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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2240928" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Yes - people like me are a good example of how weight loss does not always equal resolution or vast (enough !) improvement of type two. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I lost lots of weight very early on, have kept it off, lowered my HBA1c to prediabetic (in my countries) levels, but I am not able to get to non-diabetic levels, even on very low-carb diet for many years since diagnosis. (I have gotten pretty slender too, and just inched in to non-diabetic HBA1c a couple of times, but unable to maintain that, whilst actually eating, so normal weighted with prediabetic levels I remain.) I am also very active and even muscley for an old broad, and was throughout getting insulin resistant and type two.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And there are type twos who don't lose the weight to the same extent, and go low carb, and are able to resolve their type two/get to non-diabetic levels through changing eating habits, without becoming normal or slender weighted. It's a way more complex disease than many give it credit for, is my own understanding. (And that's without taking the autoimmune diabetes into account!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Also something to keep in mind, as painful as it is, apparently, weight loss is harder post menopause? I don't know why, but it's the usual - hormones and how they interact etc. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I would also say [USER=521714]@MrsA20[/USER], that you are a moderate carb eater perhaps? Not a low-carb eater - with the rice! And beans? And as many Asian cuisines have a LOT of sugar in them (in the meat and seafood, and in the veges with sugary sauces and marinades), I wonder how low-sugar your diet was? This is where developing a keen taste for sugar comes in, and testing your blood sugar after eating to catch out the food and drink culprits that are raising your blood sugar - I now it's a bore, but we have not been able to find a better method to tightly control our carb and sugar intake to help us get better. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I would say with an HBA1c of 53, if you go low-carb, you have a very good chance of lowering your HBA!c significantly. Or the way I see it biologically speaking - getting the fat cells you have that are sick, up to a healthy state where they are the ones dominating your fat cell store (is one particular theory behind type two). Test that theory out at least? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And good luck on your journey, and I hope to see you more in here? And read how your journey goes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 2240928, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Yes - people like me are a good example of how weight loss does not always equal resolution or vast (enough !) improvement of type two. I lost lots of weight very early on, have kept it off, lowered my HBA1c to prediabetic (in my countries) levels, but I am not able to get to non-diabetic levels, even on very low-carb diet for many years since diagnosis. (I have gotten pretty slender too, and just inched in to non-diabetic HBA1c a couple of times, but unable to maintain that, whilst actually eating, so normal weighted with prediabetic levels I remain.) I am also very active and even muscley for an old broad, and was throughout getting insulin resistant and type two. And there are type twos who don't lose the weight to the same extent, and go low carb, and are able to resolve their type two/get to non-diabetic levels through changing eating habits, without becoming normal or slender weighted. It's a way more complex disease than many give it credit for, is my own understanding. (And that's without taking the autoimmune diabetes into account!) Also something to keep in mind, as painful as it is, apparently, weight loss is harder post menopause? I don't know why, but it's the usual - hormones and how they interact etc. I would also say [USER=521714]@MrsA20[/USER], that you are a moderate carb eater perhaps? Not a low-carb eater - with the rice! And beans? And as many Asian cuisines have a LOT of sugar in them (in the meat and seafood, and in the veges with sugary sauces and marinades), I wonder how low-sugar your diet was? This is where developing a keen taste for sugar comes in, and testing your blood sugar after eating to catch out the food and drink culprits that are raising your blood sugar - I now it's a bore, but we have not been able to find a better method to tightly control our carb and sugar intake to help us get better. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]I would say with an HBA1c of 53, if you go low-carb, you have a very good chance of lowering your HBA!c significantly. Or the way I see it biologically speaking - getting the fat cells you have that are sick, up to a healthy state where they are the ones dominating your fat cell store (is one particular theory behind type two). Test that theory out at least? And good luck on your journey, and I hope to see you more in here? And read how your journey goes. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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