I agree Kaplods, I didn't start there either. The tweaks were necessary and made things much easier (fixed more underlying problems, too) and I wish I'd had a better understanding of nutrition and endocrinology when I began, but such is life.
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Originally Posted by freelancemomma
That's a misleading statement. You might scare people into thinking that if they don't watch their carbs, they're guaranteed to get metabolic syndrome, which is not true. And I don't mean to be hurtful, but I found the tone in the statement a little offputting. It's like you were saying, "I'm going to get the last word in and then block my ears and leave the room." Can we agree to either remove such undertones from the discussion or ignore each other's posts?
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What? No, I'm not removing my statement, or caveating it. *I* AM a layperson who is controlling carbohydrates specifically to prevent metabolic syndrome. I will have it if I do not, I am genetically prone and have already shown symptoms, as almost all people who eat up into the range of morbid obesity do. Obesity is a symptom of an underlying energy processing issue for folks like me, it's not simple appetite, gluttony, or a moral failing, but genuine hunger that drove me up the scale. The signalling for that hunger was chemical in nature, not just me liking donuts
I think you misread my post. And furthermore, controlling insulin is STILL crucial to weight loss. Low carbohydrate diets or those otherwise controlling their breakdown are the most effective at mitigating insulin release quickly, but as all food is insulinogenic to some degree, controlling calories, eating windows, etc is also helpful. And compared to how your average obese person is eating pre-diet, all of them (even plans like Jenny Craig and Ornish) are comparably lower insulin stimulating. This isn't some random coincidence.
There is a whole spectrum of human physiology regarding tolerance to carbohydrate load - some folks can eat plenty of them and their bodies compensate with extra NEAT, the energy is just plain wasted or excreted, or their leptin down-regulates their hunger signalling for longer, thus controlling the energy balance. On the other end of the scale are folks who are much more prone to an inappropriate endocrine response to energy, where the signalling isn't down regulating their appetites or worse, their bodies continue to release more insulin but their cells are resistant to the signalling (the beginnings of metabolic syndrome). Thus they are having ever more fuel transported into their adipocytes, but the signals of hunger/lethargy are still coming. That's also on the spectrum of normal and folks like that need a better strategy to control their sympton of excess body weight than just eat less, move more.
As I said in my FIRST post, all diets work in varying degrees. That variety comes from individual chemistry and preferences. Adherence is key, and some plans are better suited to my individual metabolism and needs than others, as I'm sure is the case for you. I really have no idea where the confusion in my posts was, I thought I was pretty clear? But it WAS late and now it IS early. I have bible study to run to.