cleansing as in ‘cleaning the inner linnen’ 
just paraphrasing Hyppocrates " Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food "…and Paracelsus “dosis sola facit venenum” -the dose makes the poison. 
Curry is the best place to “hide” it for nay-sayers. It’s amazing how people who don’t normally like squash eat seconds of curry!
These are important factors. The connection between stress (cortisol) and weight gain / type 2 diabetes is also considered bi-directional: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5334212/
Day 5: Breakfast is now a solved problem. I have the same thing every morning: oats, yogurt, chia seeds, cinnamon. I normally bring breakfast to work, but now I’m trying to eat before leaving so that when I cycle to work, the exercise helps to manage any glucose spike from the breakfast.
I’m already getting hungry so went to the local coop to get lunch. I just paid 10Fr for the saddest lunch I’ve ever seen - a Caesar salad. I’m not sure if I was supposed to get salad dressing from somewhere else, but there was none in the box (honestly, I think this is the first time in my life I have gone an bought a salad).
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Very fresh salads are usually good. Salad dressing is sold separately (and usually nearby) giving you your choice. Reusable and non-reusable cutlery is often nearby as well.
The coop salads usually have a sachet of salad dressing in the box if they are the ones in plastic containers. If they’re the cardboard containers with the plastic lids then the dressing is separate and usually nearby.
The calories in a Caesar salad dressing usually negate any low-calorie benefits of having a salad for lunch.
As for feeling hungry - get used to it - it’s only an evolutionary hormonal response and is actually a nice feeling when you sit down for your next meal.
You won’t die. You can go weeks without food.
I deal with hungry symptoms by drinking a large glass of water and chewing on celery sticks (whole ones including the leaves).
I’m one of those weird people (allegedly) who never puts dressing on salads and if I order a salad in a restaurant will always ask for no sauce or the sauce separately.
Most people find it bizarre that I would choose to eat a salad without a sauce.
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Wow, and there I was thinking I was the only one! Good to know I’m not alone
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I don’t generally order salads in restaurants - because of the thick gloopy dressings (I prefer a simple vinaigrette and because I’ve had food poisoning more than once from ready-prepared salads which are a fantastic breeding ground for bacteria.
It’s also good to have a drizzle of olive oil on your salad as it helps the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins.
A bit over 2 weeks since I started, and the first results are encouraging.
Positive: I’ve dropped unecessary snacking, and 95% of my previous snack consumption. Also dropped 3kg from 96kg to 93kg.
Negative: Some light fatigue, headaches and nausea, but this is to be expected n the early weeks. On my roadbike, I tend to feel a bit down on strength but up on endurance. Let’s see how it goes.
I have a call with my physician this week, no doubt to agree to dose up to 0.5mg next 4-week cycle.
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Do you use a continuous glucose monitoring system CGM?
I’m wondering whether to get one to get more insight into my blood sugar levels and see the impact of diet and exercise. Galaxus sells them for 85 CHF and they last about 14 days.
Currently, I’m ‘flying blind’ but maybe that is good enough.
I’ve been using the freestyle libre for over 10 years now and it has helped me reduce my HbA1c from mid-high 7s to low-mid 6s. But I am T1 and my pancreas produces no insulin.
I know Aabott has been pushing the monitors to non or pre-diabetics but I’m not certain what information you can glean in only 14 days. No doubt you could see your BS changes from eating a particular meal but trust me every meal will give you different results based on a whole bunch of different factors.
And between the two of us the Aabott app is crap. No doubt due to the US FDA’s intense dislike for these devices but regardless of the reason it will only give you snapshots of where you are at certain points of time. There are a handful of side-loaded apps that give better results, but not for just 14 days.
You can buy directly from Aabott ch
And even offer a free sample if you confirm you have been diagnosed with diabetes. It looks like they don’t actually check this but YMMV.
You can select German or Italian on either of those above links.
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Interesting thread. I was left in the pre Type 2 range after being given steroids during chemotherapy treatment from 2006 - 2007. The steroid they gave patients was one called Dexamethosone which is pretty notorious for leaving an unlucky 25% of chemo patients who get it as full blown Type 2, the rest go back to normal about 6 - 8 weeks after finishing with chemo. Back then the blood sugar figures for people being tipped over into Type 2 were higher, then about 5 years later the WHO revised it down to a lower figure, seems this was because a lot of South Asians and Africans were becoming Type 2 due to diet.
I was sent to a specialist diabetic clinic at my local hospital in Scotland and seen by the lead Consultant, they gave me some Glicazade tablets and a blood testing monitor, I was told to ring up for advice on whether to take the meds if it went into double figures but they were only really interested if it was over 10.0 and I never needed to take them (the tipping point now is 6.9 I believe).
Fast forward to early 2014, I had tests done at my GP surgery (again in Scotland) when I was at the height of a bad virus I’d picked up. According to the blood analysis I was full blown Type 2 (the usual thing on the NHS, the practice has a QOF manager and it’s part of their job to get doctors to sign patients up to Metformin, statins and other “preventative meds” as it brings in money via government payments). Anyway to cut a long story short I refused the meds as I challenged the diagnosis and 11 years down the line have zero symptoms of Type 2, have been on zero meds, have been retested and told I don’t have it.
Unfortunately once the NHS system records you as a Type 2 you are in there forever. I’m still registered with the practice in Scotland as I maintain an address there, I return every 3 months to letters about managing my (non existent) Type 2.
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If you’re data and gadget nerdy, why not. One reason I have so many Garmin devices. 
Or just get a heart rate monitor (watch) and a tape measure.
Your resting heart rate will go down as you get fitter, and lose weight.
Tape measure for waist size. That should go down too.
That, and the healthy diet should sort you.
People always try and make things far too complicated!
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I hope mine doesn’t go much lower…it is 42 now, 36 when I was at my peak fitness.
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That’s pretty impressive!
Mine was 176 bpm yesterday. Not a resting one though.
That’s pretty good. I barely hit 165 these days, 170bpm tops if I can get to full lactic.