Consulting a doctor is wise when one has weight issues. Good for you. I hope the diet is working well for you. :)
Thank you! And it did it's job, that's for sure. But I wasn't consulting the doctor for weight issues. See, I was having episodes of hypoglycemia, chronic fatigue, hair growth that *no* woman wants, hair loss on my head, no menstruation cycle (for a year!) and high blood pressure. I had gained some weight, but it wasn't over the top. All this happened fairly fast and I was alarmed.
Turned out I had PCOS and was developing Type 2 diabetes. I'd been eating a low-fat, low-protain, high-carb diet for years and though I was doing the healthy thing. (The low blood sugars were happening after episodes of high BS. My body was responding slowly to the demand for insulin, then it would overproduce and drop me to the floor.)
He put me on the lowest possible carb diet for 6 months to reverse all the damage done by carbs along with Metforamin. After that time, I was put on a 60g maintenance diet that I was supposed to stay on for life.
Within 2 months my BP stabilized, my BG's stabilized, I'd lost 20 pounds and all the other symptoms straightened out.
Why I responded so well to the low-carb diet became even more apparent when we discovered the I had Celiac disease. Low-carb=less gluten.
I "fell off the wagon" a few years ago, but now all the old symptoms are coming back. I guess it's time to stop playing around.
You should also know that my friend's cardiologist also put her on a low-carb diet for uncontrollable high blood pressure. *With* BP medication her BP was running 175/145. He put her on the LCD with flax seed oil and she was off her meds in less than a month. At a check-up my husband discovered his BP was dangerously elevated and his cholesterol was terrible. He did 30 days of a LCD with flax seed oil and his numbers were perfect at the follow-up appt.
We don't eat low-carb for vanity, we eat it for health. I am NOT going to say that this is the ideal diet for everyone. All of us have unique physiology's and what works for one may be a death-sentence for another. I *AM* saying that if you're "doing everything right" (eating a low-fat/high-carb diet) and you find the classic issues of elevated BP, erratic blood sugars, horrible cholesterol, PCOS symptoms), you may want to consider this novel approach. There's a book called "Protein Power" by Michael and Mary Ann Eades that explains the science behind the diet and it's link with health in a very comprehensive way.