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Can I get rid of insulin resistance if I just cut out sugar?

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biko9666

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Hello everyone. I have insulin resistance and I am hungry every 2 hours. I tried to diet but failed.

A question came to my mind:

If only I cut out sugar, and paid a little more attention to the food. (3-4 meals a day, but without exaggerating the portions). Will insulin resistance improve because I don't take sugar afterwards? If it gets better then I can go with a tight say. I couldn't find the answer to this question whether insulin resistance can be improved by just cutting sugar. I'm looking for help from anyone who knows, thanks in advance.
 
It's isn't simply the "sugar afterwards" that impacts your blood glucose levels, but also all the carbohydrates you eat. You could still feel full and satiated if you choose foods that are low in carbs and give the cold shoulder to things like bread, cereals, lacostose, fructose and any of the 'oses.
I can't comment about how diet impacts on insulin resistance, it may do but I have my doubts, but diet certainly affects blood glucose levels and if someone is insulin resistant the carbs (=sugars) are likely to result in weight gain and/or fat deposits on internal organs as well as sub-dermal fat.
Hopefully someone will come up with a more helpful answer than this one.
 
Sucrose is half glucose and half fructose. Fructose does not directly increase your blood sugar (glucose) levels but will contribute to metabolic problems.
Carbs in foods like bread are glucose rather than glucose and fructose.

People have been able to put type 2 diabetes into remission by a low carbohydrate diet, so significantly reduce all carbohydrates - not just sucrose. Removing fructose from your diet will help but may not be sufficient to reverse diabetes on its own.

You might find this and this a useful start ;)
 
biko9666 said:
Hello everyone. I have insulin resistance and I am hungry every 2 hours. I tried to diet but failed.

A question came to my mind:

If only I cut out sugar, and paid a little more attention to the food. (3-4 meals a day, but without exaggerating the portions). Will insulin resistance improve because I don't take sugar afterwards? If it gets better then I can go with a tight say. I couldn't find the answer to this question whether insulin resistance can be improved by just cutting sugar. I'm looking for help from anyone who knows, thanks in advance.
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Hi and welcome to the forums. It might help people reply to you if you give a little bit more information - your last HbA1c, the sort of things you normally eat, what your blood glucose response is after carbs, that sort of thing. How do you know you have insulin resistance? Sugars and carbs in your diet have the same result - increased blood glucose - so you would need to think about limiting carbs as well as sugars.
 
@KennyA
Hello, I couldn't find the H1abc test, but glucose: 100
triglyceride: when it should be at most 200: 289
cholesterol should be at most 40: 59
 
biko9666 said:
@KennyA
Hello, I couldn't find the H1abc test, but glucose: 100
triglyceride: when it should be at most 200: 289
cholesterol should be at most 40: 59
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Thanks Biko. Problem for me is that you don't say how the measurements are given - if your blood glucose is in mg/dl it's normal; if it's an HbA1c result it's not.

I don't know how to interpret the figures you give for triglycerides (mg/dl maybe?) or cholesterol - maybe someone else does?
 
Good morning,

When I was prediabetic, I cut out sugar. I ate all the supposedly healthy food such as sweet potato, homemade rye sourdough bread, quinoa, buckwheat, not even fruit. My sugars rose higher and I was diagnosed with type 2. Cutting sugars didn't work for me at all.
 
@ajbod
Thanks for the information you provided.

@Munkki

Thanks for understanding your experience. This is valuable to me.

@KennyA

Hello again. I looked at my H1abc result. It looks like 5.7%. Glucose is 100 mg/dl.
Triglyceride is 289 mg/dl
 
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