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Why am I not losing weight or improving bg?


You may not need help with losing weight, but your history of gaining and losing indicates that maybe you need help with maintaining weight so you dont need to keep dieting.

I will add that I find your comment about using a crutch rather insulting. I do not agree that people have been smug. They have been confident in their choices, because it worked for them. But they have also stressed that you need to test and find out your own path, using their experiences freely as suggestions for things you could try while finding your own path.
 
Would any of the more established members be too cross with me if I mentioned that I didn't particularly like what I was being told about managing diet and BG at the beginning? I thought at that time that some of you were barking!
My bad.
I did reflect on the advice, and read more, and apply before pooh poohing it though. Hope that I redeemed myself.
 
Guess I was lucky @Pipp .... got the initial advice from those far more experienced than yours truly (and they know who they are) asked what I thought were the right questions, was happy to be corrected, tried it out and it worked. Paramount to me above all was reading their posts, not simply to me, but to others. Consistent, kind, encouraging and friendly and that taught me to trust advice I'd never have found anywhere else.
 
I was defensive at first, and it came out in some of my early posts. I really dug my heels in about testing and relinquishing bread, and it took me ages to convert back to butter from the plastic spreads I thought were so good for me. I capitulated over the meter, and through doing that realised I had to give up eating my normal quantities of bread. I then listened, learnt from those who had bought the T-shirt, and I have never looked back. I have been so grateful for all the support I got that I have stayed here, to keep learning and also to help the newly diagnosed.

Maybe I am a little smug, but if so I feel I have earned the right to be as it has been a long hard slog over the last 2 years to get my weight off then sustain it, get my cholesterol to ideal levels, and most of all my BS levels right down. I got there in the end and now it is no longer a hard slog. It's easy and enjoyable. This is all thanks to the good folk on this forum, smug or not.
 
You make an important point @miked, that I did overlook in the beginning. That is that although the answers to my questions were addressed to me, they are for a much wider audience, as so many more read than post here. That is why we should not see information as being for our exclusive perusal.
 
My Nan used to have a saying for most things, one was "there's none so deaf as those who chose not to listen".....
 
Great job! Fantastic menu. I'm still waiting for my dinner invitation. Lol
 
debbiedoodles said:
What do you eat on fasting days please?
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I have normal breakfast and lunch...then skip dinner for 2 nights in a row...do this again the following week.
Fasting glucose comes down to around 5.0-5.5mmol after a couple of times. And the fasting numbers stays there...

It would creep back up if I often return to high carbs dinner...but repeat the process and it comes down again. Not on any medication.

I tend to avoid high carbs meals now even though the numbers will still be in good range, ~ 7.0mmol postmeal, because it tends to triggers intense hunger after that.
 
Oh I'm so glad you said higher carbs make you feel hungry, I thought I was imagining this! I know when I got into hflc I wasn't hungry but didn't lose weight. I'm now starting low carb and lot less fat. Cutting out cheese and cream etc as need to lose some cals. Thanks for your reply
 

Try fasting! X


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kokhongw said:
Would the OP consider intermittent fasting?
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I am absolutely going to give fasting a go. I think I might try not eating after Eve meal until the following evening. I will test bs regularly thanks
 
I got my first FBG in fives yesterday after 6 days of IF. So it's doing something!

Give yourself a purple of weeks to really try it. It gets easier the more you do and saves a load of cooking!

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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
 
That's fab well done. Did you do 6 days of 8/16? I'm trying to decide the best approach. X
 
Kristin251 said:
Which fasting method did you use?
Great job!
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I'm doing alternate days of 24 hour fasts dinner to dinner x


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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
 
I tried 18/6 for two weeks a while back and it raised my bg and I didn't lose weight



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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
 
Debmcgee said:
I tried 18/6 for two weeks a while back and it raised my bg and I didn't lose weight



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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
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Yeah. I did 16/8 for 6 months or so. Liked it. Got addicted to coffeencream. But it did nothing for bg or weight.
Am thinking that some of us need to upgrade to bigger calibre. Am giving 24hr fasts a go for 2 weeks, Mon/Wed/Fri, and seeing how it goes.

So far, IR reduction is fantastic, hunger is totally manageable, but don't know about any weight loss - although you can guarantee that my body will be the most resistant of any. It is just inevitable. lol.
 
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