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Type 2 Unable to lose weight

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Yellow05

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Hi,
I have been lurking on here on/off for a year..... thank you all for these wonderful advice, support etc.

I was diagnosed with type 2 end November 2015 and decided to retire from work. I read up all about my condition and took metformin for 1 month and then decided to abandon the meds. My blood pressure was also high 140/100 mmHg on diagnosis. My hba1c was 59 then. I love walking long distances and walked 1000 km in june 2016 when i retired. I lost 20 kg. My hba1c on return was 52. I declined all meds... After reading about LCHF, i decided to try the diet Feb 2018. I hv just returned from a 400 km walk and i lost 2 kg... my weight is static on 67 kg. I hv read on DietDoctor about people losing 50 kg but my weight has stayed static my hba1c is 46. BP 116/60 mmHg which has been my norm before my diagnosis. I have jz returned from the surgery and the nurse is flummoxed as to why my weight has not changed! Any ideas, folks?
 
Erm ok so you have lost 22kg and now weigh 67kg? Is that correct.
I have indeed lost 50kg BUT I started out at 145kg and now weigh 95kg
If you had lost 50kg you would now weigh 39kg would that be healthy for you?
I don't know what your final aim is but would say that you are doing extremely well.. are you eating enough?
Not eating enough can cause a slowing of the metabolism which is counterproductive to weight loss.
Also how low carb have you gone? What is your daily carb intake? This could also cause a stall.
 
Hi

I am female and 157cm in height soooo 67 kg is huge for me. I was 48 kg in my 20s/30s... would love to be about 55 kg or a little under. I am 61 years old.

Would be great if someone could offer some advice. I have taken no CHO intake since Feb 2018.

Any advice would be appreciated.
 
Yellow05 said:
Hi

I am female and 157cm in height soooo 67 kg is huge for me. I was 48 kg in my 20s/30s... would love to be about 55 kg or a little under. I am 61 years old.

Would be great if someone could offer some advice. I have taken no CHO intake since Feb 2018.

Any advice would be appreciated.
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Well 67 is a lot less than 89?
What do your meals look like on average?
When you say you have had no carbohydrate since Feb do you mean you have been following an animal produce only diet?
 
Nooooo... I do eat a lot of salad and cabbage as indicated in DietDoctor. I don’t eat the usual carbs - potatoes, rice, noodles, bread etc....
 
Yellow05 said:
Nooooo... I do eat a lot of salad and cabbage as indicated in DietDoctor. I don’t eat the usual carbs - potatoes, rice, noodles, bread etc....
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Do you record the amount of carbs? any idea what your daily intake is? Maybe you could cut back a little more and see if that helps? Are you having enough fat?
 
Noooo I am tooo busy planning my walks to record my dietary intake or my BS as a lot of people do on here... I jz eat what is advised in DietDoctor. .... vegetables above ground and LOTS of meat... soooo much sooo I smell of carnivores.
 
If you take a further look on DietDoctor there is a useful video on losing weight for post menopausal women.
Classic reasons why weight loss slows or stops can be extreme carb intolerance whereby you have to be very strict re carbs, eating too much protein thus causing some of the protein to turn to glucose in your body and as BulkBiker alludes to, not eating enough fat.
It may not be a linear path to continued fat loss but if your blood pressure and blood sugars are good (and they are) then perhaps you should be patient with the next stage however you sound frustrated perhaps because its been a big effort? The other thing is does this feel like a white knuckle diet ? I simply mean that if it feels hard then it is probably not sustainable for the time it will take you to lose that last 12 kgs to get to the 55kg mark which will then have to be sustained on a lower metabolism. Whatever you do next has got to be a way of eating and moving that can be sustained.
Another obvious thought is the role of exercise. Not to burn calories as such but to signal to your body that it can burn fat at a higher rate and such that your body needs less insulin. Can you find reasons to walk, cycle more or run up and down the stairs/dig the garden a few times each day?
 
I would heartily suggest weighing and recording for a limited period .. say 1 month. Also measuring your sugars will give you a far better idea of what is happening with you. if you really want to get on top of it then data is power. You might see some interesting results.
 
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Yellow05 said:
Hi,
I have been lurking on here on/off for a year..... thank you all for these wonderful advice, support etc.

I was diagnosed with type 2 end November 2015 and decided to retire from work. I read up all about my condition and took metformin for 1 month and then decided to abandon the meds. My blood pressure was also high 140/100 mmHg on diagnosis. My hba1c was 59 then. I love walking long distances and walked 1000 km in june 2016 when i retired. I lost 20 kg. My hba1c on return was 52. I declined all meds... After reading about LCHF, i decided to try the diet Feb 2018. I hv just returned from a 400 km walk and i lost 2 kg... my weight is static on 67 kg. I hv read on DietDoctor about people losing 50 kg but my weight has stayed static my hba1c is 46. BP 116/60 mmHg which has been my norm before my diagnosis. I have jz returned from the surgery and the nurse is flummoxed as to why my weight has not changed! Any ideas, folks?
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Ummm......your Blood Glucose is now fine, your Blood Pressure is now fine, and you are fit and active.

It seems to me that your current weight is a minor issue as the major factors seem to be sorted.

Your latest walking expedition doesn't seem to have taken off much weight, but the LCHF seems to have improved your HbA1c from 52 to 46. So I wouldn't worry too much about your current weight as long as you stick to the eating plan and keep up the exercise.

I would suggest that the initial 20 kg you lost was probably useless baggage that you were carrying around and it went quite quickly. Now you are down to a weight where your eating and your exercise are more or less matching so your weight has stabilised.

I am sure you are aware that when you exercise a lot you tend to eat more. If you are serious about losing further weight then you need to record how much you are eating each day, and what. I am not sure why you are making excuses about being too busy; do you not want to know how much you eat in case you have to cut back?

Try recording what you eat for a week and share it with us. Even one day would help a lot.
 
Hi, sounds like your walking and retirement is suiting you marvellously. :D And well done on the weight loss so far!

Are you following the Dietdoctor meal plans?
Because they give portion sizes for everything - including meat. Down to the number of grams per portion - and it is very easy to serve yourself a bit more...

When I did the DD eating for several months, I was quite amused by the actual size of the protein portions they advised.
- they didn't seem very big at all, and were less than I had been eating previously. Especially the protein.
It made me realise that I had been eating much more than my body needed.

Something else to bear in mind is that the DD meal plans do not distinguish between men and women and activity levels.
Effectively, they suggest the same portion size for a large man as for a small woman - so maybe you are eating larger protein and portion sizes than your frame requires?

For me, on the DD plan, at 169cm tall, and a bigger frame than yours, I lost no weight at all on Diet Doctor eating.
I loved it.
I felt well on it.
I thought it was a great way to live.
But I didn't lose any weight - even when I dropped their breakfasts completely and went to 2 meals a day.
It certainly wasn't a weight loss plan for me, although I would happily use it as a maintenance plan, because the food was DELICIOUS!
 
Dear all

Thanks for your responses... I think I know where my problem is. After the various advice on here, I realised I was munching a bag of peanuts whilst cooking dinner! Sooo I guess I should not snack between meals... (I don’t normally hv peanuts!). But am going to keep a food diary for a week and audit my food intake.... and be more self aware of the snacks I should not be having, especially if not necessary! Whilst walking recently, the journey could be 30+ km with nowhere to stop and we hv had to bring some food wt us... but this is no excuse for greed!
 
Just a thought - muscle weighs heavier than fat. You sound extremely healthy, I wouldn't fret about the weight and just enjoy the life you lead.
 
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