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[dreamer_easy]

We're constantly bombarded with stuff about food, fat, and dieting; I'm wary about adding to the babble here. Because I've got Type 2 Diabetes, though, it's an issue I can't completely avoid. I spit on body fascism, the dodgy diet industry, and the casual, commonplace bigotry against fat people. I rip down ads for snake oil diets when I see them in the street, and I daily remind my soft, sexy curves how much I love them. What I want is unbiased info about health: what is the relationship between my podge and my diabetes? What can I realistically do about it? I don't feel comfortable trusting either the general panic about how we're all going to swell up like balloons and explode; nor am I completely comfortable with fat activists' dismissal of links between podge and health. What I want is SCIENCE dammit SCIENCE. Will post some here when I find it - always behind a cut, because the radio TV newspaper politicians and quacks are filling you with enough crap as it is.

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[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Sometimes diet and exercise help, but are not the answer. I walk c 2 hours a day and am mostly very careful about my diet. Careful to the point of tedium. It doesn't help. I suspect that my metabolism is so stuffed through PCOS combining with acute allergies I can't seem to get thinner, and the doctor is convinced that I must be lying about my food and my exercise and won't try me on metformin, much less anything more exciting and risky.
Kate - if you can find good information I promise to read every word, enthusiastically. I have had a surfeit of doctors who assume the waistline is the disease, not a symptom.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Sounds perfectly ghastly.

(Have you tried a low GI diet? Probably, but I thought I should wave it about.)

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

I am on one. Well, mostly. Low GI diets are really hard to maintain for years on end. Low GI maintains the weight but only lost me size initially. It *ought* not be more ghastly than any other maintenance program for a chronic illness, but it becomes that because of the focus on weight and waist measurement as opposed to the illness.

[zazuomgwtf.livejournal.com]

Part of my syndrome x is PCOS so I am really hearing you about this! Luckily I have had medical professionals who did believe that my weight problem was not caused by overeating. I can imagine how terribly frustrating it is for people who are trying to care for you to assume that your weight problem "is your fault".
Recently I was put on a diet especially for people who produce too much insulin, and it is really working. If you are interested my IM's are on my userinfo and I would be happy to tell you all about it.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Exteremely interested. If I can sort the diet out then maybe the exercise will do something. I don't have IM, but my email is gpolackattriviumpublishingdotcom and I live in Canberra. Thank you!!