Hi Folks,
I’ve spent the last 4 days reading this thread and other stuff regarding low-carb/high-fat/high-protein lifestyles. The more I really think about it the more sense it does make. Lemme please post a quote from myself @ diabetesforums.com as an intro:
"I thought I’d maybe just tell what’s happened to me up to this point. I’m giving no advice and am sure that many here know much more about this disease than I do. In the early 90’s in my late twenties I was a fitness entusiast with very extensive and sophisticated knowledge of all the things that produce and maintain human health.
Our doctor at the time told me that I was the finest specimen of physical fitness on all levels that he had seen in 18 years of practice. I had gained almost 40 pounds of muscle, was 6 percent body fat, could run 10 miles without blinking and all the vital stats were perfect. To make a very long story very short I allowed the vicissitudes of life to get the best of me and I fell into a pattern of heavy drinking, very poor diet and a generally sluggish existence.
Needless to say this plummeted me into obesity, poor health and ultimately, as it turns out, a diabetic state. While drifting in and out of conciousness and sweating like a pig, the emergency room folks told me my blood pressure was sky high and my blood glucose levels we’re almost 600 several hours after the last time I’d eaten anything. This was about five years ago.
I ignored it which is one of the most insidious things about diabetes, it doesn’t kill you right away and sometimes you can’t even tell anything’s wrong so you figure you’ll deal with it later. Later has come for me. After a few more episodes and reading enough and hearing from at least one person personally aquainted with someone who went blind from diabetes I was scared into taking action.
In the building where I work a man gave me a free Freestyle Flash testing kit 5 month s ago with all the widgets to keep it working until now. At that time my glucose levels according to the meter were over 400 almost all the time and over 500, at which point it just reads high, for much of the time. In mid March of this year I buckeled down, quit drinking, pulled all my old fitness knowledge off the dusty shelf in my brain, bought a bunch of home weightlifting equipment, which is cheaper than one might think and got to work.
Since then I’ve lost 8 inches off my waistline, am actually starting to look muscular again, can run 3 miles in 28 minutes and best of all my glucose readings average high 90’s to fairly rare highs in the 130’s, but usually around 110 to 120. Not perfect I know, but much better than before and I’m still learning. I’m 42 now and am just glad I saw the light before I did any permenant damage which the doctor says I haven’t done near as he can tell.
I do workout quite hard and live on a food glop I make out of carefully selected nutritious foods eaten in small portions 6 times a day. Don’t know how all this will pan out over the coming years, but for now I feel pretty good and hope for even further improvements. Like I say, just telling the story hoping someone may find it interesting.
–Tiribulus-> Detroit"
My goal, as is most people’s I guess, is to get as big as I can and hopefully get to around 8% BF. I’ve made quite noticable gains and lost a TON of fat in the last few months though I have not weighed myself or had a body composition analysis done. Folks tell me I look easily 10-15 years younger than I did earlier this year. However, I’m beginning to feel a bit tired here and there and have hit an absolute wall with fat loss.
I still have some softness I’d really love to shed. I train very hard: quads, hams and calves Mon., Abs, Back and Bis Wed., chest, tris and delts Sat. I also do 30 min of mod-high int. aerobics 4 times a week, but never on or after leg day. High intensity was what worked before, so that’s what I’vebeen doing now. After doing full body workouts light n high 4 times over 2 weeks I buckled down and starting going for things like double drop sets, eccentric only etc. Like I say I’ve gotten good results.
This way of eating really intrigues me, but I have some reservations as it relates to diabetes and overall long term health though I do see guys like Disc Hoss have been on it for years with only beneficial results. Presently I’m eating the pretty standard high quality (ultra clean) diet consisting of about 30/30/40 fats/proteins/carb respectively. I don’t even know if I’m asking anything or justing airing my thoughts generally.
I’m inclined to try this out, or at least some version of it and watch the glucose meter closely. I’m just not 25 anymore and am a little trepidacious though. Understand, I have NO problem believing against convention and wouldn’t be shocked to have it confirmed that everything I’d ever thought I learned about macronutrients was in error. I have the anabolic diet in e-book format am in the middle of reading it as well as having read this whole thread.
I’ll probably decide to give it a shot and just thought I’d say hello and share my viewpoint.
Thanks,
–Tiribulus->
More fish it is !