I’ve beaten diabetes — and lost 4st into bargain
JANE AKSHAR, 64, is a former IT consultant. A widow with one 28-year-old daughter, she lives in Barry, South Wales. She says:
Shortly after having my daughter in 1991, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. By 1998, I was on insulin jabs and was having to inject myself four times a day.
I thought that was simply how my life would be from that point onwards.
It was a friend who mentioned in the summer of 2018 there were diets where you could reverse your diabetes and at first I thought he was talking absolute rubbish.
But I looked it up online and found this was true. I checked with my local surgery that it would be safe to embark on the diet and they couldn’t have been more supportive.
Although it doesn’t sound like many calories, I found the diet really easy. I was having things like scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast, salad with chicken for lunch and then some other meat with vegetables for dinner. I was never hungry.
With my diabetic nurse’s help I gradually reduced my insulin injections as my blood sugar came down and last July, I had my last injection. I’d gone from 120 units a day to nothing. I wanted to skip out of the surgery I was so happy.
I’ve now lost nearly 4st and at my last blood test I was told I’m no longer diabetic. It’s incredible. I thought I’d be a diabetic for life but it just shows it can be done by anyone at any age.
I eat just one meal a day — such as sprouts with bacon and toasted almonds — around 5pm and then nothing else for 24 hours. I don’t find it difficult at all. If you’re eating the right foods, which contain fat and protein, you find that you’re full up after one meal anyway.
If more people did this we would have more money in the National health Service.