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Change your lifestyle. If you’re calling this a “diet,” then you’re going to gain all the weight back (and more) within a few months of losing it. Diets do not work. Diets are temporary. When you change your dietary lifestyle, however, you’re changing your habits – and you’re putting yourself on track for long-term / continued success and weight maintenance. Don’t ever tell anybody you’re on a diet – ever. I’m speaking from experience, here – a reformed low-carber. Worked out well for a while, but ultimately failed because my entire lifestyle didn’t change (permanently).
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good luck with that. im a low carber so I eat all meat. chicken (BREAST) is my staple tho. i get tired of everything else.
Just so you know where I am coming from:
1. I do respect your rights.
2. I am a diabetic.
That said here goes. Diabetics don't have to watch just sugar; we have to watch anything that turns into sugar. That “anything" is carbohydrates. I could push my glucose levels through the stratosphere by eating potatoes and nothing else. I mean real potatoes, not some processed product like potato chips or McDonald's French fries. Corn and peas are also bad for me as the convert from the starchy material they are to the glucose in my blood that damages organs and would eventually kill me. I could go into further detail and will if you want to email my profile.
On the other hand, I can eat quality hot dogs, those with one or less grams of carbohydrates, about as frequently and in any volume I care to consume. Unprocessed meats are the same. It is the cereal fillers added to processed meats that are the problem for diabetics. Filet mignon steaks can be eaten by the truck load with little effect on my blood sugars. Eggs are essentially a protein based food. I think most contain about 1 gram of carbohydrate per egg. I can eat them, essentially, with out limit.
Medically it is important that I eat some carbohydrates. I limit them to 45 to 60 grams per meal. One regular sugared soda is roughly equivalent to a full meal for me. If I were to eat 2 or less grams per meal I would be forcing my liver to convert other things to sugar and it would eventually cause liver problems. This is something anyone contemplating a LOW carb diet needs to be aware of.
Ok there are the facts as I understand them with a bit of my situation blended in. Like you said, you are old enough to make the call yourself. I would recommend that if you do go WAY down on the carbs that you watch the protein levels in your urine. As I understand it if those levels are elevated and stay that way kidney damage can occur.
Good luck on your diet. I'll be around if you want anything more from me. Just email the profile like I said earlier.