They ate 300 fewer calories and gained 20 pounds. Here’s why.
How can someone eat 300 fewer calories every single day and still gain 20 pounds in six months?
In this clinical study on type 2 diabetics, patients reduced their daily intake from 2,000 to 1,700 calories while increasing their insulin dosage to 100 units a day. Instead of losing weight, they gained 20 pounds.
Why? Because weight loss is not simply about "Calories In, Calories Out." Insulin is a fat-storage hormone. When insulin levels are high, it signals your body to store incoming energy as body fat, leaving the rest of your body with less energy to burn. To lose weight sustainably, you must focus on lowering insulin—not just cutting calories.
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The core lesson.
That was not a RCT. They were self reporting the calories they eat. So we all know how inaccurate they can be. So the main thing is, they actually didn’t eat 300 less. They probably ate 500 more calories.
If you are eliminating all self-report, you have eliminated most nutritional and weight loss/gain studies, and links of food to medical issues.
@swansuzYou’re missing my point. I’m not saying we should dismiss every study that uses self-reported data. My point is that people are notoriously bad at accurately reporting how many calories they eat. So just because participants reported eating 300 fewer calories doesn’t mean they actually did. And just because most nutrition studies rely on self-reported data doesn’t suddenly make that data accurate. That’s exactly why we need to be careful about the conclusions we draw from these studies.
Thank you doctor, you are saving many lives.
You are welcome. That’s my job. ❤@SputnickSpooner-jg5gi
@ibteshamahmed8085 My point was indeed that self-report data is piss poor data.
Have whoever puts these together for you cut the stupid sound effects on the slide transitions, they drown out part of what you’re saying and are too distracting.
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He is so right
everyone needs to see this
I keep loosing the weight and it keeps finding me!
No way to calculate “calories out”
Drs keep wanting to raise my insulin…I won’t agree so what’s wrong with me…I try to IF,,food order,i cant touch bread,potatoes rice etc…I got my a1c to 6.5 all excited went to dr they said we want you on insulin we feel you’re LADA what the heck…no one will talk to me about this
You are lucky your doctors know about LADA. (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults) Most I’ve come across don’t. It is an autoimmune form of diabetes, which means that the body attacks the pancreas where insulin is produced.
So basically it is Type 1, (used to be called Juvenile Diabetes) though many refer to it as Type 1.5, as it appears like Type 2 initially… for months, even years, then eventually the pancreas stops making enough insulin. The autoimmune form can be confirmed through autoantibody and c-peptide tests. Generally an endocrinologist is who will interpret the results.
Even if one eats no carbs with an autoimmune form, they will still need insulin, as the body isn’t producing enough. I think there are a lot of misdiagnosed people, due to little awareness of it, even amongst medical professionals.
I was misdiagnosed at age 41 as T2. Then over the course of a month, I got very sick and nearly died. (Hospital attending physician told me so, as my blood pressure was in heart attack/stroke range.) Mine actually came on fast like T1 in children. My daughter was diagnosed as T1 at age 7. (She’s now almost 24.)
We took classes from the pediatric diabetes clinic at Vanderbilt. They taught us that we would come to know more about diabetes than most doctors and nurses who aren’t specializing in it… which has proven true. I had an inkling I had T1, but ignored it, as I thought the ER docs would’ve known to test if they suspected it. It almost cost me my life.
Most LADA comes on too slow to get sick that fast. But if your body needs insulin, you will damage your organs over time, as no diet can make up for the lack. The difference between T1 and T2 is that T2 is basically being insulin resistant. The body makes insulin, but the cells are not able to use it. T1, as mentioned, is the inability to produce any or enough insulin. A T1 who has an unhealthy lifestyle can develop insulin resistance.
I also have experience with that, as I’m perimenopausal, (symptomatic hormonal fluctuations) and I developed another autoimmune disease years before I had the T1 diagnosis, called Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. In that, the body attacks the thyroid. I eventually had to go on synthetic thyroid hormone medication. Even with that “trifecta” of hormonal imbalances, I recently made diet changes (as of Aug 20th; now Nov 13th) that resulted in losing 23 pounds so far. And I haven’t even started exercising yet. (I’m going to try to start this month!) But I’ve experienced many improvements in my health already.
My point is, get the testing so you know if you are LADA or not. Your health depends on it if you have an autoimmune form of diabetes. There is unfortunately no reversing it with diet at this time like with T2. However, you will be MUCH healthier if you can continue eating well, no matter which type you have. I wish you great luck!
Very informative and well written
I’m confused – insulin just gates the sugar into the cells, what your cells do with the sugar it is dependent on whether you will use if for energy, which is dependent on your metabolism. If you already have enough calories for your energy needs then this excess (eventually) gets stored as fat.
Otherwise, chronic insulin production blocks fat burning and that’s typically due to not allowing insulin levels to drop (always snacking or eating too many carbs) or chronic elevation due to insulin resistance and excess glucose levels.
Insulin ist ein Speicherhormon.
Solange sich Insulin im Blut befindet, kann es zu keinem Fettabbau kommen.
Deshalb sind Fastenfenster so entscheidend.
I must have low insulin cuz I eat close to 4,000 per day without gaining an ounce. 1,700?! I eat that by 11am!
You may have high insulin sensitivity now but if you spike it time abd time again over time you’ll become insulin resistant. Calories are secondary here. Limit processed carbs intake to preserve insulin sensitivity. And exercise, gym or sprinting.
@Bastillon Not how insulin resistance works, but okay.
@mattstone8111what do you mean? If you spike insulin too often it leads to hyperinsulonemia and insulin resistance. It’s nothing special to eat 4000 calories and not gain weight.
@Bastillon You’re assuming that person is eating every hour on the hour. Anyone eating 1-3 times a day combined with the hours they are asleep will be fine. Not to mention, genetics, cortisol levels, meal timing (as well as the contents of those meals), activity levels and type, sleep, and muscle mass all play a role here.
Yep. I was put on insulin and in a matter of weeks, gained nearly ten pounds, which is a lot on my small frame. I’m in the process of shifting to a GLP-1 for my diabetes and coming off the insulin, under the care of my doctor.
– you would be better to follow Jason Fung or read his books – that way you will not need your doctor or insulin. Type 2 l mean re this
@PeteG-bu6ek
So ist es.
Viele Typ 2-Diabetiker glauben leider, diese Erkrankung wäre ihr endgültiges Schicksal.
Hoffentlich informieren sich noch viel mehr Menschen diesbezüglich.
Simply reduce the amount of insulin cut back on the intake. If I was a doctor, I would reduce insulin to a point where it would be just enough for them to need it, and at the same time being able to lose the weight.
I think the doctor gave him too much insulin, an overabundance amount, an overkill, and that’s the problem.