I have lost 110 lbs since being diagnosed. I have recently started working out with the trainer at my gym 5 days a week but my weight loss has stalled. I have a lot of people telling what I should and shouldn't be eating and have tried researching it online but now seem to be suffering from information overload. Can anyone make some recommendations about nutrition while diabetic and working out
Training & weight loss has to be within reason. If u got the flu n it knocked u down for 10 days ... How would not doing ur training affect u ?? Ur diabetic & extreme weight loss is dangerous - on ur heart. Ur Dr is really ur best advisor. He can put u on Low carb diet plan & that gives u dietary needs fr ur height weight & age/sex. Good luck !!
First, great job on the 110 lb loss! Your "stalled weight loss", might not be really stalled. What if you are building muscle as rapidly as you are burning fat! If you had not been doing much weight training previously, you are likely building muscle quickly. Your trainer should be able to do a BMI check, and compare to where you where when you started. BMI is as important, if not more so, than the actual weight number. Think about it this way, if you traded 50 lbs of fat for 50 lbs of muscle, you'd weigh the same, but with a completely different metabolism (burning through several hundred more calories per day). Also, diabetic bodies sometimes "plateau" oddly from workouts and get used to a type of workout and need to be changed. Sometimes it's just a matter of doing some new routines and doing things differently to get the weight loss back on track. You may also have to re-adjust calorie needs if you have built muscle and your trainer should also be able to help there. If you doing too few calories you'll lose this new muscle and actually slow your metabolism. The calorie part of weight loss is an ever changing formula, needing to be looked at even as the weight comes off.
congrats. Definitely see what your diabetic nutritionist says. Remember to check your sugars before and after any exercise to gain better understanding how your work outs affect you. Also keep a journal that includes food, exercise, blood sugar readings, etc.