Anyone with an IR here?

MalwaSiem

Hi guys,
Is anyone using the app to help managing their insuline resistance? What do you focus on calories or macros? What about water intake? I’m in Central Europe and my dietican said I need at least 2liters of water per day.
Any tips appreciated

DFW_Tom

Using MFP's App, or daily tracking calories and macros on your own is always a good idea, as is drinking plenty of water. Whatever way you manage your way of eating, for insulin resistance you need to give your pancreas and liver a chance to recover by consuming healthy, low glycemic, whole foods that flatten out the insulin spikes and crashes that come with IR. Stay away from ultra processed foods. Depending on how bad the IR is, lowering carbohydrate intake (especially simple sugars and fructose) as much as possible reduces cravings and helps healing. Hopefully your dietician is able to point you in the right direction on exactly what you should and should not be eating to meet your needs. If not, there is a lot of good information out there on reducing/reversing insulin resistance that is worth the effort to look up.

neanderthin

What Tom said. I'm low carb and that strategy in unapologetic in the removal of most sugar sources and of course a low carb diet is for all intents and purpose a whole food diet.

https://lipidworld.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-511X-10-20

Human and animal studies have demonstrated that high dietary fructose intake positively correlates with increased dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension. Metabolism of fructose occurs primarily in the liver and high fructose flux leads to enhanced hepatic triglyceride accumulation (hepatic steatosis). This results in impaired glucose and lipid metabolism and increased proinflammatory cytokine expression.

Low carb will directly effect the accumulation of trigs and for example my trigs before my intervention to lose weight was around 180, now they're hovering in the 40's. Low carb also increase HDL and it's this relationship of HDL to Triclycerides that on a population level indicate basic metabolic health. People that express metabolic syndrome will generally have a disordered carbohydrate and lipid metabolism with low HDL and high trigs and again low carb addresses this quite effectively. The removal of UPF and consuming a whole food diet would be very effective as well, just get the added sugars out. Cheers

PeachHibiscus

I use MFP to help manage my type 2 diabetes. Tracking my food with MFP has been successful and I now have normal A1C and blood glucose readings. I've also lost weight, which is a benefit for T2D.

I focus on both macros and calories because I can easily eat more than I should. Anyone who would tell me I won't gain weight on low carb or keto has never seen how much cheese or seafood I can put away at a single sitting. It's easy to forget, or not keep track of, what I eat if I'm accounting for it. It's also easier to be in denial of how much I eat if I don't list it out and count it up. I'd say MFP has been really helpful to me.

queenbea77

PeachHibiscus wrote: »

I use MFP to help manage my type 2 diabetes. Tracking my food with MFP has been successful and I now have normal A1C and blood glucose readings. I've also lost weight, which is a benefit for T2D.

I focus on both macros and calories because I can easily eat more than I should. Anyone who would tell me I won't gain weight on low carb or keto has never seen how much cheese or seafood I can put away at a single sitting. It's easy to forget, or not keep track of, what I eat if I'm accounting for it. It's also easier to be in denial of how much I eat if I don't list it out and count it up. I'd say MFP has been really helpful to me.

Are you using the calories/macros given by MFP or using a different calculator?

PeachHibiscus

Hi @queenbea77. I use the calories given by MFP but then change the macro percentage to 30 carbs, 30 protein, 40 fat. MFP defaults it at 50% carbs.