Hello Emmanuel,

There are over 1 billion people in the world that are insulin resistant and or diabetic and don’t know, don’t care or both.

Doing something  to cure an issue like diabetes is work and you should start immediately to remedy the situation as soon as you know. Insulin resistance can go on for years until you are diagnosed with metabolic issues and then types 2 diabetes.

Please send your father in law and wife over to read my articles and hopefully they will gain some knowledge. The only person that can help you is you. Do not depend on anyone else.

I advise anyone that wants to lead a healthy lifestyle is to read my recommended reading listed at the bottom of each of my posts.

Thanks for dropping by and reading.

Jimmy.

Hello Andy,

I have not read the book Living with Diabetes but will add it to my list. I have read many books on diabetes, metabolic issues, anatomy, nutrition and lifestyle and have found that you get bits and pieces from the combined readings. 

Please check out my recommended reading at the bottom of this post and my other posts. They are direct links to my affiliate.

Experimenting with different foods and taking glucose measurements is also a key to understanding how different type of foods affect your glucose. Check out my review on the Contour Next.

Medication dependent or not, diabetic or not, my post applies to everyone that needs to lose weight. 

I am glad that you have lost 44 lbs., keep up the great work. 

Even though you have lowered your A1c, you need to normalize that and it does not stop there. You need to get your insulin sensitivity back to normal and if you keep lowering your weight it will eventually normalize.

I thank you for reading and kind words.

Jimmy.

Hello Barry,

I am having a great time and hope you are too.

In answer to your question:  Carbohydrate foods are the cause of us being fat and not fat foods? The answer is yes and also depends on the quantity of food that you eat.

Carbohydrates and protein after digestion enter the blood in the form of glucose. Glucose known as blood sugar, or blood glucose will stimulate the pancreas to secrete insulin. 

The normal flow of glucose flows to all of the cells in the body and will be used by the cells as needed, any excess comes back to the liver to be stored as glycogen in the liver.

Over a period of time and this may take years or decades, continued high carbohydrate consumption in the form of processed foods will cause the excess glucose to go back to the liver and if the glycogen store is full, converts the glucose into triglycerides, fats. 

The high amount of glucose also creates high amounts of insulin and over a period of time of constant ingestion of carbs will cycle and cycle and create insulin resistance. 

The first place that the fat is stored is around the liver and a fatty liver will start to develop, this is a start to non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Any other excess fat will form around the other organs like the pancreas, bladder, parts of any internal organs and then around the abdomen. Known as visceral obesity.

You could be metabolically skinny healthy for years before becoming metabolically skinny unhealthy or metabolically unhealthy obese. It will sneak up on you. 

The above process progresses much faster in kids because they consume the 20 ounce sugary drinks on a daily basis.

How many eggs can you eat a day? I usually have scrabbled eggs and eat 4 at a meal. I know the dietdoctor  Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt says you can eat up to 3 dozen. I consume that many in a week. 

Thanks for dropping by and your comments.

Jimmy.

Hello Fyre.

The only way to decrease the epidemic of diabetes is to educate everyone on lifestyle and it should be taught to kids in school. Basics of nutrition and exercise should be mandatory in the school syllabus.

Kids as young as 3 years old have type 2 diabetes, parents must be educated also.

People you need to be ready to change your lifestyle and start with healthy whole natural unprocessed food diet. This means start today.

Thanks for your comments. 

Jimmy.

Hello AV,

In answer to your question: Are there any foods that can boost the production of your insulin in the body?  The answer is yes processed foods and carbohydrates. Insulin is a key for glucose to enter cells and be burned as energy and is a fat stores. 

I am glad that you found the post educational and I hope you do follow the steps to lose weight and get your blood glucose down to a normal range.

Your grandfather who has type 2 diabetes seems to have figured out a lifestyle to cope with his disease and I commend him for that.

I appreciate your kind comments and I hope people will read and get the message.

Thanks for dropping by and reading.

Jimmy.

My father in law has diabetes and he doesn’t want to do anything against it, but I think he doesn’t know how to cure it.

So what I will do is send this to him, so he doesn’t have any excuses.

I will also send to my wife.

Thanks for sharing.

I am obese but it was due mostly to adding 10 months of post surgical healing to a bad diet, not over eating. As you stated a lack of exercise alone can cause obesity as was my case. I gained over 100 pounds, and now that I have lost nearly 44 pounds back I am starting to feel my life coming back. 

I will find out in the coming weeks how my A1C has changed because of better living. 

Thank you for a great resource.

Hello,

In my post I  said not to focus on BMI but we do still need to know whether you are obese or not and that can be done by simply measuring at your hip bone and also a mirror test just by observation. Now when you say you have been struggling with your BMI your whole life that indicates to me that you are overweight, and I am not judging.

You can lose weight by performing the steps I mentioned in my post such as a low carb high fat diet, exercise, good night sleep and intermittent fasting. I can guarantee if you stop eating sugar you will lose weight even faster.

Insulin resistance takes years to develop and is due to a high carb processed food diet and to some extent stress, drug and alcohol use/abuse. So if you are over weight and insulin resistant you are heading towards metabolic issues such as obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia which will eventually raise you blood glucose and make you type 2 diabetic.

This is only a start to metabolic syndrome and will eventually lead to neurological, cardiovascular and cerebral problems down the road.

Insulin resistance has been known to cause cardiovascular issues and neurological issues before type 2 diabetes has been diagnosed. Doctors are calling Alzheimer disease the new type 3 diabetes.

Insulin and fertility/infertility, I will say this, if a person is insulin resistant/type 2 diabetic, which means high blood glucose, and is toxic then fertility/infertility will be affected. To what extent is unknown. 

High blood sugar is toxic and every part of the body will suffer.

Thanks for dropping by and reading my post.

Thank you for sharing Lose Weight Keep It Off.

So Carbohydrate foods are the cause of us being fat and not fat foods?   

I thought foods that contain fats will make us fat but the reverse is the case as you have stated we should eat high fat low carb foods.

 Right? 

How many eggs can I eat a day?

Thank you for sharing this information + it was educational.

What was even more disturbing was learning about the massive increase of type 2 diabetes in kids 19 and under!  I’m powerfully glad to come to a website that has some factual data and some practical methods to healing this epidemic.

I agree with you.  If there is one thing I know for a fact it’s that you REALLY do have to change your mind and really think about what you are putting into your body.  I even think to myself…would I feed a child this? 

We really have to come together, learn together and support each other to find a better way for all of us and the best way for each of us individually.