I started staying home with my daughter in Jan of 2014, a little after when I believe I started with diabetes just some symptoms I now can see lol. That's when my diet changed. It was that I eat way less fast food but far from healthy still crap just not anywhere the amount. I started losing weight then. I really only start true exercise about 3 weeks ago. I have lost about 30lbs since 2014. All but about 5-10lbs was lost prior to knowing I had diabetes. I do eat a lot of bran and oatmeal which is great but they key I think was the cbd. Got to say at least 10 dabs a day for like 2-3 months. That is the only difference. I actually put a shit ton of sugar in my coffee. I just recently like a week started using splenda cause I have it and didnt want to waste it. I eat a lot of bread which they said I would have to stop and didnt so either it was the cbd or I'm a freak lol. I only changed they amount which I eat and dont eat late at night. I know weight loss and diet are big factors, but if someone told you the were diabetic and still continued to eat sugar a lot of sugar would you expect them to have their a1c return to normal? I wouldnt, not complaining just a little shocked. I never would have thought that he would tell me this. Once again the only difference was the CBD. I know that my diet shouldn't have had much to do with it, trying to eat better but it's not easy for someone who like meat and hates 99% of veggies lol.
You have to look at the multiple reasons behind Type 2, it's not just "sugar". I mean, beer is not sugar free, especially here in Belgium, and I know that half a gallon has absolutely no effect on my blood sugar levels (I've tested).
You look at all the factors, you eat bran and oatmeal, which they tell you to do, yet bread made from the same stuff isn't good for you? So it depends on the bread too, as well as what you put on it.
You junked the fast food, and believe it or not there is a HUGE difference there thanks to the lack of chemicals, salt, sugars, etc, these things contain. Less transfats, less this, less that, all plays a BIG difference.
Now, you're talking about small changes made since 2014, but these changes will have been the important ones, and results would maybe not have been seen so easily. An example being as you lose weight and stabilise the sugar swings you have more energy, walk that bit faster, do that little bit more. You don't realise it, but you're improving your circulation, reducing stress and inflammation, help start to reverse what has being going wrong so you have more energy, walk that little but faster or further, do that little bit more, etc, etc, etc. Then you add the CBD to your newest exercise routine, burning off more excess calories, and, more importantly, bin the sugar, and you wonder why your A1C improved in 3 months. As I say, we know CBD has an effect, but you have to realise that there have been two other major changes in that period.
You add all that together, especially the sugar side of things, and, yeah, I would expect a massive difference if I swapped sugar for Splenda, or any other sweetener except Stevia as that stuff gives me the squits.
CBD plays a part, but it's not the only factor. Now the trick is stabilising things, which is what I hope my test next week will show as that will be 6 months off the medication, so be careful because we don't want your sugar levels bouncing around as that really screws you up.
Oh, I'm a carnivore too. I can still eat healthy with the few bits of rabbit food I like, some things are replaced by fruit, others by grains, nuts and seeds, and the amount of fat in things is as critical as the sugars. And coffee, lots of lovely fresh ground coffee.
