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Originally Posted by bkloots
Anyone up to speed on current research would reply that it isn't weight loss per se but the QUALITY of the diet that improves these markers. You can lose weight on a low-fat/low-calorie diet without improving anything except your pants size--and it won't last long. However, a low-carbohydrate/moderate protein lifestyle can indeed improve health, longevity, and disease process leading to T2, cardio disease, and other chronic conditions.
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This is so true
I haven't lost much yet, and am around my lowest, which I had reached previously on low carb a few years ago (before gaining it all back).
The differences:
A few years ago I was doing low carb intermittently, between episodes of binge eating sugar. What kept me losing was a GI issue causing on average 20 (number 2) trips to the loo each day, which meant, in effect, a low calorie diet due to low absorption. My blood test results weren't good, high crp, very high ggt (indicating fatty liver), cholesterol and trigs high, borderline diabetic
Now: I've been continuously cheat free for 155 days. My GI issues (touch wood) are really improved, and I'm a similar weight as the previous low, so if it were weight that were the cause of the poor blood results and fatty liver, they'd be about the same, right? Nope. No longer borderline diabetic (fbg 90), ggt down more than 200 points to 38 (which is huge, upper normal limit is 35), and cholesterol 184, ldl 92, hdl 64, trigs 64.
Any doctor who says lower weight improves test results is sadly deluded. I am still at a very high weight, I am not an anomaly as I previously had poor test results. What I have had is a consistent, no cheat approach to my woe. Even if I lose no more weight, I am much healthier.
I used to think that if I binge ate two days a week, at least I was healthy 5 days a week, but it doesn't work.
Consistency and lifelong commitment to real foods is the key to better health