"Ignoramus8743" wrote in message
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My personal opinion, is that what it points out, is the possibility
that likely most of the interviewed persons did not have metabolic
syndrome/diabetes.

Well, people with diabete are still a minority, thankfully. I don't know how
many obeses also have a metabolic syndrom, and how much of their obesity can
be linked to it. You also have to consider that weight loss, at least for
some people, can reduce the metabolic syndrom to such an extent that it is
no longer a problem past the first few pounds. Even with diabete, weight
loss is very effective for some. My FBG returned to high normal within a
month of losing weight for instance. Right now, if I had not been tested
before, I would pass most casual diabete screenings (A1c, FBG) without even
registering as pre-diabetic. Of course, that would show on a GTT, but
they're rarely used nowadays.
It's quite possible that for some of these people with metabolical syndrom,
rapid weight loss put them into a range where insulin resistance was low
enough to allow maintainance.

It's not that I think that metabolic disorder people cannot lose
weight at all, but I don't think that a low fat diet is what would
work for many of them.

There is a whole world between no fat and no carb I still think these
people could lose on a traditional diet (i.e. a well established cultural
diet, not one designed by a doctor) with basic portion control. The
integrist low fat diet (all fats=bad, less than 25% calories from fats) is
so abnormal that it's a wonder people actually managed to lose on it (and
stay healthy).

Now, I know, that you consider yourself a counterexample, a diabetic
who became obese because of psychological issues that you are now
addressing, but, I don't think that you are on a low fat diet.

Indeed, my diet is getting closer to the traditionnal French diet, with a
few exceptions (I should drink more wine ). It's certainly not low fat (I
eat quite a lot of nuts lately, along with olive oil and walnut oil and some
butter) and it's not high carb either. Some days are higher carbs than
others too.
Today was a rather high carb day for instance, but this might be linked to
increased exercise yesterday. I just bought a cardiometer [tr?] to use
bio-feedback for meditation, but I also use it for exercising. As a result,
I have added bursts of sprinting to my power-walking (heart going at 140bpm
on average [75% max], peaks at 167 [90% max]), for one hour yesterday and
half an hour today. This certainly felt great, but I did some serious
sweating as a result, and this did raise hunger quite a bit, and craving for
carbs (I guess glycogen stores were quite empty). But I don't really
exercise with the intent to lose weight, the goal is to improve my insulin
resistance.
I would actually say I'm a psychological obese who got diabetic because of
the excess weight (and total sedentarity during the past few years).
Diabete probably helped me put on weight so quickly in the past years, but
only because I was eating an insane amount of food. The fact that my FBG and
A1c are going down through pure weight loss and exercise and not too much
diet seems to hint to that. Likewise, the fact that I have experienced
little reactive hypoglycemia (except when I was using Prandin), and that
what hypoglycemia I have experienced made me nauseous, make it difficult for
me to blame the overeating on it.
I seem to lose weight about as easily as I put it on, it's really totally
symetric there. That's also something I share with my father, and maybe my
grandfather on my mother's side. Men in the familly (both sides) also build
muscles as easily (people often think wrongly that my father is into
bodybuilding), and it seems I have inherited that trait (I was always quite
muscular, even under the fat). So, it's really a matter of pushing the body
in the right direction, and being so sedentary certainly didn't push it
towards building muscles rather than fat.