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laura... -> RE: WEIGHT LOSS / WEIGHT MANAGEMENT SUPPORT THREAD (6/2/2008 3:33:32 PM)
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I'm going to jump in on this thread. I haven't been following the thread and I'm not going to read 12 pages. However, CONGRATULATIONS to all of you for losing weight, maintaining weight or just keeping up the good fight.
First, I'll give you all a little bit of my weighty background. I have been overweight since my body discovered hormones. After having babies, my body discovered more hormones. When my kids were young every time I tried to diet I would lose 20 pounds, stop losing, give up and gain 50. I gave up dieting for at least 20 years out of self preservation.
In 2003 I went to the doctor to begin trying to just be healthier. I was at my top weight of 320. The doctor checked my fasting blood glucose level -- it matched my weight. He put me on glucofage and sent me to the South Beach. Over the next 2 years on South Beach I lost almost 70 pounds. I was able to discontinue taking glucofage and I dropped out of diabetes. Woo hoo.
In 2005 I met a wonderful man and got married. Along with a new husband, I gained a huge extended family, family get-togethers, family-feasts, pot-lucks, multitudes of birthday parties, holiday celebrations, almost every pound that I had lost.
Naturally, I also gained back the diabetes. I have struggled and struggled to get my blood glucose back under control. My doctor has been patient, but he refuses to put me back on medication. He wants me to control my sugar with my diet and lose weight because he knows it will work. Whereas, meds just bring on more meds. <sigh> At my last appointment, May 13th, Dr. G. lost his patience. (Don't worry, he was very nice about it.) My A1C had gone higher. Too high to put off a solution any longer. He still doesn't want to go with meds so he handed me a diet and said, "Here. This will get your numbers down." He reviewed it with me and sent me home with 2 prescriptions--one for potassium and the other for Keto-strips--and another apointment in 1 month. Those Rx's might give you a clue about the kind of diet he handed me. [:(]
So, for the last 20 days, I've been on the "Protein Sparing Modified Fast" diet. It works. I don't recommend it (except if your doctor hands it to you), but, it works. My glucose levels have been averaging 95. The ketone strips show that I've been burning fat at a moderate level. And, I've lost at least 18 pounds. What do I eat? Note the word "fast" in the name of the diet. I eat low fat proteins in limited quantities. I eat less that 10 grams of carb a day. I eat supplements. Yuck. Ptttwy. But...it works.
So, I'm joining this thread to gain more support to accomplish what my doctor has ordered. My husband is a wonderful support. Dr. G would like my hubby on it too but that's another story. Hubby is planning to cut back and lose weight his own way. I think watching me not eat is scaring him into any other method. LOL!! But, I just need to know there are others with me when I face down the family get-togethers, family-feasts, pot-lucks, multitudes of birthday parties, holiday celebrations.
Here are my current stats and triumphs:
Starting Weight: 306.0 pounds (If I remember the doc's scale correctly. I kinda blocked that out of my memory. It may have been more. Certainly not less.)
Current Weight: 288.0 pounds
Loss to Date: 18 pounds
Starting average glucose level: 200+
Current average glucose level: 95
Starting A1C: 8.8
Age: 48 years old
Health issues: diabetes, hypothyroidism
Method: starvation diet. LOL!! (Not quite but close.)
Exercise: nothing specific yet
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