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<blockquote data-quote="andcol" data-source="post: 1152855" data-attributes="member: 96315"><p>For me it was an eye opener and a life saver. It made me buck up my ideas and change! I am now recorded as in remission on my medical notes and have been in this state after the first few months from diagnosis. It has been hard work to break the insulin resistance and would have been so much easier just continuing but that is not my personality. </p><p></p><p>Having the insulin resistance is a pain. If you eat you go up, if you don't eat your liver releases constantly and you go up, if you exercise your liver releases and you go up. It is a balancing act between not raising your glucose levels too much so your pancreas can release enough insulin for your cells to eventually consume it and btw for some that isnt even a jelly baby! </p><p></p><p>This just gets worse because the more you have high insulin levels the more your pancreas breaks and the cycle gets worse. and....... now there is another dimension. The more insulin you have in your body the more fat you store. The more fat you store the more insulin resistance you get!</p><p></p><p>Oh and by the way lets also add that with the insulin resistance your muscles can't get the glucose they need so your brain is continually telling you to eat more because you are short of energy and more goes to the fat cells and the cycle goes round and round.</p><p></p><p>What is it like? Annoying and different from T1 but also the same in so many ways. T2s can really inject insulin to bring levels down as easily as a T1; it just drives the cycle more. It is all a vicious circle... You have to recognise the cycle and break a link to improve things. Some do it with changing food other with exercise and some with driving out the fat storage</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="andcol, post: 1152855, member: 96315"] For me it was an eye opener and a life saver. It made me buck up my ideas and change! I am now recorded as in remission on my medical notes and have been in this state after the first few months from diagnosis. It has been hard work to break the insulin resistance and would have been so much easier just continuing but that is not my personality. Having the insulin resistance is a pain. If you eat you go up, if you don't eat your liver releases constantly and you go up, if you exercise your liver releases and you go up. It is a balancing act between not raising your glucose levels too much so your pancreas can release enough insulin for your cells to eventually consume it and btw for some that isnt even a jelly baby! This just gets worse because the more you have high insulin levels the more your pancreas breaks and the cycle gets worse. and....... now there is another dimension. The more insulin you have in your body the more fat you store. The more fat you store the more insulin resistance you get! Oh and by the way lets also add that with the insulin resistance your muscles can't get the glucose they need so your brain is continually telling you to eat more because you are short of energy and more goes to the fat cells and the cycle goes round and round. What is it like? Annoying and different from T1 but also the same in so many ways. T2s can really inject insulin to bring levels down as easily as a T1; it just drives the cycle more. It is all a vicious circle... You have to recognise the cycle and break a link to improve things. Some do it with changing food other with exercise and some with driving out the fat storage Hope that helps [/QUOTE]
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