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<blockquote data-quote="Alzebra" data-source="post: 920660" data-attributes="member: 162035"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">[USER=91350]@cratat[/USER] If you look at my signature you'll see I spent 3 years in denial and my HbA1c went up to 83. My BMI was over 50 at that point <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite69" alt=":wideyed:" title="Wide Eyed :wideyed:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":wideyed:" /> As a lifelong comfort eater, I found it really hard to cut down and besides, I felt ravenously hungry <strong>all the time</strong>. Making the decision to embrace LCHF was a massive step forward and the rewards in only 4 months have been incredible. Reading this passage from Blood Sugar 101 was probably the final push for me to make the change:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000066">In the past two decades, when people who were headed towards diabetes begin to gain weight, they were advised to eat a low fat diet. Unfortunately, this low fat diet is also a high carbohydrate diet--one that exacerbates blood sugar problems by raising blood sugars dangerously high, destroying more insulin-producing beta-cells, and catalyzing the storage of more fat in the muscles of people with dysfunctional mitochondria. Though they may have stuck to diets to low fat for weeks or even months these people were tormented by relentless hunger and when they finally went off their ineffective diets, they got fatter. Unfortunately, when they reported these experiences to their doctors, they were almost universally accused of lying about their eating habits.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000066"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000066">It has only been documented in medical research during the past two years that that many patients who have found it impossible to lose weight on the low fat high carbohydrate <em>can </em>lose weight--often dramatically--on a low carbohydrate diet while improving rather than harming their blood lipids. </span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I agree with the advice you've already had and can only repeat that it comes down to you to make the changes you need. There is no magic wand I'm afraid. Good luck! </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzebra, post: 920660, member: 162035"] [SIZE=4][USER=91350]@cratat[/USER] If you look at my signature you'll see I spent 3 years in denial and my HbA1c went up to 83. My BMI was over 50 at that point :wideyed: As a lifelong comfort eater, I found it really hard to cut down and besides, I felt ravenously hungry [B]all the time[/B]. Making the decision to embrace LCHF was a massive step forward and the rewards in only 4 months have been incredible. Reading this passage from Blood Sugar 101 was probably the final push for me to make the change:[/SIZE] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000066]In the past two decades, when people who were headed towards diabetes begin to gain weight, they were advised to eat a low fat diet. Unfortunately, this low fat diet is also a high carbohydrate diet--one that exacerbates blood sugar problems by raising blood sugars dangerously high, destroying more insulin-producing beta-cells, and catalyzing the storage of more fat in the muscles of people with dysfunctional mitochondria. Though they may have stuck to diets to low fat for weeks or even months these people were tormented by relentless hunger and when they finally went off their ineffective diets, they got fatter. Unfortunately, when they reported these experiences to their doctors, they were almost universally accused of lying about their eating habits. It has only been documented in medical research during the past two years that that many patients who have found it impossible to lose weight on the low fat high carbohydrate [I]can [/I]lose weight--often dramatically--on a low carbohydrate diet while improving rather than harming their blood lipids. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Courier New][/FONT] [SIZE=4]I agree with the advice you've already had and can only repeat that it comes down to you to make the changes you need. There is no magic wand I'm afraid. Good luck! [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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