Hi Ajia,

Welcome to our community. A LC WOE certainly can stave off diabetes. My mom was also borderline diabetic before I introduced her to this WOE, and now she has no overt diabetic symptoms; all her blood tests are in the normal range.

I relate to the urge to EAT, even though my reasons are different than medication. I am graced right now, in that no matter how much my addict's head wants a bag of M&Ms, seducing me with the promise of release from anxiety, I can listen to my body say "M&Ms? Meh." That, plus the allergy hell from high-carb foods is enough to keep me on plan for now.

I wish you the same success that you've had before and more.

Thanks AJ Cohn I will indeeed check out the links you suggested and will also give Coconut oil a whirl. I will try and find a premium supplier here in the UK, shouldn't be too difficult thanks to the wonderous internet! Thanks for the tip - coconut oil in glass only!

My step sister will freak if she reads this post. She has a serious nut allergy, not that I cook for her much anyway but just the mention of cooking with nut products of any kind has her (understandably) running away screaming. Actually I should probably avoid rubbing CO on my skin when I am due to see her - one hug could have disastrous consequences!..... I feel so sorry for her, I LOVE nuts....

I agree that everyone's entitled to tweak their plans. I, in fact, don't follow Atkins to the book in that I don't eat every 6 hours (if I am not hungry) and I've gotten to the point where I don't strictly measure and count everything. I am sorry if my post sounded like an admonishment to you. It wasn't meant to be.

What does concern me is when we put our personal touches on a way of eating, we should take those alterations into consideration if we fail. Also, I wanted to put out there that not everyone with depression or anxiety find it hard to stick to strict low carb eating. Not for your benefit or mine, but for others coming here for answers on eating healthy who happen to also have the diagnoses we are talking about which may or may not be effectively controlled by medication. Of course, your experience tells you that not everyone is helped by controlling their carbs. I didn't expect to be helped by diet, but I have found it to be a nice side effect.

Again, I wish you luck with the changes you plan on making and I hope you find good support here.

Thanks, ajcohn. I am also an M&M addict. I just went back on this yesterday, but already feel more in control today. I guess it's like "drying out." I have decided this is going to be a lifetime battle, and I am just going to get through one day at a time. I'm always looking way down the road, and that seems to be what screws me up. Then I think it's okay to cheat for now, because I can get back on tomorrow. All I know is this has been controlling my life for 20 years now. And I'm sick of it. If that's one thing I want to do before I die- is get back to where I used to be. I was a skinny healthy size 7 or 9 in High School, and during a 16 year abusive marriage, ate my way to a 16. I had no friends at all, and was so miserable. But, that is the past, and excuses, excuses. It really did change me, and I am trying so hard to mentally be who I used to be. This is the biggest hurdle. When anything goes wrong, I just want to crawl right back into all that cushion, and protect myself. ajia

Hi and welcome back. I think I remember you: are you acohn? Would you mind terribly logging in using your old account? The lost password link is here.