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In Reply to: Thank you - from heart to heart - for sharing this post, MTP. SM posted by 220MT on December 31, 2009 at 23:12:00:
Listen, you don't have to pay anybody or have surgery to lose wt. You don't have to buy expensive supplements. I swear.
I have lost 60 pounds and have had stable wt since around the middle of December.
If your sugar is high, you have impaired metabolism. You have insulin resistance. You cannot eat carbs like normal people do.
I'm not saying do this for a long time, but to jumpstart yourself, it works. When you are losing, you want to continue losing. You can gradually add back in carbs as your wt stabilizes and you're where you want to be.
Here's what I did. Every day I kept a log of what I ate which included carbs and calories, and the time I ate it. You have to eat calories up to about 1200 or more. I ate less than 20 carbs, usually shooting for 10, but I didn't beat myself up.
Sample meals:
breakfast: Scrambled eggs with bacon or sausage, OR cheese omelet.
Lunch: Tuna with mayo and pickle OR naked ruben (pastrami, swiss, sauerkraut, thousand island - nuked in a bowl, no bread) OR canned chicken with ranch dressing and season salt OR leftover meat from last night's dinner with blue cheese dressing as a dip.
Dinner: Baked chicken OR steak OR fish sauteed in butter with chopped tomato and onion OR shrimp (as much as I wanted) sauteed in butter and hotsauce (like buffalo sauce) or broiled or fried in a little olive oil).
NOTE: NO bread, rice, noodles, potatoes. The veggies I ate were just onions and garlic for flavor, and occasional tomato. Drink plenty of water.
Now that's just a sample, because your taste may differ.
If I HAD to have a sweet, I would eat 1 or 2 hershey kisses (2.7 carbs, 22 cals each) and that's it.
For nutrition supplement while I was doing this , I took vit B complex, C, calcium, D, E, flaxseed gelcap, and multivitamin. I didn't spend a lot of money on name brands (I shop at Wal-Mart.)
My blood sugar is stable. I stopped my BP med. My feet don't swell.
EVERY single person I know who had wt loss surgery regrets it. I personally know of two people who died due to complications such as MTP had. The others have gained the wt back.
Like somebody said above, have some meals that you can prepare in a flash, where you know the cal/carb counts ahead of time, and always keep those staples on hand.
Get the book Blood Sugar 101 by Jenny Ruhl. She does an excellent job of explaining impaired metabolism.
Good luck.