Well, I wish I wore clothes as small a size as you do. I need to loose weight. If I eat more than 60g of carbs, I gain weight. If I eat between 50 or 60g I stay the same. I don’t loose unless I eat less carbs than that.
If I eat more than 60g carbs, my ankles swell, even though I take HCTZ. The endocrinologist advised me to stick to the diabetic diet of 60g or less. I self diagnosed that I was developing insulin resistance, and she confirmed it.
Not enough to be prediabetic, and not diabetic, but still on the way. In addition if I eat stuff like bread, then I crave it all day long and for several days after. So I’m better off just avoiding it.
That’s another reason that I have gone to raising my own stuff and canning. So many foods these days have HFC which is just a bit worse than sugar for the insulin reaction.
My husband and I have increasingly just started being our own physicians also. There are the known broken parts in me that we know sometimes a licensed doc has to deal with. But the internal functions, metabolic, nutrition, all the stuff that combines to make the best body we can get is up to us. Doctor’s don’t have the time or knowledge to determine many of our body’s needs or problems, it’s up to us to pay attention and be responsible. The answers arent in pill form for the most part. Relying on good healthily produced food is what makes us both feel the best. I preached that to my sweetie for the first 3 years together. He kept gaining weight. (I was not forcing the carbs down his throat) Finally he came home one night down in the dumps over his size and complaining that everytime he’d ever been on a diet he was miserable and hungry all the time. I’d asked him to try eating “my way” but he fussed and complained. That evening I discovered his complaints were about not wanting to “feel hungry” all the time.
So, he was finally disgusted enough to try reducing carbs, eliminating junk food thru his workday and trying a healthier diet. He lost 35 pounds in 8 months. He wasn’t hungry. I proved my point but he’s returned to some bad habits and now knows, and admits, he feels better with my healthier diet. I watch him pretty closely due to the prevalence of diabetes in his family. And this is also why I humor my mom everytime she shows up and pulls out her blood sugar testing stuff.
No doubt your being mindful in the same way is going to keep ya’lls bodies ticking along many more years than folks on a common American diet. And just like you did, it’s often a lot more dependable to self-diagnose because the doctors don’t live with you 24-7. Better that we try to be informed ourselves and then use the medical profession as a tool for getting testing etc.