"Wysong *~" <P@P> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:$$ That's possible, but I can't run down to the clinic when this happens
for blood work. My bi-yearly blood work is always normal.
Hmmm... yep, I see a decided lack of interest in actually improving your
situation. Wysong, it's likely that it is specifically the types of foods
you were eating while eating very low calorie that were causing your
problems. You're very likely insulin resistant to some degree. When you
dropped calories way down, your body was still producing too much insulin,
instead of going glucagon-dominant enough to be able to live comfortably off
your meager meals and body fat. People with well-functioning endocrine
systems will adapt to a very low calorie diet after a few days and won't
experience the symptoms you described, at least not for a long while when
they deplete body reserves and actual starvation sets in. People on low-carb
diets often approximate that condition by cutting way back on the foods that
stimulate insulin production, so that they are better able to utilize fat
reserves. It also allows them to do that without a lot of discomfort.
It wouldn't help you that much to run to the clinic, as many if not most low
blood sugar symptoms (in non-insulin dependent folks) are related as much to
rapidity of drop of blood glucose as to the actual glucose concentration in
the blood. Clinics aren't well equipped to evaluate that. The best approach
is to experiment with your diet. I don't know that you have either the
motivation or mindset to do that, however.
Quoted message said:$$ Of course it would rapidly DROP on the low-carb diet I was on for 1 1/2
years.
Actually, Wysong, a low-carb diet typically stabilizes low blood sugar
symptoms for most people (as it does high blood sugar ie. diabetes for many
NIDDM patients). It rarely causes or worsens reactive hypoglycemia, usually
quite the opposite.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:that you read Dr. Schwarzbein, an endocrinologist who advocates a
low-carb
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:diet, among other things.
$$ Dr's contradict each other all the time. I don't take any of them as
gospel truths.
Oh Gawd! You really do NOT want help, do you? Fine, stay fat and miserable
as you are, just keep it somewhere else than asdl-c, 'kay?
Quoted message said:$$ Geeze, so now it's becoming a low-carb, low-calorie, high-veggie and
HIGH INTENSITY exercise diet. Is everyone on the NG doing these sprints
and/or running several miles a day to lose weight? It sure is getting
farther and farther away from the Atkins diet.
Well, sure, it's nice to go for a little 1--2 mile amble, maybe even a brisk
walk, and think you've got your exercise in. But most people need to stress
their systems with exercise a bit more to get full benefit. They put real
geriatric men and women on a little weight lifting program and the benefits
to them, even those in their 70's, 80's were phenomenal. Far more than if
they'd just shuffled a mile or so. But... if you don't wanna, you won't get
the benefits. It's completely up to you.
Quoted message said:$$ Is that what everyone here is doing to lose on a LC diet? Is that
what
Quoted message said:the Atkins foundation now recommends? What about those of us who already
tried that [censored] and lost nothing? I went to the gym in town, despised
over minute I was there and lost 1 lb those 6 months. I hate going to the
gym. It's far from my house, it's expensive, they blare heavy rock music,
and the place smells like a dirty locker room. Not thanks.
Most people (not all) who get to their goal weight do exercise. Exercise is
quite important in increasing insulin sensitivity, too, so is pretty
important for the folks who are insulin resistant.
Quoted message said:$$ Because the rest of you never comment on what I write!
Bwahahahahah. Get a freakin grip! You get more comments than anyone else
here! I'll admit there are probably more than a few who tired of your bs and
plonked you. I'm about to that point myself, as it's clear you don't want
help, just to [censored] and whine.
Quoted message said:toTo lose
those initial 46 lbs all I did was walk a few times a week - 2 miles per
day. Now suddenly I need the gym, weight lifting, running/sprinting
etc.?
Well, if you don't try you'll never know. Everybody needs to do something to
increase their calorie deficit as they lose weight, because just from weight
loss your caloric needs keep declining. So... you can keep eating less, or
exercise more. Or both. Most choose both. It's sort of the Law of Dieting
and applies to every dieting program out there. It's the basis of WW's point
allowances and exercise point stuff.
Quoted message said:$$ One would think I should do everything you people suggest like
before -
Quoted message said:with no results. You missed those posts too? You tell me how long a
senior
Quoted message said:is going to last with all this intensive expertise, strength training,
running on 1000 to 1200 calories a day? LCing no less, trying to do it on
fat and protein. What qualifies you to give someone my age that kind of
advice? There is nothing about this intensive workout and running for
seniors in the Atkins book.
Number one, you work up to it. Duh. You're only 60? Well, I'm a whole 2
years behind you and I do all that stuff. You wouldn't believe the hills I
cycle. And I lift weights. And do yoga. But then... I have a brain and I use
it. What's your excuse?
HG
