@AndBreathe
I've a question for you. I am down 21% (or more than 1/5th of my body weight) from my most highest weight and my BMI is now in the 24's(down from 30's). Still experiencing neuropathy in the feet and hands. Seeing the neurologist on Tuesday I am curious if I've gotten something other than T2D? I seem to be getting no love from my body although I am doing the right things? Should I not be seeing huge improvements as I am down 52lbs?
On the positive side of things I got a used bicycle wheel (for $25
) that now matches my back wheel. I sense I go faster with a matching pair (lol) when I go for a bike ride. I've been naughty this week as I've only cycled every day. I should lift more weights but I am moving homes & the gym will be walking distance for me then. My daughter and I will be going to the gym more often.
On a general note to ND'ers this weight loss thingy is tough. I had a few days in the mountains at 8000 feet and the weight flew off. & I've put 3 lbs back on since that time. One thing that has cracked me up is having lost 52lbs, I still have jeans that have me with a "Muffin top"! Yikes!
JM
I'm no expert in the ND. I've jaust done lots of reading and corresponded a bit with The Man, seeking clarification on a couple of things that were me-centric. But, the thing that chimes loud and clear, time and time again, from both Professor Taylor's work, and the experiences of posters here, is how personal this condition is. The Personal Fat Threshold (PFT), is just that, and none of of know if it is impacting us at BMIs of 19, 22, 27 or even much higher. I'm sure if we each spent a huge amount of cash, we might be able to track it by loads of lab bloods and scans, but I have neither the appetite or am I willing to invest hard earned cash for that detail.
I would have thought that losing weight would have improved matters, somewhat? Is it that you have had no material improvement, or that you are disappointed by the scope of the improvement you have achieved? Your profile doesn't give me many meaningful clues. Where did your bloods start, and where have you got to with them? I ask that for both glucose and lipids.
The unfortunate realit is that not all people diagnosed with T2 will find reversal, post ND. If I recall, I think Prof T's study showed 70 or 80%, which although significant, isn't 95 or 100%. Sadly, there will always be those for whom their personal package of condition makes the ND useful in changing weight, body fat and possible lifestyle. I say lifestyle, meaning a complete break from "normal eating", with thinking space to build a plan for a new way of approaching food.
I have often stated my belief that Diabetes is a portfolio condition, on a sliding scale, from one extreme of the T2 spectrum which opens up the lifestyle/choices debate, through to classic T1, with a totally dis functional pancreas. I don't believe the medics know enough about diabetes yet to really get to geips with this, and unfortunately end up making the closest diagnosis they can, based on how we present at the outset. I believe the number of late onset MODY or T1.5 demonstrates this, when they, unfortunately, sometimes have to fight their way through an erroneous T2 diagnosis on their ways to a more appropriate diagnosis and treatment options.
Clearly, you must address any neuropathy issues you are experiencing, and perhaps have a full set of bloods run (if they're not being done are part of the neurological stuff), so that you might plan a way forward, based on firm, factual statistics.
Finally, do you measure yourself at all? I didn't t the outset, and I still don't use a tape measure, aside from when I measured my waist when re-running a diabetes risk modelling tool. I also didn't weight myself for a few months, post-diagnosis, as I knew my focus had to be on bloods, not weight, and I know i could probably have easily reduced my weight, whilst maintaining unacceptable blood scores. One aim at a time for me! But, to the point: I bought some Omron Body Composition Monitor scales, which measure weight, BMI, fat and muscle percentages and a score for visceral fat. Clearly the composition is measured by impedance, so is subject to variance, but it gave me useful trends.
In the later stages of my trimming up, my fat percentages dropped, my visceral fat dropped even though my weight loss was pretty modest by then. Similarly, my waist visibly shrunk late on. I had never had much shape in that area (classic diabetes alarm bell?), but now I have a properly in and out waistline. It seemed like my body was almost fine tuning itself. Now, let's be clear, that las it is a totally personal hypothesis I can neither prove nor disprove, and it could b complete twaddle. But it was interesting to observe it.
So, all of that really tells you nothing!
I think you are in a mental pause phase where you need to redraw your baseline data for analysis.
Helpful? Probably not!!