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Weight loss...slim diabetics

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Leonora

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Hello again. Another question. I'm a slim diabetic(steroid induced). Diagnosed early 2018. On metformin 500mg twice a day. Would be interested to find out how much weight other slim diabetics have lost since they were diagnosed. I've lost 9lbs in total!
 
hello Leonora, am slim like you and prediabetic. Since diagnosis in July 2018 have lost about a stone and a half, still losing despite my best efforts to eat more. Weight now about seven and a half stone. 5ft 6in tall
 
Thank you for responding SkinnyLiz. It's a nightmare. I'm trying to eat as much fat as I can. It hasn't seemed to help. I was a size 10 but clothes are looser on me. I'm disappearing! I haven't got a clue about what to do about it.
 
Leonora said:
Hello again. Another question. I'm a slim diabetic(steroid induced). Diagnosed early 2018. On metformin 500mg twice a day. Would be interested to find out how much weight other slim diabetics have lost since they were diagnosed. I've lost 9lbs in total!
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HI, I have also lost a good few pounds which makes me not that happy. I am on Metformin (×2 am and pm) . I am 5'3 and at my last weigh-in was 8st.7lb. I know that is well within the normal healthy range but I keep an eye on it.Since my diagnosis inJuly 2018 I lost 1st 7 lbs. I would be happy with a few more pounds...🙄
 
Leonora said:
Thank you for responding SkinnyLiz. It's a nightmare. I'm trying to eat as much fat as I can. It hasn't seemed to help. I was a size 10 but clothes are looser on me. I'm disappearing! I haven't got a clue about what to do about it.
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I have just seen your post. I was advised to eat more avocado and nuts... but not too many...in fact I might go and visit the scales and see what is happening.
 
Hi Leonora, I was diagnosed 7 weeks ago, have lost 8lb and am 10st 11lb at 5ft 9in. I look scrawny at 10 stone and hoping I don’t lose much more but am losing about one pound a week. My cholesterol is a bit high so am also trying not to eat too much h cheese, eggs etc. Finding the food thing quite hard. PS am on 2000mg metformin a day
 
trophywench said:
Why are you trying not to eat cheese or eggs? Nothing we eat can affect our blood cholesterol, except carbohydrates.
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Ok have just checked and you are quite right about eggs, cheese and cholesterol, funny how things stick in your mind, even if they are incorrect. Thanks
 
Cheese is an excellent ally when trying to stop losing weight! (not that I've ever had that particular problem to face !) And eggs are so useful when trying to avoid carbs - pure protein and keep you going for far longer than carbs do too.
 
trophywench said:
Why are you trying not to eat cheese or eggs? Nothing we eat can affect our blood cholesterol, except carbohydrates.
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This is simply wrong. Saturated fats, very much including dairy, certainly increase LDL cholesterol.
 
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trophywench said:
Why are you trying not to eat cheese or eggs? Nothing we eat can affect our blood cholesterol, except carbohydrates.
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LOL
Saturated fat will push my cholesterol through the ceiling!

Really bad, and utterly wrong advice.
 
SueEK said:
Ok have just checked and you are quite right about eggs, cheese and cholesterol, funny how things stick in your mind, even if they are incorrect. Thanks
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Interesting.
Can you provide the source you checked with?
I would be interested to read that, as I clearly don't react the same?
 
travellor said:
LOL
Saturated fat will push my cholesterol through the ceiling!

Really bad, and utterly wrong advice.
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I’ve eaten a high fat diet for years and have very low cholesterol
 
Madeline said:
I’ve eaten a high fat diet for years and have very low cholesterol
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That's why it will be interesting to see the source @SueEK and @trophywench have.
Clearly I don't conform, so it will be good to see why not.
@SueEK already has high cholesterol, as do I so it will be helpful to read, and reduce mine.
 
For an authoritative overview of the effects of dietary fats by experts (as against eg people posting on the Internet), check the American Heart Association's 2017 advisory: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000510

Individuals vary, but on average, saturated fats (dairy, bacon, chocolate, red meat, palm oil etc etc) increase "bad" LDL cholesterol more than poly- and mono-unsaturated fats (nuts, seeds, olive oil, avocados, fish etc etc). Also more than carbs in general (combining refined and unrefined). Illustrated:

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That also shows the impact of different types of saturated fats; refer to the advisory for details.

And this translates directly into health outcomes:

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Replacing saturated fats with unsaturated gives big health benefits, ditto for carbs from whole grains. Replacing with refined carbs (sugar etc etc) is a wash.
 
Leonora said:
Thank you for responding SkinnyLiz. It's a nightmare. I'm trying to eat as much fat as I can. It hasn't seemed to help. I was a size 10 but clothes are looser on me. I'm disappearing! I haven't got a clue about what to do about it.
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Its been similar for me, complicated by IBS which is triggered by too much fat. Have been very gradually increasing the fat content of meals, adding spash of cream to my (already full fat yoghurt) etc. similar size to you, am now probably 8/10 rather than 10/12.
Have you looked at DitchtheCarbs.com? The No Grain Granola is tasty and high fat/calorie, plus it uses coconut oil, so possibly healthier than lashings of animal fat.
Have been stuffing myself for weeks but still losing weight. Decided its too expensive to carry on, so now eating "to appetite". My doctor is obviously numerically challenged, as he said a 4kg loss is acceptable, when in fact it was around 6kg. Was not really used to kg, so didnt challenge it at the time. Weight this morning 48.4kg, 7st 9lb. So have now lost exactly 8kg.
Any ideas?
 
Did also have slightly elevated cholesterol levels at diagnosis. However on learning that most of our cholesterol is produced in the body and that dietry fat contributes little to high levels, decided on increased exercise, which can lower cholesterol as well as BG. Seems it worked, as cholesterol levels dropped, even while fat consumption went up.
Increased exercise, I do a ten minute routine in the morning, and walk to town three or four times a week, instead of taking the car. No gym, or running. Although I did buy a skipping rope and do a few minutes here and there.
 
Hi there. Being from the Caribbean I eat quite a high fat diet anyway. Problem is - well, used to - is that I ate too much fruit yam, rice, sweet potato and bread fruit. I've now added Greek yogurt and more olive oil to my diet and ditched the fruit. I eat less than a quarter of the carbs I used to and my BG has settled. It's just the weight loss I have a problem with. Also I noticed comments about cholesterol. Mine was high but my doctor told me not to worry about it because the good far exceeded the bad. I just don't want to lose my booty. Hahaha!
 
Well as far as I can see I haven't suggested anyone stuffs themselves with saturated fat - of course if a person chooses to overeat any food group then they'll be the ones to suffer. It's always important to moderate portion size of everything - but I'm not their mother and therefore responsible for bringing them up to know that!
 
travellor said:
That's why it will be interesting to see the source @SueEK and @trophywench have.
Clearly I don't conform, so it will be good to see why not.
@SueEK already has high cholesterol, as do I so it will be helpful to read, and reduce mine.
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Hi, there appears to be differences in opinion on cholesterol and food. Certainly the nhs website says cheese, particularly hard cheese should be avoided and that eggs do contain some cholesterol, though pretty negligible. However other sites appear to say that cheese is ok. Let’s just say that we should all do our best to reduce cholesterol if it is raised and take advice from our GPS etc.
 
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