You will continue losing fat, as long as the body has excess fat to lose.
In the beginning, you might appear "gaunt" because the body does not exclusively lose fat, but also loses a significant amount of lean muscle mass, as well. But, once the body loses all of the excess body fat, it will begin to put the lost lean muscle mass back on and weight will go up. This is why having adequate protein and staying away from long fasts, is so important. The body must rebuild itself again in order to be healthy.
It's during this "gaunt" stage, that people around you might start worrying, but they need to place all that worry on their own obesity instead of your weight loss. Also, a lot of people think gauntness is indicative of their own impending demise. News flash! - Pizza and donuts are not proper nutrition for the body. Just because these items make you fat, doesn't mean they are nutritious. It just means they are fattening. Fatness is not indicative of health. On the contrary. It's indicative of a metabolism that is not in balance and not healthy.
So, unless you have cancer, advanced HIV or some other malignant disease, the body will stop losing weight when it's ready to. No one dies of famine, while still eating.
2. If you are on a ketogenic diet, you can never have high blood glucose.
Yes you can. Whoever tells you, that it's impossible to have abnormal blood glucose on "keto" is either a liar or a bumbling fool. It's hard to tell which one is worse, since the damage they both cause is the same.
Ketogenic diets are not a magic "cure" for metabolic disease. Ketogenic diets and all diets only affect the glucose coming in, but most of the high glucose, that a metabolically ill person experiences, is glucose coming out. This means that their body is breaking itself down, and everything eaten, into glucose in an exaggerated and unregulated way. This is not halted exclusively through diet. This is halted over time with consistent blood glucose control so that insulin function improves.
But, this is not the case for everyone. Some people are unable to properly regulate their blood glucose enough to normalize insulin function, regardless of their diet. This is caused by many other factors that have nothing to do with diet such as age, gender, chronic conditions, medications, and other stressors. Also caffeine intake is a big one.
Insulin is very complex. It affects many organs and regulates many functions in the body. For people who are unable to achieve remission through diet alone, medications will be required, alongside a proper diet. This will help them take better control and halt the disease from becoming progressively worse.
3. A blood glucose of 80 mg/dl, after a meal, is hyperglycemia.
No. That's ridiculous. Two hours after eating, your blood glucose should return to fasting levels. A healthy fasting blood glucose level is around 84 mg/dL.
Since this issue has been brought up, I am going to go on a small tangent about blood glucose. Some people seem to be obsessed with their blood glucose and are having panic attacks when they see their blood glucose fluctuate a couple of points. This is probably do to the sensationalism displayed over blood glucose by the low carb community. They continue this hype around blood glucose, while ignoring their expanding waistlines. So, let me surgically remove this heap of BS, before it metastasizes.
There is no hard line number for blood glucose. A healthy range is around 84 mg/dL. We know this because this is the average range of blood glucose in healthy people. We also know that the average range of blood glucose in diabetics, is much higher. From this information, we make a calculated guess as to what healthy blood glucose should look like. That's really the only way we can determine what a healthy range might look like.
If blood glucose dips too far under that range, then it may be problematic. If blood glucose goes too far above that range, then it may be problematic. There are no certainties here. It all depends on just how far up or down you are going and how chronically it does this. We know how far up blood glucose can go to kill you, the same for how far down it can go, but normal is very subjective. That number is not so clear, as a person can still be healthy at any point within a certain range. The body is an imprecise machine, which does not use exact numbers. It can still be healthy under a wide range of factors.
What is known is that blood glucose rarely goes below 70 or above 100 mg/dl in healthy people. These people are able to keep their blood glucose, tightly regulated, around 84 mg/dL with no issues or effort. So, if your blood glucose is dipping below 70 mg/dL or rising above 100 mg/dL, then you have to monitor when and why this occurs, so you can have a better picture of what may be going on.
Type I diabetics can control their blood glucose very well, following carbohydrate restriction. They can keep it at a steady 84 mg/dl, because they don't have insulin resistance, of any organ or tissue, and they administer their own insulin.
But, people with metabolic disease have a very difficult time keeping their blood glucose steady or keeping it in the 80's mg/dl. Their blood glucose can rise to the 90's mg/dL and the low 100's mg/dL. This is because insulin resistance tends to create more blood glucose fluctuations and it's harder to keep it steady at one number. Don't panic. The goal is to continue working at keeping blood glucose steady. Period.
Stick to your diet. Continue your exercise. Relax with the blood glucose meter. If you aren't dosing insulin or eating donuts, you only need to check your blood glucose twice a day and your HbA1C every three to six months.
Control your blood glucose, don't obsess. Obsession is not control. Obsession is chaos under the disguise of control. That's not going to better your health.
4. The Standard American Diet (SAD) diet is high in carbohydrate.
The SAD diet is both a high carb and a high fat diet. The carbohydrate of choice is sugar and the fat is vegetable oils.
5. Chia seeds are very healthy and necessary.
Chia seeds, at best, are completely unnecessary. At worst, they can exacerbate digestive issues. Chia seeds are not proper human food. Feed seeds to birds and meat to humans.
6. Fasting allows the body to "rest".
I hate to say that is silly, but there really is no other way to describe it. The body never rests. It only rests when it dies.
When you are fasting, the only thing that rests is your digestive system, since it's empty. Your esophagus, stomach and intestines are all muscles that can "rest" if they aren't pushing solid food around. But the body continues its metabolic process, since it has no choice. If it stops, you die.
The body still requires proteins, fats, glucose, oxygen, vitamins, minerals, etc. It must continue being metabolically active, to acquire all of these needs, so it shifts from an anabolic state (fed/storage) to a catabolic state (fasted/burning). Now it acquires everything it needs from itself. It basically breaks itself down for energy. The body doesn't like to do this and does so through the release of "stress hormones". So, catabolism (fasting) is not "resting". If anything, it's quite the opposite. It's a stressor.
Now just because the body is under stress does not necessarily mean it's an unhealthy state. Some stress is healthy. It's only when the stress becomes chronic or it's compounded on top of other stressors, that causes problems. This is especially true of people with metabolic diseases, as they do not have the metabolic flexibility to handle stressors very well. Most stressors for them are detrimental rather than hormetic.
That's why on this blog we focus on beneficial fasting and beneficial diets. We stay away from silly beliefs like this one, which are just lies.
3. A blood glucose of 80 mg/dl, after a meal, is hyperglycemia.
No. That's ridiculous. Two hours after eating, your blood glucose should return to fasting levels. A healthy fasting blood glucose level is around 84 mg/dL.
Since this issue has been brought up, I am going to go on a small tangent about blood glucose. Some people seem to be obsessed with their blood glucose and are having panic attacks when they see their blood glucose fluctuate a couple of points. This is probably do to the sensationalism displayed over blood glucose by the low carb community. They continue this hype around blood glucose, while ignoring their expanding waistlines. So, let me surgically remove this heap of BS, before it metastasizes.
There is no hard line number for blood glucose. A healthy range is around 84 mg/dL. We know this because this is the average range of blood glucose in healthy people. We also know that the average range of blood glucose in diabetics, is much higher. From this information, we make a calculated guess as to what healthy blood glucose should look like. That's really the only way we can determine what a healthy range might look like.
If blood glucose dips too far under that range, then it may be problematic. If blood glucose goes too far above that range, then it may be problematic. There are no certainties here. It all depends on just how far up or down you are going and how chronically it does this. We know how far up blood glucose can go to kill you, the same for how far down it can go, but normal is very subjective. That number is not so clear, as a person can still be healthy at any point within a certain range. The body is an imprecise machine, which does not use exact numbers. It can still be healthy under a wide range of factors.
What is known is that blood glucose rarely goes below 70 or above 100 mg/dl in healthy people. These people are able to keep their blood glucose, tightly regulated, around 84 mg/dL with no issues or effort. So, if your blood glucose is dipping below 70 mg/dL or rising above 100 mg/dL, then you have to monitor when and why this occurs, so you can have a better picture of what may be going on.
Type I diabetics can control their blood glucose very well, following carbohydrate restriction. They can keep it at a steady 84 mg/dl, because they don't have insulin resistance, of any organ or tissue, and they administer their own insulin.
But, people with metabolic disease have a very difficult time keeping their blood glucose steady or keeping it in the 80's mg/dl. Their blood glucose can rise to the 90's mg/dL and the low 100's mg/dL. This is because insulin resistance tends to create more blood glucose fluctuations and it's harder to keep it steady at one number. Don't panic. The goal is to continue working at keeping blood glucose steady. Period.
Stick to your diet. Continue your exercise. Relax with the blood glucose meter. If you aren't dosing insulin or eating donuts, you only need to check your blood glucose twice a day and your HbA1C every three to six months.
- Blood glucose should be taken first thing in the morning. This helps you know your adrenal glucose (stress response to low insulin) release status.
- Then it should be taken two hours after your largest meal. This helps you know your pancreatic glucose (glucagon response to high insulin) release status.
Control your blood glucose, don't obsess. Obsession is not control. Obsession is chaos under the disguise of control. That's not going to better your health.
4. The Standard American Diet (SAD) diet is high in carbohydrate.
The SAD diet is both a high carb and a high fat diet. The carbohydrate of choice is sugar and the fat is vegetable oils.
5. Chia seeds are very healthy and necessary.
Chia seeds, at best, are completely unnecessary. At worst, they can exacerbate digestive issues. Chia seeds are not proper human food. Feed seeds to birds and meat to humans.
6. Fasting allows the body to "rest".
I hate to say that is silly, but there really is no other way to describe it. The body never rests. It only rests when it dies.
When you are fasting, the only thing that rests is your digestive system, since it's empty. Your esophagus, stomach and intestines are all muscles that can "rest" if they aren't pushing solid food around. But the body continues its metabolic process, since it has no choice. If it stops, you die.
The body still requires proteins, fats, glucose, oxygen, vitamins, minerals, etc. It must continue being metabolically active, to acquire all of these needs, so it shifts from an anabolic state (fed/storage) to a catabolic state (fasted/burning). Now it acquires everything it needs from itself. It basically breaks itself down for energy. The body doesn't like to do this and does so through the release of "stress hormones". So, catabolism (fasting) is not "resting". If anything, it's quite the opposite. It's a stressor.
Now just because the body is under stress does not necessarily mean it's an unhealthy state. Some stress is healthy. It's only when the stress becomes chronic or it's compounded on top of other stressors, that causes problems. This is especially true of people with metabolic diseases, as they do not have the metabolic flexibility to handle stressors very well. Most stressors for them are detrimental rather than hormetic.
That's why on this blog we focus on beneficial fasting and beneficial diets. We stay away from silly beliefs like this one, which are just lies.
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