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“whathe said about hi fat diets is bunk and been proven so. its about too many calories in, period.”

You are repeating a myth that is all too common even among some physicians. The calories are not necessarily responsible for causing the obesity in many Type II diabetics. The genetic inheritance results in a malfunctioning metabolism which causes obesity no matter how many or how few calories are eaten and no matter how fat or skinny you were before the presentation of the diabetes. You can eat the equivalent of a WWII concentration camp diet of 800-900 calories per day for 6 months and still have the adipose fat deposited on the waist line making you obese.

The malfunctioning metabolism simply replaces the lost food intake by slowing down the metabolism even further resulting in profound lethargy and sleepiness, the dissolution of the muscle mass, and the conversion of the calories from that muscle mass into fat depostied on the waistline as a response to the perception of starvation. The diabetic increasingly looks like one of thsoe starving children with a gigantic belly superimposed on the bony stick figured frame of the starving child. That is because the insulin resistant cells are behaving as if they really are in starvation mode, being unable to pass the glucose through their cellular walls. In response to what the body misperceives as starvation, the body dissolves muscle tissue, tries and fails to feed the cells with the resulting glucose, and then stores much of the glucose from the dissolved muscle as fat on the body.

It becomes a vicious circle with the cells signalling the need for more glucose, making the diabetic all the more hungry. Yet, the provision of more glucose from the food simply makes the insulin resistance kick-in just that much worse, which in turn denies the ability of the insulin to pass the glucose through the hungry cellular walls. Instead of burning off the glucose in the hungry cells, the glucose remains in the bloodstream, where the glucose damages all of the organs before it can be converted into fat on the body to be stored against the false starvation needs.

So, even those Type II diabetics who eat half or less of the calories normally required for their gender, size, and age and exercise properly, the food they eat is too often stored as fat on the body instead of being burned off as it should have been.

Not in my case. Eating a calorie restricted diet only makes me mean because I’m hungry all the time. After all that suffering I never lost a pound. Now that I’m low carb, I lost the weight I wanted to and maintain my weight easily, and I eat many more calories than Big Gov suggests that I do.

I’ve also given up on cardio for weight loss and weight maintenance. It’s strictly weight training for me. Pumping iron works. Plus it’s easier to tote my little ones around.