Thank you for your story. You have done a wonderful job so far! It’s great that you have been able to fit in so much exercise too! I am going to look up the DASH diet too. Please keep me posted on your journey.
I like the way he’s outside and figured a way to have his study measure the efficacy of the training as part of the experiement?
For many years I weighed 165 and got tons of exercise. Then over a few months I ballooned to 220+ (I stopped looking at one point), had brain fog, lots of other neuro issues, and became so weak I walked with a cane and watched my feet as I took tiny steps. Unbeknownst to me I was having severe highs and lows. Doctors had no idea because these highs and lows evened out giving me a normal A1C and no one looked further until one day a doctor at a walkin clinic did a fasting blood glucose test and it was 137.
I just looked at packaging and went as low carb as I could. That was February. Now I weigh about 152. From medically obese to low normal. The weight is gone, the cane is gone, the majority of the other issues are gone too.
I’d been raised on the idea of low fat, high carbs and that got me to 220+. Low carb got me back down. It wasn’t until I got over my aversion to fat and started adding it back in that the weight started really falling off. The fat assisted me in getting into ketosis, the burning of fat instead of carbs, so I was no longer stuck in a hazy, crappy feeling limbo land between the two. I should add that I allowed myself unlimited calories the entire time. The low carb restored the ability of my body to know when it needed it eat and when it didn’t.
Just wish I knew all this years ago. Best of luck in your journey whatever path it may take.
My story was several years ago. Read it here, including the method used: Weight Loss Cooking and Eating Plan
The good news is that I have maintained that loss and good BGs over the ensuing eight years.
The only ones I have found are people who have done the "Eat to Live" diet by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.
That surprises me.
I know of many people who have lost weight, often much more than I, and maintained the loss with good numbers on several forums. Most followed some form of lower carbohydrate way of eating and post-meal testing.
Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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I’ve lost 68 lbs since my intial Dr. visit last June when I was told i was Pre-diabteic. I was down 75 but have gained weight with some imcreased strenght training which was fine by me. I didn’t like any diets I read online or in books and just made excercise a habit. I try to balance my proteins and healthy fats and eat foods low in sodium and perservatives. I try to have a solid breakfast, eggs and bacon (for the protein) and 1 piece of whole wheat low carb toast, and water. Or a smoothie with low carb yogurt, fruit, and Bare Naked Granola. I check my BG first to determine how many carbs i can have with breakfast, I’ve been fortunate to have my morning BGs below 90 for about a year now. I’ll have light snacks at 10am and 3pm, usually nuts, and a good lunch. I try not to have any carbs after 5 unless they are good carbs like fruit or from fiber rich sources like beans. The main thing is to exercise, and let your body tell you what it needs. Diets online line were written but people and no two of us are alike so what works for some may not work for others.
The only drawback i’ve had is paying for clothes from all the weight loss, but its worth it. Just had a physical and all my numbers are great.
I didn’t mind getting new clothes several times as I’ve lost weight at all! It has been hard to get rid of some of my favorite XXL and even now XL stuff but some of it is just way too big!
Have you checked your Blood Glucose carefully during day and in early morning 3:00 am to see what dawn effect is doing.
I am spoiled on a CGMS and get to watch key data.
I say this because:
a) how is your liver doing when it gets tasked to fill in excess glucose when your BG goes low. Does it add correct amount
or is it bladting you up too high.
b) a low glycermic diet gurantees that live will be tasked to load on glucose when low. If it puts too much glucose on you will get fat.
c) I have leaky liver and could not drop an ounce on 1200 calorie diet till liver shut down using metformin.
d) adjusting your low glycemic diet to add some carbs back in will help keep liver contained and prevent getting hidden snacks from liver.
e) I had gotten to 330 pounds and now back to 250 and still dropping on 1200 calorie diet but I eat some more carbs so stomach provides more glucose so liver is not tasked to do so.
f) remember that liver is fifo buffer to fill in when gut empty and BG dropping too low. As one ages and other fracas, liver can get its signalling boloxed. Liver works on reverse Insulin signalling. If Liver sees low insulin, it assumes it should add tons of glucose, and if it sees high insulin, it assumes no or little sugar add. Metformin for some reason fights this buggered Liver Insulin signalling.
Always check with your Doctor a sthis is not advice but only sharing my own experience.