Fats and Insulin Resistance

To be honest then who cares?

If it works I'd rather advocate it without knowing precisely why it works (although I don't believe I'm in that situation) than not advocate it and let people stay sick.

 

After 4 weeks I'm not surprised. Ketogenic adaptation and especially the process of becoming a true fat burner can take up to 2 or 3 months and that's when fat starts to disappear. The initial loss is water weight and little to do with insulin that comes later.

Still wondering what kind of HCP you are who is willing to dismiss an associate professor at a university out of hand.

https://bikmanlab.byu.edu/LabMembers/PrincipalInvestigator.aspx

 

why? for academics maybe. for those of us with improved health its certainly of less importance.
I'd far rather be healthy personally.

This is the disagreement I have with many researchers who seem to think that "winning the argument" is more beneficial than making people better.

 

Exactly. I don't really care why a fat fast where I consume more calories than usual, but most of them from fat helps me to lose weight. I just know that it does. I don't care why reducing calories no longer works for me. I just know that it doesn't.

 

I remember a similar discussion with this op a couple of years ago. It was unproductive then, so I will bow out of this rehash.

@Sean_Raymond you never did share, even then, what sort of HCP you are or your credentials.

 

Ah, just found it, no surprise there, back then he was a dietician.
Edit: so he has been qualified for about 6-7 years.

 

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Thanks.

 

My experience is that on a low carb higher fat, higher protein (so an overall calorie increase) way of eating I lost weight after ( and I mean after not simultaneously) my Blood Glucose started dropping. I'm aware that some of this weight loss was water - but here I am with a BMI of 22 compared with 26 and an HbA1C of 37 versus 53.
I know I'm not the only one this happened with. I would match our personal experience against your purely theoretical knowledge any time!

 

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That process has been followed in this case.

All verified HCPs posting on the forum do so in a personal capacity.



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I would echo @ianf0ster. After following a low carb higher fat higher protein way of eating I lost 5 stone in weight and 8 inches off my waist which I doubt could all have been all water.
I have absolutely no idea of the mechanism as to how that happened (school science was a long time ago and I am not sure that any part of this was covered then) but what I am certain about is that it happened to me.
There are numerous others on here who can say the same thing.
I also know that many HCP's are very sceptical of it even when presented with the living proof during a consultation as many on here can attest to.
I am off all diabetes meds, my HbA1c is down to the low 30's from 98 I have gone from 15+migraine days a month to 0 in 12 months so however it works all I know and care about is that it does work and is sustainable over the years I have left in this life.

 

You have made statements such as that concerning a low carb diet also being low calorie, when for many of us the reverse is true. Yes it is impossible - but it is our personal experience, backed up by our weighing scales, both kitchen and bathroom, and the maths of it all.