Eating Fat

For about 40 years I tried many low fat, high carb diets and (aside from a couple of years on the early, relatively low-carb WW diet), I rarely lost a substantial amount of weight (and could never keep it off). Once I learned to low carb however, I lost over 100 lbs and have kept it off for nine years now. I gain a few lbs when my discipline wavers (meaning when I add some bad carbs), then take it off again when I cut out those carbs I know I really can't eat.

For me, sugar and grains are the worst offenders. To maintain good nutrition, I eat non-starchy veggies, plain yogurt, and some fruits, which give me all the variety I need for a healthy diet. As to fats, I eat what I like, when I like, saturated fats included. They have no effect on my bgs (or my weight), either at the time I eat them or a day or more later (I've never seen any signs of the "pizza effect" because I don't eat pizza, but eating bacon or having butter on my spinach has no bad effect).

Since I started using insulin, I have had to be very rigorous in what I eat. My cardio tells me that insulin definitely DOES contribute to weight gain, but maybe that is more true for people like me who have a tendency to fat. For those who don't have this tendency, it may not be true at all. I am reading a very interesting book called "Rethinking Thin." It presents a well-researched and reasonable case explaining why some people tend toward weight gain and why some do not. For anyone who assumes that they are heavy due to a lack of will-power, it may be a very valuable read.