Type 2 diabetes?

That's hard.

I was just reading about a German professor that is prescribing 2-week fasts, to treat diabetes.

>That's harder for women to do, tho.

Yeah, I'm sure and I suppose I'm quite young so probably part of it too.

With my new eating routines I can workout pretty quickly after eating if I want to. I learned how to very carefully asses hunger/fullness cues so I don't over eat and I'm good. However meals are usually for quick recovery so always after a workout. The more frequent the meals the easier it is to listen to those cues and eat when slightly hungry so no overeating happens.

I was most worried about carbs, so we spent most of the time learning about that an blood sugar cycles.

Basically its this: Carbs are your source of energy, as they are quickly converted into glucose. It takes energy to breakdown proteins and fats into glucose so it's avoided if possible. glycogen and protein stores in muscles will be robbed before your digestion will attempt to convert proteins/fats into glucose, thus always leaving your muscles starved for necessary proteins and glycogen energy stores, so you generally feel weaker on a low carb diet and struggle even maintaining muscle.

Glucose is only absorbed during the duration of raised insulin production. If glucose is "left over" during that cycle or cannot be absorbed fast enough, it's absorbed by adipose which is also stimulated by insulin. Which is why quickly digested carbs cause such a high (and fast) spike in blood sugar causing poor consumption of carbs and increased adipose growth along with poor muscular uptake. Fruits and other higher-fiber simple carbs are helpful in this space. "The body does not know the difference in a given carb molecule, it all becomes glucose" as she would tell me.

I try to follow the blood sugar wave which is pretty good at telling you when you need more fuel, proteins don't hang around in the AA "pool" for very long, so you have to top them up regularly. So that's what I learned and seems to be working really well for me right now. Mixed macro meals, 3:1 carb to protein+fats ratio, eat within 1 hour of waking, then workout before a meal, learn hunger/fullness cues. Few/no long carb molecules (starches). Get a good mix of all fruits/veggies, whole grain stuff, lean and fatty meats on rotation with other good fats like milk nuts and the like when needed.