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My friend, Jenny, has type 2 diabetes. She is already at the point where she has to inject insulin. Would it be safe for her to do the 2:5 fast diet? She said she thought she would suffer 'hypos'.

[carorees]

Hi sallyo

There are some people with type 2 following this diet. There are also a couple with type 1. It is possible but you have to be able to adjust your own insulin according to your blood sugar levels so it requires constant monitoring. She really needs to discuss it with her diabetes care team.

Please do read the following threads though to get an idea of how others with diabetes have coped:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1918
www.52fastdiet.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1246
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2440
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1519

Hope that helps!

My friend, Jenny, has type 2 diabetes. She is already at the point where she has to inject insulin. Would it be safe for her to do the 2:5 fast diet? She said she thought she would suffer 'hypos'.

Does she have a blood sugar meter ? If she uses that and backs off the insulin pro rata with her reduced food intake all should be well.

Without the insulin she would have persistently high blood sugars and a hypo (low blood sugar) swing would be unlikely.