We know carbs are bad. Ok, that's a wide topic right there, but reducing the carbs has clear health benefits.
Having been a Type 2 Diabetic for almost 11 years I noticed a couple of things. My Blood Sugars are constantly hard to control, with them fluctuating from Hypo levels to Hyper levels all within hours. "Try harder, it's not that difficult" I hear you tut. I do, honest. But I believe the problem comes from the advice I've (and all of us) are given. This advice boils down to nutrition, and primarily the advice that we should have over a third of our diet consisting of carbohydrates. Even to this day the NHS are encouraging us to consume carbs. I'll put this lot in my next post. But it makes me angry. When I eat carbs, whether its a pasta dish, roast dinner with taters and yorkies or a chinese with noodles or rice, I would take a measure of fast acting insulin. And, a lot of times guesstimating the amount of carbs in the dish you can very easily take too much or too little insulin. Over time, your resistance to insulin gets stronger and you end up having to take more and more just to stay at normal BS levels. It got to the point that normal for me was into double figures. 10-12 mmol/l was feeling fine. But this is double normal levels and extremely dangerous in the long run. When I would have normal levels, say 5-6 mmol/l I would start feeling the symptoms of a hypo (weak/shakes). Mix this in with doing exercise routines like The Ultimate Yogi, Body Beast, P90X, etc my BS would spike and crash and be all over the place. Damn it was getting tiresome. Then, back in March, around my 45th birthday (Woo!), I came across www.dietdoctor.com and I watched a video interview by Dr Andreas Eenfeldt with Dr Jason Fung, about Type 2 Diabetes and the effects of Carbs. I started watching more presentations and interviews. It blew my mind. They were saying that actual research into what happens with carbs (body converts to Glucose) and specifically what happens when you consume too many (Insulin stores as body fat). And how we've been lied to about fat over the last 4+ decades. Saturated Fat was seen as the enemy. Fat clogs the arteries. Fat gives you Hart Disease. Reduce fat for a healthy life. This isn't how biology works. When you cut carbs your body goes into Ketosis. This is the bodies natural fat burning state. This will result in your body naturally burning body fat for it's own fuel. That and the fat you eat. Current advice is that fat will give you heart disease, high cholesterol and Alzheimer's to name a few. Scary,eh? Well, current scientific research proves this is completely untrue. I The real advice is:
By doing this I've had a much more stable level of Blood Sugar. I take less insulin with my meals. I have more focus and alertness. This is especially great at work because I no longer fall asleep during meetings!! Amazing. I eat when hungry, not the "3 meals a day". And I 'feel' great. I've basically done a Keto/LCHF diet. I simply eat meals I want and ensure I consume as few carbs as possible and I cook with butter, not veg oil. I don't mind if there's fat in the meal, but I don't take the piss. I want my body to burn body fat, not necessarily the fat I eat. Though I do need to eat the fat to keep me sated. As snacking was one of my biggest issues (the joys of a carby lifestyle). I've mentioned a load of things here that warrant more discussion (like why Fat isn't bad, why going into Ketosis isn't a bad thing, why carbs are bad, why we've been lied to for decades by people who should be thinking of our welfare and not their wallets). I'll be talking about these things in future posts. And I'll make the effort to list the sources of where I got my info. <3
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Andrew CoyleI've been a Type 2 Diabetic for over 11 years, and now Insulin Dependant. I'm finally learning that the advice I've been given around nutrition and med management is wrong. Archives
September 2017
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