Lilybelle: WOW. just WOW. Thank you so much for that inspiration... I hope someday that I'll have a success story like that. Do you feel like the glucophage helped you to lose the weight? I know it's not a "weight-loss drug" but I know that treating the insulin resistance can make it easier to lose weight through diet and exercise.
FYI, I'm doing the "Eat to Live" diet and so are a few other ladies on this board. The book "Eat to Live" was written in 2003 by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, and it's a nutritional plan that focuses on "nutrient density" -- eating foods with the best nutritional bang for your caloric buck. He favors minimizing animal products -- he presents both vegetarian and non-vegetarian meal plans, but recommends that either way, we base our diet around veggies, fruits, and legumes. For anyone who is interested in the Eat to Live diet, please join us on
this thread here. If it winds up looking like something any of you would like to try, I'd love to have you join in -- the more the merrier!