Weight Loss Thread

And that's the type of diabetes we are talking about. Type 1 is where your body simply doesn't produce insulin (or a completely negligible amount)

Type 2 is "adult onset" and is almost always self inflicted.

Dandai_sl said:

Right. I guess what you're fishing for is someone to say type 2 diabetes is more activity related than diet related. My ignorant conclusion is that that's correct, but I'm not a doctor. I know there are countless athletes who consume 300+ grams of carbs every day and are not type 2 diabetic.

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It's certainly not activity related. It's completely diet related. But it's not rice or bread, it's a combination of things, like eating bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches and having cheesecake everyday.

It's both and a little genetics

Also there's adult onset type 1, but it's rare

Dandai_sl said:

My problem with skipping a meal is that I'm aiming to eat about 168g of protein every day, and it's just not realistic to eat that in two meals (minus the little bit I get in my post workout shake).

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Uh, just drink 3 shakes... that'd be like ~350 calories for 100g protein.

Eidal_sl said:

Uh, just drink 3 shakes... that'd be like ~350 calories for 100g protein.

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Not all protein is created equally though. Can't just get it all from shakes and call it a day.

5'7" 100 lbs is pretty skinny dude, is he ok?

My doctor said basically there's a 25% chance any one of my kids would have it passed to them. That doesn't mean that if they hit it they're instantly diagnosed. It's just a gamble when you eat shitty and it runs in the family.

Am I out of shape too? Yes.

I don't know what will happen when I do get in shape. There is no "cure" for diabetes, although some have claimed to reverse it. We'll see, I guess.

I actually was diagnosed when I was in peak shape (lifting heavy 5x a week... eating heavy too)

Not sure why today is the day, but I went low carb today. I'm type 2 diabetic, and as of last blood analysis, my A1c's were 6.8, so technically pre-diabetic, but my blood sugars are still out of whack. 150 fasting? that's not good.

I HATE how fucked up my guts get taking Metformin, and had stopped for about 2 weeks. Oh how glorious it was to shit 2-3 times a day instead of 6-8 with diarehha. Oh well. Sacrifices, and hopefully with a very low carb diet my shits will improve.

Got back on MFP, and am tracking everything I eat. It's been tough, as I did this pretty abrupt, so my house is full of carbs. But I managed to do 3 eggs, cottage cheese, and bacon for breakfast (cottage cheese has way more carbs than I thought), and then chicken wings (no sauce, just lemon pepper seasoning) , and more cottage cheese for lunch.

Low carb Blue Monsters are out, and that might be the toughest, as I don't mind water, but I've become addicted to energy drinks. Going to look into nuts for snacks. Start thawing out the chicken and steaks we have in the freezer.

I can do this.

The stomach stuff with metformin usually passes after your body gets used to it. Took me about a month. Be glad that's all you take.

I take glimepiride and it makes me feel awful.

Why are you cutting out the monster? Has no carbs or sugar

Noodleface_sl said:

The stomach stuff with metformin usually passes after your body gets used to it. Took me about a month. Be glad that's all you take.

I take glimepiride and it makes me feel awful.

Why are you cutting out the monster? Has no carbs or sugar

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Well I might at least switch to the Monster Ultra's, which really do have no carbs or sugar. the "low-carb" Blue version still has 7 carbs per can. That's a lot when trying to stay under 20g per day! But it is my favorite kind, and for sanity, maybe I'll keep taking it.

As for Metformin, that's how it was when I first started taking it. Was about 5 days or so, and then I got better. I'm really banking that it's diet related, because I had issues with insurance, and ran out, so I was off it for about a week a few months back. Get back on it, and it's been really bad since. But I haven't been all that carb conscious either, so I'm hoping now that I'm back on it, and watching my diet/carbs, that it'll be fine.

So I have started getting on the elliptical. I am now up to 15 minutes, about 1 mile after my workout. How in the living fuck can these women who are like 300+ pounds stay on these machines an hour! I'm DEAD at 15 minutes.

Anyway...still at my same weight this week. 287. BUT I noticed that I am now down to the last hole in my belt!! Mauahahahahahhahaha! Bitches!

Just got back from the doctor, basically no good news. Weight went up again, I'm at the heaviest I've ever been; 250. I've always hung around 225 or slightly lower, but it's just shitty to see. Also had to put me on new meds because sugar wasn't lowering enough. I guess that's about as big of a wake-up call as you can get when you're told "next step is insulin"

Guess I gotta go pretty hardcore.