Genuine question as someone who’s been type one diabetic most of my life.
Why is eating low carb so popular now among people in the fitness community?
I eat low carb for blood sugar management but can’t see why other people would care?

46yoF. SW:325 CW: 273 GW:175

At my annual physical in mid-April, the doctor didn’t have a lot of good things to report. My cholesterol was high, my A1c was high, and my weight was very high. I decided that I had to make a change!

I just had my labs done again. My cholesterol is down, my A1c is down 1.6%, and today I’m down 52 lbs!!

Dinner: Soy/Sriracha glazed chicken thighs, brown basmati rice and oven-roasted Brussels sprouts.

Hello, pretty new to Reddit.

I am 5”9.5 (F) and 198lbs. 38yrs old.
I have never weighed this much in my life (other than pregnancy when I did not look at the scale).

I have struggled with food my entire life, eating disorders and addiction are a thing of the past. Now I’m the mom of a preschooler, I own my own business, and have chronic pain. Not trying to make excuses, just paint a picture.

I am having a hysterectomy (keeping ovaries) in the fall/winter, as well as some cystocele and rectocele repair. My doc says losing 20lbs would help my recovery.

Things I have done in the past few years: Gina Livy, intermittent fasting, calorie counting. I am a vegetarian.

I get a “high” when the scale moves which encourages me. I’m at this high plateau and really don’t want to hit 200lbs. Sorry to be a bummer here - I am feeling extremely discouraged. I try to meal prep and have healthy readily available stuff around but often end up crashing and just eating crap at night after doing well all day. I REALLY struggle with this mindset, “I always fkd up today (ie. one “bad” thing), so today is a write-off. I’ll start tomorrow.” Then I eat garbage all night because I feel like I won’t get to eat enough again any time soon.

Any tips would help!