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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catinahat" data-source="post: 2690605" data-attributes="member: 155453">Calories are only important if they come from a food we can actually use. When we have pre or T2, our insulin is not as effective as it should be. Just how much it's broken is a very individual thing, which is why some can eat more carbohydrates than others.Insulins job is to take glucose out of our blood and either feed it to our cells, or store it away as fat when our cells don't want It or can't use It because we are resistant to our insulin.It also stops our bodies from using fat, It would be pointless to store fat and use It as the same time. So back to calories, if we were to eat say 500 calories worth of carbohydrates, depending on how insulin resistant we are our cells are not going to get 500 calories worth of energy. Maybe we only get the benefit of 300 calories the other 200 getting stored away as fat , that means we are 200cals short of a full dinner and a little bit fatter.Now let's imagine the same 500 calories from protein and fats. No rise in blood sugar so very little insulin for our bodies to be resistant to, the whole 500 calories can feed our cells , we get to use all of our dinner. And of course no insulin to turn off fat burning, so if our bodies need more than the 500cal it can just take a little fat out of storage.For many of us weight gain is a symptom of insulin resistance, not the cause. So weight loss, however desirable is not the easy fix people often think.</blockquote>

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