Weight Loss, Starving and BG's

[Sherrielee]

Well, my weight is finally moving down a bit. I was so encouraged that I even lowered my goal by 5 lbs. I really had to cut the calories down to 1000 per day to get the scale to budge, but I figured that it is not a forever thing.

Well, it seems that everytime a couple of lbs leave my body, my BG's go up. Could it be that the body perceives weight loss as stress. I really don't mind putting up with BG's in the 110-120's for a while as I lose weight....knowing that less weight will mean less IR.

Has anyone else had this experience? I feel like I just want to "go for it" with the weight loss. This is getting too boring....just losing one pound per month!!!

[kevjol]

I'm with ya on that
My weight loss has stalled for over a month and my BG numbers have risen on average 10 pts.
So I bought a home gym and am hoping that will get things moving again.
If not its back to induction at the first of the month.

[eevee]

A topic you may find interesting is the Cortisol one presently being discussed at Dr Bs own forum, or it can be 'searched' in the Exercise forum here......

Also, this is a quote from: http://www.wannabebig.com/article.p...eid=67&pageid=2 which I think explains the big hole we can fall into when doing 6-12-12 and why I am not happy with such a low carb intake.

"Truth is that as your body becomes more efficient at processing fat over time it becomes less efficient at processing carbs. This means over time there is a dramatic decrease in insulin sensitivity--this is known as insulin resistence"

So, I wonder, is it the increased I/R that causes stalls..??
Eve

[simplydawn]

Hi there...

Interesting indeed! Since beginning a low carb WOE I have been dramatically decreasing my insulin injections, and I am almost off entirely.. hoping that by my next Dr visit, he will say.. wala.. (I take 4u 70/40 am and 7 u in the pm)

I had a stall in the weight loss area for almost 3 weeks, then with this last lowering of my dosage this last week, I have lost 2 lbs...but noticed my bg's raised up a tad as well, nothing major, for instance my fasting bg this morning was 113, and yesterdays was 115.

I will have to keep a close eye on the weight loss correlating to the bg's to see.. if it is related.

[Luscious]

hmm.. this happened to me too this week. I had not noticed a pattern before... but will have to keep my weight next to my daily bgl testing each morning.

[Sherrielee]

Well, I took some organic vegetable broth and made 1/2 gallon of "egg-drop" soup....just scrambled eggs into the hot broth. Lost 5 lbs in 3 days. AND BG's did not raise! Yipeee...doing the happy dance!