‘Starvation Diet Cured My Diabetes’

Words: Michele O’Connor.

TRACEY ALBERT, 47, is a divorced mum of three grown-up children, from Medway in Kent. Until 2009 I was a size 10 with a good job as a sales and marketing manager. After redundancy, depression hit and I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder – and I gained weight. Over four years I went from a size 10 to 26, weighed just over 19 stone, and was being considered for gastric-band surgery. Then, in September 2013, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and prescribed metformin to reduce my high blood-glucose levels. This was the wake-up call I needed. My doctor enrolled me on a six-week NHS nutrition course for people with type 2 diabetes, which taught me all about calorie and carbohydrate content of foods. I learnt that carbohydrates turn to sugars in…

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Woman's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 09-feb-16

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