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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 388305" data-source="post: 2555416"><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">Thanks for your response Mbaker!</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">Over the years, I maintained an A1c between 6.0 and 7.0 most of the time, but could never get below 6.0 no matter how few carbs I ate. That said, I found it increasingly difficult to do. I wasn't getting the results I used to get, which in turn made it more difficult to stay on the eating plan. This is over a 20 year span of time. During COVID, the wheels came off so I was looking for something to motivate me to do better. A doctor recommended I consider this and sent me a link to a video by the Mastering Diabetes guys. I spent three days reading their book and decided it made sense enough to give it a shot. If it is true that abdominal and dietary fat cause insulin resistance, then it makes sense that the harder I worked at low carb (meaning essentially that the fat percentage of my diet became higher over time), then the more insulin resistant I was making myself.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">Are you familiar with the work of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn? He treats heart patients with this diet. He says that if you are eating this way and achieve a Total Cholesterol of <150 and an LDL of <80, then any heart disease you have will not progress and in very many cases will reverse. So he doesn't view HDL as being so important in that case. I have read elsewhere that not all HDL is "good." Here is a link to a Caldwell TED Talk.</span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqKNfyUPzoU" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Making Heart Attacks History</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">I got my HS-CRP lab report a few minutes ago and mine was 2.0.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">apolipoprotein B 74</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">Mostly I walk, pretty much every day - usually between 1.5 and 3 miles. I ordered some dumbbells which should arrive today and hope to add some muscle to further improve my glucose uptake. I also do Tai Chi. The Tai Chi and walking sort of take up the same time spectrum; if I do more of one then I do less of the other.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">I don't have any food pictures, but I can give you an idea of what I eat.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">For breakfast I typically eat steel-cut oatmeal with 1/2 a banana, blueberries, cinnamon and flax seed with black coffee.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">At some time during the day I will eat a large sald - either at lunch or dinner, but most often at lunch: In addition to whatever greens I use, I will add half a cup or more of beans, some tomatoes, peppers, cumin, vinaigrette. This is usually followed by a large plate of vegetables which can include green beans, sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, etc., etc. and an apple. I may also have a serving of brown rice or quinoa or more beans topped with another half a banana and blueberries.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">Mid-afternoon I have a smoothie which includes frozen fruit, kale, broccoli, flax seed and plant protein powder. I have a slice of Ezekiel Bread with it.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">If I have eaten all the above, then at dinner I will probably just eat a serving of raw unsalted nuts (almonds, cashews or walnuts) a square of 85% dark chocolate and perhaps another apple.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">We have just now started exploring recipes so have added a couple of good ones - one for a soup containing potatoes, lima beans, asparagus and leeks as well as one for ratatouille. </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">Hope this helps. Anyone who has any interest in this really needs to carefully read the book and check out the references to the relevant studies. Also, remember this is a process and I am only into it 6 months. These results are better than they were 3 months ago and I expect more changes in the days ahead.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 388305, post: 2555416"] [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]Thanks for your response Mbaker![/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(235, 107, 86)]Over the years, I maintained an A1c between 6.0 and 7.0 most of the time, but could never get below 6.0 no matter how few carbs I ate. That said, I found it increasingly difficult to do. I wasn't getting the results I used to get, which in turn made it more difficult to stay on the eating plan. This is over a 20 year span of time. During COVID, the wheels came off so I was looking for something to motivate me to do better. A doctor recommended I consider this and sent me a link to a video by the Mastering Diabetes guys. I spent three days reading their book and decided it made sense enough to give it a shot. If it is true that abdominal and dietary fat cause insulin resistance, then it makes sense that the harder I worked at low carb (meaning essentially that the fat percentage of my diet became higher over time), then the more insulin resistant I was making myself.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]Are you familiar with the work of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn? He treats heart patients with this diet. He says that if you are eating this way and achieve a Total Cholesterol of <150 and an LDL of <80, then any heart disease you have will not progress and in very many cases will reverse. So he doesn't view HDL as being so important in that case. I have read elsewhere that not all HDL is "good." Here is a link to a Caldwell TED Talk.[/COLOR] [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqKNfyUPzoU'][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Making Heart Attacks History[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)].[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]I got my HS-CRP lab report a few minutes ago and mine was 2.0. apolipoprotein B 74[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]Mostly I walk, pretty much every day - usually between 1.5 and 3 miles. I ordered some dumbbells which should arrive today and hope to add some muscle to further improve my glucose uptake. I also do Tai Chi. The Tai Chi and walking sort of take up the same time spectrum; if I do more of one then I do less of the other.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]I don't have any food pictures, but I can give you an idea of what I eat. For breakfast I typically eat steel-cut oatmeal with 1/2 a banana, blueberries, cinnamon and flax seed with black coffee. At some time during the day I will eat a large sald - either at lunch or dinner, but most often at lunch: In addition to whatever greens I use, I will add half a cup or more of beans, some tomatoes, peppers, cumin, vinaigrette. This is usually followed by a large plate of vegetables which can include green beans, sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, etc., etc. and an apple. I may also have a serving of brown rice or quinoa or more beans topped with another half a banana and blueberries. Mid-afternoon I have a smoothie which includes frozen fruit, kale, broccoli, flax seed and plant protein powder. I have a slice of Ezekiel Bread with it. If I have eaten all the above, then at dinner I will probably just eat a serving of raw unsalted nuts (almonds, cashews or walnuts) a square of 85% dark chocolate and perhaps another apple. We have just now started exploring recipes so have added a couple of good ones - one for a soup containing potatoes, lima beans, asparagus and leeks as well as one for ratatouille. Hope this helps. Anyone who has any interest in this really needs to carefully read the book and check out the references to the relevant studies. Also, remember this is a process and I am only into it 6 months. These results are better than they were 3 months ago and I expect more changes in the days ahead.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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