First time posting here. I’ve read the diabetes code twice and I think it’s the best explanation of diet and diabetes I’ve come across.
My prior attempt at getting my diabetes and weight under control was Whole Foods Plant Based. It worked for a long time, but it couldn’t keep the diabetes from getting worse and any slip on the diet was a slip towards carbs. After five years, it became unmanageable. I switched teams in July and my glucose snapped right under control. Low carb worked surprisingly well.
I’m an overeater. Even on a diet, I will eventually tend towards the richer foods allowed. The foods on the richer side of low carb (red meat, cheese, oil, butter) still scare me. I look down at my plate and feel like although my glucose is improving, I am eating myself into another clogged artery (I already have one stented). I can’t shake this feeling and it is really affecting my performance on the diet. I’ll start limiting those rich foods and I find myself falling into unmanaged hunger which always results in eating something horrible.
Is anyone else struggling with the stigma of fat causing heart disease?
I am not worried anymore because I OMAD a lot basically. I love to eat, while I tend to do well eating healthy and home cooked, I also love pizza and wings and all the other shit that “will kill you”. But really, just give your body lots of time to digest food, eat LCHF most of the time and try to OMAD at least half the week. My week for example has been strict OMAD every day this week eating stew, soups, pizza, some sandwhiches and a few chocolates left over from halloween but always within an hour window at the end of the day.
One thing that is not talked about much is the difference between visceral fat and subcutaneous fat. I am not an expert, but in my travels of learning about this stuff it breaks down pretty simply. Sugar/ Glucose and fat/ ketones are what we run on. If we have excess sugar and insulin, we store it as visceral fat which is the shit that clogs organs and soft tissue (very bad and you cannot see it, the term skinny fat is used for people that have bad organs but are not “fat” in the traditional sense). Also if you have high insulin you cannot use consumed fat, so it gets stores in the subcutaneous (normal body fat, the jiggly shit you can see).
Either way, you have to lower your insulin to baseline before you can burn either off. This is where fasting wins over all diets. If you simply do not eat, after about 12 hours you have no insulin left and then you start using the fat inside you. You will use the visceral fat up quickly while fasted and you will start using some body fat. After you have baselines your insulin and your body is used to using ketones, you should be clear of heart disease from diet. If you want some links I can take a look, sources include Dr Fung, Thomas Delalur, Ben Bickman, Rhonda Patrick, Sachin Panda and a whole host of other people who have interviewed about the subject. Dr Timothy Noakes from South Africa is a good example of someone who was skinny fat and had to prove the LCHF diet was not only viable, but safer and better than a high carb diet.
Why OMAD works for me is I have no control once I start eating. I can not eat fine, but once that first bite happens, I want to keep going until fully satisfied. My life, health, energy, sleep… literally everything feels great since I stared, and my Dr is much less worried about me now than 10 years ago, I just saw him last week!
No. I’ve been reading a lot and keeping up on message boards etc. most, if not ALL of the research I’m seeing says that the diet is the least thing responsible or cholesterol. One study even showed the people with higher cholesterol lived longer! Also, many, many people show that their numbers actually show improvement after being on a low carb diet - their triglycerides go down, their HDL goes up…
Get you numbers checked. Then get them checked again in about a year. Read, read, read. The more I read, the better I feel about the diet.
I just listened to episode 65 of “Low Carb MD Podcast” where they had Dr Robert Cywes on and he talked at great length about how healthy cholesterol is turned into the artery hardening cholesterol and what causes that. Please give the episode a listen. Also, episode 10. Both of those will really help you understand why lchf is the healthier way of eating. They also have Jason Fung on talking about recent studies but I haven’t listened to that episode yet.
Have you heard about K2 (taking it with D3)? You can get it in diet or supplementation. K2 addresses exactly your concern. Check this MD talking about it and the some of his other videos on K2.
edit: The comment section is worth a read.
My uncle had cured his chronic diabetes naturally. Firstly he was on medication as prescribed by a doctor, But after some dosage, he felt stomach problems. and he has to stop the medicines. Then he decided to cure it through cow urine therapy as it was an ayurvedic therapy, and within a time of 8 months, he got relief from it.