Exhibit #63: Congratulations Gina! T1D controlled with keto/low-carb. T1D deserve normal BG levels. Institutional A1c "targets" are way too high, but must be to protect those consuming tons of carbs from hypos.
Some of these quote tweets have disappeared. That's too bad.
In celebration of 75 success stories (there must be 100s or 1000s more out there), here's a threadreader unroll to memorialize these wonderful achievements.
Exhibit #77: John finds Atkins, and gets his health back. Great line: "Regular food tastes better, a missed meal is hardly noticed, and junk food loses its luster." Well done.
Exhibit #86: Meet the Master: Chris Cornell. A nice guy and a model low-carb transformation. Well done Chris, you are a beacon to others just finding out about the low-carb diet alternative.
Exhibit #87: What a transformation Brian. Well done. Another nice guy and a model to those who need help, need an example, need to know "this diet works."
Exhibit #88: Not every victory is profound weight loss (and a ton of other better). Sometimes the change is on the inside, like lowering HbA1c ~3%. Good on you Abigail.
Exhibit #94: Congratulations Steve. A common and heartwarming story. The nasal cannula in the before picture is a nice touch. We focus on weight loss sometimes forgetting improvements in health. Well done! Great list of helpers too.
If you ate no sugar for one year, instead of consuming the 101.6 pounds the average American consumes every year, you wouldn't eat nearly a cubic foot of sugar.
Half the people's mega blocks of sugar would be even BIGGER.
That's 11533 sugar cubes for the cube fans.
Assuming:
Americans consume ~126.4 grams per day on average.
Well well, since 1950 school lunch quality goes down.
UPF wrecking health is not new!
"In the 1950s, with the rise of pre-packaged convenience foods and the government’s emphasis on lowering food costs overall, the nutritional quality of school …
lunches plummeted. Although schools were serving calorically dense meals, they often offered little in the way of healthy veggies, fresh fruits, or lean proteins, instead offering things like cheese meatloaf and sausage shortcake. The lack of nutrition was one of the driving …
factors behind the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, which gave control over what schools could offer at mealtime to the Department of Agriculture."
#GatedEating has demonstrated that I can lose weight—and keep it off—by extended fasting. That fasting is either coffee only, or a minimal amount of protein for several days each week. I have yet to demonstrate holding a particular weight, but that is mostly because I am 1/
trying to reach a target waistline and am not satisfied holding the current weight. Hunger is under much better control that pre-LCHF days, and emotional eating is also better controlled now. I must not lose sight of these accomplishments despite remaining above goal weight/size.
I had a DEXA scan last July, which revealed 3.6 lbs of visceral fat. My goal since then was to lose excess fat (determined more by waistline appearance than the scale), and have another scan this July to determine the remaining amount of visceral fat. 3/