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<blockquote data-quote="seadragon" data-source="post: 1234168" data-attributes="member: 195124"><p>In the UK I'd say a reason people don't stick to the diets they may be prescribed as 'diabetics' or pre diabetics, is because most doctors and practice nurses peddle the NHS eat well plate as a 'one size fits all' healthy eating regime. It's ridiculously high in carbs for a diabetic - it would have required me to eat more carbs than I ate before. I was told I must have starchy carbs at every meal. Of course they also wanted to give me drugs (which they get more practice money for prescribing).</p><p></p><p>I was not overweight on diagnosis so definitely agree that obesity is often a result of the diabetic or pre-diabetic condition, not a precursor to it. My mother is diabetic Type 2 at a little over 7.5 stone so not at all overweight. Having lost some weight (over a stone as a by product of the low carb high fat lifestyle), my 'carb intolerance' is unchanged, although I'm no longer technically pre-diabetic now.</p><p></p><p>I eat low carb - much less than 130g a day (I try to eat less than 50g) and have done for over a year now. I also eat high fat so I am fuelled by fat and am fitter and with better health markers (cholesterol/trigs/BP/HbA1c etc) than ever before. I have no trouble sticking to a low carb high fat diet as it has nice food and has let me reduce weight effortlessly without having to count calories or worry about portion size. I just eat til I'm full. Some days I stuff myself and other days hardly eat anything if I don't feel like it.</p><p></p><p>Another reason I imagine people don't stick to diets is because dieticians are still hung up on calorie control and portion size so people are expected to count calories or think about how much they eat - that gets real old real quick. By eating low carb high fat the body appears to self-regulate to a much greater extent. Carb cravings are gone so there is not the urgent hunger that insulin can set off and no carb roller coaster. Previously I would get very irritable if I didn't eat often whereas now i can go a whole day even with exercise too and not really bother to eat. The less you have to think about what you eat the less you think about eating and usually therefore you actually eat less as a result of not thinking about it.</p><p></p><p>If diets were less prescriptive they'd be easier to stick to and so the low carb high fat lifestyle wins on that aspect as you can eat what you want as long as it's low carb and you are eating plenty of fat and once you have done a bit of experimenting with a BG meter you know what range of foods you can eat and what to stay away from.</p><p></p><p>Carbs are most definitely not essential - I'd go so far as to say they can be positively harmful. Since giving up carbs and becoming fuelled by fat i haven't had even a cough of cold when all around me were going down like flies and several other minor health niggles have simply vanished. I think cutting carbs from the diet can cure more than just diabetes. The fewer carbs the happier and healthier I am.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seadragon, post: 1234168, member: 195124"] In the UK I'd say a reason people don't stick to the diets they may be prescribed as 'diabetics' or pre diabetics, is because most doctors and practice nurses peddle the NHS eat well plate as a 'one size fits all' healthy eating regime. It's ridiculously high in carbs for a diabetic - it would have required me to eat more carbs than I ate before. I was told I must have starchy carbs at every meal. Of course they also wanted to give me drugs (which they get more practice money for prescribing). I was not overweight on diagnosis so definitely agree that obesity is often a result of the diabetic or pre-diabetic condition, not a precursor to it. My mother is diabetic Type 2 at a little over 7.5 stone so not at all overweight. Having lost some weight (over a stone as a by product of the low carb high fat lifestyle), my 'carb intolerance' is unchanged, although I'm no longer technically pre-diabetic now. I eat low carb - much less than 130g a day (I try to eat less than 50g) and have done for over a year now. I also eat high fat so I am fuelled by fat and am fitter and with better health markers (cholesterol/trigs/BP/HbA1c etc) than ever before. I have no trouble sticking to a low carb high fat diet as it has nice food and has let me reduce weight effortlessly without having to count calories or worry about portion size. I just eat til I'm full. Some days I stuff myself and other days hardly eat anything if I don't feel like it. Another reason I imagine people don't stick to diets is because dieticians are still hung up on calorie control and portion size so people are expected to count calories or think about how much they eat - that gets real old real quick. By eating low carb high fat the body appears to self-regulate to a much greater extent. Carb cravings are gone so there is not the urgent hunger that insulin can set off and no carb roller coaster. Previously I would get very irritable if I didn't eat often whereas now i can go a whole day even with exercise too and not really bother to eat. The less you have to think about what you eat the less you think about eating and usually therefore you actually eat less as a result of not thinking about it. If diets were less prescriptive they'd be easier to stick to and so the low carb high fat lifestyle wins on that aspect as you can eat what you want as long as it's low carb and you are eating plenty of fat and once you have done a bit of experimenting with a BG meter you know what range of foods you can eat and what to stay away from. Carbs are most definitely not essential - I'd go so far as to say they can be positively harmful. Since giving up carbs and becoming fuelled by fat i haven't had even a cough of cold when all around me were going down like flies and several other minor health niggles have simply vanished. I think cutting carbs from the diet can cure more than just diabetes. The fewer carbs the happier and healthier I am. [/QUOTE]
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