A brief back ground.
I was slim until I was 24. I put on weight when I got married and took the contraceptive pill. I dieted (1000 calories). Why on earth I didn't just stop taking the damn pill I don't know!
I had a child and put on 3 stones whilst pregnant. I dieted.
I had a car accident and very bad whiplash injuries. Years later a nutritionist and a naturopath told me they thought my thyroid had been damaged in the accident. All thyroid tests I have had say it's fine, but the naturopath reckoned my thyroid was producing enough raw hormone but not converting enough of it into active hormone. My GP's have all said this was wrong. It makes sense though because I put on weight rapidly after the accident (2 stones in 3 months) I dieted (more strictly)and walked twice a day too.
I had another child. I put on 3 stones whilst pregnant. This time I was able to feed him myself and also had postnatal depression. I didn't eat a lot in all the time I was feeding him. I got down to 8 stones 10 pounds and stayed there until I stopped feeding him over a year later.
I switched to eating the NHS recommendations. I put on weight. I dieted. I tried diet pills, more exercise, more silly diets, some of which were given to me by my GP. I tried the cabbage soup diet, low GI, low GL, low calorie, the Dukan diet and weight watchers, my own version of the 5:2 diet years before it became well known and later my own version of the Newcastle diet (which I did with 600 cals a day for 7 weeks). This paragraph is a précis of 17 years of my life.
Well you get the picture. I messed up my metabolism big time by starving myself and putting the fire out instead of giving my body the right fuel to keep the fire burning. I finally realised what I was doing wrong when I and my son had flu around 8 years ago. We were both so ill we ate nothing/nearly nothing for around 6 days, just managing to sip water then we ate 200-400 calories for the next 5 days. My slim son lost 11 1/2 pounds in this time and looked painfully thin afterwards. I lost just half a pound, yet I was seriously obese and had lots to lose! Something was very wrong with me. Diets weren't ever going to work if I couldn't even lose weight when eating nothing!
That's when I decided to do things differently and try to eat to lose weight. So here I am. I now follow LCHF fairly well (!) and have been T2 for 3 years 10 months. I have lost 38 pounds in 14 months. That's all. I need to lose several more stones. I am stuck.
Now you know the background I want to ask you about a specific event. I have been having around 30g carbs daily for a few weeks (yes I've done it before, but slipped a little). I realise that diet alone won't do it for me. I have short walks when I can and have started doing longer ones when time permits.
Last weekend I went for a 12 mile walk with my husband (along the Thames path from Kingston Bridge to Hammersmith Bridge). I ate low carb during the day and made sure I drank plenty of water. My fasting BGs previously had been running at around 5.9-6.2. Next morning my fasting BG was 8.3 (and that's what it was when I was diagnosed T2) It has taken a week to get it down to 6.7, despite low carbing. I also weighed before the walk and found when I weighed the day after I had put on 3 pounds. This morning I weighed again and have lost 2 of them, but I am a bit dismayed that my BGs and weight are not doing what I would like them to do!
Oh my calorie intake is usually around 1200-1300 a day, maybe going as high as 1800 occasionally. I make a real effort to make sure I have at least 1200 calories, because I don't want to slow my metabolism down even further by starving myself again.
So what am I doing wrong this time?
I was slim until I was 24. I put on weight when I got married and took the contraceptive pill. I dieted (1000 calories). Why on earth I didn't just stop taking the damn pill I don't know!
I had a child and put on 3 stones whilst pregnant. I dieted.
I had a car accident and very bad whiplash injuries. Years later a nutritionist and a naturopath told me they thought my thyroid had been damaged in the accident. All thyroid tests I have had say it's fine, but the naturopath reckoned my thyroid was producing enough raw hormone but not converting enough of it into active hormone. My GP's have all said this was wrong. It makes sense though because I put on weight rapidly after the accident (2 stones in 3 months) I dieted (more strictly)and walked twice a day too.
I had another child. I put on 3 stones whilst pregnant. This time I was able to feed him myself and also had postnatal depression. I didn't eat a lot in all the time I was feeding him. I got down to 8 stones 10 pounds and stayed there until I stopped feeding him over a year later.
I switched to eating the NHS recommendations. I put on weight. I dieted. I tried diet pills, more exercise, more silly diets, some of which were given to me by my GP. I tried the cabbage soup diet, low GI, low GL, low calorie, the Dukan diet and weight watchers, my own version of the 5:2 diet years before it became well known and later my own version of the Newcastle diet (which I did with 600 cals a day for 7 weeks). This paragraph is a précis of 17 years of my life.
Well you get the picture. I messed up my metabolism big time by starving myself and putting the fire out instead of giving my body the right fuel to keep the fire burning. I finally realised what I was doing wrong when I and my son had flu around 8 years ago. We were both so ill we ate nothing/nearly nothing for around 6 days, just managing to sip water then we ate 200-400 calories for the next 5 days. My slim son lost 11 1/2 pounds in this time and looked painfully thin afterwards. I lost just half a pound, yet I was seriously obese and had lots to lose! Something was very wrong with me. Diets weren't ever going to work if I couldn't even lose weight when eating nothing!
That's when I decided to do things differently and try to eat to lose weight. So here I am. I now follow LCHF fairly well (!) and have been T2 for 3 years 10 months. I have lost 38 pounds in 14 months. That's all. I need to lose several more stones. I am stuck.
Now you know the background I want to ask you about a specific event. I have been having around 30g carbs daily for a few weeks (yes I've done it before, but slipped a little). I realise that diet alone won't do it for me. I have short walks when I can and have started doing longer ones when time permits.
Last weekend I went for a 12 mile walk with my husband (along the Thames path from Kingston Bridge to Hammersmith Bridge). I ate low carb during the day and made sure I drank plenty of water. My fasting BGs previously had been running at around 5.9-6.2. Next morning my fasting BG was 8.3 (and that's what it was when I was diagnosed T2) It has taken a week to get it down to 6.7, despite low carbing. I also weighed before the walk and found when I weighed the day after I had put on 3 pounds. This morning I weighed again and have lost 2 of them, but I am a bit dismayed that my BGs and weight are not doing what I would like them to do!
Oh my calorie intake is usually around 1200-1300 a day, maybe going as high as 1800 occasionally. I make a real effort to make sure I have at least 1200 calories, because I don't want to slow my metabolism down even further by starving myself again.
So what am I doing wrong this time?