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Pittsburg, Kansas | The health benefits showed up quickly. The weight loss over about 9 months. Off insulin shots in two weeks and actually that would have been a single week but the first week we only cut our carbs in half. I had to cut my insulin shots in half that week. The next week we went full low carb with no more than 20 total grams carbs per day and I had to stop all my insulin shots because of going hypoglycemic danger (the dangerous part for an insulin dependent diabetic and why most people should NOT do what I did if they are using insulin shots or even some diabetic drugs without medical supervision. I had been adjusting my own insulin levels for so many years I had no problem. But it could be dangerous if a person is not monitoring and does not understand what they are doing). Knee pain cut down in two weeks. Went totally away in about a month. I might have lost 20 pounds by then. The health improvements came first, the weight loss over time.
The only time I really tried to lose some weight had to do with my diabetes and I did try the Atkins diet for a couple months. It worked. At that time I was only taking diebetes medication, no insulin. The diet worked. But I was actively farming then with three small kids and life got in the way. Pizza, candy bars, pop and all the other adictive troublesome stuff was just too much for me to resist. I fell off the wagon. Was following my doctors advice though. If your blood sugar is running too high, adjust insulin up 3 units at a time till it stabilizes. And I did. When I first started using insulin therapy I think I was using three units a DAY once a day. Over a period of 20-25 years it just creeped up. It became a shot before each meal. Then a shot of long lasting insulin at night before bedtime.
Insulin, among many other uses by the body, is a fat storage hormone. I did not know it at the time but when a person goes on insulin shots the average fairly short term weight gain is 25 pounds. I was right there within a year. Three pounds of weight gain a year over 30 years is 90 pounds.
So my answer is no. Other than that one time I did not really attempt weight loss by any means.
My wife now is a completely different story. She tried weight loss numerous times. Usually with some girl friends she would do Weight Watchers mostly but also just eating food restriction. She would lose weight as long as long as she stayed strictly on the protgram. Reducing nutrients enough works, no argument. But at some point she always fell off the wagon, gaining everything back plus a few extra pounds over the years each time. She has stuck with low carb for almost 6 years now. Why does it work where other calorie restriction diets failed???? Satiety. We have NEVER restricted how much we eat of zero carb foods (we do of some low and medium carb foods including deserts). We NEVER go hungry, instead eating all we want. Meat, especially fatty meat, provides a very high level of satiety. I give that the entire reason why low carb worked for us. We never have to feel like we are "starving" like calorie restriction diets do, or at least they did with my wife. She was always hungry when on those diets and waiting till she could have the next food. With her (and me) hunger always eventually would win.
She could overcome it with sheer willpower for a while, maybe a month or two. But hunger eventually would win out and she would fall off the wagon.
Now we usually eat two meals a day. Mostly because that is all we are hungry. We always eat all we want (of the zero carb portion) at meals. We eat to satiety. Never stopping till we are satisfied. I think that is the key to our success and the reason calorie restriction failed.
Edited by John Burns 12/14/2024 17:48
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