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- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
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- Diet only
I have a private appointment next week. And to say I'm terrified does not deliver.
I am terrified cause I have got used to the condescendence of GPs when voicing my concerns about my weight gain in the last 2 years with a simple "you fat pig just eat less."
I ate less. I lost 35kg at 1200kcal per day on keto. And then I stalled at 1200kcal. And then i started to gain at 1200kcal.
I have been tracking my food for all these 6 years so I both understand the "fatlogic" scepticism and my own frustration.
Since going back to school in september what could be described as my "weight set point" went just up. I put on 6kg since, whilst always being in ketosis (which looking at lipogenesis factors and paths, should always require insulin, which being in high ketosis 3mmols+ and low glucose 4smmol) shouldn't be possible.
Yet here I am.
I had to cut down foods cause one day cheese was making me put on weight, another it was cauliflower, another it was parma ham.
I am dreading this appointment now yet I am aware this is the only thing that can still help me.
I am looking for advice on tests to ask for, and the help to ask for and how to ask it, cause I'm so afraid of being dismissed, cause in all honesty I know how *I* was dismissive of anyone telling a story similar to this. I would just think they were lying, possibly to themselves, they weren't really tracking, they didn't likely know what they were actually eating.
But i have years of My fitnesspal complete data, i weight food never guess it, I have glucose and ketone measurements to show trends, I don't make sense based on that data... how can an endocrinologist help me figure things out?
Thanks for any advice, and for enduring the rant <3
I am terrified cause I have got used to the condescendence of GPs when voicing my concerns about my weight gain in the last 2 years with a simple "you fat pig just eat less."
I ate less. I lost 35kg at 1200kcal per day on keto. And then I stalled at 1200kcal. And then i started to gain at 1200kcal.
I have been tracking my food for all these 6 years so I both understand the "fatlogic" scepticism and my own frustration.
Since going back to school in september what could be described as my "weight set point" went just up. I put on 6kg since, whilst always being in ketosis (which looking at lipogenesis factors and paths, should always require insulin, which being in high ketosis 3mmols+ and low glucose 4smmol) shouldn't be possible.
Yet here I am.
I had to cut down foods cause one day cheese was making me put on weight, another it was cauliflower, another it was parma ham.
I am dreading this appointment now yet I am aware this is the only thing that can still help me.
I am looking for advice on tests to ask for, and the help to ask for and how to ask it, cause I'm so afraid of being dismissed, cause in all honesty I know how *I* was dismissive of anyone telling a story similar to this. I would just think they were lying, possibly to themselves, they weren't really tracking, they didn't likely know what they were actually eating.
But i have years of My fitnesspal complete data, i weight food never guess it, I have glucose and ketone measurements to show trends, I don't make sense based on that data... how can an endocrinologist help me figure things out?
Thanks for any advice, and for enduring the rant <3