Several years ago I posted a poll on a diet support forum seeking to understand the strategies successful dieters used to maintain weight losses they'd achieved using low carb diets. The answers I got were very helpful to other people who hoped to be able to maintain their weight loss.
Now I'd like to post the same questions here to those of you who have diabetes or prediabetes and who have been able to successfully use a dietary strategy that involves cutting back on carbs for three or more years.
Please only answer if you have been using some form of carb restriction for three years or more. It doesn't have to be a formal low carb diet, but I'm looking for a dietary change that you have pursued for three or more years that has managed to either a) take off weight and keep most of it off or b) keep your blood sugar under 6.5% almost the entire time.
Post your answers in the "comments" section of this post which you can find by clicking on the "comments" link at the bottom of the post. I'll post my answers to give you an example of what I'm looking for.
1. Did you make changes in your diet after you first reached your weight loss or blood sugar control goal?
2. How much weight have you regained at any one time and how did you deal with it?
3. How badly has your blood sugar gone off course?
3. What behaviors did you adapt that helped you maintain your weight and blood sugar goals?
4. How high a carb level do you eat at? Does this level stay constant or does it fluctuate?
5. Did you ever get help from a doctor with metabolic issues that helped with weight or blood sugar control after you first regained control?
6. How important is exercise to your ability to maintain?
7. What tips would you give people currently beginning the process of changing their diet to improve either weight or blood sugar control that might help them achieve successful maintenance?
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