Type 2 +adding Conditions And No Weightloss

carol43 said:

I supplement with T3 that I have to buy abroad. The GP in the practice was on board with me doing this and told me 'well done on helping yourself'

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Oldvatr said:

One thing I have learn from being diabetic. is that our bodies filter out and remove excess glucose (especially in the early hours of the morning) We also exhale and perspire ketones. Both of these are energy sources that our food gets converted into and is used to supply our daily needs. We also excrete excess fat in the form of bile, and we have mechanisms in place to control the digestion of carbs and fats as a basic control mechanism. Metformin uses one of these principles as does XLS fat reducer pills. Dietary fibre also mops up some of the excess and packges it neatly into stools for expulsion. So the energy in / energy out equation does not often hold true due to interactions and variations in all these processes.

We also have mechanisms for storing energy in various parts of the body for later use, and in non diabetic people this process is automatic and does not lead to obesity. There are two types of fat store in the body - muscle and skin (mitochondrial storage) and in special fat cells (adipose tissue) but the contents of each is different, so when we say we use a diet to lose weight by calorie restriction, it is usually only the glucogen stores (glucose+ water) in the mitochondria that gets removed, The adipose tissue fat is much, much harder to remove. It requires severe restriction to remove this fat such as prolonged fasting or the Newcastle 800 cal diet regime to start on that. So most weight loss diets are just removing the small glucose stores by eliminating mainly water, and this is easy to put back on when the diet stops, or, as explained by others, the metabolism slows down to compensate. We all know that love handles and beer gut are the last things to go and these are the adipose tissue stores.

As this thread asks, yes there are many conditions other than diabetes that can affect weight gain/loss, and is why there is no one size fits all remedy. And many of us suffer more than just diabetes. Some have thyroid problems, others have heart or kidney conditions, and others may have IBS or other gastric problem to deal with. What we are learning on this forum is more about how carbohydrates operate in our personal ecosystem, and blood glucose measuring gives us insight into ways of measuring the effectiveness of a diet other than pure weight loss or before and after photos. We can see hour by hour day by day what effect our dietary choices are having on us, and for the first time on my life, this gives empowerment back to the people that matter, We now have choice!

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