Best Diet for Insulin Resistance

marrowgirl

I have PCOS and IR and struggle with my weight.

I have definitely noticed that after eating sugar or carbs I am sleepy afterwards. I don't really lose much on any diet but when I add exercise the weight comes off much better. I basically follow slimming world now but stay away from processed foods and if I have carbs they are brown rice/pasta. For me though, exercise is key (but I have no motivation!) and doing this three times a week helps me lose the lard.

bobbydrake50

Definately give up the sugar and maybe switch to sweet potatoes instead of white and quinoa instead of rice - try to eat complex carbs rather than simple carbs.

Mr_helpful

This is not a diet but a slimming method. If you knew what this guy lost without dieting you would never look at another diet.
http://www.thegabrielmethod.com/

SlimmingSusan

Mr_helpful wrote: »

This is not a diet but a slimming method. If you knew what this guy lost without dieting you would never look at another diet.
http://www.thegabrielmethod.com/

I actually have that book. Also have the foodmatters dvd, and went to Truth matters seminar in london. Guess I already have the answers :-)

moneypooh

Low GI is recommended for IR

ca55ie

Agreed - Low GI is great for both coping with IR and losing weight
So is regular exercise :j
If only I practised what I preach :rotfl:

NigeWick

I lost 62lbs in a year. I stopped eating grains apart from the occasional white rice. That's no bread, no pasta, no cakes, no buns, no pizza and no biscuits. Counted calories for the first few months and laid off the conventional aerobic exercise. I also cut out almost all milk and reduced my cheese intake. I do not feel hungry because of the stuff I eat. Is it expensive? What's your health worth? I used to take two blood pressure medications, one statin and a steroid inhaler for late onset asthma. Now I don't.

Food that keeps hunger down does not have to be too much drain on the finances if one buys fresh ingredients and looks for bargains. Having said that, I do eat tinned mackerel & herring fairly often.

Exercising for any length of time makes one hungry and I've noticed that when I get hungry I eat. I walk about a mile to town five days a week and load the shopping in a rucksack. I have a go at press ups five days a week too, started with none and now do more than 20. I also do a bodyweight workout for 10 - 15 minutes once or twice a week. Press ups, squats, dips between chairs, sit ups or plank and inversions (make a bridge with belly up in the air). The time is short because the intensity is high.

Reading material:- The Primal Blueprint, The Perfect Health Diet, The Paleo Solution for food related information and Pushing the Limits by Al Kavadlo for exercise with no equipment. All the authors have blogs for more information. If a lazy person like me can do it, anybody can.

nzmegs

Any diet which restricts carbs including all sugar and wheat will have miraculous results. Go cold turkey (it is the only way) and avoid sugar substitutes too at least for a while.

I am a believer in eating extra fat when you are going low carb including butter, cream, cheese and coconut oil. Don't be afraid of fat, you body will use it as energy in the absence of carbs.

Mojisola

When I was tested and my blood sugars were too high, I bought a blood sugar monitor and tested a lot in the first few months - one and two hours after eating. Some foods cause a quick rise; others a slower rise that's easy to miss if you don't do the second test.

It's easy to find the foods that send your blood sugars rocketing and those that keep it stable. I found it easier to avoid the foods I shouldn't eat because I could see on the monitor the effects they were having on me.

I found this site - https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewforum.php?f=18 - very useful.

margaretclare

SlimmingSusan wrote: »

I actually have that book. Also have the foodmatters dvd, and went to Truth matters seminar in london. Guess I already have the answers :-)

Much of what he says is absolute common sense. Listen to your body.

Over the last 5 years or so I've tried almost every 'diet' known to man. Some have worked, but only for a while. Some of what Dr Dukan said made sense: items like potatoes and bananas are too easily-digested and cause a 'spike' in blood-sugar, which is not what I need. Also the use of oat-bran pancakes was good - that seems to help with the constipation. I don't need several days' worth of meals in my colon, absorbing nutrients all the time! And drinking water, and walking 20 minutes a day at least (not that I've done that!)

I find I put on weight when we go on holiday. I think it's the eating patterns that are different. We seem to feel that we must eat dinner in the evenings. Do we really need it?

For the last week, we've been having a good breakfast, a reasonably-good lunch fairly later (about 2 pm) but then I usually don't feel like eating much for the rest of the day, so no dinner as such. I've had either the oat-bran pancake, half a tub of cottage cheese, a protein milk-shake, a yogurt, but nothing that could be called a 'meal'. And my weight is on the way back down. Down 0.5 kg from a week ago, that's a pound.

If I don't feel hungry, why eat, just because it's the 'custom' to eat dinner in the evenings?