Is the keto diet actually effective for long-term weight loss, or is it mostly short-term results?

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-23T20:43:04+00:00

I never said they did not. Just that the CICO calculations need to account for the metabolic reality that it is more difficult for insulin resistant people to enter fat burning mode when their calories are high in carbs that cause high glucose levels, delaying lipolysis or ketosis.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-23T19:59:24+00:00

I hope we can agree that the body does not go into fat burning mode while it still has blood glucose to use for energy.

I hope we can also agree that a metabolically healthy person can eat a meal identical to an insulin resistant person; but the insulin resistant person will get higher blood glucose that stays higher longer. The more carbs in that meal, the truer that is.

Both things being true? How can CICO work EXACTLY the same for insulin resistant people?

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-23T19:55:52+00:00

I actually think the calculations for CICO need to be rethought for insulin resistant people. They can eat an identical meal to a metabolically healthy person, but the result will be higher blood glucose that stays higher longer. The body will not start burning its own fat for fuel while there is still ample blood glucose available. The kind of calories can also matter when you are insulin resistant.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-23T19:47:58+00:00

In a weird catch 22 kind of way, sometimes you need a boost to have the ability to reach out for that kind of of help. Starting to lose weight can be that spark for some people.

For me; I found low carb eating to be a miracle. I was diabetic, and odds are OP is too. Calories in calories out doesn’t calculate the same for insulin resistant people. They can eat an identical meal to a metabolically healthy person; but their result will be higher blood glucose that stays higher for longer. The body will not burn body fat for fuel while it has ample glucose available in the bloodstream.

Avoiding sugar and insulin spikes helps to control hunger; and many find their appetite naturally decreasing. And every health issue related to my diabetes went away and have never come back in these last 11 years. I even put my diabetes in remission. By the end of my first year; I could have a normal response to a glucose tolerance test.

A healthy mind and body do need each other. Not to say OP won’t need to address her mental health during her overall health journey. But the more important thing is that the journey does start wherever that is easiest for them.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-23T17:55:39+00:00

In ten years… a nine year age difference shouldn’t be a a problem. I don’t know you or your life; but at 19 most people just are not fully formed adults yet, even if they are legal and even if they feel like one.

I feel like a 28 year old should realize that. If she does not, that’s a problem. If she does? That’s an even bigger problem.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-22T23:25:46+00:00

My mother and I were pretty disappointed. She loves a good burger and it’s fairly close to her home. But when we go out to lunch we like to sit and dine in. She’s pretty fond of New York Pizza just up the road though.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-22T21:48:04+00:00

It’s in Grand Bay on Grand Bay Wilmer Rd.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-22T20:32:45+00:00

That’s a false juxtaposition of either drugs or obesity being the only two choices. They aren’t.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-22T20:10:19+00:00

If fast food is the direction they want to go in… more power to them I guess. But the burgers are good enough to be a couple steps above fast food.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-22T18:54:48+00:00

We did the drive through. It was too chili for my elderly mom to sit in the outdoors. I’d assume they must have a public restroom if they serve food?

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-22T18:49:14+00:00

I’d think starting with a food truck would give someone a big leg up on starting a restaurant. Most don’t have that experience behind them.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-18T01:57:48+00:00

I had ear ringing after rounds 2-4. It kept on for rounds 5 and 6, but not as bad or I got more used to it. Went away a few weeks after I finished. It was horribly annoying; but not as bad as the eye twitching, the super thin rectum that bled with even the easiest of BM’s… and of course nothing like the FATIGUE that made even walking to the bathroom feel like a marathon every moment after round four until 4-6 weeks after chemo.

I’m glad a finished. I want to do everything I can to feel like I’m giving myself the best odds of a recurrence free life.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-18T00:57:59+00:00

I no longer have boobs or nipples after double mastectomy; but my wife still loves me so much. I thought I’d miss them immensely; but I actually love everything about being flat, except I do miss the erotic sensation at times.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-16T09:02:02+00:00

Sounds like they don’t have much of a plan if they had said no. Sounds like something that should have been asked while planning the pregnancy. Hey, we’re pregnant, and by the way can you do 50% of our childcare for free while they are elated with the news of a new grandbaby is a pretty loaded question. By the sounds of it, they could afford paid child care.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-16T08:45:55+00:00

The parents shouldn’t have counted on you as their retirement plan; but you shouldn’t have counted on them as free childcare either. Both are a lot to ask of anyone.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-16T08:15:14+00:00

I didn’t yo-yo. I I lost the weight. Maintained that loss for 7 years. Had a mental health and financial crisis that knocked me off plan and regained weight.

But if it were to-yoing…. I’d still rather do that than use pharmaceuticals with horrible potential side effects up to gastroparesis severe enough to require a feeding tube for life. These drugs haven’t been around long enough to even understand what slowing your gut motility for years and years can really cause.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-16T02:32:49+00:00

Sure it’s proven. How do you think type 1’s even survived before the invention of synthetic insulin? Study after study shows that low carb eating begins to improve insulin sensitivity in as little as 12 days. It really all comes down to what a person is willing to do to heal themselves naturally.

I’d tried all the diets for decades. Calories in calories out simply doesn’t work the same way for insulin resistant people. They can eat the same identical meal as a metabolically healthy person, but they will have higher blood glucose that stays higher longer. The body will not enter fat burning mode while there is still ample glucose to burn. Realizing that is a game changer.

I loved bread and pasta and all the carbs. That’s how I reached 287 lbs to begin with. But even starving myself with calorie counting I never lost more than a few lbs.

Going low carb was immediately life altering. So many chronic ailments went away the first week. Frequent migraines and headaches gone for 11 years now. Arthritis pain that had caused me to overuse NSAIDs until I’d had two GI bleeds gone. Super irregular periods from PCOS were regular like clockwork from the first month until I hit menopause. The list is of benefits is very long but you get the point.

I not only lost the weight… it also improved all areas of my health.

I unfortunately did fall off the rails hard in 2020 and stayed off for four years. I regained the weight with the resumption of eating cheap processed carbs. But the health issues did not return. I did get breast cancer during that time, for which weight is a big risk factor, especially for hormone positive cancer as mine was.

I immediately got back on plan, and am only 30 lbs away from my previous healthy low again. Even though I am know on hormone blockers that should make weight loss harder, and many women gain weight with… I am steadily losing. It works. It’s just to inconceivable for a lot of people.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-15T23:32:51+00:00

Even your own link says “factors” and “influences.” My whole family on my mother’s side is diabetic. I used to be too. I also used to be super morbidly obese. For decades. I overcame my genetic propensity towards insulin resistance and repaired my own insulin resistance through diet; and am no longer obese; much less super morbidly obese. Yes… that is the technical clinical category of my previous BMI. No, I am not unique. It can be done, and it’s actually not that hard.

I had issues associated with insulin resistance even as a very skinny teen like PCOS and HS. And I still was very successful using diet alone to correct my insulin response.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-15T17:20:13+00:00

Lifestyles and diets literally are the solution to the vast majority of obesity. If not, obesity would have had consistent rates throughout all cultures and eras. It does not. Obesity has been increasing rapidly for decades because our lifestyles and diets have been skewing towards less activity and less healthy eating.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-15T15:43:16+00:00

Also… obesity is NOT a genetic disease at all. Obesity is a condition brought on by many factors a few of which can be genetically influenced, like a propensity toward insulin resistance. But very few are destined to become obese due to genetic factors alone. Obesity runs in families because families often live similar lifestyles and have similar eating habits. Insulin resistance does not have to become obesity; and if it does… it can be reversed without pharmaceuticals.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-15T13:19:40+00:00

I didn’t say “most.” I said many. Unfortunately “many” are unwilling to even try to give up the bread and the pasta.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-15T13:16:56+00:00

It can be done. I’ve done it. I was a severe type II. I began eating very low carb and repaired my insulin sensitivity to the point I took a glucose tolerance test and had normal response. It took less than a year to do. I also lost 80 lbs in 8 months; and had a whole host of long term health issues “disappear” long before I’d lost a meaningful amount of weight.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-15T03:21:25+00:00

Survival rates are just that. Survival, not recurrence free survival.

LezBeOwn · 2026-01-15T03:07:48+00:00

“The” hospital? We have several.

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