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<blockquote data-quote="LittleGreyCat" data-source="post: 1887399" data-attributes="member: 6467"><p>This weight thing - it is a bit of a puzzle to me.</p><p></p><p>You are (roughly) made up of bone, muscle and fat. If you want to gain weight it is likely to be either muscle or fat.</p><p></p><p>You can gain muscle by regular exercise and eating enough protein to allow your body to build extra muscle.</p><p></p><p>You can gain fat quickly by eating carbohydrates which (after your small reserve is filled up) go straight to fat. Eating excess calories of any kind will add to your fat but eating fats and protein is unlikely to spike your blood glucose.</p><p></p><p>So if you think you are losing too much weight, the first thing is to check you are getting enough exercise and eating enough protein. If your muscles are toned and healthy and you aren't breaking them down because you are not eating enough protein then your muscles are fine.</p><p></p><p>This leaves fat. If your muscles are fine and you want to gain weight, you are basically saying that you want to gain more fat. Unless you have very minimal body fat - elite athletes go as low as 5% - then why do you want to gain fat? Fat around the organs is one of the big causes of T2 and insulin resistance. Do you want to gain fat because you have checked your body fat percentage and it is too low? Or do you want to gain weight because you feel that you look too skinny? This is where I get confused. If you are naturally a lean build (perhaps you have achieved this after diagnosis) then perhaps the best body composition for you is where your body is settling, not what your friends and the mirror are telling you.</p><p></p><p>As I rather harshly said in another post, do you want to wrap a couple of kilos of fat around your liver and pancreas to make other people happy?</p><p></p><p>One big caveat is that a fat reserve can be a life saver if you have an accident or need an operation, so it seems valid to set a level of emergency fat that you would like to carry. Apart from that. skinny is good (says someone who can't manage to get his weight down any further and wishes he could).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleGreyCat, post: 1887399, member: 6467"] This weight thing - it is a bit of a puzzle to me. You are (roughly) made up of bone, muscle and fat. If you want to gain weight it is likely to be either muscle or fat. You can gain muscle by regular exercise and eating enough protein to allow your body to build extra muscle. You can gain fat quickly by eating carbohydrates which (after your small reserve is filled up) go straight to fat. Eating excess calories of any kind will add to your fat but eating fats and protein is unlikely to spike your blood glucose. So if you think you are losing too much weight, the first thing is to check you are getting enough exercise and eating enough protein. If your muscles are toned and healthy and you aren't breaking them down because you are not eating enough protein then your muscles are fine. This leaves fat. If your muscles are fine and you want to gain weight, you are basically saying that you want to gain more fat. Unless you have very minimal body fat - elite athletes go as low as 5% - then why do you want to gain fat? Fat around the organs is one of the big causes of T2 and insulin resistance. Do you want to gain fat because you have checked your body fat percentage and it is too low? Or do you want to gain weight because you feel that you look too skinny? This is where I get confused. If you are naturally a lean build (perhaps you have achieved this after diagnosis) then perhaps the best body composition for you is where your body is settling, not what your friends and the mirror are telling you. As I rather harshly said in another post, do you want to wrap a couple of kilos of fat around your liver and pancreas to make other people happy? One big caveat is that a fat reserve can be a life saver if you have an accident or need an operation, so it seems valid to set a level of emergency fat that you would like to carry. Apart from that. skinny is good (says someone who can't manage to get his weight down any further and wishes he could). [/QUOTE]
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