Not eating enough?

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  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    Why are you avoiding carbs?

    Edited...I see that he answered right above. :)
  • SkinnyFatAlbert
    SkinnyFatAlbert Posts: 482 Member
    Cheese, especially cottage cheese which has a ton of protein, is a good calorie padding snack in between meals. Also, the more fat you have to lose the more calories you can get away with cutting without worrying about slowing your weight loss. With 160lbs left until your goal not hitting your calorie goal isn't the biggest deal as long as you're not flat out starving yourself.
  • jfournierdc
    jfournierdc Posts: 2
    This topic has been very helpful.. I too am a Type II Diabetic using MFP after a stroke left me paralyzed on my left side for over a week in July.

    My setting in MFP is 1540 daily but I too am below that even before the net of exercising daily for almost 2 hours walking jogging bike paths and I am now seeing that I have to bump this up. The good news is in doing this MFP now for 2 months, my Dr. office visit yesterday showed I have lost 14lbs ( he said try to loose 15 lbs to help control sugars better). My A1C was 5.7 and cholesterol is now normal at 76. Weight is 176 from 190 in August. Strange enough , I exercise daily but don't feel the dizziness but the stroke has residuals that keep my mind on alert anyways.

    Thanks Guys.
  • BradGarner85
    BradGarner85 Posts: 18 Member
    A big congratulations on the A1C. I dream on a 5.7 lol. My averages have in the last two months have come down from 350 fasting to 150 fasting so I am on the right track.
  • jfournierdc
    jfournierdc Posts: 2
    I was at a 12.1 a few years back and ignoring the meds and doctors.. But I actually turned it around at that point slowly and went to 190 lbs from 230 on my own with no meds.

    But the stroke was a big wake up call. I'm like the energizer bunny now for some reason, always thinking on the positive effect this is for everyone I know. Being immobile in a hospital bed for a week can change one's outlook on life.
  • BradGarner85
    BradGarner85 Posts: 18 Member
    I was at a 12.1 a few years back and ignoring the meds and doctors.. But I actually turned it around at that point slowly and went to 190 lbs from 230 on my own with no meds.

    But the stroke was a big wake up call. I'm like the energizer bunny now for some reason, always thinking on the positive effect this is for everyone I know. Being immobile in a hospital bed for a week can change one's outlook on life.





    My mother turned 60 last month. She has been a horrible diabetic for years. She had struggled for years and about 5 years ago she suffered a back injury and then a stroke. After the stroke things went downhill fast with the stroke it caused the inability to recover from the back injury. After that it seemed as if the cards were against her, one ministroke after another. We discovered last summer that she was stage 4 kidney disease and is now on dialysis three times a week. She was in an assisted living facility until the decided she was too much of a risk and asked her to leave. Thanks to our wonderful health care system she was ineligible to stay in a nursing home and was forced to go home to my 70 year old father, who can barely take of himself.

    Needless to say I have seen firsthand the devastation of diabetes, therefore that is the main reason I am taking on this weightloss journey full force. I do not want to put my children in the same situation someday.
  • AquabearGO
    AquabearGO Posts: 232 Member
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  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    I eat more then you and I don't eat junk. 1200 isn't enough for a grown man.

    :)

    How about smaller meals more often? I eat all damn day.

    If you're worried about sugar then first cut out all the foods with added sugar (check labels you'll be surprised what has added sugar in it.) If you're still not better then eat lower sugar fruits. (apples, oranges, grapefruits, plums, red grapes, prickly pears). You can eat more calories without the carbs if you eat tuna with your salads and double up on the fish, chicken, steak for dinner. It'll get you to a healthy calorie level and help control the diabetes. My grandmother had diabetes for years. When she moved in with us, we started cooking her healthy well balanced meals and guess what.. no more insulin. She doesn't have an issue anymore. Sometimes it really is just our food choices.


    Q: what is considered low carb for you?
  • sunshyncatra
    sunshyncatra Posts: 598 Member
    Eat higher calorie healthy food:

    -Whole eggs prepared with olive oil
    -avocados
    -nuts
    -dried fruit
    -string cheese
    -oatmeal
    -higher calorie fruit
    -nut butters
    -added olive oil to prepared foods

    Increase slowly to give your body time to get used to the increase.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Dude...you're a dude...you need to eat way more than 800 net calories...you're just asking for trouble there man.

    I lost 40 Lbs easily eating around 2100-2200 gross calories per day and netting around 1850. You need dietary fat...saute your veg in some heart healthy olive oil. Eat an apple and dip it in some nutritionally awesome peanut butter. Eat some avocado...put some full fat olive oil dressings on your salad. Basically, add fat to your diet...it is an essential macro-nutrient...it is essential to proper nutrition...and fat doesn't make you fat.

    If you look at studies of low fat/no fat diets, you will overwhelmingly find higher levels of heart disease and other medical issues. This is because when people cut "bad" fat, they also cut the "good" fat...those monunsaturated and polyunsaturated fats raise your HDL levels and protect you from heart disease and other junk.

    Saturated fats aren't necessarily "bad" either though I do keep mine generally below 25 g...but I don't go out of my way to avoid it. It helps regulate testosterone and is actually pretty important if you're working out, and particularly lifting.

    Edit: also, congrats on getting your glucose numbers down...I brought mine to normal through diet and exercise. I wasn't full blown diabetic yet, but pre-diabetic when I started...now everything is completely normal.
  • BradGarner85
    BradGarner85 Posts: 18 Member
    Dude...you're a dude...you need to eat way more than 800 net calories...you're just asking for trouble there man.

    I lost 40 Lbs easily eating around 2100-2200 gross calories per day and netting around 1850. You need dietary fat...saute your veg in some heart healthy olive oil. Eat an apple and dip it in some nutritionally awesome peanut butter. Eat some avocado...put some full fat olive oil dressings on your salad. Basically, add fat to your diet...it is an essential macro-nutrient...it is essential to proper nutrition...and fat doesn't make you fat.

    If you look at studies of low fat/no fat diets, you will overwhelmingly find higher levels of heart disease and other medical issues. This is because when people cut "bad" fat, they also cut the "good" fat...those monunsaturated and polyunsaturated fats raise your HDL levels and protect you from heart disease and other junk.

    Saturated fats aren't necessarily "bad" either though I do keep mine generally below 25 g...but I don't go out of my way to avoid it. It helps regulate testosterone and is actually pretty important if you're working out, and particularly lifting.

    Edit: also, congrats on getting your glucose numbers down...I brought mine to normal through diet and exercise. I wasn't full blown diabetic yet, but pre-diabetic when I started...now everything is completely normal.





    Thanks I will for sure do that.

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