Recently diagnosed and confused

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Whoa I didn't know that. Thanks! I remember her explaining to me that I've gained a lot of weight in a short period of time and that insulin and glucose (I think) go hand in hand. She talked about how my body isn't recognizing something (forgot) and that I'm storing fat because it thinks I'm starving myself and so I am eating more. I honestly don't know. I was just fascinated with what a tube of blood can show you. She talked a lot and I couldn't process it all. I hate asking her to repeat it. I get embarrassed. Anyways, I appreciate the explanation. I feel like I'm in science like class today with all I am learning today.

The thing to understand is that you did not get high insulin because you got fat because you ate too much. It was completely the other way round.

Instead what happened is that the content of your diet became unbalanced because you ate too high a proportion of processed food and too much stuff made with sugar , refined flour and vegetable oil in it. You may not have been "overeating " per se just eating the wrong stuff.

That in turn spiked your blood glucose, your body then made much more insulin (which is uses to dissipate the glucose) than it should because your body finds it hard to process these foods.

Because this spiked your insulin, as the insulin does its job it causes your blood sugar to drop precipitously, This then causes your blood sugar to overshoot. At that point your blood sugar goes too low and your body doesn't like that either , so it sends out " hungry " signals to eat some more to bring the glucose back up.

At that point the whole cycle starts again and before you know it you start putting on weight. Made even worse because you find yourself snacking between meals because of the hunger pangs.

Currently the official advice is to " eat less fat", so you buy low fat foods. This advice is totally wrong, because actually low fat foods cause your blood glucose to rise even more than ordinary processed foods and the merry-go-round just gets faster.

What you will learn here is that NATURAL FATS - i.e. those found in for example, meat, fatty fish, avocados, butter, cream, full fat dairy, lard, duck fat , nuts and seeds - DO NOT SPIKE INSULIN.

Therefore the correct diet to resolve your problem is simply to eat a REAL FOOD diet which will be naturally high in NATURAL FATS. ( ie not the omega 6 vegetable oils found in processed foods)

If you remove processed foods from your diet, and add in these foods, the whole system will calm down very quickly, your insulin levels will start to go down and you in turn will lose weight.

It seems utterly counter -intuitive, but there are dozens of people on here that do precisely that and it works. I have a blood sugar monitor that measures my blood sugar every five minutes so I can see exactly what is happening when I eat. My young friend wore it for a few days for me last week. She is not diabetic, or even much overweight, her body was reacting JUST LIKE MINE. I was diagnosed as a SEVERE diabetic last year. I adopted this way of eating, lost 25kg and now have nearly normal blood sugars and insulin.

I cannot recommend strongly enough that this is wake up call for you to make the changes suggested- Dietdoctor.com has lots of ordinary non diabetic people also losing weight from this method of eating. if you adopt it, then the chances are within 3 months your doctor will be astonished at the change in you.

I personally refused all the medication and instead just use this diet. Good luck !