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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ianf0ster" data-source="post: 2200458" data-attributes="member: 506169">Hi Fireyeyes, I'm not surprised that you are confused there is so much contradiction about diets and health.Since you are a Type 2, the first thing to be aware of is that potentially all carbohydrates may spike your Blood Glucose - so until you have tested them you don't know which ones you may need to cut down or to cut out completely. - So many of us use a Blood Glucose meter to find out. Another revelation: Calories are NOT equal! It is completely possible to gain weight by reducing your overall calories, just as it is possible to lose weight while increasing your overall calories. And this is without any change in exercise. I went on a LCHF 'Way Of Eating' to reduce my BG without losing weight. I actually increased my overall calorie intake due to replacing carbs with fats - but I still lost weight! How is this possible? - Because Carbs raise Blood Glucose and high Blood Glucose makes the body (try) to produce Insulin to remove it. A drop from a high BG spike stimulates hunger- so can is a tendency to eat more Carbs. The Insulin not only removes glucose out from the blood stream into muscles (for energy), but it also pushes it into fat cells - growing them as an energy store (making the person fatter - like a bear preparing for winter hibernation). And since it is mean to increase fat stores, it also inhibits the burning of existing fat stores as fuel. So with high Insulin it is almost impossible to lose weight. Dietary fat doesn't increase Blood Glucose, so it is possible to burn body fat while on a high(er) fat 'way of eating'.</blockquote>

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