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[Richram]

@Richram dietary fat does not make you fat if it isn't eaten along with lots of carbs. If you gain weight when you are eating extra fat then your carb (and maybe also protein) intake is still too high. For instance 60g carbs is still too high for some of us here.

I got tired of hearing that you shouldn't eat fat so I did an experiment to test if fat makes you fat.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/my-5-day-dairy-fat-fast.81433/

What I would suggest is to drop your carb intake until your BG readings are all in the normal range. ( It might take a while for the fasting one to become in the normal range) Eat protein at a level of 0.75-0.8 % per kg of lean body mass ( in other words your target weight) then eat fat until you are satiated. Don't use artificial low fat products or spreads. Use natural ones only.

Thank you

 

[Richram]

@Richram The weight I lost was 7 years ago after being first diagnosed I was put straight on insulin and it terrified me so I was determined to lose weight.

I ate 60g of carbs a day but did not add any extra fat as like you I understood that fat has twice the calories of carbs and protein and whenever I did add extra fat ie cheese every day my weight loss stalled.

It is quite possible to eat low carb and normal fat and dietary fat definitely can and will cause body fat as any extra calories that are not burned will be laid down as fat. The dietary fat not causing body fat was a fallacy first written in a book by Gary Taubes or Barry Groves who later edited the paragraph out of his book as it was proven to have been total rubbish. Unfortunately it was often repeated and many people seem to still think it is fact but it is not. Many members here have found what I found that adding extra fat stalled their weight loss or caused weight gain.
http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/big-fat-fake

I also gave up alcohol for about 5 months and as my weight started to fall off I was using less and less insulin and weaned myself off it completely after 12 months and then I started to eat a few more carbs daily, probably upped them to around 100 or so although I stopped counting them when I stopped using insulin.

I lost 4 stone (56lb) in the first year and another stone (14lb) in the second year and have managed to maintain that weight loss as well, I still eat low carb and normal fat and would estimate my daily fat intake at around 100 to 130 grams a day on average.

I now generally eat a lot less food than I did before my T2 diagnosis and I guess my stomach has now shrank as I used to eat like an Olympic athlete but without the training

Thank you