When I started taking medications for diabetes 17 years ago, I was willing to continue so for the rest of my life if I hadn't felt that this was either not working or the adverse effects were intolerable, so in essence my continued efforts did not stem from a sort of whimp or a leisure activity. I either had muscle ache, high blood pressure, sleep disorders, sexual ddysfunction, headaches, short breath or many other unbearable. Things were obviously not right I had to swing between options.
My weight loss did not
Improve my condition. I guess I am losing muscles faster than fat. I decided to attempt to regain some muscles before resuming fat loss. Having given it a lot of thinking, I decided to use long acting insulin only to meet my basal requirement which is enough to stop the liver from wasting muscles but not enough to add on new fat. I think this will allow me to regain the muscles over the period of many months while I will be keeping an eye on my waistline. I figured if my diabetes gradually deteriorated, then maybe the correct way to reverse it should also be gradual.
Previous attempts to rebuild muscles failed and I was always gaining fat faster than muscles with an evident bulging belly at even low weight. I figured that may be I should not worry about keeping my BGs in check and instead focus on rebuilding my muscles so that I may re attempt to use more fat in the future.
Actually, I did read before
That patients with protein deficiency need to gain weight gradually rather than rapidly.
Somehow I feel that maybe diabetes develops in two stages. The first one when the pancreas can provide basal insulin but partial bolus. In this case weight loss will definitely help when bolus production has matched the body's needs. The second stage when the pancreas fails to provide even for the basal needs leading for loss of mass over some period of time and bringing about adaptations that should be addressed before attempting to instantly correcting blood glucose level which, if wrongly attempted, would lead to undesirable fat gains.
One last note; I will never submit to diabetes as long as I live.
Thanks for your follow up.