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First day

badbaddoggy
badbaddoggy Posts: 1 Member
in Introduce Yourself
Hi all I have been on a strict diet for the last 11 weeks which ends on Monday the 17th . It has been a purely liquid diet to lose weight and try and put my type 2 dietbetes into remission. It has been 1 hell of an emotional roller coaster which I am looking forward to finishing but also nervous. I've lost 25kg so far and am now at my goal but will need help and support to stay there so have joined this site.

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  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 630 Member
    Hello Bad.

    I am concerned that what you are doing isn't healthy so I hope you are doing this under the guidance of a doctor. It is much better to learn how to eat properly. I have diabetes. It can be managed by eating food. I am not sure that I will ever get rid of my medication but I have it under control by avoiding foods high i sugar and controlling the amount of food I eat in one setting.

    Please be careful and take care of yourself.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/147555-speak-friend-and-enter
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1772-type-2-diabetes-support-group
  • COGypsy
    COGypsy Posts: 1,405 Member
    I can't imagine how miserable it must have been to not have solid food for three months! An emotional roller coaster for sure! I had gastroparesis for about a year and a half and could only occasionally feel well enough to digest solid food, so I completely sympathize with how much you can miss actually chewing your fuel and the variety of solid food that just doesn't exist on a liquid diet. It really does mess with your mind. I'll echo the poster above and tell you I'm desperately hoping you had medical supervision.

    Either way, be aware that your scale weight is absolutely going to go up once you reintroduce solid food. It's only logical, right? Food has weight, you eat the food and that transfers the weight on your plate to weight in your body until the food erm...processes itself away. There can also be a lot of water weight shifts as your body starts absorbing water for the digestive process. Just keep in mind that it takes approximately 3500 calories to gain a pound. That's 3500 calories above your maintenance calories. If you haven't eaten that much, you haven't gained fat. A good rule of thumb is that weight that comes and goes quickly and in notable amounts is almost certainly nothing more than water weight. I'll reiterate--all of this is completely healthy and normal and it's what your body has to do to perform it's most basic functions.

    Other advice--if you haven't eaten solid food in a quarter of a year, start SLOWLY. Easy, gentle things like pasta and toast without too much butter. Eggs were a good starter food, I found. For me, fat and fiber took a long time to be friendly to my body. Almost 10 years later, I still have to be careful about how much of those I consume at one time. It will sound so delicious and healthy to have a salad or something like that, but don't (TRUST me!). Give it time.
  • mpleonard98
    mpleonard98 Posts: 1 Member
    Who told you not to eat solid food? Healthy eating is about balance and enjoying the food that is good for you. It's not about chasing extreme diets and cutting out entire food categories from your life. Have you ever worked with a nutrition coach?
  • patriciafoley1
    patriciafoley1 Posts: 212 Member
    I too was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (severe actually) and I have been on a 1200 (more or less) calorie diet since October, and lost 35 lbs. I haven't reversed my diabetes, but I have lowered my blood sugar and A1C some and hope to get back close to normal in another three months, with no drugs, just diet and exercise. I'm curious why you were recommended a liquid diet?

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