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Old Sat, Aug-16-08, 07:58
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Originally Posted by Lottadata
Weight loss can help, but contrary to everything people read, it is not essential. Telling people who are obese and have failed at every diet they have ever tried (including low carb which many people stall out on after a first burst of weight loss) that their only hope to recover health is to lose a lot of weight is to condemn them to hopelessness.


I agree with Jenny. There have been several women who came to these forums recently with diabetes and PCOS, who embraced low carb enthusiastically and had less than enthusiastic weight loss and continued to have elevated blood sugars. They quickly disappeared and I'm afraid that they've given up because the one thing that was supposed to work for them didn't work as everyone said it would. I'm sure they will all eventually be on insulin, but I'm equally sure that they will wait until they've developed complications and very high blood sugars.
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