Insulin resistance

[Farawayfromhere]

Is this a genuine reason for not being able to lose weight well? I was listening to a podcast and it makes so much sense. I know that my blood sugar is too high, although I’m not actually diabetic.
I have a slightly high BMI, but I’m just constantly hungry, tired & really, really struggle to shift even a pound when it used to be easy.
In my early 40s and probably peri-menopausal too

Interesting that it seems unclear which comes first - it may be a cycle

It's also clear that you can break the cycle with the right kind of diet that would probably make you feel much better too

In your situation I would
Cut the carbs

Yes I am not sure which comes first. Certainly I’m eating too much.

You are not fat because you have insulin resistance, but have insulin resistance because you are fat. You are eating more food than your body can handle.

Nobody puts on big amount of weight without metabolic consequences.

The insulin-carb model has been disproven by science again and again and again. It is only popular on social media or internet and usually the speakers somehow benefit financially from it by either ads on YouTube, books, memberships and so on.

Low carb, low fat, fasting, or whatever all come down in the end to eating less calories than previously. There is no magic in anything. For some low carb works really well, for others,

You want/need to lose weight, you need to eat less.

Food is not only calories, but evert bite has an impact on your health and metabolism (the way your body processed energy), so maybe be kind to your body, and pick food that is beneficial such as vegetables, fruits, legumes, whole grain and ditch all industrial food.

i follow dr mary claire haver on youtube/fb/tictok and she explains visceral fat and the vicious loop of insulin/corisol/grelin nicely and specifically women centric (perimenopausal and menopausal).

I was diagnosed as type 2 Diabetic in May.

I've been following low carb and my fasting blood glucose has dropped from 13 - 8 mmol/l and I have lost 7kg.

I'm taking metformin so it's not all diet.

My average glucose is now hovering around 7mmol/l.

OP

A friend of mine has kicked his diabetes into remission using a diet of shakes for a few weeks.

I think there is a lot to say for individualised diet. I got a free sample of a libre 2 so I could keep an eye on my glucose throughout the day.

Some surprises for me were that a banana spiked my sugar more than bread and that cauliflower cheese brought it down below 6.

I follow two rules, I eat protein for breakfast and I eat low carb.

I am eating less and I don't know if that is the metformin. I'm not hungry.

It might be worth getting a blood glucose meter to see what spikes your body.

www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html

That’s interesting. Where can I get one of these meters?

That’s interesting. Where can I get one of these meters?

You can get a blood glucose kit online or from most chemists for under £20. The flash monitor I used is about £50 and lasts for two weeks.

The flash monitor takes a measurement every 15 mins and you need to use an app on your phone to read the monitor. I got a free sample because I have a diagnosis.

www.freestylelibre.co.uk/libre/

Of course @sashh anyone with an abnormal glucose metabolism such as in diabetes type 2 has to adapt their diet to their metabolic disease.

You can't process carbs properly with type 2 diabetes, so you have to reduce them.

I am not actually fat- I exercise every day, averaging 14,000 k steps, have a BMI of 24.5, so on the borderline of normal/overweight, can run a half marathon in under 2 hours and resistance train 3x a week. I just weight significantly more than I have for most of my adult life.

The thing I have found so difficult over the last 2 years is that I have put on 2 stone and cannot shift it. I was studying for a masters on top of working and having young children and not enough sleep, and I feel that my hormones are all out of whack.

I am in my early 40s so I don’t know if it’s age, hormones or stress, but my metabolism is sluggish. A few years ago I could reduce what I ate for a couple of months and lose weight instantly. Not so now.