“…the typical bad advice from nutritionists or doctors…”
Have known several individuals, two men & two women, who lost weight on type 2 diabetes diagnosis & doctors’ calculations as to how much they needed to lose to lower glucose & cholesterol.
All of them looked emaciated when they lost the prescribed weight, & half gained it back. Of the two who kept it off, both appear sickly.
IMO Calculations based on the lab aspects of the disease really don’t look at the whole patient on an individual level. They’re only looking at reducing glucose & lipid levels to normal levels.
For example, one weighed 280 at “6’0’—definitely overweight. His doctor calculated he would need to drop 80 lbs.
Sounds reasonable. But the individual in question is a large frame body build & looked deathly ill & was tired of getting pitiful stares.
He ended up gaining the weight back & now thinks 220 would be reasonable. I like your individual approach as opposed to blindly accepting a doctor’s recommendation. What works for one may not for another.
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