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I am on a "low" carb diet under the direction of my Dr. She considers low to be 150 grams daily or less. I am pre-diabetic, with both glucose intolerance and insulin resistant. Ideally I try to stay at 100 grams or less per day. The guidelines I was given were to eat about 30 grams per meal and 10-15 grams per snack but to…

I'll ask my Dr to give me that info so I can link to it for you. <eyeroll> http:/sleepapnea.org/learn/sleep-apnea.html Here's a quote from that article "Untreated, sleep apnea can cause high blood pressure and other cardiovascular disease, memory problems, weight gain, impotence, and headaches." BTW that part you're saying…

In the last 5 years studies have shown that sleep apnea causes weight gain and not that you get sleep apnea because of weight gain. Many Dr's who are not specialists are not up to date on the latest info. Weight gain does make the apnea worse but it was already there to begin with. I highly recommend seeing a specialist…

Well, there is more than one auto-immune thyroid disorder. Grave's and Hashimoto's, and there is another one that I can't remember the name of. You need a referral to an endocrinologist. While changing your diet can help you will need to monitor your condition carefully IIRC. My daughter has Hashimoto's and the treatment…

Extremely low levels of vitamin D will cause bone and joint pain. It is from the calcium leaching out of your bones. Eventually your bones will soften to the point you get adult onset rickets. My level was 12 when I was Dx. I am on a maintenance dose of 8K iu daily along with 1000mg calcium. I was Dx 2010. This was after…

And threads like this one are why I don't often participate in these forums. The amount of ignorance and lack of compassion is a huge turnoff.

Plus whole milk is lower in sugars and carbs than skim milk.

This is a fair point. Have the terms and positions changed much in the last decade? Is it possible that this is a new term coming into usage? Could it be a regional thing? I don't know enough about VB to make that distinction. In some sports the terms and positions change and evolve over time; in others they don't. I never…

How do you know it is the same person? Have you tracked ip addresses or similar to verify that it is the same person posting? I think giving a newbie the benefit of doubt is the correct call here.

That term is no longer in use by that age group.

You're not fat and don't let that jealous twit have any power over you. Hold your head high and ignore her - she's not much of a team mate. Being toned or not has nothing to do with being fat. Your weight and measurements are great. When I was your age I weighed 115lbs and I am 5'2" and I was called fat as well. I recently…

It depends on a multitude of things - how much elasticity your skin originally had, how much it was stretched, your age, etc. If you are younger your skin is more elastic and is more likely to tighten up sooner than later, but we lose elasticity as we age. So it may tighten up or it may not. Good nutrition and lot's of…

Wow that's pretty much how the endocrinologist I see laid it out to me. :)

First, you need to be asking you questions to your Dr. FWIW, I am pre-diabetic and I'm on medicine for that and a carb restricted diet. Have you spoke to an endocrinologist about this? or even your primary Dr? I was advised to not worry as much about fat intake as I was to limit carbs. I have foods I have been forbidden…

I don't have PCOS but pre-diabetes and was on 500mg metformin XR for a week, I was supposed to increase dosage to 1000, then 1500 the following weeks but; I was nauseous, lightheaded, dizzy, and had to stop it - this was after I called the pharmacist and the Dr. I was switched to glumetza XR, and I've had no problems with…

I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic and glucose intolerant a month ago. I am on medication, started with metformin but was switched to glumetza after a bad reaction to the metformin. I am also on a carb restricted diet. I am allowed between 30-40 grams of carbs per meal and 10-15 grams for snacks. I have a list of foods to not…

This is the perfect way for a pre-diabetic to become fully diabetic. Your advice is dangerous and irresponsible. For those of us who are glucose intolerant, pre-diabetic, and diabetic carbs ARE the bad guy.

BMI was never intended to be a measure of an individual's health or fitness. It is a figure that was created to measure the health of a population of people. So IMO I think it is worthless measure of individual health or fitness and is grossly misused.

Because communicating correct information matters.

The word you are looking for is volume. Muscle is dense and takes up less volume; while fat takes up a lot of volume for the same comparative weight. Another way to put this is that muscle has more mass than fat. mass/=weight Mass is a measurement of volume+weight simplistically speaking.

You can't out exercise what you eat.

That used to be the belief, but studies in the last 5 years have shown that the apnea causes the weight gain which then makes the apnea worse causing more weight gain, further worsening the apnea causing even more weight gain, and on and on. vicious circle isn't it? I had severe obstructive sleep apnea - I had a severely…

Scientific studies according to my sleep Dr. have proven that sleep apnea causes weight gain and is now believed to be the main cause of congestive heart failure. These have all happened in the last 5-6 years. He explained to me the cause/effect of low oxygen energy deficit and the body substituting by craving caloric…

You probably already had sleep apnea and it was mild but gaining weight makes it worse, which can cause you to gain more weight which increases severity which causes more weight gain... I had a trauma that resulted in an obstruction that caused my apnea when I was 16; I'm 48 now and it was very gradual process that wasn't…

It will help some, but, it looks to me, and I had 2 c-sections as well, the skin was stretched past it's elasticity so you may always have a pouch. I snapped back after my first but with my 2nd I retained water - about 50 lbs of it. I lost that 50 in the first 4-6 weeks after his birth but my tummy never has been the same.…

Here's the whole problem with GMOS - every living organism that has DNA is a GMO. Natural modification can be just as harmful as man induced modification or just as beneficial. Most of the folks who are anti GMO are really anti big corp., but anti-GMO sounds so much better.

So I can find these links again.

How is your sleep? If you are waking up and not feeling rested, you might ask your Dr to test you for sleep apnea or refer you to a specialist. Even mild sleep apnea can be an issue and can cause you to gain weight.

Years of suffering from undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea. In simple terms, sleep apnea causes a deficit of oxygen which next to calories is the body's primary energy source. So your body needs energy but it is not getting it from oxygen so you eat more and gain weight. When you gain weight the apnea gets worse,…

One thing I didn't see addressed in this discussion is human sexual dimorphism. The simple explanation of that, is that men are on average 10-15 % larger than women. ie if you take a 5'6" man, and a 5'6" woman, the man will be anywhere from 10-15 % larger. From muscle mass to organ size. It's physiology and can't be…