Thanks for the link Janet. Looks like good reading material for the coming weekend. BTW: I missed the previous post that you did in July about the simple IR calculator. Using the second link you provided I plugged in my numbers from the first year of this WOE (as shown in my Year two is in the books - Life is good milestone post). My March 2014 labs taken a few weeks into the diet gave positive results for IR and fatty liver -- agreeing with my T2 diabetes diagnosis and high ALT/AST results. My June numbers 3 months later indicated that I was still IR but had resolved the fatty liver issue - again agreeing with my pre-diabetes A1C and normal ALT/AST. This WOE can resolve fatty liver rather quickly. My results from March 2015 -- a year and 5 weeks into the diet and 150 pounds lost -- the calculator showed negative for IR and fatty liver. So for me that simple calculator appears to be a good indicator of where you are at in terms of health and healing.