One in three people following the diet saw their diabetes go into remission whilst others lost more than 2.5 stone in weight! An NHS diet offering people meal replacement offerings with type 2 diabetes put their condition “in remission”, experts have found.

The eating plan with small lifestyle optimisations can help those with diabetes to lose a “significant” amount of weight, according to researchers.

Almost one in three will see their type 2 diabetes go into remission, according to thr study published in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, the article examines the results of a 12 month program to improve the health and lives of people living with diabetes.

The plan requires dieter’s to replace usual meals with a low-calorie meal replacement system including bars, shakes and soups! It’s very similar to the Herbalife Ideal Breakfast plan that’s been tried and tested over the last forty years but without the ongoing, one-to-one support. It’s this very Herbalife Plan that eliminated more than 50kg of fat from Andrew Hill during his own fat loss journey!

For the first twelve weeks of the NHS Shake diet, dieter’s will eat nothing but low-quality, ultra processed foods to kick start their metabolism before reintroducing healthier foods. I know what you’re thinking. It isn’t the healthiest sounding diet, is it? At least with the diet which inspired the NHS, you’re free to eat what you want, when you want provided it fits into a healthy, reasonably moderated and balanced diet!

According to NHS England the paper found that its Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission programme could benefit “thousands” of people with the condition. It was announced earlier this year that the initiative will be rolled out across the whole of England this year, doubling the capacity of the programme.

Researchers examined data on 7,540 people who took part in the programme between September 2020 and the end of 2022 for the new report. 945 of these completed a full year of the programme.

Experts found 32% of those in this group found their diabetes went into remission. They achieved an average weight loss of 15.9kg – with some losing up to 17.4kg. This figure falls far short of the results Andrew Hill Personal Training has achieved. He says “this NHS Shake Diet is very suspicious. As a means to an end, it’s great! But how the NHS can parade a diet which features no wholefood meal plans for the first three months as healthy is beyond me. It doesn’t make sense.”

Andrew Hill has helped thousands of people to lose weight over the last ten years and has worked exclusively with more than one hundred women in the last year to lose weight, feel great and fall in love with themselves again without cutting out the foods you love! He continues “A wholefood diet is critical to health and cutting a wholefood diet out is going to do more harm than good. Is it worth the short term weight loss result of just 15kg? Because the likelihood is, those being prescribed this diet are already dangerously overweight. It’s similar to Ozempic, the efficacy, how well it performs, it isn’t actually that great compared to the strategies we teach our clients.”

Andrew Hill talks about why the diet may not be sustainable for those twelve weeks because “it requires a total overhaul of your diet. We’re talking forsaking solid food all together, no wholefoods, just ultra-processed powders and chocolate bars cooked in laboratories. Within a few days, our body will be craving something solid to eat and we’ll slip up, we will binge eat and it won’t be the vegetable drawer we raid.”

The warning comes as more and more people look towards magic bullet weight loss treatments which simply don’t exist. Andrew Hill Personal Training has seen many clients walk through the door wanting an easy fix and whilst the fix can be made easier, “it isn’t just a case of swapping out your food for something else before going back to eating normally, the same eating normally that made us fat in the first place!” he explains.

Dr Clare Hambling, NHS England’s national clinical director for diabetes and obesity, explains that “The NHS Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission Programme can have a huge impact on the lives of participants, and it’s brilliant that these findings show a large number of those who completed it have seen life-changing benefits including major weight loss and type 2 diabetes remission.

“We know obesity is one of the biggest threats to health in the UK and will be one of the biggest and most costly challenges for health systems globally, so seeing such encouraging outcomes from our programme shows that obesity can be tackled head-on, and we’re looking forward to scoping any further expansion to this programme in due course.”

Discussing the study, Dr Elizabeth Robertson, director of research at Diabetes UK, said “Diabetes UK is proud to have funded over a decade of research that has forged new frontiers for people with type 2 diabetes and put remission on the map.

“These latest findings add to the real-world evidence that the NHS England Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission Programme can help thousands of people living with type 2 diabetes on their weight loss and remission journey, which we know is tough and having support is critical.

“We hope to see even more people benefiting in years to come and an increase in referrals to the programme especially for people recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and in younger people where the impact of type 2 diabetes and remission from it is greatest.”

Over 25,000 people have already taken part in the programme since it was first launched in 2020 and officials in England are investing £13 million into the programme this year to ensure that low income patients can access the service.

Adults aged 18+ can enrol on the programme is they have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the last six years and if they have a body mass index score of over 27 if they are white or over 25 if they are from Black, Asian or other minority ethnic groups.

Comparatively, the meal replacement system offered by us with the free ongoing support, guidance, mentoring and coaching of Andrew Hill Personal Training is open to all. We don’t discriminate when it comes to ensuring you receive the highest quality healthy meal replacement shakes which allow you to eat the foods you love whilst losing weight and feeling amazing!