nwlifter
Sat, Jan-09-16, 12:43
Hey Folks, read a lot of threads on here, thought I'd finally join in.
I'm a 50 year old male, 'ex' poor nutrition junky :)
Background:
Super skinny kid, skinny teen. Always wanted to 'not' be skinny. Lifted weights like crazy from age 16-mid forties, and ate as much food, mostly bad foods, as I could, trying to 'not be skinny'. Well, I finally got 'not skinny', I got over tubby with some muscles hiding under it.
But, last November, found out I was glucose intolerant, which meant, if I didn't change my ways, I could be headed for T2 diabetes, yikes! This scared the you know what outa me. I started, what ended up being so far, an intense search of everything to do with this condition, diet, supplements, exercise and massive learning on everything about how the body processes nutritents, the organs, endocrine system, etc.
At first, I found out about the miracle of low carb, so started that the same day. I had never heard of Paleo or other low carb, so just was doing the 'free for all' keto thing. But man, it was working way beyond what I expected. During november I start reading about the variations of low carb and ordered both 'The Paleo Cure' and 'Low carb Mediterranean' diet books. Paleo seemed to really hit on the right stuff, and the book actually explained about types of fats, and so forth. So after researching all the nutrient details, that became my guide post.
Been making some great progress. I eat paleo (with an atkins bar occasionally for a treat thown in), and exercise my butt off every day. Technically, I'm now in the normal glucose number range, but I want to be supra-normal.
My starting BG numbers were
Waking BG 119-122 (almost at the T2 level, barely still in the pre stage)
11:00am, massive dawn phenomena, BG 150
Average afternoon fasting BG about 110-115
Now
Waking BG 89-92
11:00 am 90-95
Average afternoon fasting 79-89
I've went from 173.6, waist size 39.25 inches
To last Thursday of 157.0, waist size 36 inches
Shooting for my old waist size of 31.
I am teeny 'boned', so if I'm 'non muscled' my good weight is really about 137, but if I'm weight lifting, I'm really lean at 141-145. So those are my goals.
Low carb rules! Just over 2 months and made this much progress so far :D
I'm a 50 year old male, 'ex' poor nutrition junky :)
Background:
Super skinny kid, skinny teen. Always wanted to 'not' be skinny. Lifted weights like crazy from age 16-mid forties, and ate as much food, mostly bad foods, as I could, trying to 'not be skinny'. Well, I finally got 'not skinny', I got over tubby with some muscles hiding under it.
But, last November, found out I was glucose intolerant, which meant, if I didn't change my ways, I could be headed for T2 diabetes, yikes! This scared the you know what outa me. I started, what ended up being so far, an intense search of everything to do with this condition, diet, supplements, exercise and massive learning on everything about how the body processes nutritents, the organs, endocrine system, etc.
At first, I found out about the miracle of low carb, so started that the same day. I had never heard of Paleo or other low carb, so just was doing the 'free for all' keto thing. But man, it was working way beyond what I expected. During november I start reading about the variations of low carb and ordered both 'The Paleo Cure' and 'Low carb Mediterranean' diet books. Paleo seemed to really hit on the right stuff, and the book actually explained about types of fats, and so forth. So after researching all the nutrient details, that became my guide post.
Been making some great progress. I eat paleo (with an atkins bar occasionally for a treat thown in), and exercise my butt off every day. Technically, I'm now in the normal glucose number range, but I want to be supra-normal.
My starting BG numbers were
Waking BG 119-122 (almost at the T2 level, barely still in the pre stage)
11:00am, massive dawn phenomena, BG 150
Average afternoon fasting BG about 110-115
Now
Waking BG 89-92
11:00 am 90-95
Average afternoon fasting 79-89
I've went from 173.6, waist size 39.25 inches
To last Thursday of 157.0, waist size 36 inches
Shooting for my old waist size of 31.
I am teeny 'boned', so if I'm 'non muscled' my good weight is really about 137, but if I'm weight lifting, I'm really lean at 141-145. So those are my goals.
Low carb rules! Just over 2 months and made this much progress so far :D