Low-carb eating: reporting in

BlackSpinner · Post by **BlackSpinner** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:29 am

Kiralynx wrote:
You can also take the crepes, roll them, and thinly slice them on the diagnonal to get "noodles" which go great under various sauces.

Head desk! I have been doing that for years to make sushi and stuff like nasi goreng or chinese soups.

Kiralynx · Post by **Kiralynx** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:55 am

BlackSpinner wrote:
Kiralynx wrote:
You can also take the crepes, roll them, and thinly slice them on the diagonal to get "noodles" which go great under various sauces.
Head desk! I have been doing that for years to make sushi and stuff like nasi goreng or chinese soups.

Don't you hate it when something so very obvious leaps out and attacks you like that?

JeffH · Post by **JeffH** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:00 am

Had my 6 month check up with my GP this morning. Pretty good results...

9/11/09 check up

weight 312
A1c 7.1
Cholesterol 150

3/11/10 check up

weight 265
A1c 5.3
Cholesterol 119

Thanks DreamStalker, you may have saved my life.

JeffH

DreamStalker · Post by **DreamStalker** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:11 am

JeffH wrote:Had my 6 month check up with my GP this morning. Pretty good results...

9/11/09 check up

weight 312
A1c 7.1
Cholesterol 150

3/11/10 check up

weight 265
A1c 5.3
Cholesterol 119

Thanks DreamStalker, you may have saved my life.

JeffH

Jeff -

So glad to here of your improved results.

I'm getting a comprehensive Berkley lipid test next week and I plan to go stuff myself with bar-b-q on sunday just for the test.

Anyway, tis not I saving lives but indeed this forum that has saved mine, yours, and those of many others.

Take care friend.

Uncle_Bob · Post by **Uncle_Bob** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:11 am

JeffH wrote:Last December I had an appointment with my Cardiologist. I weighed 320 lbs. I just started eating low carb the first of this year. When I went to the new Sleep Doc on Monday I weighed 280lbs. The sleep doc is in the same clinic as my cardio doc and I was weighed on the same set of scales. Pretty amazing if you ask me.

JeffH

Thats bloody brilliant Jeff, keep it up !

JeffH · Post by **JeffH** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:32 am

DreamStalker wrote:
JeffH wrote:Had my 6 month check up with my GP this morning. Pretty good results...

9/11/09 check up

weight 312
A1c 7.1
Cholesterol 150

3/11/10 check up

weight 265
A1c 5.3
Cholesterol 119

Thanks DreamStalker, you may have saved my life.

JeffH
Jeff -

So glad to here of your improved results.

I'm getting a comprehensive Berkley lipid test next week and I plan to go stuff myself with bar-b-q on sunday just for the test.

Anyway, tis not I saving lives but indeed this forum that has saved mine, yours, and those of many others.

Take care friend.

One of these days I'll get down your way and the big 'ole BBQ dinner is on me.

Thanks my friend.

JeffH

CPAPcub · Post by **CPAPcub** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:39 am

JeffH wrote:Had my 6 month check up with my GP this morning. Pretty good results...

9/11/09 check up

weight 312
A1c 7.1
Cholesterol 150

3/11/10 check up

weight 265
A1c 5.3
Cholesterol 119

Thanks DreamStalker, you may have saved my life.

Congratulations Jeff, that's fantastic

Can I ask, what do you feel was the main reason for getting your A1c down so well? Was it the weight loss, medication, diet changes or a combiantion of the above? I'm trying to get mine down to where yours is!! I'm a similar weight to what you were, too.......Thanks.

JeffH

Uncle_Bob · Post by **Uncle_Bob** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:53 pm

Same here Moneygal, I started last Monday on the Atkins, doing the induction phase.

I've done the low carb thing before and went from 220lbs to 164lbs but fell off the lifestyle after we had two kids.

Now the game is back on, hello energy

CPAPcub · Post by **CPAPcub** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:14 pm

JeffH wrote:Had my 6 month check up with my GP this morning. Pretty good results...

9/11/09 check up

weight 312
A1c 7.1
Cholesterol 150

3/11/10 check up

weight 265
A1c 5.3
Cholesterol 119

Thanks DreamStalker, you may have saved my life.

JeffH

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Congratulations Jeff, that's fantastic

Can I ask, what do you feel was the main reason for getting your A1c down so well? Was it the weight loss, medication, diet changes or a combiantion of the above? I'm trying to get mine down to where yours is!! I'm a similar weight to what you were, too.......Thanks.

DreamStalker · Post by **DreamStalker** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:21 pm

CPAPcub wrote:
JeffH wrote:Had my 6 month check up with my GP this morning. Pretty good results...

9/11/09 check up

weight 312
A1c 7.1
Cholesterol 150

3/11/10 check up

weight 265
A1c 5.3
Cholesterol 119

Thanks DreamStalker, you may have saved my life.

JeffH
(reposted as the quote function played up before!!)

Congratulations Jeff, that's fantastic

Can I ask, what do you feel was the main reason for getting your A1c down so well? Was it the weight loss, medication, diet changes or a combiantion of the above? I'm trying to get mine down to where yours is!! I'm a similar weight to what you were, too.......Thanks.

As the thread topic title states, it is all discussed here in this thread (hint: low-carb).

and this one too

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=48343&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

and a few others as well.

JohnBFisher · Post by **JohnBFisher** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:51 pm

JeffH wrote:...
9/11/09 check up
weight 312
A1c 7.1
Cholesterol 150

3/11/10 check up
weight 265
A1c 5.3
Cholesterol 119
...

Congratulations! Good work. Definitely keep up that trend!

JeffH · Post by **JeffH** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:29 pm

CPAPcub wrote:
JeffH wrote:Had my 6 month check up with my GP this morning. Pretty good results...

9/11/09 check up

weight 312
A1c 7.1
Cholesterol 150

3/11/10 check up

weight 265
A1c 5.3
Cholesterol 119

Thanks DreamStalker, you may have saved my life.

JeffH
(reposted as the quote function played up before!!)

Congratulations Jeff, that's fantastic

Can I ask, what do you feel was the main reason for getting your A1c down so well? Was it the weight loss, medication, diet changes or a combiantion of the above? I'm trying to get mine down to where yours is!! I'm a similar weight to what you were, too.......Thanks.

I did ONE thing....I decided I had to control my blood sugar. The way I do that is low carb eating. I pretty much don't go over 50mg of carbs a day. I have dropped one diabetes drug in this process...it was making my blood sugar too low. Again, my only goal in all this was to control my blood sugar. These are the direct results of doing that. BTW, I still take 1000mg of Metformin twice a day.

JeffH

secret agent girl · Post by **secret agent girl** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:39 am

scrapper · Post by **scrapper** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:42 am

do you think a person could eat low carb. and still have high cholesterol?

Cholesterol comes primarily from animal fats-------meat like beef and pork, egg yolks, cheeses etc are huge contributors. It also is made by your body, some more than others due to heredity, etc.

So, you can eat low carb faithfully and religiously and still have high cholesterol.

DreamStalker · Post by **DreamStalker** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:10 pm

secret agent girl wrote:
Kiralynx wrote:Peeled zucchini can be turned into noodles, also, raw or cooked.
Broccoli stems, too.

MoneyGal, I've been wondering how has low carb. been working for you?

DreamStalker, do you think a person could eat low carb. and still have high cholesterol?

And, to anyone familiar with low carb. eating, what might you think was going on and might be helpful if someone were eating very low carb. and there was little to no weight loss? We're taking it as a given that all eating is, in fact, very low carb.

Yes. I think it is possible to eat low-carb and still have a high total cholesterol number. The thing is that the use of the total cholesterol number by itself is outdated and of no value for monitoring cardiovascular health as is the use of LDL values (often referred to as the “bad” cholesterol).

More important are the HDL and triglyceride components of the total cholesterol number. Low HDL values (<40) combined with high triglyceride values (>100) generally imply that the LDL cholesterol particles are small dense subtypes (VLDL) conducive to arterial plaque development. Unless one gets the more detailed cholesterol test (VAP, Berkeley, and NMR ... only VAP is available online w/o doctor's request), the typical test one gets from their PCP only measures HDL and triglycerides. LDL is calculated from those numbers and can lead to significant error. Despite this fact, insurance companies continue to force doctors to use the much less informative method of cholesterol testing.

The cholesterol profile (between “good and bad” cholesterol subtypes) is dependent upon both genetics and diet. Most people improve their cholesterol profile with a low-carb/high-fat diet but there are a small minority who do better on a low-carb/low-fat diet but regardless, high-carb diets (especially those high in fructose) are generally very conducive to CVD. That is because high-carb diets promote high triglycerides by the liver which in turn produces the small dense (“bad” VLDL) lipoproteins to transport them through the blood system.

So, unless you get the more detailed lipid test, focus on the HDL and triglyceride values and shoot for values of both HDL and triglycerides balanced around 60 or alternatively HDL values as high as possible and triglycerides values as low as possible.

RE: no weight loss on low-carb ... possible explanations.
1) You really are not doing low-carb. Some think plenty of nuts and fruits are ok on low-carb ... the carbs add up real fast with fruit and nut consumption.
2) Some use sugar substitutes when doing low-carb (stevia, sugar alcohols, etc.) ... but in order to lose weight, one needs to suppress insulin. The brain senses sweetness from sugar substitutes and produces a shot of insulin in anticipation of carbs even if no carbs are consumed. Alcohol (beer, wine, grain alcohol) does the same thing.
3) You may be eating too much fats while doing insufficient exercise. Fats contain calories and a deficit must occur to lose weight.
4) You may not be eating enough fats while doing to much exercise. Stressing the body without enough calories and too much exercise can lead the body to decrease metabolism in an effort to survive what it thinks is starvation. The body (through hormones) strongly resists changes to fat storage whether trying to gain or lose fat. You need to trick the body into reducing body fat without believing you are in starvation mode. This can be done by changing your diet/exercise routine periodically. If you go into a fat loss stall, ramp down on exercise and increase fat intake a little (perhaps even up intake of clean carbs like yams or white rice ... but no more than for one or two days), and then go back to "lower" fat intake and/or increased exercise to create caloric deficit. Just cycle back and forth and lose the fat in a step-wise fashion, gradually but steady in the right direction. Try to avoid long-duration steady-state exercise (aerobics for more than 1 hour session on daily basis) and focus on "moderate" (casual not speed-) walking 20 to 40 minutes "every" day; do weight training (bodyweight, resistance bands, or old-fashioned iron) once a week; do high-intensity-interval training once a week (google HIIT).
5) Finally, you could have thyroid issues ... see an endochrinologist.

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