Hahaha, not even going to correct that one!
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Please let me know what information your advice is based on, as it is the opposite to everything I have read about for this condition. Everything I have come to understand is that high protein and fat diets are beneficial for type 2 diabetes, and personally Huel has helped my condition immensely.
You can look at the recent Neil D. Bernard studies on it. There are also older studies. The results are all consistent. Even at the population level, the more fat and protien, the more T2 diabetes. In summary, the cause of insulin resistance is fat (especially saturated fat) and protein. You can keep your insulin resistance and restrict carbs, but is this a sustainable solution? I don’t think so. Anyway the research says that if you lose body fat, you also improve insulin sensitivity. But that’s because body fat tends to leak into blood. Like dietary fat.
BTW, in practice, the experts in curing diabetes with high carb diets are the masteringdiabetes.org guys. Contact them if you want more detailed guidance. I’m not associated with them.
EDIT: You can read this article and follow the references: http://www.masteringdiabetes.org/low-carbohydrate-diets-long-term-effects/
Take a look at my reply
I’ve found two videos that may be interesting for you:
->https://nutritionfacts.org/video/diabetes-reversal-is-it-the-calories-or-the-food/
->https://nutritionfacts.org/video/lipotoxicity-how-saturated-fat-raises-blood-sugar/
If you’re wondering, why we’ve to wait for Dr Greger to make videos on this in 2015/6 despite it was in scientific literature since 1979 or even 1935, well, that’s a good question. I don’t know the answer but I would like to see a “CAUSES DIABETES/STROKES/CANCER” label on every product containing dairy/meat/egg.
Me too…
Eheh, Greger even had a video on the “horrors” of the “Vegan state”! 
But we can label the vegan food too. There are many unhealthy vegan food. All the sweetened products, all the products with vegetable oils, all the isolated and concentrated proteins… most of the supplements…
Overall, it’s a “Pandora’s box”. Nobody wants to open it but we have to open it at some point…
Hi Royale,
I thought you might want to know I am Type 2 as well and 123 Kg and found out about Huel through Channel 4 food unwrapped. I need to lose 50 Kg as I am 5’ 10" and will be using this to approximate the 800g diet see Diabetes UK website. I think 25Kg a year is achievable and sustainable and hopefully it will put me in remission. Perhaps, we can blog together and support each other and if other diabetics join in we can work together and see how it goes.
What do you think? I would hate to hijack your thread.
Cheers
Lawrence
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I think you’re getting obsolete (19th century era, “Banting”-style) and dangerous advice.
->https://nutritionfacts.org/video/diabetes-reversal-is-it-the-calories-or-the-food/
->https://nutritionfacts.org/video/lipotoxicity-how-saturated-fat-raises-blood-sugar/
->masteringdiabetes.org (check out the testimonials and blog).
If you decide anyway to eat low carb, then at least focus on plant fats and plant foods (nuts, almonds, oily seeds, olives, avocados). Don’t eat oil and butter and bacon.
You can also check out Neil D Bernard (and his book on diabetes), John McDougall (his weight loss book), Pamela Popper (her youtube channel) and related people.
Lawrence, also take a look here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJAKWQ6dDpQ
(It’s the “What the health” movie)
The good news is that It’s reversible in nearly 100% of cases.
In summary:
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You have to lose body fat in a way or another. It doesn’t even matter much how you do it. The fastest and surest way is water-only fasting, but you need medical supervision to do this safely.
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You have to stop eating unnecessary fat and protein at every meal and adopt a regular and complete exercise program. Muscles will take glucose from blood when you exercise them.