Hello to everyone. Please excuse a newbie queston which must have been covered a million times. I am a middle-aged type 2 diabetic (borderline I'm told) and so I'm concerned about the implications when I start the Atkins diet in a couple of weeks time (my holiday weeks).

I have sent for the book but it hasn't arrived yet, so I can't read what it says about ketosis. All I know is, my diabetic clinic would go mad if they thought I was deliberately inducing ketosis. What are the issues?

On the other hand, one reason I want to try low-carb is that I suspect the high-carb diet I've had for some years had caused or accelerated the diabetes. I could never get my doctor to see this. He, like the clinic, are sold out to the low-fat, high carb diets.

Before I knew anything about these issues, after I was diagnosed as diabetic, they gave me lots of menu booklets and advice pamphlets. Every one said eat more carbohydrates. Now, to my simple mind that sounded like a contradiction, since with the same breath they told me that carbohydrates were the very things that sparked off a high-sugar alert in my body. After all, sugar is a carbo - right??

I suspected the advice and took it carefully, and my diabetes is well under control, (without medication) but I'd like to bring down my sugar levels even more and lose some weight.

My husband is a real carbo addict and it's going to be hard getting him off the bread, potatoes and suchlike. But he's willing to give it a try. He is grossly overwieght and arthritic, so he really needs this.

Do you have any advice for me?
Tricia