Pre-diabetic and bmi

[Dave R]

I have a bmi of 29.5 and I am losing weight slowly, a half to one pound a week. I have been given so much information it has become a blurt. But I'm sure it has been said that if my bmi gets to 27. I think this is another stone less then this will or maybe have an impact on the insulin resistance. Can anyone confirm how this works.

 

[Deleted member 18634]

Hi Dave and welcome to the forum!

It's great to hear that you're making progress with your weight loss and can totally empathize with the information over load.

To add some more (but useful!) to your list I've shared a link to our prevention nutritional guidelines. On page 18-20 there's a section about what effects weight loss has on prevention of Type 2 which goes in to quite a bit of detail about it.

Evidence-based nutrition guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes

I hope this helps and please let me know if you need some more information.

 

[Dave R]

Thankyou for the reply

 

[Martin9]

Hi Dave R..ideally you should try and get your BMI under 25 to be in the normal rather than overweight category, but any weight loss will help so congrats on your weight loss so far.
The weight loss reduces the visceral fat also know as intra organ fat specially around the liver & pancreas this enables both to deal with the process of sugars digestion and regulation easier, there are other processes involved but generally you are trying to reduce the amount of fat around your organs.
This visceral fat is meant to be one of the first to reduce when dieting so hopefully you may have already started on reducing your insulin resistance ...
Are you cutting down on carbohydrates in dieting and not just kcal as carbohydrates are the thing to avoid if you're prediabetic ..?

 

[Dave R]

I have cut unnecessary sugars, cakes at. That's not to say I don't have occasional things. I am watching food labels and avoiding red on sugars and trying not to have unneccary fat. I have salad at lunchtime and a cooked meal at night. I've cut down on potato and don't eat a lot of bread. I'm not measuring anything except my weight. I am walking 5 to 8 miles a day. I am trying for some thing that is sustainable. I was 16 stone in 2015 and reduced to 14.5 because of a family history is stroke heart attach amongst my siblings. So I been having annual checks because of this raised sugars were picked up. I have been referred to the nhs healthier you program and so have been weighed by an external group which has encouraged me to lose weight. We have also been told of the complications of diabetis which has further reinforced the resolve to lose weight.

 

[Martin9]

Yes it's not only the sugars as in the sweet stuff likes cakes, sweets, desserts etc but the starches found in potatoes, rice, pasta, cereals, pastry, breads etc that we as diabetics struggle to cope with, but it sounds like your cutting these down too
Good luck for the future...
M.

 

[Drummer]

It will be a lot easier to lose weight - all things being equal - if you look for things which are low carb, rather than just low sugar, as it is carbs which seem to do the damage - all those 'healthy' wholewheat and whole meal or just plain brown carbs are just as effective at fattening up us, or animals, as the white ones.
I get normal results with a low carb diet even though I am fully diabetic, and am so much thinner.