to go on intermittent fasting where u cut down your calorie intake n start with fatty food in moderate proportion. Recipes in book are not for Indians though u can certainly try them

Informative but not precise--only later portions are useful.

Good book

Excellent book.

Inside the bookDon’t go on the diet if:• You are under 18• Your BMI is below 21 • You are recovering from surgery or you are generally frailHopeless for me because i am thin and BMI is less than 21

I have been overweight forever and as I approach 50 I was desperate for solution. As I approach this milestone it makes you think about health and with a brother and parents all diagnosed with diabetes in later life I didn't want to go the same way. I had generally been an advocate to weight watcher as lost 4 stone on that 9 yrs ago but never got down to a target weight but oh so close and a stone had crept on. I tried their new system but it didn't work for me and I have bounced about up and down all year, I needed something new. I also got diagnosed with IBS last yr which made me think about reducing my carbs as they always left me bloated and in different levels of pain. Over the summer I read an interesting book about leptin resistance and then a friend recommend this to me, it was similar in principles i.e. low carb, eat good fats and eat in a structured way, plus had seen Michael Mosley on many a programme and his science always made sense. I started the plan a week ago. Eating full fat yogurt etc was alien as spent the last 30 yrs being brainwashed into the low fat, which is in fact high sugar principles of weight loss. I have completely changed my approach to food, cereals are gone and replaced with tasty greek yogurt and fruit or eggs and smoked salmon, no more big plates of pasta but a great steak instead. I have not been hungry at all, I feel like I have more energy and importantly to me no IBS pain. So at the end wk1 I got on the scales today and I am in shock, I have lost 10lb. I just had to write a review to say thank you, this is life changing on every level.

this book has rules to follow, but the book is half full of menus, ignore, simply use the principles.I put my diabeties into remmision, ( you have to be type 2 and at least 2 stone overweight for plan to work)my nhs nurse was amazed and proud, i gave up flavoured coffee with sugar, all cereals(even porridge),high gi fruit.( basically all fruit) reduced total bread, no potatoes.heres what i did, had regular instant or ground coffee with sweetners,sugar free squash,had lots of fried eggs( my cholestoral is fine, had blood test)( old bodybuilder technique)(protein)daily with toast, one slice ONLY, a full fat yoghurt, not the low fat, they have sugar, went for greek full fat,had chicken or tuna with peas, sweetcorn etc and some mayo( full fat), dash of sauce around 800 cals total, a day,lost 2 and a half stone, 6 inches on waist in 8 weeks,then uppped it, total calories, weight steady now, changed eating plans for life.will never eat cereal, mochas, heaps of bread, raisins, grapes,biscuits ever again, now on about 2500 cals a day, weight steady, medium active job,the theory is you have to strip the fat of your pancreas , and fast, just a few grams of fat surrounds it,so to get it to work better, forget the slow fat loss of legs, tummy( weight watchers, slimming world), its your organs you must reduce the fat, eg pancreas.

I got a surprise diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes in Oct 2019 when I was 49 years old. I am 6 foot 3 tall but I weighed over 17 stone. My waist measurement had been up to 40" a few years back but in Oct 2019 I had a 'generous' 38" waist - as long as I was in a loose fit pair of trousers. I was deeply unfit and realised I had been drinking and eating like a 25 year old for the past 25 years. I looked like an overweight amateur rugby player who'd stopped playing 10 years earlier. I was also casually knocking back up to two bottles of white wine almost every night.At that time my HbA1C reading was 63 (normal is under 43), my random blood glucose reading was very high at 17 (normal is under 7.9). Cholesterol was also high at 7.4. I also had a fatty liver and high blood pressure. I had only gone to the doctors because I started having to wee more than once at night a few weeks before. I just assumed it was a middle aged prostate thing - apart from that I thought I was fine and invincible!My doctor prescribed me with Metformin and said I must go away, take the meds every day, loose 2 stone in weight, start exercising and come back to see him in 6 weeks.I went home and immediately bought this book (I had already heard about it from a friend). I read it cover to cover in a few hours. The first thing I decided after finishing the book was NOT to take the Metformin I’d been prescribed.Over the next 6 weeks I stuck to this diet to see if I could beat diabetes without drugs. I had no 'white stuff' in my diet (as Dr Mosley calls food full of carbs). Not one potato, no parsnips, no rice, no pasta, no bread - all my very favourite things too. I ate more eggs than I ever thought I could, lots of lovely lean meat and green veg and lots of fruit covered in Greek Yoghurt most days. NB: Dr Mosley says early on that not all fruits are good - pretty sure the rule is if it grows in a hot climate near a palm tree or a beach - then avoid it, so I did. I had no sugar just a tiny bit of dark chocolate for a treat and I drank lots of fizzy water with ice & a spritz of fresh lime. I swopped the white wine for gin and slimline which was a revelation and I’m now a confirmed G&T man. I also drunk a glass of two of red wine with meals but importantly I started regular exercise - something I’d not ever done.The weight started falling off and by week 3 I joined my first ever gym and started going twice a week under a PT.After 6 weeks I had lost over a stone and went back to the doctor for another blood test. He was shocked and a bit annoyed that I'd not take the meds but the results showed I was already down to the 'pre-diabetic' range (HbA1C now 52) but my cholesterol needed to come down more as it was still 5.6. I went away, carried on with the diet and slowly added some carbs to my diet - like porridge on gym days - and also the odd potato on Sundays.Three months later, in February 2020, I returned to my doctor for yet another blood test.By then I has lost over two stone and was now 15 stone with a 32/33" waist. My old protruding and hard man-gut had disappeared (leaving a small layer of inoffensive fat to keep my tummy warm). My head had changed shape and was visibly smaller (but I was still almost bald - this diet can't fix everything). Friends and family couldn't believe it when they saw me - everyone said I looked 15 years younger. My whole body feels so different because you soon learn in the book how fat is stored all around every part of the body and not just on the tummy and around the bum. I sent all my old clothes to the charity shop and started buying clobber that feels great & fits really well - stuff I wouldn't have dreamt of wearing a year ago like white t-shirts but in size LARGE not XXL. I realised that for years I had wore the same style of 40" waist cargo trousers with baggy XXL shirts. I hope I'm not sounding vain or self obsessed because I'm really not. I just feel better in my own skin and I'm glad I'm not that overweight bear of man constantly lumbering around with sweat.The doctor said he couldn't believe the change in my whole physiology after just four months - he also admitted that he didn't think I'd be able to do it without the Metformin but he was so happy to be proved wrong. The next day when the results were in, he sat there smiling at me and said "J - you are no longer diabetic. Well done!”My HbA1c was down to 42 - just in the normal range. Random Blood Glucose was 6.1 (an ok reading is under 7.9 & I was at 17 just five months earlier). My cholesterol is much lower and he said would improve once I stopped eating full fat butter, cheese and milk which this diet includes to some extent. My blood pressure is still a bit too high but that's because I'm still a smoker but the cigarettes are the next to go.Thank you Dr. Michael Mosley and thanks also his wife Dr Clare Bailey as I also bought her recipe book (called the ‘The 8 week Blood Sugar Diet recipe book’) and it's a great book too. You can tell Clare really knows her food.From a very happy new man in Brighton & Hove, aged 50 years and 2 months

The diet itself doesn't start until page 136. Most of the guff before is about how being overweight isn't good for you. Page 166 onwards is all exercise and a few recipes. So 30 pages of the actual diet and how to do it. As another reviewer said, there's alot of random waffle - very poorly written. Here is the diet in a nutshell: 800 calories for two months. After that, be careful. The diet could probably work. I like its not excluding any food groups and to that extent its sensible. But there's alot of filler. And the most important or interesting points (such that there are) are lost in the sea of the bleeding obvious. Also, strangely cold, distracted writing style, totally dreary.

Fab book. I lost 5.5lbs in first week and never felt hungry. I'm not particularly overweight or a diabetic but i am a diabetic nurse. I have countless times recommended this book to the diabetics i help and i have even given my copy to a lady who is struggling with both her weight and her diabetes in the hope that she will be inspired too.