Again, this basic thing is not what the medical world does. It does pills and insuline injections, at best backed up with advise that simply doesn't work.Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Why do I say that the advise doesn't work? For a very simple reason; the advise is what I tried to apply in the long run up to this situation. Control what I eat (you kknow, that whole low-fat nonsense most of us grew up with) and exercise. I know what exercise does, I've been there too. And indeed it works, in my case if I spend around 4 hours a day in a gym and/or swimming pool (I kid you not). Then it works. While living a somewhat more normal life, where a job actually took up some serious time I only half-jokingly used to say that I merely had to think of food to pack the pounds on.
In the USA dabetic or pre-diabetic is the majority condition. One has to wonder how many people in that group think - like I did - that they know how to live healthy and don't understand why it simply won't work for them.
A little bit of ranting extra : when Covid broke out my BMI was 42,8. I realized that a survival strategy would have to include losing weight. A traditional diet got me down to a BMI of 40 after about 8 months. During that same period I started to feel real bad. And I mean real bad. Then the diagnosis came and I got the Metformin pills. And the resolve to do something about it. In the months since my BMI went down to 32. Mostly because, after a short spell with calory restriction I started to get informed and realized that it wasn't a matter of too much food, but simply the wrong food. I tried that out and it had drastic effects. 'Official information' on what I was doing was that it wasn't likely to succeed because it would involve drastic changes in life style.
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