Sugar addiction and being diabetic

Yeah that was me over a dozen years ago, and I had enough research under my belt at the time to surmise that elevated blood glucose is only achieved by consuming sugars, which all carbs are fundamentally. I was insulin resistant and had other health issues as well at that time. I also had an unrealistic attraction to desserts, donuts, cakes, ice cream, sugary drinks, you name it, I was all over it.

I knew I had to reduce my sugars, which I tried for a while but it really didn't work at first but stuck with it and then I lost the desire for sugar altogether within about 10 days and felt satiated (not hungry) and generally never hungry by reducing my carbs to under 100g's and eventually started keto. It's been a decade and I maintain fairly easily and I don't count calories and most on low carb don't, there's really no need to do that, it's not always the case but it's rare if you do have to.

The down side is any plant material that are consumed are generally vegetables, avocado, nuts, seeds and berries and protein is pretty much animal based and it's also a whole food diet, so it's basically a double edged sword for the vast majority by not only being a whole food diet where all the refined carbs, packaged foods, most fast food is a no go and of course the reduction in carbs is probably the bigger one, where again the vast majority of the population is pretty much addicted to refined carbs and sugary desserts, where they would never considered doing a low carb diet, with a plethora of reasons but it's really the fact they can't give them up, they actually are "addicted". Just ask those people to do a ketogenic diet for 60 days, and the excuses and reasons why they can't is quite telling and they tend to get emotional as well and really, what's so hard about changing the way you eat for 60 days, it's shouldn't be, but they make it sound life threatening, crazy and I've seen this time and time again.

So if you haven't figured it out yet, I'm suggesting if you have diabetes that reducing carbs to very low levels will reverse diabetes for the vast majority of people, of course that depends on other health issues and whether your on medication or not or taking insulin injections etc, so talk with your doctor about and dietary change and most Doctors in the last few years are quite accepting that a low carb diet of some description is a good strategy.

An alternative strategy would be to consume a whole food diet and just because descriptors are helpful to mentally visualize I suggest a Mediterranean type diet and I would also suggest with what ever dietary strategy you implement that you if your not, start to move more in the form of walking, running, weight training, a sport long forgotten maybe and it's because exercise has a positive effect on our insulin sensitivity which is actually vital in reducing and reversing diabetes and it's the reason why whole foods and omitting carbs work as well, it pretty basic physiology. Good luck with what ever you do.

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