Larger than ever and looking for support

You know what you "need" to do, so I'm not going to tell you what to do. I will tell you what has been working for me. I started tracking everything I was eating. I didn't worry about weight loss in the beginning. Track every bite for at least 1 week, including at least 1 weekend. Then I set my calorie deficit to lose 1 lb a week, but I don't worry too much if I'm a little over on a day. I looked at my food intake and decided to eat an extra serving of fruit or veg with every meal because to my surprise I wasn't eating as much fruit and veg as I thought I was. At about the same time, I was given a fitbit as a gift. I wore it for a week without any changes to get a baseline. There's a function to give you an alert to get up and move every hour, so I set it, and I did. With those 2 changes, I lost 7 lbs in about 6 weeks. I've made other changes since then. I've lost 25 lbs so far by making changes I can live with. Good luck, feel free to add me if you would like.

Please add me! We can help each other

A ketogenic diet may be able to help. There are results posted on the NIH website which show that 81 percent of type 2 diabetes patients who completed a study on the effects of a keto diet either lowered or got off of their diabetes meds altogether. For many people, it helps curb the food cravings, myself included. There were other studies posted on the National Institute of Health website that show that the keto diet helped fight and reduce tumor size with certain types of cancer. I could never eat much less than 2500 calories without thinking about food all day, but since I started the keto thing about two months ago, I rarely exceed 1700 calories in a day. My food cravings are gone, and I have lost about 30 pounds in the last couple months, and all I have done is change my macros. My activity level is sedentary as of now. I've seen other folks here who have tried keto. Some swear by it while others say it didn't work so well for them, they still gave in. For me, it has made it effortless to eat about half the calories I used to. In the end, the only way to lose weight is through a caloric deficit, but keto helps a lot of people by reducing or ending food cravings. It also causes you to burn stored fat as fuel (assuming you are in a caloric deficit) whereas a high carb diet can set your blood glucose and insulin release on a roller-coaster ride. You eat carbs, which spikes your blood sugar, which lead to an insulin release, which causes your blood sugar to drop, which ends up in food cravings. Of course, you know what happens next, and willpower only takes you so far. If your doctor has said you may be diabetic, then it is type two which is caused by insulin resistance. Your cells are stimulated by insulin to absorb glucose from your blood. In time many people will become more and more insulin resistant until their pancreas is no longer able to keep with the demand. By the time you are taking insulin prescribed by your doctor you have diabetes. If your doctor has tested your blood sugar and it has shown above 200 mg/dL, then it indicates diabetes, but depending on the type of test they gave it may require an additional test to verify the diagnosis. They may also test your a1c which will show the average blood sugar you have had over the last three months. If you do have diabetes then you will be advised to cut carbs anyway and since keto is low carb (5-10% of your caloric intake) this may be just what you need to get a jump on things. I have written on diabetes, and I am currently writing on the benefits of keto, so if you want to know anything you can hit me up and I'll be more than happy to help you if I can. Hope things pick up for you soon!

mysteps2beauty wrote: »

@sgtx81 this is not meant as a criticism more as a way we can enjoy the information you give. I could not read your post...it looks like one big run on sentence. Sorry. Can you hit the enter button after 3 or 4 sentences. It would make it enjoyable to read.

Sorry, not used to commenting on sites where the enter button does anything but post your comment. Here...

A ketogenic diet may be able to help. There are results posted on the NIH website which show that 81 percent of type 2 diabetes patients who completed a study on the effects of a keto diet either lowered or got off of their diabetes meds altogether. For many people, it helps curb the food cravings, myself included.

There were other studies posted on the National Institute of Health website that show that the keto diet helped fight and reduce tumor size with certain types of cancer.

I could never eat much less than 2500 calories without thinking about food all day, but since I started the keto thing about two months ago, I rarely exceed 1700 calories in a day. My food cravings are gone, and I have lost about 30 pounds in the last couple months, and all I have done is change my macros. My activity level is sedentary as of now.

I've seen other folks here who have tried keto. Some swear by it while others say it didn't work so well for them, they still gave in. For me, it has made it effortless to eat about half the calories I used to.

In the end, the only way to lose weight is through a caloric deficit, but keto helps a lot of people by reducing or ending food cravings. It also causes you to burn stored fat as fuel (assuming you are in a caloric deficit) whereas a high carb diet can set your blood glucose and insulin release on a roller-coaster ride. You eat carbs, which spikes your blood sugar, which lead to an insulin release, which causes your blood sugar to drop, which ends up in food cravings. Of course, you know what happens next, and willpower only takes you so far.

If your doctor has said you may be diabetic, then it is type-two which is caused by insulin resistance. Your cells are stimulated by insulin to absorb glucose from your blood. In time many people will become more and more insulin resistant until their pancreas is no longer able to keep with the demand.

By the time you are taking insulin prescribed by your doctor you have diabetes. If your doctor has tested your blood sugar and it has shown above 200 mg/dL, then it indicates diabetes, but depending on the type of test they gave it may require an additional test to verify the diagnosis. They may also test your a1c which will show the average blood sugar you have had over the last three months.

If you do have diabetes then you will be advised to cut carbs anyway and since keto is low carb (5-10% of your caloric intake) this may be just what you need to get a jump on things. I have written on diabetes, and I am currently writing on the benefits of keto, so if you want to know anything you can hit me up and I'll be more than happy to help you if I can. Hope things pick up for you soon!