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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ianf0ster" data-source="post: 2649415" data-attributes="member: 506169">Hi [USER=581503]@StuartR[/USER] and a welcome to the forum from me.All (digestible) carbohydrates that humans eat digest into glucose (sugar) and thus tend to raise our Blood Glucose until/unless our Insulin rises enough to drive the glucose into muscles or fat cells. In Type 2 diabetics, this process takes longer than in 'healthy people'. It is slower because we suffer from Insulin resistance which means our cells resist this glucose because our fat cells are already overloaded. In slim Type 2's we don't have a lot of fat cells and so we tend to gain visceral fat (around our liver, pancreas and other organs). This disrupts the way those organs work, making the condition worse.So all that so-called 'healthy whole grains' lots of fruit 5 a Day and Low fat is only 'healthy for those who don't have Type 2 diabetes, obesity (or other similar condition. Instead we need to eat a lot less carbs than we are used to (carbs are the only non-essential macro nutrient) and if we are relatively slim  and just want to lose excess fat and not lean muscle mass, we need to eat more protein and more traditional fat (fats our grandparents used to eat when obesity and T2D was very much more rare -as was heart disease). Otherwise we will be in a calorie deficit.Here is a link to the blog entry which enabled me to be in T2D remission quite quickly and maintain it for years: <a href="https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html" target="_blank">https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html</a></blockquote>

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