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Originally Posted by Liz53
Maybe, but based on who is posting about PIR here, I doubt it. I have to say I'm really taken aback by your comment (it reminds me a bit of a doctor who advises a low fat diet for his overweight patient, then assumes he is non-compliant if he fails to lose weight). I can't speak for the others, but I weigh and track every morsel of food that goes in my mouth - for meals I eat at home - and have for 4+ years. I also weigh daily, it's just how I do things.
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But of course many do NOT track ANYTHING at all. They simply wing-it, no?
Are you saying that's a totally unreasonable assumption for me to make? If so, we may likely have to agree to disagree on that issue.
I could be wrong, but I strongly suspect that LOTS of people do NOT track, and are rather non-complaint with a true LC lifestyle. More than they really want to admit.
Perhaps not you...perhaps not the esteemed group of folks we have here in this thread...but many.
And I think it's reasonable to try and discover if someone might be "winging it" too much, before going to a lot of time and effort to then start trying to find if there is a medical issue, rather than a simple compliance issue.
I guess my thinking is let's rule-out for certain any possible tracking/complaince issues FIRST. And only then, start going to the effort to track down any possible medical issues or biological idiosyncrasies.
As a personal trainer, I have a great deal of experience which lets me know for 100% certain that MOST people are NOT tracking much of anything. Nor are they very compliant. Despite my constant input and motivational pep talks.
Heck, I even admitted I have not personally been walking the walk like I should have been, which totally explains my crazy high BG's. So I'm really not pointing the finger at anyone but myself.
I have clients all the time admit to me that they've been "off the wagon a bit"...and when I dig deeper they often admit they've been VERY off the wagon.
Of course there are those who, despite excellent tracking and compliance, still get less than stellar results. And I'd hate to accidentally offend such a person, as I seem to have offended you.
Nonetheless, I have found that such people are generally in the minority, and the "issue" usually tends to be too much winging-it. Just like I was doing too much of, and it was making me sick.
I literally "cured" myself of pre-diabetic/diabetic blood sugar levels in TWO DAYS by no longer winging-it and fooling myself about how compliant I was with an LC lifestyle.
And I'd be willing to wager that there are more than just a few folks on this huge forum, who are perhaps also winging it too much, and not getting anywhere near the good results LC could give them if they'd be better trackers and get more complaint with a true LC eating plan.
As for those, like yourself, who really and truly are 95% + compliant, yet still having high FBG's this thread was created for them, no? To discuss WHY they are having this issue despite great compliance.
Heck, as I go longer and longer with a REAL & TRUE LC diet (as opposed to my former "slacker version' of LC), I might also find myself with rising FBG's. Or I might have personal training clients who have this happen, despite near-perfect compliance. So I'd really like to get to the root of this.
Peter at hyperlipid seems to think it's harmless. I do NOT agree with him.
High glucose levels are not EVER good IMO.
Of course I'm not as erudite as Peter, and he could be right.
But I doubt it.
I believe there is something really wrong with people on a true LC diet seeing their BGs go up a little more from year to year.
I'd like to find out why this is happening.
My two main theories at this point are that excess iron and certain saturated fatty acids decrease cellular insulin sensitivity, which can then cause BG's to go up gradually. Even on an LC diet. Just not as bad as on a high cab diet.
But I could be way off base of course. Just a theory really.