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Originally Posted by fgummett  I guess the honest answer is that whenever I tried a low-fat and/or calorie-restrictive diet I constantly felt deprived and hungry... especially if I exercised as well BUT I did give it a fair try on more than one occasion.
Hunger - for me at least - is just like the need to breathe or drink water... it is a very low-level/primitive physiological drive. So if you say you just need will-power, I suggest you sit at the bottom of a deep swimming pool and see how long "will-power" will let you hold your breath.  |
I find the need to eat to be a rather inconvenient background noise that is easily ignored for way longer than is healthy. Diabetes is proving to be difficult for me because I have to eat to keep my bgls down.
Would I consider my will power stronger than yours? Not at all. I don't have enough will power/discipline to force myself to eat 3 meals a day every day. My diet is constructed around things I can face eating no matter how disinterested I am.
I find it incredibly hard to take medication when I don't feel sick. But the consequences repeatedly bite me on the bum so to speak. Will power in one thing doesn't mean you have it for everything. I find it mentally easier to go for a run than face eating a meal when I'm not hungry.
I guess my point is that it strikes me that your diet is primarily successful because you have found it easier to comply. So I'm thinking that the best diet in the case of successful weight loss (which I'd think is imperative for type 2 diabetics with high IR), is simply the diet that they can stick to (as long as you aren't sky high with carb abuse).
But I'm curious as to the prolonged effects. When you achieve healthy weight range, will you continue to eat that low carb?
Your breakfast is higher in calories than I eat in an entire day and I'm a very active person. Will you at some point be forced to reduce how much you eat in order to achieve further weight loss?
What about the concerns of bowel cancer and IBS and various other diseases? Will a lack of grains in your diet prove detrimental in some way that you are not currently monitoring?
