REVERSED DIABETES AND LOST 6 STONE

Michele Gladden, 63, is a carer and lives in Worcestershire, with her husband George, a retired librarian. They have two sons. I WISH I’d known about the low-carb approach for type 2 diabetes sooner. I was diagnosed in 2015 after I’d gone to the GP for a urinary tract infection and they did a blood test as I’d also been very tired. I was told I had type 2 diabetes and started on metformin. I’m 5ft 6in and was 14st 7lb, so my BMI was 30.5, touching ‘obese’. I cut back on obvious sugar such as cake and fruit juice and was restrictive with fats.

But while I lost a bit of weight and my blood sugar levels came down, they slowly increased again. I was exercising, too, but still got bigger.

I found the low-carb plan, developed by Dr David Unwin, online at

diabetes.co.uk in summer 2017. It was incredibly easy and the results rapid. After ten weeks I’d lost two stone and I no longer need metformin. I also stopped needing anti-depressants, which I’d been taking for ten years.

The better you feel, the less inclined you are to go back to your old ways of eating. I still have check-ups, but in May my diabetes will have been in remission for 18 months. My last blood sugar reading was 29 — normal — and I’ve settled at around 8st 10lb.