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<blockquote data-quote="ajbod" data-source="post: 2609599" data-attributes="member: 544995"><p>High blood sugars are inflammatory, and could easily be your cause of aches, pains and fatigue. These don't necessarily occur at the same sugar level in everyone. We are not machines, and the calorie in calorie out concept is flawed.</p><p>Diabetic fatigue, <strong>if</strong> that is what you are suffering, is caused by the cells being starved of energy, due to Insulin resistance. That is the overriding symptom in type 2 diabetes, why our blood sugars are high in the first place. Reducing our carb intake, reduces our sugars, but we need to compensate for the energy deficiency with Proteins and good fats. By reducing our sugars, Insulin resistance usually improves a bit, allowing more of what we eat into the cells.</p><p></p><p>If you can go low enough on the carbs, your body adapts to fat burning much better. At a cellular level we are dual fuel entities, Glucose, of which we have a problem utilising, and the excess has to be peed out , or stored away as fat. And Ketones which are no such problem, in fact when properly fat adapted, we are then in a position to use that flawed calorie counting, to force our bodies to use its own fat stores. This is how primates evolved to survive feast and famine.</p><p></p><p>If you are having false hypos, it is because your body has been used to much higher sugar levels, and is panicking, trying to get you to eat, to raise your levels to what it thinks they should be. But we know that figure is out of whack, and needs resetting back to or as close to the normal, 4 to 6ish as we can get, again we're all different, and will have a variety of outcomes. Whilst our bodies think we need higher sugar levels, our Livers are producing Glucose to raise it, making it even more important to get that "normal level" back again.</p><p></p><p>To lose weight, you have to be fat adapted, or at the very least to have greatly reduced your Insulin blood level. This is the hormone that stores fat, and more importantly where weight loss is desired, <strong>stops</strong> its usage. The only way to have any idea of your Insulin level, is your blood sugar level, type 2s are hyperinsuliemic. We over produce, to try to combat the sugar levels, this in itself causes more Insulin resistance. Each time we eat anything, the saliva we produce contains Amylase, a signalling chemical that tells the pancreas to release Insulin. this happens with fat and protein as well as carbs. But the digestion of carbs causes a second higher release of Insulin. this is the underlying reason many of us eat low carb, again a very arbitrary figure, we are all different, and require various different levels to suit OUR own bodies. Without really thinking about it, our goal is actually to reduce the Insulin level.</p><p></p><p>Exercise helps with sugar levels, but pales into insignificance compared to restricting carbs, and using what evolution gave us as a tool to survive. It gave us another tool, that if calories are restricted for too long, our metabolism shuts off non essential processes to save fuel. Then your calorie reduction becomes the new normal, and weight loss stops.</p><p></p><p>Most of your problems could be explained by inflammation due to high sugar levels, <strong>but </strong>we cannot diagnose, they may be something else, hence my saying you need to see your doctor. your profile says prediabetic, but your figures say something else. so an Hba1c test is needed i think.</p><p></p><p>Either way, we are all here to help, we cannot diagnose, but we do have experiences we can pass on.</p><p></p><p>One last comment, FORGET EVERYTHING YOU WERE EVER TOLD ABOUT HEALTHY EATING. As a type 2 diabetic, they are totally wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ajbod, post: 2609599, member: 544995"] High blood sugars are inflammatory, and could easily be your cause of aches, pains and fatigue. These don't necessarily occur at the same sugar level in everyone. We are not machines, and the calorie in calorie out concept is flawed. Diabetic fatigue, [B]if[/B] that is what you are suffering, is caused by the cells being starved of energy, due to Insulin resistance. That is the overriding symptom in type 2 diabetes, why our blood sugars are high in the first place. Reducing our carb intake, reduces our sugars, but we need to compensate for the energy deficiency with Proteins and good fats. By reducing our sugars, Insulin resistance usually improves a bit, allowing more of what we eat into the cells. If you can go low enough on the carbs, your body adapts to fat burning much better. At a cellular level we are dual fuel entities, Glucose, of which we have a problem utilising, and the excess has to be peed out , or stored away as fat. And Ketones which are no such problem, in fact when properly fat adapted, we are then in a position to use that flawed calorie counting, to force our bodies to use its own fat stores. This is how primates evolved to survive feast and famine. If you are having false hypos, it is because your body has been used to much higher sugar levels, and is panicking, trying to get you to eat, to raise your levels to what it thinks they should be. But we know that figure is out of whack, and needs resetting back to or as close to the normal, 4 to 6ish as we can get, again we're all different, and will have a variety of outcomes. Whilst our bodies think we need higher sugar levels, our Livers are producing Glucose to raise it, making it even more important to get that "normal level" back again. To lose weight, you have to be fat adapted, or at the very least to have greatly reduced your Insulin blood level. This is the hormone that stores fat, and more importantly where weight loss is desired, [B]stops[/B] its usage. The only way to have any idea of your Insulin level, is your blood sugar level, type 2s are hyperinsuliemic. We over produce, to try to combat the sugar levels, this in itself causes more Insulin resistance. Each time we eat anything, the saliva we produce contains Amylase, a signalling chemical that tells the pancreas to release Insulin. this happens with fat and protein as well as carbs. But the digestion of carbs causes a second higher release of Insulin. this is the underlying reason many of us eat low carb, again a very arbitrary figure, we are all different, and require various different levels to suit OUR own bodies. Without really thinking about it, our goal is actually to reduce the Insulin level. Exercise helps with sugar levels, but pales into insignificance compared to restricting carbs, and using what evolution gave us as a tool to survive. It gave us another tool, that if calories are restricted for too long, our metabolism shuts off non essential processes to save fuel. Then your calorie reduction becomes the new normal, and weight loss stops. Most of your problems could be explained by inflammation due to high sugar levels, [B]but [/B]we cannot diagnose, they may be something else, hence my saying you need to see your doctor. your profile says prediabetic, but your figures say something else. so an Hba1c test is needed i think. Either way, we are all here to help, we cannot diagnose, but we do have experiences we can pass on. One last comment, FORGET EVERYTHING YOU WERE EVER TOLD ABOUT HEALTHY EATING. As a type 2 diabetic, they are totally wrong. [/QUOTE]
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