rhonda s.

Rhonda Sstand this. As type 2's we spent 10 to 15 years developing up our insulin resistance until we became diagnosed. Type 2's also have a heredity issue, but when and if that heredity kicks in, depends on your diet. As we eat certain carbs, our insulin resistance increases. Most type 2's make plenty of insulin in their own pancreas, but our cells become resistant and will not let the insulin do it's job. Insulin's job is to convey the sugars and starches, once broken down, to your cells to be used for your energy. Insulin is also our fat storage hormone. Every time we eat any carb, our pancreas will make more Insulin, through our Beta Cells. The body just keeps telling the pancreas to make more and more insulin, trying to clear the bloodstream of all the sugars. This happens over and over until our bloodstream is full and all this sugar makes us feel sluggish, destroys our nerve endings, causes inflammation in the whole body and more. When our blood sugars get high enough, doctors also order more Insulin in hopes of not overworking our Pancreas and hoping that massive doses of Insulin will finally push the sugar out of bloodstream and into cells. What also happens with all that massive amount of insulin is weight gain, because Insulin needs to desperately clear the bloodstream and finally does so by storing the sugar into fat cells. Remember it is also the fat storage hormone. If you eat very low carb, you will not have the pancreas being stimulated to push out insulin all the time. Your Pancreas will rest and not burn out all those valuable beta cells, that you have a lifetime limit of. You will not have the sugars building up in your bloodstream and also your insulin resistance will start going down and you will lose weight. Losing weight will be faster when you convert your whole body over to fat burning instead of carb burning. This is called Ketosis or a Ketogenic diet, once you get down to around 20 Net Carbs, and the body will use the fats you eat and the fats stored on your body, for all of it's body processes and energy needs. Carbohydrates are not essential to human body and is why we say only to get carbs found in non starchy fibrous veggies, because the fiber helps with digestion. Remember protein is essential, but more than the body can use, will get converted and burned just like sugar. Increasing fats will give you needed calories and fuel, once you stop eating carbs and will keep you satisfied and will get rid of the cravings. You must be very low carb to increase your fats. Low Carb, high fat is good, but carbs and fats together, are bad.. The whole goal to eating as a type 2 Diabetic is to understand what Insulin Resistance is. 

FATS AND CARBS DO NOT MIX WELL...Rhonda S.

Rhonda S. Hope everyone remembers that you must be on a very low carb strict diet to be drinking the bullet proof coffee and consuming lots of fats. Sure fats are filling without having carbs and will not usually raise blood sugars, and thats why we use them in a LCHF diet, but you must also be burning all those fats for your energy. If you eat carbohydrates and fat, it's a bad combination, as the fat will get stored while your body is burning the carbohydrates and you will gain weight. Your body will only burn all those fats when your carb levels get and stay low enough that your body switches from carb burning to a fat burning one. Usually to keep your body burning fats instead of carbs, you must be below 50 grams of carbs a day and preferably down around 20 per day.

NANCY K. PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DIABETICS

Nancy K.  personal recommendations for all, diabetic or not: 1. REsearch your disease(s). Not just from one source, but from many. No single research or body of literature is going to have all the information, or place the same emphasis on specific aspects. 2. Research all the medications you take. that means all the prescribed and over the counter medications. Again that means from reliable soruces such as webmd.com

or drugs.com.

 Both of the sites have consistently proven to give reliable information about supplements, prescribed medications, and over the counter medications. 3. Research any nutritional plan that you are on, or are considering. Look at the actual research done on it, looking for the most current available. Just realize that most research is about 5 years old before it is even published. 4. Look at alternative nutritional plans that fit within your lifestyle, your diseases, your medications that will promote you becoming healthier, reducing some of the medications you take, have a solid background of current research to support them, don't ask for money to learn the whole gamut of information about it. In some countries it can be challenging to maintain a specific nutritional plan due to economics, available foods, religious beliefs, etc. 5. Become your own personal expert on your body. By that I mean how you react to specific foods, medications, illness. 6. Begin to be more attentive to what your body is telling you. The subtle signs that your bs or blood pressure are too high or low, that your PCOS is beginning to flare up, that you may not be as hydrated as you should be, 6. Be willing to talk openly and empower yourself to tell your doctor or NP that you don't feel comfortable with not having all the knowledge and rationale for a medication, treatment, etc. and that until there is further discussion it goes no further. Just remember they are human, so doing so with aggression or a "bad attitude" will probably get you shut down and any relationship you have will be gone. This requires you use finesse, maturity, and a calm approach. Take your research articles with you, allow the doctor to have a copy to read so that they might be able to understand where you are coming from. A decent doctor is not threatened by having a well informed patient, but a poor one is.

SUCCESS STORY BY BLANCA ROBLES-LEANOS

Another success story!!**
On 12/4/15, I was diagnosed with T2D. My A1C that day was 11.9. The world came crumbling down on me. I lived in a complete blackout for weeks. I never felt so depressed in my life. I had frequent panic attacks and felt like my spirit had left my body already. I felt I was walking around in my shell. During that time, concluded that I could either fight this or let it knock me out cold. Having two small boys, the latter wasn't even an option.... I geared up and decided to fight! Having that intention, I searched for a support group that could give me some hope. I searched on FB and this group was the first to come up and I immediately joined. I was encouraged to do LCHF. Honestly, I never heard of this woe before. I did my research and was convinced this would be my ammunition against diabetes. I immediately started LCHF woe and never, ever cheated. Not even once! I ate with my meter all day long. Testing myself 4-6 times per day.

Fast forward, three months later. Today I received my new A1C report from the bloodwork done on 3/7/16. My result is 5.0!!!!! WHAT!!!!!????!!!!! I immediately started crying. I can't believe it! I asked them to double check and make sure they are looking at MY results! They chuckled and said "they are YOUR results!". I made it to the 5% club everyone!!! I feel like I'm being born again!
I feel extremely blessed to have found this group and all the admins who have time and time again repeated themselves on LCHF. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! Thank you for sharing your wisdom! It goes a long way for some of us who listen and apply to the advice given! THANK YOU!!!
LCHF is without a doubt the way to go!

from type 2 diabetes support group global network

POST REGARDING FATS BY RHONDA L.

 There are fats in meats, nuts, eggs, avocados. You can use things like cheese, cream cheese, heavy whipping cream, coconut oils, butter etc. Natural fats in anything. Fat will keep you full and take away all your cravings for carbohydrates. Out of the 3 nutrients, (Fats, carbs and proteins) only fats and proteins are essential for the body. Carbohydrates are not needed for fuel as your body can use fats for fuel and will, if you keep your Carb levels low enough. Many of us stay at 20 or below in Net carbs to keep our bodies in a fat burning state. The carbs you do consume should come from non- starchy vegetables that contain lots of fiber to help you with bathroom task. Eat leafy green veggies daily.

NANCY K

This is a great post written by Nancy Kasperek, Type 2 Diabetes Weight loss Support Group
For those here trying to lose weight, and who isn't? If your dietician or doctor recommended 30-45 grams of carbohydrates per meal and 10-20 grams for 1-2 snacks daily you will never lose weight. Those recommendations come from the ADA, who has no desire for you to have steady bs in a normal range of 70-99. Why? Because their primary sources of funding come from big pharmaceutical companies. So why bite the hand that feeds you? Companies such as General Mills, Post, etc. do nothing as well. They have influenced every sector of the government, and those bodies which determine the food pyramid and what food types should have the greatest emphasis based on research that THEY have paid for. Your doctors get no education in nutrition during their training. PA's, nurses, and dieticians get education based upon the ADA recommendations period. But as a T2D you have insulin resistance. How you acquired insulin resistance is of no matter, it's the fact that you have insulin resistance. Exposing your body to too may carbohydrates will gradually increase your insulin resistance, prohibit you from losing weight, and increase the likelihood that your medication doses will have to be increased over time, and add additional medications to try and control your bs levels. Those many carbohydrates are stressing your pancreas as well, and eventually with a lot of stress it will begin to fail. Complex carbohydrates, such as grains and cereals, can cause your bs spike to be prolonged as much as 6 hours. So if you claim that they don't spike you, do you test every hour past the 2 hour mark to ensure that? So what is a T2D to do? Smile when you get counseling that says to have that many carbohydrates daily and significantly lower your carbohydrate intake to much less than 50 grams total per day, and even lower if you possibly can. But to lose weight you must also add another component that many of us don't want to hear, or talk about-exercise. Exercise is important for many reasons. 1. It will temporarily lower your insulin resistance and make your circulating bs more available for the muscles to use, until those stores in the liver are depleted. At that point if you have increased your good fat consumption your body will begin to utilize those for energy. 2. It increases your heart rate, which helps with your overall cardiovascular health. 3. It will help you build muscle and burn some of your extra fat. 4. First you will notice a body shape change, and a change in your measurements long BEFORE you will see a change in your weight. But exercise and lowering your carbohydrate intake will not be enough if you allow spikes above 140, or 20 points higher than your premeal levels at 2 hours. So essentially you have two choices: follow the ADA woe because you choose to consume the carbohydrates that insulin resistance will make you crave. Thus increasing the likelihood of more meds, and all the complications of diabetes. 2. Choose a much lower carbohydrate way of life. thus stabilizing and normalizing your bs, slowing the rate of any complications to a snail's pace. Having a healthier body, plenty of energy, losing weight, and normalizing your lab results. It's your personal choice. But honestly, I for one, choose number 2 for the entire family and myself. I am losing weight, I have plenty of very wonderful tasting foods to choose from. I have expanded the palate of the entire family into new foods that they woud have never tried before this. We are making better choices in foods, as well as exercising together, which for me increases family bonding and quality time together.

POST FROM NANCY K.

, diabetes can not be cured and it will not just go away with medication. To control diabetes so that you can come off meds (as long as you continue this way of life is honestly your only option. No diet is going to cure it, only control it. You have several options-some of which are not going to be healthy for you in the long term. 1. Follow the ADA nutritional ideas with too many carbs per meal, take your meds, get your med doses increased, add more meds to your day, experience many complications from diabetes. 2. Follow a much lower carb intake daily, watch your bs carefully to keep them in the 100-70 range, watch your bs fall to normal range, watch your doctor reduce your med doses or stop them, slow the potential of complications to a snails pace and live a much less complicated life.