{"id":156318,"date":"2010-01-08T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47411-a-heretical-question.html"},"modified":"2010-01-08T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T02:13:09","slug":"a-heretical-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/156318","title":{"rendered":"A heretical question"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>To put this in context my old diet was healthy and I have always been reasonably fit (I cycle to work and walk a lot). Weight is not a problem, actually keeping weight on tends to be a bigger problem.<\/p>\n<p>I am wondering why I should not stop taking Metformin, abandon the lowish carb diet, and simply take insulin. I think I can live a more normal life (closer to my old diet) with little, if any, loss of control. I am curious as to what I might be missing, apart from the ability to get my endo to sign up to this.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To put this in context my old diet was healthy and I have always been reasonably fit (I cycle to work and walk a lot). Weight is not a problem, actually keeping weight on tends to be a bigger problem. I am wondering why I should not stop taking Metformin, abandon the lowish carb diet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}