Re: Insulin Resistance (Diabetes II) and Being Overweight: Direct
From: A (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 01:33:45 -0400
Steph...
Are you taking Met as well?
Thx- Alexis
Stephanie Selway wrote:
> What I have learned and this is just from alot of reserch and my
> personal experience that many overweight people (including my mother)
> have a low tolerence for high carb/sugar foods.
>
> I have been doing the atkins diet for a month and a half and have lost
> 20lbs. I still have 100lbs to go but I feel a million times better. I
> eat two to three small meals a day (maybe more depending on how hungry I
> am). All of my meals are very low in Carbs and no sugar(no sugar, rice,
> bread, potatos, pasta, caffene). I have heard about eating several
> small meals in a day but I don't have time to do that so I eat larger
> meals but not huge ones. When you are low carbing you will feel like
> you need to eat more for a while but you soon even out and get on a
> normal eating schedule. There are still times when I am starving at
> weird times of the day and I just grab some vegies and I am fine.
>
> What you want to do should work. If you have Diabetes II I would
> recommend you do a full Low Carb diet and cut out all of the bad stuff
> that makes you gain weight but talk to your doctor about it first (not
> all will say it is a good diet becuase not all doctors agree that a low
> carb diet will help insulin resistance). When I told my doctor that I
> was on the diet she said good luck and that she tried it and couldn't do
> it because she craved too much bread and pasta. But I was also getting
> tested for PCOS that day and she didn't mention that I shouldn't be on
> the diet when getting tested becuse that might make my results normal.
>
> I don't know if this is what you wanted to know or if I understood what
> you wanted to know, but I hope it helps.
>
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