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No it's not a joke. You should be more worried about insulin resistance at your current weight than something that only exist in the land of goblins, trolls, and fairy tales.

Are you classified as a diabetic or just prediabetic? How you approach your diet will be different depending on your how bad it is. Doing this without medication means that you have to actively monitor your glucose levels after every meal that contains carbs. If at anytime your glucose spikes above 140, you're doing it…

My guess is that you are insulin resistant.

You might be insulin sensitive. Best way to find out is by doing an oral glucose tolerance test at your physicians office. It's cheaper and more accurate if you test at home though. A blood glucose kit is only 10 $ at walgreens. Test every 20 mins after you eat a high carb meal for two hours to see how your body reacts to…

Thanks for the link but I already know what it says but there is some misconceptions into the wording and the way some people understand it. It is possible for a prediabetic to manage their glucose levels to look like a normal person and that's what they mean by reversible, but what damage has already occurred in the body…

That's because your mom isn't eating cake, donuts, icecream, or candy. A truly normal person can eat those foods and never see a spike above 140 glucose. Give your mom cake and do a postmeal test exactly like they do at the doctors office and you will see a spike above 140, guarantee. Postmeal spikes should be tested every…

Once you become prediabetic, you are always prediabetic. All you can do is manage your condition in keeping your glucose levels low. You can never again eat carbs without seeing a postmeal spike above 140.

The very first thing you need to do is go out and buy a Blood Glucose meter to determine what spikes your blood glucose. Too many spikes will lead to Type 2 diabetes. I've posted below some numbers that you should be following with your Blood Glucose meter. My guidelines Under 120, after 1 hour after of eating from your…

No, I will not repeat after you. For 1/3 of the American population or 70 million people in the U.S., carbs are the enemy due to insulin resistance and insulin resistance is closely related to obesity. Problem is that people rarely get tested even though AMA guidelines recommend that everyone who has 30 pounds to lose…

Your ticker says you have over 100 pounds to lose. If that is the case, it is more important to find out how your body responds to carbs. A good amount of people with 100 pounds to lose do not respond to carbs well and eating too many carbs could destroy your metabolism and cause real harm to your body. You need to get a…

After reading your post again and noticing that you said that you're on Metiformin, I need to correct my statement about your Beta Cells being all dead. Beta cells make insulin and since Metiformin is working for you, some of your Beta cells are probably still alive and producing insulin but not enough of them are alive to…

No that's not acceptable. The doctor believes that 140 Glucose to be okay for you since you've already destroyed everything possible in the ranges of a fasted glucose level below 140. A fasting Glucose above 110 has been shown to destroy beta cells but you are a type 2 so your beta cells are probably all dead. If your keep…

You're doctor didn't tell you what to do? Probably just told you the standard AMA guideline advice I'm guessing and let you be on your way? The very first thing you need to do is stop by Walgreens and get a Blood Glucose Meter, and you will also need to buy an extra 100 strips. It's going to run you around 100 dollars.…

You are in excess of 100 pounds which means you are a morbidity obese or a class 3 obese individual, the highest the BMI chart goes for someone like you. Have you been to the doctor yet? Have you done a blood glucose test or A1C test? These test are extremely important in deciding what you should be eating, especially your…

Here is a good read from a well respectable man in the fitness industry. For those that don't have the time to read it, I'll do a brief summary. It basically says not everyone can handle a high carb diet and that some people respond better on low carbs when losing weight. Low carb diets should be followed up with high…

Okay, I guess I took the EPEEN comment too far after the facepalm comment. Hopefully, the OP gives us an update on what he decides to do to get back on topic.

Again, show how little you know and raising your EPEEN again. Everyone does get tested but it depend on your age. The guidelines are set by the AMA on when a doctor should perform a test. The OP has already stated that he noticed to be losing more weight on low carbs compared to high carbs, in addition to that, he is 30…

Most prediabetics show no visible symptoms and close 1/3 of the American population is estimated to be insulin resistant, or 70 million people but I understand your comment isn't here to help the OP, just to show how big your EPEEN is. Troll on, Troll.

You obviously don't know what's included in a single test kit. With one kit, you can test 10 times because it comes with 10 samples. Assuming that he screws up the test the first two times, he has 8 more to go. Edit: Was typing on phone so it put my response in the wrong place. .

The test is only 10 dollars and with it, he can 100% confirm if carbs are really holding him back.

There is a medical term for this. It's called insulin resistance or being prediabetic. When some people eat carbs, their insulin spikes and remains high for the rest of the day. High levels of insulin is well documented as stopping the fat burning process. There is a very cheap simple test you can do to determine if you…

If you're going to refuse Metaformin. You need to buy a blood glucose kit and follow the steps I mentioned above. You should also understand that if you are not a Type 2 diabetic yet, the average time to become one is 3 years after being diagnosed as insulin resistant or prediabetic. Some people manage to do it in 1 or 2…

No, you are morbidly obese. You want to be eating under your BMR. Go to any doctor or dietitian and they will give you a calorie goal under your BMR. That BMR nonsense is for people not the morbidly obese category. As for saggy skin, you will have some but you are young so the chances of it not being saggy after 2 years…

You have PCOS and you are 400 pounds which means the standard nutritional advice isn't going to cut it for you. A lot of women that have PCOS don't even understand how having it impacts your health and what you should eat. You need to get your nutritional information from a much better knowledgeable source than the…

Did you get your glucose levels checked? If you are insulin resistant, it makes losing weight harder since it's constantly spiking. Extremely low carbs if you are.

You're not suppose to eat exercise calories back under doctor's order and OP is likely in the obese category which is why 1k calories is better for her then losing weight at the slowest possible pace.

There are no benefits to being fat. You are going to spend many years in the hospital if you choose this path. .

Ahh I see. Congratulations on your newborn.

Metformin is a drug for diabetics and people at the high end of prediabetes which lead me to believe that you're insulin resistance. It's a drug that makes your insulin work like a normal person. Maybe it has other uses that I don't know about? Maybe you have been on the drug for a while before the A1C test? .

No it does not but 80% of women who have PCOS are insulin resistant, so your chances of being insulin resistant is high. Normally your doctor will want to do two separate test to confirm if you are prediabetic. They do a fasting glucose test and A1C. A1C measures your average glucose for the past 3 months which is how most…