21 years RNY post op

250 before. 110 after on a Whole food plant based lifestyle.

BE CAREFUL!!! This is serious. You can get comatose and die!

I have POSTPRANDIAL HYPOGLYCEMIA!

If you don't know what that is, look it up

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6598692/

Take care

Teresa

That is a lot of scientific terms and big words and I do not understand it or have the patience to try to read it. Is this referring to dumping?

Yes. At first, I had sugar dumps. Especially after eating fruits. I'm not like that now. I did dump a few months ago, because of too much fat.

Fast forward to today, I am trying to get more healthy with food and exercise. I still go by the rules of the pouch. I eat a whole foods plant based diet. I lost a few more pounds and completely eliminated all of my meds except my vitamins and b12. No inflammation, no headaches and colds are far and in between. And they only last for about a day. Blood pressure is usually 90/65 now.

Postprandial hypoglycemia is a condition when after you eat the blood glucose drops. So now I have to force myself to eat. I believe I am making too much insulin. If you're diabetic, you are hyperglycemic. And that is a result of eating too much fat, not carbs. I voluntarily made the decision to have the Rny surgery because I didn't want to become diabetic. They say this only happens with RNY patients and had dumping. My best friend never dumped. They say it's a 50/50 chance for dumping. This is really rare, only 1 percent has this so far. So I make sure that I eat vegetables that has fat in it. I eat chickpeas, especially before bed. If not, my fasting blood glucose will drop to levels that will kill me. My husband suddenly died almost 2 years ago, so I really have to look after myself.

I hope this explains it a little better for you. I would get a glucose monitor, if you don't have one already and just test it or go to your doctor.

Take care, Teresa

Fats don't make people diabetic. Carbs do, especially simple carbs. Fats don't cause dumping, simple carbs, especially sugars do.

https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/fat-is-the-cause-of-type-2-diabetes/

Type 2 diabetes is caused by many things, but obesity is number one on the list. High carbohydrate intake is number one on the list of reasons people become obese.

Your insulin resistance is not a result of eating too much fat, especially since you say you aren't eating much fat.

Nutritionfacts is a one man band by Dr. Greger. I don't lend him much credence. The Cleveland Clinic is a much better source: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22206-insulin -resistance

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26342536/

No one is advocating substituting carbs for fat. That's ludicrous.

https://dx.doi.org/10.2337/diacare.25.3.620

Thanks for another study proving my point.

"They find that consumption of a high-fat diet and high intakes of saturated fat are associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. However, this association disappears when they adjust for BMI."

Obesity results in Type 2 diabetes. And simple carbs -- junk food -- results in obesity. People aren't becoming obese on red meat and more than they are on carrots.