Pratoman said...
Billybob,
I find that my TG is highly correlated with my weight. At TG 350, (it was as high as 700 before meds), I weighed in at 205-210. At TG 65, I was down to 168. This was 6 months after my stent insertion, and I was really scared. Fear was my motivation. Which is. Shame, because now I'm not that scared, and I'm up to 190. Albeit, a month ago I was 183, and TG tested at 154.
Anyhoo, back to your question...I think eliminating fat helped me lose weight, no fat got the assist, no credit for the basket, to use a Basketball metaphor. The basket was scored by the super low carbs AND the elimination of grains. No rice, pasta, bread, Fargo, quinoa, etc. I got this from the book Wheat Belly, by Dr William Davis. which I've mentioned here before.
Regarding what the Dr told me, he casually mentioned, "cut down on pasta and bread. It was one sentence. That was it.
Which leads me to the newest book by Dr Davis, Undoctored. Worth a read.
The truth is there's a lot to be said for taking matters of our health into our own hands. I realize that I personally destroyed big pharma, ..... they took my TG from 700 to 350. I fired them and took my no med TG effectively from 700 to 65. So make of it what you will. My doctor was quite amazed and all he could say was, "your on top of your game, keep it up.
Alas, I wish I could, I fear it will take another event to scare me into retaking the (TG) hill. If you have any ideas on how to scare me into it without g9ving me a heart attack, I'm all ears. 🤔
Prato, that next to last paragraph is a thing of beauty. "I realize that I personally destroyed big pharma, ..... they took my TG from 700 to 350. I fired them..."! What a hoot! It reminds me of a recent(current?) thread of yours, expressing frustration with either the woeful state of our med pros when it comes to nutrition, or possibly even what sometimes might be willful ignorance. An apparent ignorance among the brightest among us. Did your doctors really not know that a low net carb dietary approach would beat the pants off of their lifetime of expensive drugs and their probable SEs? If they are that ignorant, what is their excuse? It is that superior knowledge of all things re: keeping us from illness(or at least curing us from it) that raises doctors to such esteem in our society. That knowledge does not hurt their income either.
I don't have any means of scaring you(I could use some scaring myself), I suspect you already know anything that I do. I will however, as I have done for others recently, recommend you look into intermittent fasting.(intermittent being anything from 12 hours to several days, your choice) Perhaps start with Jason Fung's book. The only reason I recommend it is because I personally have found it easier than an all out low carb approach. Although, he recommends that low carb approach(especially for his diabetic or pre-diabetic patients) as well, though he thinks the fasting is even more effective. But there is certainly no reason a person can not do both, and both intermittently, as he recommends. In fact, I think starting with a fast makes a low carb approach much easier to get started on. Not that I have taken that 2nd step lately. But after the first holiday season I can remember without putting on 10 lb, in fact even a small loss, I am pretty happy with the results of just the occasional fast.
Oh, about
low fat/low carb being hard to stick with: NO DOUBT! If you remove both delicious carbs and delicious, satiating fats, for me anyway, there would not be much joy of eating left. What is left for taste and satiety? But in my past experience, cutting carbs a lot, while not going hungry or denying my desire for the fat which also blunts hunger so well- is vastly easier than cutting both(except during those intermittent fasts of course, when it is zero everything except non-caloric fluids, and it actually seems easier to just cut everything). It is vastly easier and accomplishes a whole lot. And it sure will do a number on TGs and waistlines.
PDL17 said...
Yes BillyBob, I meant lower triglyceride. Sorry for the brain fart.
Paul
Yeah, I figured. Just the sort of brain fart I have so often!
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