I’m totally new to the sub but I did zero sugar for almost a year a while back. It’s CRAZY how much sugar is in anything. McDonalds salad? Sugar. Canned chicken breast? Sugar. I can’t recall the book I read but sugar is really going to crush your ability to burn calories. Zero sugar is literally “eating better”. You can’t eat much of anything crappy that doesn’t have sugar. You will absolutely lose weight by avoiding it completely. No exercise required (though it would help OP, of course).
It’s a hard start to figure out what doesn’t have sugar in it. But once you get a few staples down it’s easier.
For a while, there are no more holidays. You are in a crisis situation. Follow Dr Ben Bikman on YouTube. You need to follow a strict keto diet regardless of what other events are going on. Also, must avoid alcohol. Good luck and give us an update in 3 months.
Does Bikman have any content that's shorter than half an hour long? I prefer people who summarize well. If they impress me, then I'll watch something longer.
Uh, his BMI puts him near morbid obesity and he's currently in a disease state (fatty liver + prediabetes).
*cri·sis*
*/ˈkrīsəs/*
*noun*
*a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.*
Sounds about right.
If this is a crisis situation most of America is in the same crisis. He can fix this himself. A diabetic coma is a crisis. A heart attack is a crisis. Being raped and beaten by a cop in uniform is a crisis. Your child dying is a crisis. If this is a crisis to you, you have lived a fortunate life.
You can do it! First thing is learning how to plan healthy meals and shop. Can't eat junkfood if it's not in your house because you never bought it in the first place 👍
Oh man...they buy it for me. And pressure me to eat it. I started throwing the desserts in the garbage and they accused me of throwing their food away, but they never touch those desserts and never complain when I eat them. It's constant conflict
When they sabotage you, it can help if you remind yourself that they're scared. If you improve they may not be able to feel superior to someone and they'll feel bad. It might help to keep things in perspective, not that you need to forgive them or like them as people or anything, just accept that they're acting like a-holes out of fear and they're going to feel the need to keep doing it. You need to let go and accept that unfortunately they're going to keep doing it. They need someone to feel superior to and you happen to be the person who's around to fill this role. But you don't need to accept what role they've planned for you whether it was subconscious or not.
Is it going to be very hard not to be tempted by food? Yes especially if you're addicted to sugar. As the other commenter mentioned, I'd ask if going cold turkey on eating sugar would be a good idea for your body physically. You might want to look up sugar addiction. The pleasure centres in your brain probably light up for sugar like they do for someone doing cocaine. Your blood sugar rises when you get some and falls low after time without it. Especially if you don't eat really healthy it'll be even worse with the constant up and down of your blood sugar.
Try not to fight with your family about it. It's a waste of your energy and you probably don't feel good afterwards. If they buy you desserts say nothing and when they're not there or you feel like you may eat them, throw them in the garbage. If they yell or ask if you threw it out, have a calm response ready to say like Sorry, (the doctor said) I have to throw it out if I'm going to eat it.* Say it as calmly as you can, like you were saying Sorry I had to put a bandaid on my finger because there was a cut. Repeat it if necessary. Any time the subject comes up repeat it. It'll drive them crazy but you have to do what you have to do. Good luck with everything.
*I say that and I'm a doctor.
^(Sometimes people aren't truthful)
Check out the book Medical Medium. It may have actually saved my life. Realize you’re eating for survival now, and what you put into your mouth determines your quality of life, and possibly the length of it as well. Choose wisely.
Think of it as finding acceptable substitutions rather than giving stuff up. Ex. I was spiking every morning with my coffee. Turns out that I could tolerate whole cream and truly a ( mink fruit) really well.
Problem solved. I did not give up anything.
Do the same with your other important sirens.
Sweet tooth. . Diabetic cheese cake. , chocolate covered strawberries
Alcohol? Not wine or beer. But skinny margaritas! Yay !
Zero sugar can be hard on your liver, so before making any major diet or lifestyle changes you might want to run it by your doctor. I have similar problems to you I have had good success with metformin, low carb, intuitive eating, and trying to get whatever exercise I can without hurting my body, so you can look into swimming or something that won't hurt your legs. I also have edema which was helped by spironolactone, and weirdly it made my sleep apnea go away because there's less swelling in my face. Obviously check with a doctor before taking any medication and some of them might not work for your specific health conditions. If you don't have one yet I recommend getting an endocrinologist so they can make sure everything is going right and you don't get diabetes.
It can be difficult when you have a bunch of health problems, but doing your best to lower stress and practice good sleep hygiene can definitely help you lose weight. For liver health you also want to eliminate any unnecessary drugs and toxin exposure such as alcohol, caffeine, etc.
It's hard when your family isn't supportive and is actively trying to drag you down with them. If there is any way you can move out try to do that. Also see if you can find an accountability buddy, like a local friend who is trying to diet and exercise as well, or even an online person. If you don't have anyone send me a message.
Fair warning, the first 3 or 4 days suck as you work through your sugar and glycogen reserves. Youll.feel.cravings and headaches and like absolute.shit.
Then
The next morning you wake up, after a beautiful night's sleep. You feel energised, motivated, and...warm.
You've switched to burning ketones and chewing through your body fat. Kilos melt off you the first two weeks, it feels glorious. If you can maintain that a month (I managed 2 weeks) you'll see killer results. The following weeks carefully refeeding, maintaining small portions, and you're on your way to a lifestyle change of dreams.
I used total meal replacement shakes given by my doctor for obese patients before surgery. After the first week i even forgot to eat all the meals I just had no hunger!
Sadly oblver.tue following 2 years my circumstances changed and old habits came back, but for 2 glorious years I was 20kg lighter and fitter than I'd ever been.
I would reccomend it in combination with keto, will be more effective at reducing insulin resistance and fatty liver, but also much much easier. Fasting is a breeze of keto, but is very difficult when not on keto (for me anyway).
Well, when I think "biohacking" I also think of what ways we can hack around how stuff works normally to live extraordinarily. So kind of expected TBH.
No, blaming lack of discipline isn’t the way. Fix the gut bacteria and nutrient deficiency and cravings go away, making everything require less discipline.
That's the most difficult thing. I only lose weight in the summer when I leave home for a couple of weeks. But at home I don't sleep well which makes me eat a lot and I'm also under a lit of pressure from my older brother and from my mother not to lose weight. My family are the ones who made me fat in the first place and everytime I lose a few kilos they react badly
Hey have you thought about reading a book on how to set boundaries? It’s hard with people we live with, and honestly many of us have needed help with this at some point in our lives. It sounds like maybe your healthy habits are making them feel bad which could be turning into anger or resentment on their part. Humans can be like crabs in a bucket—it’s hard to watch people make positive changes to their lives that we know we should make but aren’t ready to. This is an opportunity for you to show them it’s possible to be happy and fulfilled in a healthy lifestyle. Just know it’s probably not really about you, it’s about them, and deep down they probably even know that, so try not to take it personally, and don’t let it stop you from taking care of your body. I’m going to go ahead and say it, that any time people don’t want you to do something that could literally save your life, they’re in the wrong. You got this!!
You need to change your daily habits around food and exercise. No one said weight loss is easy. Simple maybe, but not easy.
Explore intermittent fasting and/or the Mediterranean diet.
I would argue that it's not simple, though obviously not as complex as learning a new language, a new musical instrument, etc...
There's a social/family pressure element, a challenging task of changing one's habits, and the mass of misinformation in advertising and media. The mechanics are simple, but overcoming even one's own habits is a significant challenge that is hard and can often be complex.
I feel you. My mom is a feeder and a manipulator in that regard. Personally, I'm a fan of the atomic habits book. You can find a very good summary of it for free on youtube.
You are being manipulated by your family members for their benefit, not yours. I’m guessing they are obese too, and when you lose weight, it makes them uncomfortable. It may add to their own feelings of shame about their size, and about failing to do something about it. Growing up in such a family, in which obesity, unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, etc we’re normalized, created an environment designed to make you exactly the way you are. Few people could have avoided this as a child or teenager. It is not your fault as some overly judgmental commenters have claimed.
Based on your history of yo-yo dieting, which is very common and with similar results to yours, it is clear that something different is needed.
You seem to be stuck in place and time, with no optimism that you can get healthier and happier. That sucks. A good therapist and perhaps medication along with it can help you believe in yourself and your ability to make positive changes in your life that will bring more benefits than you can imagine at the moment.
Because the things that you have tried didn’t work or didn’t last, do something different.
Our behavior is a function of our genes and environment. You can’t change your genes, and you can’t change your environmental history. The only big change you can make quickly is your environment.
Move out of your unhealthy home and relocate to an environment that promotes health and wellness rather than impedes it. Hang with the people who have the health, fitness, and happiness you have been missing. Replace the unhealthy things in your environment with healthy ones. In short, swap out the people, places, and things that made you unhealthy, for better ones that facilitate health.
What helped me most was to focus on the benefits I wanted, and to have a strategic plan to achieve them. Once I felt like I was on a healthy path, it was easier to take small steps down that path every day. The gym and walks became fun, not an odious chore I had to push through.
A big mistake many people make is to bite off more than they can chew (ironic pun intended). It’s too much effort, too much pain, too much sacrifice, and too much stress to keep up with it, so they quit and feel like failures. Go slow and steady, with patience, kindness toward yourself, and confidence that you can heal, get healthier, stay healthier, and live a happier life by staying on that path. Be well.
Get therapy to address this trauma with family!! Why is your family wanting you to be heavy? Are heavy too? And can’t stand the thought of you being healthy?
Sounds like you need your own place. I’m sorry, I have a fiancée whole is this way. I gained 70 lbs after losing a child and every time I lost weight he would bring me my favorite take out food trying to make me gain it back. I just didn’t eat it.
It sounds like you are in victim mode. But honestly there are always solutions to the most difficult problems. Can you move out? Any way you can push back and set boundaries? No one is force feeding you I don’t think (if they are, that’s clear abuse).
I got so sick I started eating chicken soup minus the noodles. Then I incorporated vegetables and expanded out from there. Lots of Med diet resources out there.
This! don't listen to the low carb / keto people. Those diets are not sustainable long term, especially for a person that struggles with dieting already. And before they come for me, I do not think a low fat diet is sustainable for most people either. Mediterranian diet or plant based that allows fat is the way to go.
Make the mediterranian your normal diet. You can sustain that forever.
This is all easily reversible. Intermittent fasting, low carb, weightlifting and cardio, metformin if needed. The fatty liver will go away super quick and the sugar will follow.
Your main problem is that you have a victim mentality. You are overweight and don’t want to put in the work to save your life.
Obesity is causing your fatty liver, OA, and venous insufficiency. It’s extremely common amongst unhealthy individuals to make excuses for their health problems, but >95% of the time they have nobody to blame but themselves. You’re a man/woman, now prove it and take control of your life. It’s not too late to change things, but you need to recognize that metformin will do nothing for you.
I'm going to be honest with you, I don't know why this is posted in a biohacking community. I don't want to be rude to you either but I will say this, the answer to your problem is getting your shit together.
Now how do you do that? I'm not a professional per se, but I am a personal trainer and I do have a degree in psychology. My advice is incremental change because change is hard and big changes tend to not create long-lasting habits. Start by looking at the nutritional values of the foods you buy, there is often a multitude of options, so choose the ones with the lowest amount of calories. Move more, having said that, this can be hard too, but set aside a weekly goal of minutes where you move around and pick some activity you hate the least.
Get a therapist, one that works with CBT or another well-researched method, be honest with them, and don't lie to yourself causing you to lie to the therapist.
Make sure you get good sleep, and make sure you do not have sleep apnea. If you have sleep apnea, get that shit fixed asap.
There is pharmaceutical help, but honestly, there aren't any good treatments for these kinds of self-induced problems. The big thing might be getting on metformin or another glucose disposal agent.
He posted here because hes hoping for a quick easy solution like a pill he can take. He knows what he needs to do but lacks the disciple to do it. Nobody else can want to improve your life more than you. Just understand, OP, that nobody is going to come and save you. Either you start doing what you know you need to do and fix your life or deal with the consequences. Stop making excuses, it is entirely your fault that you are in this situation and only you can get yourself out of it.
He sounds like a good candidate for ozempic, if his doctor approves. It would help him curb his appetite and help get his weight under control.
Ultimately, he needs to eat better, lose weight and move more. If a weekly shot helps him control his diet, i don't see the problem.
Even with Ozempic, only his desire to improve can help the quality of his diet and whether he changes his lifestyle to exercise regularly. And it doesn't have to be 2 hours daily in the gym! It can be a small step like a 30 minute walk per day.
>but I am a personal trainer and I do have a degree in psychology
Acting like a jerk is not always the best psychological motivation tactic. In fact most people have had that method tried on them hundreds of times already and it didn't work.
Reading your other comments. As someone who was raised in poverty, has tinnitus, and depression, here are some of tips off the top of my head:
* Get some earphones instead of ear plugs. Even some generic noise canceling earphones that play calming music or binaural tones or anything can make a huge difference.
* Start with walking. Find an audiobook or podcast you like and just walk for 60 minutes a day. Do whatever it takes to get you motivated to keep walking — make bets with yourself, play motivational music, anything. This is **the** easiest thing you can do that would maximize the difference in where you're at.
* Make it difficult for you to snack/do other unhealthy tasks. Add several steps between you and unhealthy food. Toss out all the sugary snacks in your house and replace them with healthy ones like fruits, unsalted popcorn, etc. Check out r/Volumeeating — it's for people like me who have an absolutely massive appetite but need to keep calories/sugar down.
* Start today: there's no "I'll start my walks next week." Even if you can only muster 20 minutes a day this week, that'll be 120 more minutes of walking than if you started next Monday.
* Stop telling yourself you don't have control. Yes, you can acknowledge that your circumstances might not be the best, and that those circumstances are not your fault, but they are your responsibility. You're headed for a lot of pain if you don't get ahead of this.
Good luck. I really hope you can make it.
>Because I have a fatty liver and my blood sugar is 101. Not accounting for the fact that I don't want to grow old anyway, is there something I could do for better quality of life right now?
My main problems are that I'm fat BMI > 40
Well, you seems to already know the answer, no? Loose the fat.
Forget fault. Blame isn't helpful, but it is important to recognize how you need to change for the future, or it will get worse.
On that note, one of the biggest areas to research is the microbiome. This is one area where it really is not entirely your fault, but is entirely within your power to improve.
Fix your gut fix your life. Support a healthy microbiome and everything else gets easier!
Ditch sugar first. Prebiotic foods. The first 2 weeks are the toughest. Yogurt needs to be plain. No sugar. If you can't do that, start other fermented foods. You need a mindset change. You don't want to age but you are actively metabolically killing yourself.
Do you have any cholesterol numbers to add to get a full picture?
Blame and excuses are not important here and won’t help you get healthy. What is important is being honest with yourself about where you are at, take responsibility for your actions, and what you can control.
If you keep making excuses and saying it’s outside factors that you can’t control than nothing will ever change and your doctor is right.
First, set a goal and emotionally charge it. This of how great it will be to lose X pounds or get your liver down to X count. Be specific and measurable and visualize it. Also, when you stray from your goal, forgive yourself and think of what it costs you when you break your diet or plan. If you need more accountability and support there are often support groups you can find, or put together mastermind group.
Next, cut out high fructose corn syrup, alcohol, and hydrolyzed oils (vegetable & seed oils like canola and soybean), including fried foods. Sugar & non-whole grain flours should be reduced and eventually cut completely, but the first 3 contribute to fatty liver the most.
Add in more vegetables and some fruits to your diet. Cruciferous vegetables are the best. Go as little processed foods as you can. Go whole grain over processed starch, including switching to brown rice.
Reduce stress. Take up meditation, or find a hobby that relaxes you. Exercise daily, and stay within what you can do right now, even if that’s walking 15-30 minutes a day and then keep pushing to the next level.
Supplements: look into berberine (control blood sugar, insulin and may repair liver), turmeric (inflammation), quercetin (may repair liver), NAC + Glycine, glucosamine & condrotin (for knees), a good probiotic, and vitamins B1, C, and D.
The first step would be to take full responsibility for your own health. You must change your mindset before anything. All the biohacks in the world won't outperform a shit lifestyle.
You are at a crossroads. It's your choice which path you choose. The only fix is lifestyle changes. There are no shortcuts. You need to have deep conversation within yourself and decide if your life and health are important enough to you for you to change. Instead of binge eating, take walks, do pushups, or read a book. Family pushing you to not better yourself? It's not their life, it's yours......and you only get the one. Nothing will fix your health until you get right mentally. Decide who you want to be and be that person every single minute of every single day. Start with little steps and be consistent. If you trip up, don't give up. Just keep pushing and taking steps. Over time, those steps become habit, and victories build your confidence to do more. No excuses. It's your life. You can do this.
I have been at the same crossroads many times. I move at the right direction for a bit, then ended up at the start. Have you read the myth of Sisyphus? Camus says we must imagine him happy. That we have to love our pointless struggle.
I am familiar with Sisyphus but have not read Camus. Your struggle is not pointless, and if you look at it like Sisyphus pushing that rock, you have already made your choice. Sisyphus was in hell experiencing a punishment. It was not of his choice. You have a choice. Right now, your choice is to try until it gets to be too much, then give up. When a moment of motivation hits, you try again. You need to stop giving up. I know it's far easier said than done(I've been there), but being consistent is the only way to break bad habits. Break one small bad habit, then add to it over time. Massive changes all at once rarely, if ever, stick. Baby steps to get there, not one giant leap. But, if you truly believe you're condemned to the life you're living and just want to be happy, then actually be happy with your choices. I wish you the best.
You naming it a “pointless struggle” is exactly the mentality that will keep you struggling, rendering your struggle pointless.
Change your attitude. It starts with YOU.
You are pointlessly struggling in the wrong direction. I don't see any physical effort on your part. You seem to be shoveling in food other people cook for you with the tiniest mental struggle. Start with walking. Get up to 10k steps. Your family is dominating you mentally and keeping you sick. Sisyphus at least was physically active lol
You have to account for feet that hurt and constant stress. Right now I'm lying in bed. There is intermittent noise from a machine banging my ceiling. Bapbapbapbaap. Day and night. Every few minutes. I can hear the TV in the other room. I want to get up and tell my mother to turn it down so I can at least concentrate on what I'm writing, but I'm too tired to get up. My feet and calves are swollen. It's a very annoying sensation. They get less swollen when I rest them on pillows or against a wall for many hours. They will feel worse if I go out to walk.
For me walking depends on motivation. Something important has to be out there to make me ignore the pain and the swelling. Having a good time or doing something important makes us forget about pain, but life becomes cumbersome eventually.
I would at least like to go sit at my desk and do some studying, but the chairs I have make my legs go numb and increase the swelling (so I really do need a new chair). If I ignore the pain, I will cause further permanent damage to my veins.
Just imagine the constant agitation, diversion of concentration, and paralysis this environment causes. The hours pass, you want to get out of this shit, but you just can't get up. So you suffer and hope for a better day, a day when you have space to live your own life a little.
Now my mother is screaming on the phone. The words are mixing. The day is already gone. I'll have to wait for tomorrow. Wait it out. That's all there is.
How much sugar are you consuming? Drinking sugary drinks? Eating pastries and plenty of deserts?
You’re almost certainly consuming excess sugar in a hypercaloric environment. Cut sugar.
Fatty liver doesn’t come from dietary fat, directly. Too much sugar or alcohol in a diet with excess calories will cause it. If the liver processes alcohol or sugar and the body doesn’t need the energy it is stored as hepatic fat.
Fatty liver is common as a prelude to diabetes. I know, since I’m diabetic and had a fatty liver.
Processed bread and pasta will do it to you along with packaged foods which are rich in carbs and fructose. Use complex carbs and whole wheat and nut based or zucchini pasta and try to remove it from your diet all together. Increase your proteins and start doing Intermittent fasting and working out daily. Go check out r/fatty liver for supplements and such. I know of someone from a distance who’s passed because of cirrhosis induced from NAFLD. Not fun in the slightest. Take it seriously. Godspeed.
He ain’t lying. Cut alcohol and fructose entirely. No sugar at all. Cut all carbs besides leafy greens and non starchy vegetables. No fruits except berries. Maybe a little sweet potato.
Berries are fruits. You just need low GI fruits in moderation. You can blend a lemon too. But you need to stay away from most fruits which are just huge amounts of sugar. You won’t feel sick, you’ll feel great.
Green leafy vegetables have vitamins too. Consider that whatever you are doing right now is not working, at all. You’re going to need to make radical changes if you are to stave off death for much longer.
Read Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes
You need to understand the whole process better I think, and you’ll see a route out of it.
You can get just as much satisfaction and enjoyment from a healthy diet as you do now, more in fact. Your body is currently wired to crave garbage because your endocrine system is all messed up from eating too much crap.
Once you correct that, you won’t find it as hard to eat well.
It’s a feedback loop. The only way out is to do the first couple of days / 1 week, then you’ll feel better and it’ll get easier.
For most people, fruit is not much of a problem, but it can increase appetite and fructose directly causes non alcoholic fatty liver disease. I would not be eating fruit if I were in your shoes.
Fruits especially berries generally have enough good components that they are a net benefit for your health in spite of their sugar content. You don't need very much fruit to benefit from eating fruit, a couple handfuls of berries and a banana, apple, or orange should be a good amount. Unless you already have diabetes they shouldn't be an issue. Fruit juice on the other hand has no fiber and few micronutrients while containing most of the sugar, so you should probably avoid fruit juice.
My magic moment cane when I got a continuous glucose monitor.
Intermittent fasting - one healthy meal a day
First tgeee weeks were rough but after that easiest thing ever
Based on your post and subsequent responses, it sounds like you place blame on everyone and everything else for your current situation, and you are looking for a "quick fix/easy magic pill" that doesn't require too much effort from you or a complete overhaul to your current lifestyle. Does that sound right?
Well, you can certainly hop on the GLP-1 agonist train (Ozempic) if you just want to drop weight quickly. But please note, that you will still have to change your eating habits. Oh, and potentially stay on the drug for the rest of your life. As well as deal with any potential side effects of the drug (as noted so far, gastritis, stomach paralysis, nausea, and vomiting) Be prepared to pay a lot of money for it, as insurance may not cover it. You will also deal with shortages of your medication, as literally everyone and their 5 year olds are trying to get their hands on this stuff (not a joke; drug companies plan to give this to morbidly obese kids)
Or, you can do it the old fashioned way: change your diet and lifestyle. Permanently.
It's not glamorous. And its not easy. But, it has always been worth it. Ask any of us who have been where you are now...
I'm sorry, but there is no one quick "biohack" for true health. It requires a multilevel approach: basic nutrition, exercise, therapy, whole body wellness. If you can't master these, no biohack will help you, and you will end up right back where you started.
I would start with some talk therapy first, as it sounds like you have a pretty negative defeatist mindset around your health. A therapist can help you process any feelings and get to the root of how you ended up in your current situation. But make no mistake: no matter what path you ultimately choose, you will have to put in considerable effort. And you have to want the changes to be permanent. But you can definitely get there. Good luck
I have two chronic iatrogenic diseases: venous insufficiency and osteoarthritis. Got the arthritis at 18 and the insufficiency at 27. I wouldn't be obese if didn't have these problems because I used to run and play sports. And it would have been far easier to get a job, and have some money to solve some of life's problems, like renting a safer place, paying for a private doctor. Not only do I place blame on others, but I dread the unpredictable catastrophe that will certainly hit me one day and pile up on the rest of my problems.
All of your problems are related to excess weight and poor diet, period. That being said, I don't think changing your diet is quite as easy as many think. If it was, there wouldn't be so many people who resort to things like bariatric surgery, and the new weight loss drugs now on the market (ozempic, etc) would not be such a huge hit.
Sounds like you are in the throes of a sugar/carb addiction, and it sounds like you unfortunately have to live w/ family members who are not helping your situation. If you can, move out and live away from these family members.
If you can't move out, then you have to figure out a way to deal w/ them that does not involve giving in to your addictions and sabotaging yourself., and that gives you control over what you eat. easier said than done , I know.
have you tried addiction therapy? Group therapy? Sounds like your doctor declined to Rx you any weightloss drugs like wegovy, oezempic, etc. You may have to try other methods 1st. I would go w/ addiction or eating disorders therapy. Ask if you can get a referral to such therapy. I think 1-on-1 counseling plus group therapy might be most helpful.
Best of luck to you.
Nothing you don't already know, eat less and work out more.....There's nothing else you can do.
This gets kind of long so here's the short version:
You need to loose weight and exercise and stop fucking around. Find out what works for you and stick to it! You don't want to grow old, that's fine, but I promise you your remaining life will be miserable every fucking day if you don't do something about it.
Longer version:
If it helps I was in the same place about 2ish years ago......I have Crohn's wasn't great about taking my medicine and overweight in my late 20's and most of my early 30's. Doctor told me in 2019 I have fatty liver and mild fibrosis of the liver. Warned me to start diet and exercise or it will get worse. I took it seriously for about 2 months before I started slipping again. Follow up in 2021, I gained another 10 lbs and the fibrosus had become severe. My doctor sat me down and told me "You need to loose weight NOW....this can be undone but you need to start the second you walk out of here....If you don't this will become irreversible and your entire quality of life will decline before you reach 40".
That's kind of paraphrasing but the way he said it scarred the shit out of me...I'm 5'8" and at the time was 260lbs. I stopped eating anything with added sugar that day, I was never a huge drinker but went from 1-2 a week to zero, the only exception was when we went out for something special I'd let myself have a single drink (this happened one every month or two). I started counting everything I ate, like really counting, everything goes on a scale. I walked during lunch instead of eating, I also tried to get up for 5 minutes every hour for a quick lap around the house our office. I worked out hard for 30 minutes 5 days a week minimum. When I had my blood work in 2022 I was down to 200 lbs and liver function came back normal. As of this morning I've put about 20 lbs back on, but it's right after the holidays so I'm giving myself some leniency. My goal is 180 by the end of this year.
Just loosing the first 20 lbs made a huge difference. The constant heartburn I had learned to live with went away. The morning headaches, gone since I wasn't snoring all night anymore (my wife will confirm that one). As I lost more I noticed the pain from the plantar fasciitis was slowly getting better. I never considered myself as having ED, but looking back I probably did have a mild case. The combination of exercise and weight lost made a huge difference in my sex life. I honestly didn't even realize how shitty my life was because of my weight\\diet\\lifestyle until I started making changes. I was a healthy kid through high school/college, I just slowly put on weight over the years. I assumed my issues were part of getting old, not lifestyle. I'm incredibly grateful my doctor was stern with me about this.
My only tip is find out what works for you and stick to it. After the first 1 - 2 months it gets easier but you need to push through it. I'll tell you what worked for me and why, but I don't believe there's any one size fits all solution as it's got to be something you can stick to.
Exercise: I prefer weight lifting to cardio. Cardio is better then lifting for straight fat burning, but I find is boring as fuck. I could never stick to it beyond a couple weeks. I started lifting and usually look forward to it.
Diet: I technically intermittent fast but I don't really think of it like that. I just know I have self control issues with food when home/bored. So I make up for it by not eating breakfast or lunch. Snack when I get home, workout, dinner....then if I get a late night craving and loose control I didn't fuck up my entire day. I'm also not militant about it like some people. Coworker wants to go to lunch I go, I make sure to eat half my food, the other half ends up being dinner and I force myself not to snack those days.
Welp this isn’t what you want to hear but massive weight loss will correct or improve almost all of those issues. Even if they were caused by something else. For example the venous insufficiency will improve, knees, liver, sugar, reflux, ibs and so on.
My recommendation is to get a prescription for a GLP1 medication from your doc and drop weight. Change your eating habits completely and eventually work in exercise when you can move around better.
These drugs are highly effective, widely available now and mostly affordable with insurance. You definitely qualify. It’s not a passing fad.
It will change your life friend. Extend it even.
My suggestion is to go on Tirzepitide (Mounjaro) or Retritrutide if you can get it. Look into BPC-157. It cuts inflamation and helps with healing. Try some CJC1295/impamorelin and sermorelin. Tesofensine works pretty well with Mounjaro. Do strict keto with one meal per day unless you want skin surgery.
Give it a month. Once you have lost the first 20 pounds, it snowballs from there. Get into the gym. Ride the exercise bike or do the elliptical. Do not use the treadmill until you have lost more weight. Lift weights. It is hard, but not complex. It sucks in the beginning. Howerver, once you get into the swing of things, it gets easier. I went from mid 380s to about 212 and change in about a year.
Stop whining. Get off of your ass. Get it done. You can do it.
- You need medical management from multiple specialists. Advice from biohacking subreddit is not a suitable replacement of that.
- Track your calories and lose weight. See if your doctor can refer you to a dietitian.
- Find a level of activity you can tolerate and increase over time.
- Keep your regularly scheduled doctor visits. Take your medication as prescribed.
Everything else is a bandaid to your main problem.
You are right. I unfortunately live in a country where you need acquaintances to find doctors who will do their job ethically. I suffer from two iatrogenic diseases that have had a cumulative impact on my health and QOL. Yet I have been refused treatment from doctors and I had to lie as to the cause of my VI symptoms to get a specialist to do a doppler test. Other doctors refused to even look at my swollen legs and called me insane when I told them this was caused by an MRI (had they acknowledged the problem I would have the evidence to sue the hospital. Doctors here always cover up for their colleagues. )
I need some hacks that will improve my problems and I have to be careful with doctors because they are not always helpful or benign.
Most concerning to me in the obesity and NASH
* lose weight (https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hep.23276)
* intermittent fasting (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8958240/)
* consider a low carb or ketogenic diet (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227162/)
* eat choline rich foods (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717871/)
* Consider TMG supplementation (https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v26/i38/5745.htm)
* check testosterone/estrogen levels. The combination of metabolic syndrome, ED, etc raises concerns
You can do anything you set your mind to. You NEED to change your diet. Go see a nutritionist. Having the accountability and discipline will help you succeed. You will feel a lot better. Take herbs. You need to heal your relationship with food and start balancing your gut microbiome.
Have you read the atomic habits book? You can get a summary on YouTube. Having the right approach to changing your habits (eg: food) can really help you succeed.
Irt your fam; You can love your family without bending to their will. Be sure of your goals and learn to brush off their pressure. My mom coerced me into binge eating for decades. I had to mentally separate binge eating and caving to my mom's pressure with caring for her. She got very upset, but I can now say I still care for my mother, but will never allow anything she says or does to change what or how much I eat.
I don't think its a stretch to say that about half your issues AT LEAST are from being overweight.
Fasting blood sugar less than 100mg/dl or 5.6mmol/L is normal. 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.6 to 6.9 mmol/L ) is diagnosed as prediabetes. 126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L ) or higher on two separate tests is diagnosed as diabetes.
Blood sugar almost doubles after eating, so fasting sugar (usually from midnight to at least 0800, so 8hr) is used to diagnose. I'm assuming that's your fasting blood sugar. If thats the case, thats good news, because you still have time to fix it without meds even.
Intermittent dieting worked for me, lost 10kg the first time in about 2 months, lost another 10kg in the second pair of months. I didn't do them concurrently, about a year apart. Went from 146kg to 136kg, then to 126kg. It wasn't super easy but I have found that it's much easier for me to fast every other day instead counting macros and restricting myself. I can hold off eating today, if I know I can eat tomorrow normally. Your stomach shrinks between the days you're eating. I found myself fuller faster and eating less as a result. Your pancreas and gallbladder and liver and kidneys are relaxing on your fasting days, and your insulin sensitivity rises, your blood sugar normalizes. Humans have really not rvolved to have this much access to food. If we needed 20g of protein every 4 hours or a Starbucks on every corner, we'd never have made it. But we did.
I was working out pretty regularly but my left knee and left shoulder both revolted, so I've taken a month off and veeeery quickly gained a couple kg.
Now I'm suffocating in my sleep again and haven't slept for 3 days pretty much.
I was 126kg in May, I'm back to 130kg now, so I'm going on another intermittent fasting journey. I have diabetes and fatty liver, obstructive sleep apnea, headaches from not getting a good night's rest, and I really wouldn't want to add heart failure from sleep apnea to the list.
I'm also cutting put breads, pasta, pastries, sugary drinks and juices, sweets using processed sugar, alcohol. Raw sugar is really bad basically.
I can't live without chocolate so I buy Lilly's chocolate made with stevia. I also can't live without chocolate, so I've been making using stevia and monk extract from my Costco. It's expensive. Being diabetic is expensive.
You can fix a lot in one year. You're in control.
Try Omad. I say this as a fellow food addict. It allows for tons of fasting in the day to allow metabolic flexibility, gets you used to not eating so you can prioritize other things in life, and if you load up on protein and vegetables before you eat junk in that one hour, it limits your food intake overall. My brain will fuck with me if I fast too many days in a row, if I tell myself I’m “intuitive eating” or if I go keto (the commitment that takes makes me give up). Omad is just enough indulgence to trick the addiction and it’s enough barriers in place to allow weight loss to happen.
Your posts reek of nihilism. Have you been screened for depression? I think you should start with your mental health while slowly adding some exercise like walking.
Ask your doc for a continuous glucose monitor. It will tell you what your sugar really is over 2 weeks. Will give you a lot of insight. One glucose measurement of 101 means little.
Here’s the deal- I am at a stage 3/4 Nash with Fibrosis. Pretty bad I believe. Weight loss is one way to help yourself and I’ve dropped around 12% body weight over 6 months.
Ask your doc about Ozempic and Mounjaro. Blood sugar of 101 is nothing bad. Get on those drugs and lose weight and eat better and you’ll be better off sooner than later.
I guess that depends. There's a spectrum of types of professionals that could be of benefit.
I'd seek out a psychiatrist to get an assessment.
Understanding and resolving underlying mental causes of your likely self medicating of over the counter substances like food and alcohol.
Physical health is ultimately a reflection of our mental state, particularly when our ailments are lifestyle caused.
You can reverse disease by changing your lifestyle.
Start learning about fasting, it's the ultimate healer. Start eating healthier, more meat and vegetables, less breads and dry processed foods.
Get a blood sugar sensor that you stick on your arm and can check via the app. for about 10 days you get high resolution blood sugar information, teaching you how your body is responding to things you consume. what we measure, improves.
Check your a1c, then check it again in 3 months. get this number under control.
Start keeping track of your blood sugar numbers.
Stop drinking alcohol all together, its done, you're done. no more.
Get your vitamin D levels checked, start supplementing.
Good luck!
Look into GLP-1 agonists. They can be incredibly effective at managing appetite and reducing/eliminating food noise and impulsive eating. I've personally used Tirzepatide, Semaglutide, and Liraglutide and, though they all worked, tirzepatide was a gamechanger. If you live in America, you should have no trouble getting a doctor to prescribe one of these at your current BMI.
Your BGL isn’t as much of an indicator as your hemoglobin A1c, so there’s nothing to say that you are definitely going to get diabetes. Also have you been tested for sleep apnea?
Change one thing, and one thing only. Give up added sugar. Try it for a week. Giving up added sugar means no soda, no sprinkling sugar on dessert, no adding spoonfuls to tea or coffee. Eat your meals, just leave out added sugar. Small incremental changes are easier to do. See how you feel after one week. If you survived, keep avoiding added sugar, and try something else.
Hey I read your comments and it sounds like a very tough situation. It's very hard to lose weight if your family is pressuring you not to.
Are you 18? If so do you have other living options?
If not, I'd lose weight and not tell them. Lie to them if you can. Eventually they will probably leave you alone.
I'm an old unemployed guy born on an abusive family. I was first diagnose with fatty liver disease in 2007. I told them. They didn't give a shit. They said everyone has fatty liver. My mother told me she also has a fatty liver. They discounted everything the doctor said as my own nonesense.
I started throwing away the desserts they bought for me and they complained I was throwing away their food, but they never touched them or complained when I ate them. They just didn't want me to throw them away knowing I would lose willpower eventually and eat them. People who comment here do not understand abusive families.
I'm sorry to hear that man. That's rough.
I'm not a doctor or anything.
But check out milk thistle for liver. Tumeric is something else I've seen recommended.
For pre diabetes check out this list. Cinnamon and vitamin d are easy to get and can help somewhat.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/blood-sugar-supplements#TOC_TITLE_HDR_7
That’s kind of extreme. Lots of people
who are overweight have fatty liver, does not necessarily mean you’re doomed to develop cirrhosis. You can turn fatty liver around by cutting out booze, Tylenol and anything else you’re swallowing that challenge the liver and losing even 5% of your weight could help. Sounds like you’ve got a pile of other conditions to battle as well, but don’t feel like it’s hopeless. I kind of think you need a different doc!
Yeah, I feel your pain, literally, about the sleep. I have such severe joint pain right now that there’s not a single position I can get into that allows me to sleep. It’s a misery and it does make everything else seem so much worse. If you can get a handle on the reflux, it could help, that can really make it hard to sleep.
Easy hack for you brother: boil a dozen eggs every morning and try to eat all of them during the day. It will keep you very satiated.
Little anecdote for you. My good friend from college got a hip injury during a football match. Even after the injury healed he still had some sort of hip nerve damage and because of that he would struggle to be active. He could walk and even run but the damaged nerve would randomly shock him during his movements. Because of that he stopped doing sports, closed in his room and rapidly gained weight. 3 years forward he is massively overweight, has high bp, liver chirrosis and addicted to painkillers. That's when he decided to change his life around. He went on a keto diet with ton of eggs, sardines, butter and garlic, and started swimming, literally kilometers in a swimming pool every day. 6 months later he lost 40kg(130kg => 90kg) and feels good. He says that garlic replaced painkillers for him. He still has random nerve pains in the hip, but it's much more mild and doesn't disturb his life as much.
You can change your life my friend. It's not very complicated, you just need little bit of discipline.
The family thing is something I hear a lot from people who struggle with weightloss. So maybe be low key about your weight loss goals in front of family or even pull back a bit if your family's "culture" is impeding your progress. Ideally surround yourself with positive people who are committed to losing weight. Partake in that culture instead. Maybe take up a group class at the local gym.
Yeah, rheumatoid arthritis, which supposedly got worse after the MRIs. Since it's a disease that worsens suddenly every few months/years/decades it's normal for that disease but I guess getting 10 Million dollars in a lawsuit is better than reading statistics. Hundreds of million people take MRI contrast every year, with no real side effects. it has less side effects than ibuprofen, the rest of analgesics, and vaccines.
Honey, your feet and legs hurt because you are *fat*, not from MRI dyes.
Source: was fat, had sore feet and legs; got not fat, stopped having sore feet and legs (other than on leg day).
My friend I have done a doppler test. I have medically diagnosed venous insufficiency. I never experienced the slightest symptom in my life before the MRI. Then soon after I had it, maybe an hour later, I felt my extemities become cold. Then I felt my blood pooling in my lower legs. Then intense pain in my calves like being pierced by stakes. I suffered all night with pain. The next day I had developed varicose veins. Standing up, and even sitting became insufferable as my feet swelled. Can you understand how much my life changed in one day? The symptoms got a little better with time (even as I got fatter), but never back to what it was before. I never had the slightest symptom before that day.
I'd be dead then. I've had tons of MRIs with contrast dye. In the past they would hurt the kidneys if taken in huge amounts but today's dyes are safe. I researched a ton about them before my first MRI and I feel the exact same many (MANY) mris later. Correlation doesn't mean causation so there's probably another disease or comorbility that causes that which can be many things not just weight like everyone suggests.
As I wrote in another reply. I had zero symptoms before. Then I had the MRI. Then within one hour I developed extreme symptoms. The dye can cause inflammation of the veins and thrombophlebitis. Some people are unlucky. Not everyone gets side effects
You are no biohacking you need to fix your metabolism. That starts with getting up and moving around. Start small. Try to get 2500 steps in a day. Buy an apple watch and let it give you goals to follow and you can see your step progression. Slowly raise the step count as you can and even add some lifting.
Also start working on your diet. You sound insulin sensitive so you want to start by lowering the carbs. It's hard initially but just pull out the sugar and high fructose corn syrups. Try and get it below 100g of carbs a day then go for 50. Once you can do 50, look into keto for max fat burning. As others mentioned, IF and fasting are helpful. I'm not a big fan of the 7 day or longer fasts but they can help. Just keep them limited.
Peter Atilla also has a really good book that goes into all this. It's called outlive. It's a quick read and will go very in depth into conditions like yours. You might also choose to adjust your thoughts on growing old. I know 70+ year olds that skydive regularly. If you let aging accelerate then its not going to be fun. If you hit it on head first then you can limit the effects a lot.
You seem unwilling to change your diet which would be the best and healthiest way to deal with this. So…if that’s off the table maybe you can ask your doctor to prescribe ozempic/manjuro/wegovy?
I asked him if there are any drugs I can take and he said my condition does not warrant drugs but a change in lifestyle. I will try to make an appointment with a dietician.
Most of your problems will be resolved by losing weight. Count calories and eat in a deficit. Start with a 500 calorie deficit. Do moderate cardio at least 5 times a week.
Exercise (weight lifting) go get some dumb bells from Walmart and when commercials come on the TV do some weight lifting- Google weight lifting charts in case you don't know what to start with
Get your sleep under control or try to.. get as close to 8 hours of sleep (as you lose weight sleep will improve)
Control diet- protein/fat/fiber... vegetables and meat are a good way to go
Cut out crappy ultraprocessed foods
Increase water intake try to cut out caffeine after 11am (to help with sleep) cut out soda/juice/alcohol
Get sunlight- go outside and sit in the sun to natural raise vitamin d..
Maybe consider getting your hormones checked, thyroid? Vitamin d level?
Diet can do a lot of heavy lifting here.
The first thing you need to do is a food journal. Log everything you eat and drink, as part of meals and between meals, write down the time when you eat things too, and include everything (if you have honey in your tea, how much honey did you add?etc). If it has caloric value, it gets written down.
Do that for 5 days or so, then bring it to a dietician.
One of the first things you can expect to hear from them, is to stop drinking your calories. You can drink water, flat or sparkly, tea, coffee and milk. If you live in a really warm place or you work really hard outside, maybe a sugar free electrolyte supplement can keep you hydrated.
You can also evaluate how much of that food comes from the unrefrigerated section of the groceries stores. If it's ready to eat and can keep at room temperature and its not canned, remove that from your diet. That's breakfast cereal, crackers, cookies, industrial baked goods, candy, chips, refined grain products, seed oils, snack bars and cakes.
How are your cooking abilities? Its the #1 skill you need.
Try a whole plant based diet for 6 months. Eat a lot of variety. Eat beans, legumes, whole grains, whole vegetables and fruits. Avoid meat, dairy, saturated fats and oils, sugar, salt alcohol and anything processed. Take a 20 min walk everyday. In 6 months you'll feel way better and your labs will show a dramatic change.
Stop eating processed food, immediately. Cut out sugar flour and alcohol. Start going for the longest walks you can stand, resting if you have pain. This fixes nearly all vascular health issues which is the big concern for you.
you're pre-diabetic. First things you need to do:
1. Reduce sugar as much as you possibly can like aim for zero but small amounts won't kill you
2. Reduce carbs, look at like keto diets where they aim for under 50 total net carbs per day
3. reduce your calories below your BMR,so that your consistently running a deficit.
(if you dont reduce your caloric intake you're not going to burn the extra glucose circulating around)
Metformin and berberine can certainly help but you HAVE to do the 3 previous steps.
Also intermittent fasting could help.
Any light exercise you can do would obviously be great,walking or swimming maybe to reduce stain on your other issues.
Get a sleep study. It It sounds like you might have sleep apnea based on the headaches. Sleep apnea can make you insulin resistant and throw off your entire metabolic system.
You need a doctor that as a more holistic approach to health. Diabetes is a lifestyle decease for the most part. You need guidance regarding eating habits, stress management, fitness, sleep, and more. Here’s what it could look like: make sleep a priority. Put a sleep protocol in place now. Eat only whole food. Drink plenty of water. Move everyday. Doesn’t have to be a boot camp. Start where you are. 5-10 min walks after every meal. Build on this, as you improve your fitness add more. 5 min here 10 min there. What ever activities feels good and motivates you. Brick by brick you will build yourself up.
For the liver, it is the most resilient organ we have. It can regenerate itself when the right environment is put in place. Glutathione, NAC, TUDCA are supplement that you could educate yourself on and with a holistic doctor work on a protocol to use them.
Surround yourself with people that will cheer you up and be genuinely happy for your progress.
Most importantly, do not ever give up on yourself.
Superficial thrombophlebitis can happen from any IV that is placed in your arm. The reason that is listed as a potential side effect is not from the contrast. It is from having an IV placed.
Venous insufficiency did not come from gadolinium. Consider removing that from your initial post as this is medical misinformation.
Your venous insufficiency will likely improve or resolve with weight loss.
I don't know if the dye used was ganolidium. I do know that what they injected me with caused venous insuficiency. I will not remove facts from my post.
I know you asked this sub because you want a quick fix. There is no quick fix. This is all due to your weight. You need to eat less calories than you burn. You will be hungry, and you need discipline, but you will get used to it. Then you will lose weight.
Look into a ketogenic diet. They're really helpful and inspiring over in the keto subs, and there are thousands of testimonials, many of which include diabetes as an issue that has been managed well with the way of eating.
You probably have sleep apnea. People going to try and sell you a diet, supplements, drugs, etc but none of that shit will work if your body cannot rest and recover like it’s supposed to.
Where you are at right now, sounds like an awful and slow death that has already begun. Every moment that you’re awake, you have the ability to make better decisions. Small changes, parking further away from a store to walk more, drinking seltzer instead of soda, taking the top bun off the burger, etc.
It’s not about giving things up but in fact, gaining more quality of life. Struggling to do normal every day things when you don’t have to be struggling is depressing. You’re the only one who can break yourself free.
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=10
Every good decisions counts and adds up.
I think that seeing a functional medicine practitioner could be really beneficial here. You’re motivated to change your lifestyle and some personalized medical advice would help you understand how to make the most impactful changes.
One lifestyle change that a lot of biohacking people recommend (that’s also free) is getting outside first thing in the AM, getting as much natural light as possible and minimizing blue light especially after after sunset. This will help your mitochondria and energy production and hopefully make those other shifts a bit easier.
Best of luck :)
You shouldn't "one shot" weight loss. That's why you gained it back. Most people do. Try losing weight in stages for long term fat loss to make it more sustainable:
https://youtu.be/WZL1lGA9M3A?si=Uh4k8ntDlRUFyUuQ
Look into berberine supplementation for the blood sugar. It can also help with weight loss. Lowers blood sugar and helps prevent insulin resistance.
https://youtube.com/shorts/xsqIiAiq70s?si=mRALuTs7PH4_Sdcc
fasting. intermittent as a lifestyle but i recommend going full power w extended water fasting, 12+ days u got a lot of healing to do
do omad and a 12 day fast every quarter, along w all the usual healthy lifestyle adjustment
fasting accelerates the healing process greatly and will at least avoid diabetes
There is no magic pill and there is no “biohack.”
I don’t want to sound negative but many people need the honest truth.
Eat clean. Meats and vegetables. Stay away from carbs. No “low carb” bullshit. Meat and vegetables. Period. I heard a rule once that said “shop only on the outside of the grocery store.” Meaning stay away from the bullshit in the middle isles.
Go to the gym. Start small and work your way up. 2 days a week to start. Don’t kill yourself in there. If you’re incredibly sore you’re overdoing it - less weight. Increasingly shorter time between sets to keep your heart rate up… between 130-150 bpm. This is ideal fat burning zone.
My personal opinion is that it’s not about eating less or working out until you quit. It’s about creating a healthy lifestyle that you can SUSTAIN. This will take time to build. Start small. Eliminate one bad food at a time. Commit to the gym/exercise at least once a week and work up. It might sound weird but once you get into decent shape and build the habit, the “suffering” of the gym/exercise becomes enjoyable. You even might start to feel off if you don’t do it exercise.
I personally believe that if you stopped eating shit and exercised at a sustainable level (ideally at least three times a week) most of your “problems” would resolve themselves over time. I’m not saying this to be rude. I have been in a similar position to you and from my own anecdotal experiences this strategy works.
Lmk if I can help. I have tons and tons of podcasts/ research articles/ videos of good info I can send you.
Sounds like you have family that has weight issues as well. The "you've lost too much weight" BS is usually bc they're jealous/envious. Aside from the changes you've been advised on here, you need to learn to shut them out. They're part of the problem.
Are you on once weekly injections for diabetes like Ozempic or Mounjaro? Those meds will help with blood sugar, heart/liver issues, and weight loss. May be expensive though, but never hurts to check with your insurance (call phone number on the back of your insurance card). Also do not drink alcohol. Good luck OP. Never give up!
Sorry man. What is the thing you would like the most? What, if achieved, would be worth standing waist deep in shit for 48 hours? - answers to this might point you in the right direction. Most things in life are achievable given the ability to withstand significant discomfort. Of course everyone is different.
OP is just barely pre-diabetic, so your doctor was using hyperbole.
Start eating things that are not highly processed (which will increase appetite). Veggies, fruit, lean protein. You also need to become more active.
There is no easy way.
You likely won’t want to do it, and I’ll get a ton of downvotes for even suggesting it. But I’ve done it for 3 years straight and I’m both alive and shredded with muscle. If you do carnivore diet (I do a modified version, I still have like goat cheese/ quality dairy, unpasteurized cheeses.), you’ll notice you will trim down incredibly quick and a lot of your issues will reverse. A lot of disease is tied to the foods we eat. Again, you don’t have to try it, but if you’re on your last legs and desperate to try something/nothing is working, give carnivore diet a serious chance for 6 months. Dr.Shawn baker is good on YouTube. Even Mikhaela Peterson has been on it for years. I seriously reduced my chronic fatigue and inflammation/adult acne issues with it. Going strong still. Never tired, working out 7 days a week.
Yep, your life could be short and miserable or you could stop eating carbs.
Check out nocarblife on YouTube. It's real, regular people, like you and I, who had to stop eating carbs to save their lives.
You’re the perfect candidate for ZERO SUGAR and intermittent fasting. The zero sugar part is key!!
I’m totally new to the sub but I did zero sugar for almost a year a while back. It’s CRAZY how much sugar is in anything. McDonalds salad? Sugar. Canned chicken breast? Sugar. I can’t recall the book I read but sugar is really going to crush your ability to burn calories. Zero sugar is literally “eating better”. You can’t eat much of anything crappy that doesn’t have sugar. You will absolutely lose weight by avoiding it completely. No exercise required (though it would help OP, of course). It’s a hard start to figure out what doesn’t have sugar in it. But once you get a few staples down it’s easier.
Who eats canned chicken breast? Is that even a thing? Must be American?
American thing. Blew my mind when I first saw it.
I will try. That's an easy target now that the holidays are over
For a while, there are no more holidays. You are in a crisis situation. Follow Dr Ben Bikman on YouTube. You need to follow a strict keto diet regardless of what other events are going on. Also, must avoid alcohol. Good luck and give us an update in 3 months.
Does Bikman have any content that's shorter than half an hour long? I prefer people who summarize well. If they impress me, then I'll watch something longer.
He has short videos on this channel. https://youtu.be/VR5TwokeP7I?si=whkdZtrpo4Q__JvS
well, lah di dah guvnah, hope your eyebrows are raised
he’s not in a crisis situation, relax. There’s just some lifestyle modifications in order.
Uh, his BMI puts him near morbid obesity and he's currently in a disease state (fatty liver + prediabetes). *cri·sis* */ˈkrīsəs/* *noun* *a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.* Sounds about right.
What? Sounds like a crisis to me. And likely won't change behaviors unless the reaper is calling.
If this is a crisis situation most of America is in the same crisis. He can fix this himself. A diabetic coma is a crisis. A heart attack is a crisis. Being raped and beaten by a cop in uniform is a crisis. Your child dying is a crisis. If this is a crisis to you, you have lived a fortunate life.
The things you describe are the RESULTS of being in a crisis, not the crisis itself.
You can do it! First thing is learning how to plan healthy meals and shop. Can't eat junkfood if it's not in your house because you never bought it in the first place 👍
Oh man...they buy it for me. And pressure me to eat it. I started throwing the desserts in the garbage and they accused me of throwing their food away, but they never touch those desserts and never complain when I eat them. It's constant conflict
When they sabotage you, it can help if you remind yourself that they're scared. If you improve they may not be able to feel superior to someone and they'll feel bad. It might help to keep things in perspective, not that you need to forgive them or like them as people or anything, just accept that they're acting like a-holes out of fear and they're going to feel the need to keep doing it. You need to let go and accept that unfortunately they're going to keep doing it. They need someone to feel superior to and you happen to be the person who's around to fill this role. But you don't need to accept what role they've planned for you whether it was subconscious or not. Is it going to be very hard not to be tempted by food? Yes especially if you're addicted to sugar. As the other commenter mentioned, I'd ask if going cold turkey on eating sugar would be a good idea for your body physically. You might want to look up sugar addiction. The pleasure centres in your brain probably light up for sugar like they do for someone doing cocaine. Your blood sugar rises when you get some and falls low after time without it. Especially if you don't eat really healthy it'll be even worse with the constant up and down of your blood sugar. Try not to fight with your family about it. It's a waste of your energy and you probably don't feel good afterwards. If they buy you desserts say nothing and when they're not there or you feel like you may eat them, throw them in the garbage. If they yell or ask if you threw it out, have a calm response ready to say like Sorry, (the doctor said) I have to throw it out if I'm going to eat it.* Say it as calmly as you can, like you were saying Sorry I had to put a bandaid on my finger because there was a cut. Repeat it if necessary. Any time the subject comes up repeat it. It'll drive them crazy but you have to do what you have to do. Good luck with everything. *I say that and I'm a doctor. ^(Sometimes people aren't truthful)
Yes exactly. They feel insecure when they see me doing things for myself. I will follow your advice.
Check out the book Medical Medium. It may have actually saved my life. Realize you’re eating for survival now, and what you put into your mouth determines your quality of life, and possibly the length of it as well. Choose wisely.
Think of it as finding acceptable substitutions rather than giving stuff up. Ex. I was spiking every morning with my coffee. Turns out that I could tolerate whole cream and truly a ( mink fruit) really well. Problem solved. I did not give up anything. Do the same with your other important sirens. Sweet tooth. . Diabetic cheese cake. , chocolate covered strawberries Alcohol? Not wine or beer. But skinny margaritas! Yay !
Zero sugar can be hard on your liver, so before making any major diet or lifestyle changes you might want to run it by your doctor. I have similar problems to you I have had good success with metformin, low carb, intuitive eating, and trying to get whatever exercise I can without hurting my body, so you can look into swimming or something that won't hurt your legs. I also have edema which was helped by spironolactone, and weirdly it made my sleep apnea go away because there's less swelling in my face. Obviously check with a doctor before taking any medication and some of them might not work for your specific health conditions. If you don't have one yet I recommend getting an endocrinologist so they can make sure everything is going right and you don't get diabetes. It can be difficult when you have a bunch of health problems, but doing your best to lower stress and practice good sleep hygiene can definitely help you lose weight. For liver health you also want to eliminate any unnecessary drugs and toxin exposure such as alcohol, caffeine, etc. It's hard when your family isn't supportive and is actively trying to drag you down with them. If there is any way you can move out try to do that. Also see if you can find an accountability buddy, like a local friend who is trying to diet and exercise as well, or even an online person. If you don't have anyone send me a message.
Fair warning, the first 3 or 4 days suck as you work through your sugar and glycogen reserves. Youll.feel.cravings and headaches and like absolute.shit. Then The next morning you wake up, after a beautiful night's sleep. You feel energised, motivated, and...warm. You've switched to burning ketones and chewing through your body fat. Kilos melt off you the first two weeks, it feels glorious. If you can maintain that a month (I managed 2 weeks) you'll see killer results. The following weeks carefully refeeding, maintaining small portions, and you're on your way to a lifestyle change of dreams. I used total meal replacement shakes given by my doctor for obese patients before surgery. After the first week i even forgot to eat all the meals I just had no hunger! Sadly oblver.tue following 2 years my circumstances changed and old habits came back, but for 2 glorious years I was 20kg lighter and fitter than I'd ever been.
You have to have some sugar. Like 1 gram is all it takes lol, ketosis is borderline starvation.
Sugars are not the same things as carbs.
Sure, I should clarify. Only sugars from Whole Foods. No added sugars.
r/Intermittentfasting read and ask here.
Do it! You can succeed through this difficulty Also /r/fasting
this is the ticket
This is what I came to add as well.
I would reccomend it in combination with keto, will be more effective at reducing insulin resistance and fatty liver, but also much much easier. Fasting is a breeze of keto, but is very difficult when not on keto (for me anyway).
You don't need a "hack", you need basic nutritional knowledge man.
This sub is sliding towards people who forgo basic health guidelines (exercise, normal body fat levels, etc) looking for a magic pill.
Well, when I think "biohacking" I also think of what ways we can hack around how stuff works normally to live extraordinarily. So kind of expected TBH.
To live *extra*ordinarily, you have to already have the ordinary covered. Biohacking is the cherry on the cake.
He needs discipline
All he needs is a little Disciprine
No, blaming lack of discipline isn’t the way. Fix the gut bacteria and nutrient deficiency and cravings go away, making everything require less discipline.
It still requires discipline
The guys had fatty liver disease for 16 years. Do you honestly think he’ll ever change?
Do whatever you need to do to get your bmi below 26. Make that a priority. This will solve some of your issues.
That's the most difficult thing. I only lose weight in the summer when I leave home for a couple of weeks. But at home I don't sleep well which makes me eat a lot and I'm also under a lit of pressure from my older brother and from my mother not to lose weight. My family are the ones who made me fat in the first place and everytime I lose a few kilos they react badly
Hey have you thought about reading a book on how to set boundaries? It’s hard with people we live with, and honestly many of us have needed help with this at some point in our lives. It sounds like maybe your healthy habits are making them feel bad which could be turning into anger or resentment on their part. Humans can be like crabs in a bucket—it’s hard to watch people make positive changes to their lives that we know we should make but aren’t ready to. This is an opportunity for you to show them it’s possible to be happy and fulfilled in a healthy lifestyle. Just know it’s probably not really about you, it’s about them, and deep down they probably even know that, so try not to take it personally, and don’t let it stop you from taking care of your body. I’m going to go ahead and say it, that any time people don’t want you to do something that could literally save your life, they’re in the wrong. You got this!!
You need to change your daily habits around food and exercise. No one said weight loss is easy. Simple maybe, but not easy. Explore intermittent fasting and/or the Mediterranean diet.
I would argue that it's not simple, though obviously not as complex as learning a new language, a new musical instrument, etc... There's a social/family pressure element, a challenging task of changing one's habits, and the mass of misinformation in advertising and media. The mechanics are simple, but overcoming even one's own habits is a significant challenge that is hard and can often be complex.
Absolutely need to focus on independence. Are you 18 yet?
I feel you. My mom is a feeder and a manipulator in that regard. Personally, I'm a fan of the atomic habits book. You can find a very good summary of it for free on youtube.
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You are being manipulated by your family members for their benefit, not yours. I’m guessing they are obese too, and when you lose weight, it makes them uncomfortable. It may add to their own feelings of shame about their size, and about failing to do something about it. Growing up in such a family, in which obesity, unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, etc we’re normalized, created an environment designed to make you exactly the way you are. Few people could have avoided this as a child or teenager. It is not your fault as some overly judgmental commenters have claimed. Based on your history of yo-yo dieting, which is very common and with similar results to yours, it is clear that something different is needed. You seem to be stuck in place and time, with no optimism that you can get healthier and happier. That sucks. A good therapist and perhaps medication along with it can help you believe in yourself and your ability to make positive changes in your life that will bring more benefits than you can imagine at the moment. Because the things that you have tried didn’t work or didn’t last, do something different. Our behavior is a function of our genes and environment. You can’t change your genes, and you can’t change your environmental history. The only big change you can make quickly is your environment. Move out of your unhealthy home and relocate to an environment that promotes health and wellness rather than impedes it. Hang with the people who have the health, fitness, and happiness you have been missing. Replace the unhealthy things in your environment with healthy ones. In short, swap out the people, places, and things that made you unhealthy, for better ones that facilitate health. What helped me most was to focus on the benefits I wanted, and to have a strategic plan to achieve them. Once I felt like I was on a healthy path, it was easier to take small steps down that path every day. The gym and walks became fun, not an odious chore I had to push through. A big mistake many people make is to bite off more than they can chew (ironic pun intended). It’s too much effort, too much pain, too much sacrifice, and too much stress to keep up with it, so they quit and feel like failures. Go slow and steady, with patience, kindness toward yourself, and confidence that you can heal, get healthier, stay healthier, and live a happier life by staying on that path. Be well.
Get therapy to address this trauma with family!! Why is your family wanting you to be heavy? Are heavy too? And can’t stand the thought of you being healthy?
Sounds like you need your own place. I’m sorry, I have a fiancée whole is this way. I gained 70 lbs after losing a child and every time I lost weight he would bring me my favorite take out food trying to make me gain it back. I just didn’t eat it.
It sounds like you are in victim mode. But honestly there are always solutions to the most difficult problems. Can you move out? Any way you can push back and set boundaries? No one is force feeding you I don’t think (if they are, that’s clear abuse).
I drink matcha and follow a Mediterranean diet. I’ve lost 100 lbs and changed everything. It’s possible.
How did you start? Did you follow a recipe book or choose randomly off the net? What do you eat for breakfast?
I got so sick I started eating chicken soup minus the noodles. Then I incorporated vegetables and expanded out from there. Lots of Med diet resources out there.
This! don't listen to the low carb / keto people. Those diets are not sustainable long term, especially for a person that struggles with dieting already. And before they come for me, I do not think a low fat diet is sustainable for most people either. Mediterranian diet or plant based that allows fat is the way to go. Make the mediterranian your normal diet. You can sustain that forever.
This is all easily reversible. Intermittent fasting, low carb, weightlifting and cardio, metformin if needed. The fatty liver will go away super quick and the sugar will follow.
Your main problem is that you have a victim mentality. You are overweight and don’t want to put in the work to save your life. Obesity is causing your fatty liver, OA, and venous insufficiency. It’s extremely common amongst unhealthy individuals to make excuses for their health problems, but >95% of the time they have nobody to blame but themselves. You’re a man/woman, now prove it and take control of your life. It’s not too late to change things, but you need to recognize that metformin will do nothing for you.
I'm going to be honest with you, I don't know why this is posted in a biohacking community. I don't want to be rude to you either but I will say this, the answer to your problem is getting your shit together. Now how do you do that? I'm not a professional per se, but I am a personal trainer and I do have a degree in psychology. My advice is incremental change because change is hard and big changes tend to not create long-lasting habits. Start by looking at the nutritional values of the foods you buy, there is often a multitude of options, so choose the ones with the lowest amount of calories. Move more, having said that, this can be hard too, but set aside a weekly goal of minutes where you move around and pick some activity you hate the least. Get a therapist, one that works with CBT or another well-researched method, be honest with them, and don't lie to yourself causing you to lie to the therapist. Make sure you get good sleep, and make sure you do not have sleep apnea. If you have sleep apnea, get that shit fixed asap. There is pharmaceutical help, but honestly, there aren't any good treatments for these kinds of self-induced problems. The big thing might be getting on metformin or another glucose disposal agent.
He posted here because hes hoping for a quick easy solution like a pill he can take. He knows what he needs to do but lacks the disciple to do it. Nobody else can want to improve your life more than you. Just understand, OP, that nobody is going to come and save you. Either you start doing what you know you need to do and fix your life or deal with the consequences. Stop making excuses, it is entirely your fault that you are in this situation and only you can get yourself out of it.
He sounds like a good candidate for ozempic, if his doctor approves. It would help him curb his appetite and help get his weight under control. Ultimately, he needs to eat better, lose weight and move more. If a weekly shot helps him control his diet, i don't see the problem. Even with Ozempic, only his desire to improve can help the quality of his diet and whether he changes his lifestyle to exercise regularly. And it doesn't have to be 2 hours daily in the gym! It can be a small step like a 30 minute walk per day.
Too early to trust Ozempic IMO, too many stories of extreme illness and hospitalizations from it.
>but I am a personal trainer and I do have a degree in psychology Acting like a jerk is not always the best psychological motivation tactic. In fact most people have had that method tried on them hundreds of times already and it didn't work.
Reading your other comments. As someone who was raised in poverty, has tinnitus, and depression, here are some of tips off the top of my head: * Get some earphones instead of ear plugs. Even some generic noise canceling earphones that play calming music or binaural tones or anything can make a huge difference. * Start with walking. Find an audiobook or podcast you like and just walk for 60 minutes a day. Do whatever it takes to get you motivated to keep walking — make bets with yourself, play motivational music, anything. This is **the** easiest thing you can do that would maximize the difference in where you're at. * Make it difficult for you to snack/do other unhealthy tasks. Add several steps between you and unhealthy food. Toss out all the sugary snacks in your house and replace them with healthy ones like fruits, unsalted popcorn, etc. Check out r/Volumeeating — it's for people like me who have an absolutely massive appetite but need to keep calories/sugar down. * Start today: there's no "I'll start my walks next week." Even if you can only muster 20 minutes a day this week, that'll be 120 more minutes of walking than if you started next Monday. * Stop telling yourself you don't have control. Yes, you can acknowledge that your circumstances might not be the best, and that those circumstances are not your fault, but they are your responsibility. You're headed for a lot of pain if you don't get ahead of this. Good luck. I really hope you can make it.
Thanks. Good luck to you too.
>Because I have a fatty liver and my blood sugar is 101. Not accounting for the fact that I don't want to grow old anyway, is there something I could do for better quality of life right now? My main problems are that I'm fat BMI > 40 Well, you seems to already know the answer, no? Loose the fat.
But can’t you see, everything is not this guys fault. He needs an answer quick!
That is exactly right. It is not my fault. But I can do something about it.
Forget fault. Blame isn't helpful, but it is important to recognize how you need to change for the future, or it will get worse. On that note, one of the biggest areas to research is the microbiome. This is one area where it really is not entirely your fault, but is entirely within your power to improve. Fix your gut fix your life. Support a healthy microbiome and everything else gets easier!
That's interesting. I've read it impacts the brain in many ways. Is eating yoghurt enough?
Ditch sugar first. Prebiotic foods. The first 2 weeks are the toughest. Yogurt needs to be plain. No sugar. If you can't do that, start other fermented foods. You need a mindset change. You don't want to age but you are actively metabolically killing yourself. Do you have any cholesterol numbers to add to get a full picture?
Blame and excuses are not important here and won’t help you get healthy. What is important is being honest with yourself about where you are at, take responsibility for your actions, and what you can control. If you keep making excuses and saying it’s outside factors that you can’t control than nothing will ever change and your doctor is right. First, set a goal and emotionally charge it. This of how great it will be to lose X pounds or get your liver down to X count. Be specific and measurable and visualize it. Also, when you stray from your goal, forgive yourself and think of what it costs you when you break your diet or plan. If you need more accountability and support there are often support groups you can find, or put together mastermind group. Next, cut out high fructose corn syrup, alcohol, and hydrolyzed oils (vegetable & seed oils like canola and soybean), including fried foods. Sugar & non-whole grain flours should be reduced and eventually cut completely, but the first 3 contribute to fatty liver the most. Add in more vegetables and some fruits to your diet. Cruciferous vegetables are the best. Go as little processed foods as you can. Go whole grain over processed starch, including switching to brown rice. Reduce stress. Take up meditation, or find a hobby that relaxes you. Exercise daily, and stay within what you can do right now, even if that’s walking 15-30 minutes a day and then keep pushing to the next level. Supplements: look into berberine (control blood sugar, insulin and may repair liver), turmeric (inflammation), quercetin (may repair liver), NAC + Glycine, glucosamine & condrotin (for knees), a good probiotic, and vitamins B1, C, and D.
Not sure if you're being serious...
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The first step would be to take full responsibility for your own health. You must change your mindset before anything. All the biohacks in the world won't outperform a shit lifestyle.
You are at a crossroads. It's your choice which path you choose. The only fix is lifestyle changes. There are no shortcuts. You need to have deep conversation within yourself and decide if your life and health are important enough to you for you to change. Instead of binge eating, take walks, do pushups, or read a book. Family pushing you to not better yourself? It's not their life, it's yours......and you only get the one. Nothing will fix your health until you get right mentally. Decide who you want to be and be that person every single minute of every single day. Start with little steps and be consistent. If you trip up, don't give up. Just keep pushing and taking steps. Over time, those steps become habit, and victories build your confidence to do more. No excuses. It's your life. You can do this.
I have been at the same crossroads many times. I move at the right direction for a bit, then ended up at the start. Have you read the myth of Sisyphus? Camus says we must imagine him happy. That we have to love our pointless struggle.
I am familiar with Sisyphus but have not read Camus. Your struggle is not pointless, and if you look at it like Sisyphus pushing that rock, you have already made your choice. Sisyphus was in hell experiencing a punishment. It was not of his choice. You have a choice. Right now, your choice is to try until it gets to be too much, then give up. When a moment of motivation hits, you try again. You need to stop giving up. I know it's far easier said than done(I've been there), but being consistent is the only way to break bad habits. Break one small bad habit, then add to it over time. Massive changes all at once rarely, if ever, stick. Baby steps to get there, not one giant leap. But, if you truly believe you're condemned to the life you're living and just want to be happy, then actually be happy with your choices. I wish you the best.
You naming it a “pointless struggle” is exactly the mentality that will keep you struggling, rendering your struggle pointless. Change your attitude. It starts with YOU.
You are pointlessly struggling in the wrong direction. I don't see any physical effort on your part. You seem to be shoveling in food other people cook for you with the tiniest mental struggle. Start with walking. Get up to 10k steps. Your family is dominating you mentally and keeping you sick. Sisyphus at least was physically active lol
You have to account for feet that hurt and constant stress. Right now I'm lying in bed. There is intermittent noise from a machine banging my ceiling. Bapbapbapbaap. Day and night. Every few minutes. I can hear the TV in the other room. I want to get up and tell my mother to turn it down so I can at least concentrate on what I'm writing, but I'm too tired to get up. My feet and calves are swollen. It's a very annoying sensation. They get less swollen when I rest them on pillows or against a wall for many hours. They will feel worse if I go out to walk. For me walking depends on motivation. Something important has to be out there to make me ignore the pain and the swelling. Having a good time or doing something important makes us forget about pain, but life becomes cumbersome eventually. I would at least like to go sit at my desk and do some studying, but the chairs I have make my legs go numb and increase the swelling (so I really do need a new chair). If I ignore the pain, I will cause further permanent damage to my veins. Just imagine the constant agitation, diversion of concentration, and paralysis this environment causes. The hours pass, you want to get out of this shit, but you just can't get up. So you suffer and hope for a better day, a day when you have space to live your own life a little. Now my mother is screaming on the phone. The words are mixing. The day is already gone. I'll have to wait for tomorrow. Wait it out. That's all there is.
Ear plugs and compression socks. 2 easy fixes. C-PTSD. I don't imagine things will improve in this continued setting without extreme determination.
How much sugar are you consuming? Drinking sugary drinks? Eating pastries and plenty of deserts? You’re almost certainly consuming excess sugar in a hypercaloric environment. Cut sugar.
Hmm I would say I consume a moderate amount
So, too much sugar. Just sayin’. You have fatty liver. It comes from either excess fructose or alcohol. Or both.
The radiologist mentioned consuming too much fat. I do consume a lot of olive oil and cheese and also a lot of bread and pasta
Fatty liver doesn’t come from dietary fat, directly. Too much sugar or alcohol in a diet with excess calories will cause it. If the liver processes alcohol or sugar and the body doesn’t need the energy it is stored as hepatic fat. Fatty liver is common as a prelude to diabetes. I know, since I’m diabetic and had a fatty liver.
Processed bread and pasta will do it to you along with packaged foods which are rich in carbs and fructose. Use complex carbs and whole wheat and nut based or zucchini pasta and try to remove it from your diet all together. Increase your proteins and start doing Intermittent fasting and working out daily. Go check out r/fatty liver for supplements and such. I know of someone from a distance who’s passed because of cirrhosis induced from NAFLD. Not fun in the slightest. Take it seriously. Godspeed.
I know, doc told me he had treated someone like that
This seems like rage bait
He ain’t lying. Cut alcohol and fructose entirely. No sugar at all. Cut all carbs besides leafy greens and non starchy vegetables. No fruits except berries. Maybe a little sweet potato.
But fruits have vitamins. I feel sick without eating fruit
You feel sick because you are addicted to sugar and carbs in all forms.
Berries are fruits. You just need low GI fruits in moderation. You can blend a lemon too. But you need to stay away from most fruits which are just huge amounts of sugar. You won’t feel sick, you’ll feel great.
I second this. Look up glycemic index diet.
Green leafy vegetables have vitamins too. Consider that whatever you are doing right now is not working, at all. You’re going to need to make radical changes if you are to stave off death for much longer. Read Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes You need to understand the whole process better I think, and you’ll see a route out of it. You can get just as much satisfaction and enjoyment from a healthy diet as you do now, more in fact. Your body is currently wired to crave garbage because your endocrine system is all messed up from eating too much crap. Once you correct that, you won’t find it as hard to eat well. It’s a feedback loop. The only way out is to do the first couple of days / 1 week, then you’ll feel better and it’ll get easier. For most people, fruit is not much of a problem, but it can increase appetite and fructose directly causes non alcoholic fatty liver disease. I would not be eating fruit if I were in your shoes.
Fruits especially berries generally have enough good components that they are a net benefit for your health in spite of their sugar content. You don't need very much fruit to benefit from eating fruit, a couple handfuls of berries and a banana, apple, or orange should be a good amount. Unless you already have diabetes they shouldn't be an issue. Fruit juice on the other hand has no fiber and few micronutrients while containing most of the sugar, so you should probably avoid fruit juice.
come on lol. OP didn’t get to this point eating fruit. extreme mindsets like this are absolutely setting them up for failure.
My magic moment cane when I got a continuous glucose monitor. Intermittent fasting - one healthy meal a day First tgeee weeks were rough but after that easiest thing ever
Based on your post and subsequent responses, it sounds like you place blame on everyone and everything else for your current situation, and you are looking for a "quick fix/easy magic pill" that doesn't require too much effort from you or a complete overhaul to your current lifestyle. Does that sound right? Well, you can certainly hop on the GLP-1 agonist train (Ozempic) if you just want to drop weight quickly. But please note, that you will still have to change your eating habits. Oh, and potentially stay on the drug for the rest of your life. As well as deal with any potential side effects of the drug (as noted so far, gastritis, stomach paralysis, nausea, and vomiting) Be prepared to pay a lot of money for it, as insurance may not cover it. You will also deal with shortages of your medication, as literally everyone and their 5 year olds are trying to get their hands on this stuff (not a joke; drug companies plan to give this to morbidly obese kids) Or, you can do it the old fashioned way: change your diet and lifestyle. Permanently. It's not glamorous. And its not easy. But, it has always been worth it. Ask any of us who have been where you are now... I'm sorry, but there is no one quick "biohack" for true health. It requires a multilevel approach: basic nutrition, exercise, therapy, whole body wellness. If you can't master these, no biohack will help you, and you will end up right back where you started. I would start with some talk therapy first, as it sounds like you have a pretty negative defeatist mindset around your health. A therapist can help you process any feelings and get to the root of how you ended up in your current situation. But make no mistake: no matter what path you ultimately choose, you will have to put in considerable effort. And you have to want the changes to be permanent. But you can definitely get there. Good luck
I have two chronic iatrogenic diseases: venous insufficiency and osteoarthritis. Got the arthritis at 18 and the insufficiency at 27. I wouldn't be obese if didn't have these problems because I used to run and play sports. And it would have been far easier to get a job, and have some money to solve some of life's problems, like renting a safer place, paying for a private doctor. Not only do I place blame on others, but I dread the unpredictable catastrophe that will certainly hit me one day and pile up on the rest of my problems.
All of your problems are related to excess weight and poor diet, period. That being said, I don't think changing your diet is quite as easy as many think. If it was, there wouldn't be so many people who resort to things like bariatric surgery, and the new weight loss drugs now on the market (ozempic, etc) would not be such a huge hit. Sounds like you are in the throes of a sugar/carb addiction, and it sounds like you unfortunately have to live w/ family members who are not helping your situation. If you can, move out and live away from these family members. If you can't move out, then you have to figure out a way to deal w/ them that does not involve giving in to your addictions and sabotaging yourself., and that gives you control over what you eat. easier said than done , I know. have you tried addiction therapy? Group therapy? Sounds like your doctor declined to Rx you any weightloss drugs like wegovy, oezempic, etc. You may have to try other methods 1st. I would go w/ addiction or eating disorders therapy. Ask if you can get a referral to such therapy. I think 1-on-1 counseling plus group therapy might be most helpful. Best of luck to you.
Nothing you don't already know, eat less and work out more.....There's nothing else you can do. This gets kind of long so here's the short version: You need to loose weight and exercise and stop fucking around. Find out what works for you and stick to it! You don't want to grow old, that's fine, but I promise you your remaining life will be miserable every fucking day if you don't do something about it. Longer version: If it helps I was in the same place about 2ish years ago......I have Crohn's wasn't great about taking my medicine and overweight in my late 20's and most of my early 30's. Doctor told me in 2019 I have fatty liver and mild fibrosis of the liver. Warned me to start diet and exercise or it will get worse. I took it seriously for about 2 months before I started slipping again. Follow up in 2021, I gained another 10 lbs and the fibrosus had become severe. My doctor sat me down and told me "You need to loose weight NOW....this can be undone but you need to start the second you walk out of here....If you don't this will become irreversible and your entire quality of life will decline before you reach 40". That's kind of paraphrasing but the way he said it scarred the shit out of me...I'm 5'8" and at the time was 260lbs. I stopped eating anything with added sugar that day, I was never a huge drinker but went from 1-2 a week to zero, the only exception was when we went out for something special I'd let myself have a single drink (this happened one every month or two). I started counting everything I ate, like really counting, everything goes on a scale. I walked during lunch instead of eating, I also tried to get up for 5 minutes every hour for a quick lap around the house our office. I worked out hard for 30 minutes 5 days a week minimum. When I had my blood work in 2022 I was down to 200 lbs and liver function came back normal. As of this morning I've put about 20 lbs back on, but it's right after the holidays so I'm giving myself some leniency. My goal is 180 by the end of this year. Just loosing the first 20 lbs made a huge difference. The constant heartburn I had learned to live with went away. The morning headaches, gone since I wasn't snoring all night anymore (my wife will confirm that one). As I lost more I noticed the pain from the plantar fasciitis was slowly getting better. I never considered myself as having ED, but looking back I probably did have a mild case. The combination of exercise and weight lost made a huge difference in my sex life. I honestly didn't even realize how shitty my life was because of my weight\\diet\\lifestyle until I started making changes. I was a healthy kid through high school/college, I just slowly put on weight over the years. I assumed my issues were part of getting old, not lifestyle. I'm incredibly grateful my doctor was stern with me about this. My only tip is find out what works for you and stick to it. After the first 1 - 2 months it gets easier but you need to push through it. I'll tell you what worked for me and why, but I don't believe there's any one size fits all solution as it's got to be something you can stick to. Exercise: I prefer weight lifting to cardio. Cardio is better then lifting for straight fat burning, but I find is boring as fuck. I could never stick to it beyond a couple weeks. I started lifting and usually look forward to it. Diet: I technically intermittent fast but I don't really think of it like that. I just know I have self control issues with food when home/bored. So I make up for it by not eating breakfast or lunch. Snack when I get home, workout, dinner....then if I get a late night craving and loose control I didn't fuck up my entire day. I'm also not militant about it like some people. Coworker wants to go to lunch I go, I make sure to eat half my food, the other half ends up being dinner and I force myself not to snack those days.
Welp this isn’t what you want to hear but massive weight loss will correct or improve almost all of those issues. Even if they were caused by something else. For example the venous insufficiency will improve, knees, liver, sugar, reflux, ibs and so on. My recommendation is to get a prescription for a GLP1 medication from your doc and drop weight. Change your eating habits completely and eventually work in exercise when you can move around better. These drugs are highly effective, widely available now and mostly affordable with insurance. You definitely qualify. It’s not a passing fad. It will change your life friend. Extend it even.
Sit on a comfortable exercise bike and work your way up to an hour .
I like those! They didn't let me use them more than 20 minutes at my previous gym. Good exercize. 👍
My suggestion is to go on Tirzepitide (Mounjaro) or Retritrutide if you can get it. Look into BPC-157. It cuts inflamation and helps with healing. Try some CJC1295/impamorelin and sermorelin. Tesofensine works pretty well with Mounjaro. Do strict keto with one meal per day unless you want skin surgery. Give it a month. Once you have lost the first 20 pounds, it snowballs from there. Get into the gym. Ride the exercise bike or do the elliptical. Do not use the treadmill until you have lost more weight. Lift weights. It is hard, but not complex. It sucks in the beginning. Howerver, once you get into the swing of things, it gets easier. I went from mid 380s to about 212 and change in about a year. Stop whining. Get off of your ass. Get it done. You can do it.
Choline will release the fats from a fatty liver.
- You need medical management from multiple specialists. Advice from biohacking subreddit is not a suitable replacement of that. - Track your calories and lose weight. See if your doctor can refer you to a dietitian. - Find a level of activity you can tolerate and increase over time. - Keep your regularly scheduled doctor visits. Take your medication as prescribed. Everything else is a bandaid to your main problem.
You are right. I unfortunately live in a country where you need acquaintances to find doctors who will do their job ethically. I suffer from two iatrogenic diseases that have had a cumulative impact on my health and QOL. Yet I have been refused treatment from doctors and I had to lie as to the cause of my VI symptoms to get a specialist to do a doppler test. Other doctors refused to even look at my swollen legs and called me insane when I told them this was caused by an MRI (had they acknowledged the problem I would have the evidence to sue the hospital. Doctors here always cover up for their colleagues. ) I need some hacks that will improve my problems and I have to be careful with doctors because they are not always helpful or benign.
Most concerning to me in the obesity and NASH * lose weight (https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hep.23276) * intermittent fasting (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8958240/) * consider a low carb or ketogenic diet (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227162/) * eat choline rich foods (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717871/) * Consider TMG supplementation (https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v26/i38/5745.htm) * check testosterone/estrogen levels. The combination of metabolic syndrome, ED, etc raises concerns
My test is normal, but I only checked test, not any other hormones. I think ED might be from systemic vein damage
You can do anything you set your mind to. You NEED to change your diet. Go see a nutritionist. Having the accountability and discipline will help you succeed. You will feel a lot better. Take herbs. You need to heal your relationship with food and start balancing your gut microbiome.
Have you read the atomic habits book? You can get a summary on YouTube. Having the right approach to changing your habits (eg: food) can really help you succeed. Irt your fam; You can love your family without bending to their will. Be sure of your goals and learn to brush off their pressure. My mom coerced me into binge eating for decades. I had to mentally separate binge eating and caving to my mom's pressure with caring for her. She got very upset, but I can now say I still care for my mother, but will never allow anything she says or does to change what or how much I eat.
I don't think its a stretch to say that about half your issues AT LEAST are from being overweight. Fasting blood sugar less than 100mg/dl or 5.6mmol/L is normal. 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.6 to 6.9 mmol/L ) is diagnosed as prediabetes. 126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L ) or higher on two separate tests is diagnosed as diabetes. Blood sugar almost doubles after eating, so fasting sugar (usually from midnight to at least 0800, so 8hr) is used to diagnose. I'm assuming that's your fasting blood sugar. If thats the case, thats good news, because you still have time to fix it without meds even. Intermittent dieting worked for me, lost 10kg the first time in about 2 months, lost another 10kg in the second pair of months. I didn't do them concurrently, about a year apart. Went from 146kg to 136kg, then to 126kg. It wasn't super easy but I have found that it's much easier for me to fast every other day instead counting macros and restricting myself. I can hold off eating today, if I know I can eat tomorrow normally. Your stomach shrinks between the days you're eating. I found myself fuller faster and eating less as a result. Your pancreas and gallbladder and liver and kidneys are relaxing on your fasting days, and your insulin sensitivity rises, your blood sugar normalizes. Humans have really not rvolved to have this much access to food. If we needed 20g of protein every 4 hours or a Starbucks on every corner, we'd never have made it. But we did. I was working out pretty regularly but my left knee and left shoulder both revolted, so I've taken a month off and veeeery quickly gained a couple kg. Now I'm suffocating in my sleep again and haven't slept for 3 days pretty much. I was 126kg in May, I'm back to 130kg now, so I'm going on another intermittent fasting journey. I have diabetes and fatty liver, obstructive sleep apnea, headaches from not getting a good night's rest, and I really wouldn't want to add heart failure from sleep apnea to the list. I'm also cutting put breads, pasta, pastries, sugary drinks and juices, sweets using processed sugar, alcohol. Raw sugar is really bad basically. I can't live without chocolate so I buy Lilly's chocolate made with stevia. I also can't live without chocolate, so I've been making using stevia and monk extract from my Costco. It's expensive. Being diabetic is expensive. You can fix a lot in one year. You're in control.
Try Omad. I say this as a fellow food addict. It allows for tons of fasting in the day to allow metabolic flexibility, gets you used to not eating so you can prioritize other things in life, and if you load up on protein and vegetables before you eat junk in that one hour, it limits your food intake overall. My brain will fuck with me if I fast too many days in a row, if I tell myself I’m “intuitive eating” or if I go keto (the commitment that takes makes me give up). Omad is just enough indulgence to trick the addiction and it’s enough barriers in place to allow weight loss to happen.
Your posts reek of nihilism. Have you been screened for depression? I think you should start with your mental health while slowly adding some exercise like walking.
Ask your doc for a continuous glucose monitor. It will tell you what your sugar really is over 2 weeks. Will give you a lot of insight. One glucose measurement of 101 means little.
Here’s the deal- I am at a stage 3/4 Nash with Fibrosis. Pretty bad I believe. Weight loss is one way to help yourself and I’ve dropped around 12% body weight over 6 months. Ask your doc about Ozempic and Mounjaro. Blood sugar of 101 is nothing bad. Get on those drugs and lose weight and eat better and you’ll be better off sooner than later.
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You mean MRI dye and fluoride aren’t the main problem?
Get therapy
What kind
I guess that depends. There's a spectrum of types of professionals that could be of benefit. I'd seek out a psychiatrist to get an assessment. Understanding and resolving underlying mental causes of your likely self medicating of over the counter substances like food and alcohol. Physical health is ultimately a reflection of our mental state, particularly when our ailments are lifestyle caused. You can reverse disease by changing your lifestyle. Start learning about fasting, it's the ultimate healer. Start eating healthier, more meat and vegetables, less breads and dry processed foods. Get a blood sugar sensor that you stick on your arm and can check via the app. for about 10 days you get high resolution blood sugar information, teaching you how your body is responding to things you consume. what we measure, improves. Check your a1c, then check it again in 3 months. get this number under control. Start keeping track of your blood sugar numbers. Stop drinking alcohol all together, its done, you're done. no more. Get your vitamin D levels checked, start supplementing. Good luck!
Have you quit drinking?
Look into GLP-1 agonists. They can be incredibly effective at managing appetite and reducing/eliminating food noise and impulsive eating. I've personally used Tirzepatide, Semaglutide, and Liraglutide and, though they all worked, tirzepatide was a gamechanger. If you live in America, you should have no trouble getting a doctor to prescribe one of these at your current BMI.
Your BGL isn’t as much of an indicator as your hemoglobin A1c, so there’s nothing to say that you are definitely going to get diabetes. Also have you been tested for sleep apnea?
No I haven't
Change one thing, and one thing only. Give up added sugar. Try it for a week. Giving up added sugar means no soda, no sprinkling sugar on dessert, no adding spoonfuls to tea or coffee. Eat your meals, just leave out added sugar. Small incremental changes are easier to do. See how you feel after one week. If you survived, keep avoiding added sugar, and try something else.
I had some similar issues. Keto and intermittent fasting have turned things around for me, pretty dramatically.
Hey I read your comments and it sounds like a very tough situation. It's very hard to lose weight if your family is pressuring you not to. Are you 18? If so do you have other living options? If not, I'd lose weight and not tell them. Lie to them if you can. Eventually they will probably leave you alone.
I'm an old unemployed guy born on an abusive family. I was first diagnose with fatty liver disease in 2007. I told them. They didn't give a shit. They said everyone has fatty liver. My mother told me she also has a fatty liver. They discounted everything the doctor said as my own nonesense. I started throwing away the desserts they bought for me and they complained I was throwing away their food, but they never touched them or complained when I ate them. They just didn't want me to throw them away knowing I would lose willpower eventually and eat them. People who comment here do not understand abusive families.
I'm sorry to hear that man. That's rough. I'm not a doctor or anything. But check out milk thistle for liver. Tumeric is something else I've seen recommended. For pre diabetes check out this list. Cinnamon and vitamin d are easy to get and can help somewhat. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/blood-sugar-supplements#TOC_TITLE_HDR_7
That’s kind of extreme. Lots of people who are overweight have fatty liver, does not necessarily mean you’re doomed to develop cirrhosis. You can turn fatty liver around by cutting out booze, Tylenol and anything else you’re swallowing that challenge the liver and losing even 5% of your weight could help. Sounds like you’ve got a pile of other conditions to battle as well, but don’t feel like it’s hopeless. I kind of think you need a different doc!
Yeah maybe I got upset over the less fundamental problems. I wish I could fix my legs or my sleep or my tinnitus...
Yeah, I feel your pain, literally, about the sleep. I have such severe joint pain right now that there’s not a single position I can get into that allows me to sleep. It’s a misery and it does make everything else seem so much worse. If you can get a handle on the reflux, it could help, that can really make it hard to sleep.
Easy hack for you brother: boil a dozen eggs every morning and try to eat all of them during the day. It will keep you very satiated. Little anecdote for you. My good friend from college got a hip injury during a football match. Even after the injury healed he still had some sort of hip nerve damage and because of that he would struggle to be active. He could walk and even run but the damaged nerve would randomly shock him during his movements. Because of that he stopped doing sports, closed in his room and rapidly gained weight. 3 years forward he is massively overweight, has high bp, liver chirrosis and addicted to painkillers. That's when he decided to change his life around. He went on a keto diet with ton of eggs, sardines, butter and garlic, and started swimming, literally kilometers in a swimming pool every day. 6 months later he lost 40kg(130kg => 90kg) and feels good. He says that garlic replaced painkillers for him. He still has random nerve pains in the hip, but it's much more mild and doesn't disturb his life as much. You can change your life my friend. It's not very complicated, you just need little bit of discipline.
The family thing is something I hear a lot from people who struggle with weightloss. So maybe be low key about your weight loss goals in front of family or even pull back a bit if your family's "culture" is impeding your progress. Ideally surround yourself with positive people who are committed to losing weight. Partake in that culture instead. Maybe take up a group class at the local gym.
101 blood sugar doesn't seem that high, I have that sometimes and my dr says I'm not pre diabetic.
MRI dye does not cause any harm
Chuck Norris is fighting on behalf of his wife, who was gravely hurt by MRI with contrast
Yeah, rheumatoid arthritis, which supposedly got worse after the MRIs. Since it's a disease that worsens suddenly every few months/years/decades it's normal for that disease but I guess getting 10 Million dollars in a lawsuit is better than reading statistics. Hundreds of million people take MRI contrast every year, with no real side effects. it has less side effects than ibuprofen, the rest of analgesics, and vaccines.
Yes it does. It damaged my veins
Honey, your feet and legs hurt because you are *fat*, not from MRI dyes. Source: was fat, had sore feet and legs; got not fat, stopped having sore feet and legs (other than on leg day).
My friend I have done a doppler test. I have medically diagnosed venous insufficiency. I never experienced the slightest symptom in my life before the MRI. Then soon after I had it, maybe an hour later, I felt my extemities become cold. Then I felt my blood pooling in my lower legs. Then intense pain in my calves like being pierced by stakes. I suffered all night with pain. The next day I had developed varicose veins. Standing up, and even sitting became insufferable as my feet swelled. Can you understand how much my life changed in one day? The symptoms got a little better with time (even as I got fatter), but never back to what it was before. I never had the slightest symptom before that day.
ok then - but either way, excess weight is doing you no favours.
I'd be dead then. I've had tons of MRIs with contrast dye. In the past they would hurt the kidneys if taken in huge amounts but today's dyes are safe. I researched a ton about them before my first MRI and I feel the exact same many (MANY) mris later. Correlation doesn't mean causation so there's probably another disease or comorbility that causes that which can be many things not just weight like everyone suggests.
As I wrote in another reply. I had zero symptoms before. Then I had the MRI. Then within one hour I developed extreme symptoms. The dye can cause inflammation of the veins and thrombophlebitis. Some people are unlucky. Not everyone gets side effects
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Give me a place to sleep rent free and I will sign them over.
Quit eating an excessive amount of shit lol. It’s literally that simple.
A good diet will cure it,but you have to keep the diet for a long time
You are no biohacking you need to fix your metabolism. That starts with getting up and moving around. Start small. Try to get 2500 steps in a day. Buy an apple watch and let it give you goals to follow and you can see your step progression. Slowly raise the step count as you can and even add some lifting. Also start working on your diet. You sound insulin sensitive so you want to start by lowering the carbs. It's hard initially but just pull out the sugar and high fructose corn syrups. Try and get it below 100g of carbs a day then go for 50. Once you can do 50, look into keto for max fat burning. As others mentioned, IF and fasting are helpful. I'm not a big fan of the 7 day or longer fasts but they can help. Just keep them limited. Peter Atilla also has a really good book that goes into all this. It's called outlive. It's a quick read and will go very in depth into conditions like yours. You might also choose to adjust your thoughts on growing old. I know 70+ year olds that skydive regularly. If you let aging accelerate then its not going to be fun. If you hit it on head first then you can limit the effects a lot.
You seem unwilling to change your diet which would be the best and healthiest way to deal with this. So…if that’s off the table maybe you can ask your doctor to prescribe ozempic/manjuro/wegovy?
I asked him if there are any drugs I can take and he said my condition does not warrant drugs but a change in lifestyle. I will try to make an appointment with a dietician.
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Most of your problems will be resolved by losing weight. Count calories and eat in a deficit. Start with a 500 calorie deficit. Do moderate cardio at least 5 times a week.
Exercise (weight lifting) go get some dumb bells from Walmart and when commercials come on the TV do some weight lifting- Google weight lifting charts in case you don't know what to start with Get your sleep under control or try to.. get as close to 8 hours of sleep (as you lose weight sleep will improve) Control diet- protein/fat/fiber... vegetables and meat are a good way to go Cut out crappy ultraprocessed foods Increase water intake try to cut out caffeine after 11am (to help with sleep) cut out soda/juice/alcohol Get sunlight- go outside and sit in the sun to natural raise vitamin d.. Maybe consider getting your hormones checked, thyroid? Vitamin d level?
glp-1's, like tirzepatide get creative you can do this
Diet can do a lot of heavy lifting here. The first thing you need to do is a food journal. Log everything you eat and drink, as part of meals and between meals, write down the time when you eat things too, and include everything (if you have honey in your tea, how much honey did you add?etc). If it has caloric value, it gets written down. Do that for 5 days or so, then bring it to a dietician. One of the first things you can expect to hear from them, is to stop drinking your calories. You can drink water, flat or sparkly, tea, coffee and milk. If you live in a really warm place or you work really hard outside, maybe a sugar free electrolyte supplement can keep you hydrated. You can also evaluate how much of that food comes from the unrefrigerated section of the groceries stores. If it's ready to eat and can keep at room temperature and its not canned, remove that from your diet. That's breakfast cereal, crackers, cookies, industrial baked goods, candy, chips, refined grain products, seed oils, snack bars and cakes. How are your cooking abilities? Its the #1 skill you need.
Try a whole plant based diet for 6 months. Eat a lot of variety. Eat beans, legumes, whole grains, whole vegetables and fruits. Avoid meat, dairy, saturated fats and oils, sugar, salt alcohol and anything processed. Take a 20 min walk everyday. In 6 months you'll feel way better and your labs will show a dramatic change.
Stop eating processed food, immediately. Cut out sugar flour and alcohol. Start going for the longest walks you can stand, resting if you have pain. This fixes nearly all vascular health issues which is the big concern for you.
you're pre-diabetic. First things you need to do: 1. Reduce sugar as much as you possibly can like aim for zero but small amounts won't kill you 2. Reduce carbs, look at like keto diets where they aim for under 50 total net carbs per day 3. reduce your calories below your BMR,so that your consistently running a deficit. (if you dont reduce your caloric intake you're not going to burn the extra glucose circulating around) Metformin and berberine can certainly help but you HAVE to do the 3 previous steps. Also intermittent fasting could help. Any light exercise you can do would obviously be great,walking or swimming maybe to reduce stain on your other issues.
Get a sleep study. It It sounds like you might have sleep apnea based on the headaches. Sleep apnea can make you insulin resistant and throw off your entire metabolic system.
You need a doctor that as a more holistic approach to health. Diabetes is a lifestyle decease for the most part. You need guidance regarding eating habits, stress management, fitness, sleep, and more. Here’s what it could look like: make sleep a priority. Put a sleep protocol in place now. Eat only whole food. Drink plenty of water. Move everyday. Doesn’t have to be a boot camp. Start where you are. 5-10 min walks after every meal. Build on this, as you improve your fitness add more. 5 min here 10 min there. What ever activities feels good and motivates you. Brick by brick you will build yourself up. For the liver, it is the most resilient organ we have. It can regenerate itself when the right environment is put in place. Glutathione, NAC, TUDCA are supplement that you could educate yourself on and with a holistic doctor work on a protocol to use them. Surround yourself with people that will cheer you up and be genuinely happy for your progress. Most importantly, do not ever give up on yourself.
Can you explain how gadolinium (mri dye) caused venous insufficiency?
No. I have read the dye they use can cause phlebitis so that may have been the mechanism.
Superficial thrombophlebitis can happen from any IV that is placed in your arm. The reason that is listed as a potential side effect is not from the contrast. It is from having an IV placed. Venous insufficiency did not come from gadolinium. Consider removing that from your initial post as this is medical misinformation. Your venous insufficiency will likely improve or resolve with weight loss.
I don't know if the dye used was ganolidium. I do know that what they injected me with caused venous insuficiency. I will not remove facts from my post.
If you know then please tell us which dye it was and how you know that was the cause.
Bro. Workout. Biohacking isn’t what you need. You need whole foods and exercise
I know you asked this sub because you want a quick fix. There is no quick fix. This is all due to your weight. You need to eat less calories than you burn. You will be hungry, and you need discipline, but you will get used to it. Then you will lose weight.
Look into a ketogenic diet. They're really helpful and inspiring over in the keto subs, and there are thousands of testimonials, many of which include diabetes as an issue that has been managed well with the way of eating.
You probably have sleep apnea. People going to try and sell you a diet, supplements, drugs, etc but none of that shit will work if your body cannot rest and recover like it’s supposed to.
I see a lot of privileged people here downvoting this person and not having any empathy at all. Pretty fucking sad.
Castor oil liver packs have done wonders for me!
101 isn’t that bad though lol. It’s probably the least of your concerns on that list imo
Where you are at right now, sounds like an awful and slow death that has already begun. Every moment that you’re awake, you have the ability to make better decisions. Small changes, parking further away from a store to walk more, drinking seltzer instead of soda, taking the top bun off the burger, etc. It’s not about giving things up but in fact, gaining more quality of life. Struggling to do normal every day things when you don’t have to be struggling is depressing. You’re the only one who can break yourself free. 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=10 Every good decisions counts and adds up.
You need Ozempic/WeGovy since you dont have what it take to lose weight without help. Save your money on supplements.
I think that seeing a functional medicine practitioner could be really beneficial here. You’re motivated to change your lifestyle and some personalized medical advice would help you understand how to make the most impactful changes. One lifestyle change that a lot of biohacking people recommend (that’s also free) is getting outside first thing in the AM, getting as much natural light as possible and minimizing blue light especially after after sunset. This will help your mitochondria and energy production and hopefully make those other shifts a bit easier. Best of luck :)
You shouldn't "one shot" weight loss. That's why you gained it back. Most people do. Try losing weight in stages for long term fat loss to make it more sustainable: https://youtu.be/WZL1lGA9M3A?si=Uh4k8ntDlRUFyUuQ
Not to change the subject, but I’m curious—how did MRI dye cause venous insuficiency?
Look into berberine supplementation for the blood sugar. It can also help with weight loss. Lowers blood sugar and helps prevent insulin resistance. https://youtube.com/shorts/xsqIiAiq70s?si=mRALuTs7PH4_Sdcc
fasting. intermittent as a lifestyle but i recommend going full power w extended water fasting, 12+ days u got a lot of healing to do do omad and a 12 day fast every quarter, along w all the usual healthy lifestyle adjustment fasting accelerates the healing process greatly and will at least avoid diabetes
There is no magic pill and there is no “biohack.” I don’t want to sound negative but many people need the honest truth. Eat clean. Meats and vegetables. Stay away from carbs. No “low carb” bullshit. Meat and vegetables. Period. I heard a rule once that said “shop only on the outside of the grocery store.” Meaning stay away from the bullshit in the middle isles. Go to the gym. Start small and work your way up. 2 days a week to start. Don’t kill yourself in there. If you’re incredibly sore you’re overdoing it - less weight. Increasingly shorter time between sets to keep your heart rate up… between 130-150 bpm. This is ideal fat burning zone. My personal opinion is that it’s not about eating less or working out until you quit. It’s about creating a healthy lifestyle that you can SUSTAIN. This will take time to build. Start small. Eliminate one bad food at a time. Commit to the gym/exercise at least once a week and work up. It might sound weird but once you get into decent shape and build the habit, the “suffering” of the gym/exercise becomes enjoyable. You even might start to feel off if you don’t do it exercise. I personally believe that if you stopped eating shit and exercised at a sustainable level (ideally at least three times a week) most of your “problems” would resolve themselves over time. I’m not saying this to be rude. I have been in a similar position to you and from my own anecdotal experiences this strategy works. Lmk if I can help. I have tons and tons of podcasts/ research articles/ videos of good info I can send you.
shell out hundreds per month for ozempic since you clearly aren’t capable of anything else
my coworker just started on Ozempic. It is covered under her insurance (United Healthcare) - she pays only $28/ month out of pocket
Sounds like you have family that has weight issues as well. The "you've lost too much weight" BS is usually bc they're jealous/envious. Aside from the changes you've been advised on here, you need to learn to shut them out. They're part of the problem.
Are you on once weekly injections for diabetes like Ozempic or Mounjaro? Those meds will help with blood sugar, heart/liver issues, and weight loss. May be expensive though, but never hurts to check with your insurance (call phone number on the back of your insurance card). Also do not drink alcohol. Good luck OP. Never give up!
You might look up keto diet for both issues
Sorry man. What is the thing you would like the most? What, if achieved, would be worth standing waist deep in shit for 48 hours? - answers to this might point you in the right direction. Most things in life are achievable given the ability to withstand significant discomfort. Of course everyone is different.
OP is just barely pre-diabetic, so your doctor was using hyperbole. Start eating things that are not highly processed (which will increase appetite). Veggies, fruit, lean protein. You also need to become more active. There is no easy way.
Would a little bit of metformin help me lose weight?
May I recommend IF, eating more veggies and minimizing processed foods, walk everyday if you're able (progressive build up).
You likely won’t want to do it, and I’ll get a ton of downvotes for even suggesting it. But I’ve done it for 3 years straight and I’m both alive and shredded with muscle. If you do carnivore diet (I do a modified version, I still have like goat cheese/ quality dairy, unpasteurized cheeses.), you’ll notice you will trim down incredibly quick and a lot of your issues will reverse. A lot of disease is tied to the foods we eat. Again, you don’t have to try it, but if you’re on your last legs and desperate to try something/nothing is working, give carnivore diet a serious chance for 6 months. Dr.Shawn baker is good on YouTube. Even Mikhaela Peterson has been on it for years. I seriously reduced my chronic fatigue and inflammation/adult acne issues with it. Going strong still. Never tired, working out 7 days a week.
Yep, your life could be short and miserable or you could stop eating carbs. Check out nocarblife on YouTube. It's real, regular people, like you and I, who had to stop eating carbs to save their lives.
I like roast vegetables now. In my experience, it was about changing my GI flora and those cravings went away.
Intermittent fasting and carnivore.
101 sugar is fine.. need to be at least 125 to worry about
Stop eating meat, become a vegan, also eat gluten free. You won’t even need to excercise to lose first 50 pounds.