I made a deal with my doctor..lose 50lbs or be placed on medication
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You've gotten good advice already, best of luck-- you will do great! Please keep us posted:)1
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I'd do the same thing. And it's completely doable in 6 months.1
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Doable.
Go for it! It is not an unreasonable amount to lose in 6 months!1 -
Wow, that is the EXACT deal I made with my doc in 2008 (the first time I did this). Well except hormonal imbalance, but for me it was blood sugar. He wanted to put me on metformin, and I asked him for a six month reprieve. Six months later I had lost 40 of the 50 pounds and my numbers were totally fine. This time, I'm a little less overweight but I know that if I let it go, I'll be facing meds again, something I'd like to avoid.
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I bet you can do it. Good luck.
In the meantime, consider using a low carb high fat (LCHF) diet to lower your blood glucose and insulin, and as a tool for weight loss. LCHF diets improve blood glucose even without weightloss so even if you don't hit your weight loss goal, chances are your blood glucose will have improved a great deal, if not normalized. http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007(14)00332-3/fulltext Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution is a GREAT guide for those with insulin resistance issues.
The Low Carber Daily group mentioned above have many members using LCHF to put diabetes into remission. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group
A good short lecture:
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I lost 50 lbs in 6 mo. I started at 214 and have 10-15 more to go. It CAN be done.3
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I'm also 5'7, started at 239 pounds, and I lost 21 pounds in about 3 months (and that's with me falling off the wagon for the last couple of weeks of August). That'd put my loss as a little slower than what you're needing to do, but I do believe a faster loss is possible! I work a sedentary job, eat around 1900 calories a day and exercise moderately about 2-3 hours a week (spread out over several days, that's like 20-30 mins a session). Heck, I even have days where I eat more calories than I should, because sometimes you just need the dang cheeseburger, lol! Clearly, there are ways I could make my loss faster: I could exercise a little more each day, I could cut my daily calories, etc. Hope that gives you some ideas of where to start! Good luck, you can do it!3
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