If I were then I should.
Are you?
To the best of my knowledge, no. If I am, please feel free to let me know.
Actually your article would indicate the new theory that diabetes, insulin resistance and whatnot cause obesity - not the other way around like traditional thinking - is correct.
LOL. Just saw this. Brazil 84, thank you for caring about my BMI. Just curious, do you have a little diary where you keep track of Important Dates, such as checking up on other posters’ weight loss? 
Since you asked, my BMI is 21.3. I’m 5’4" (female) and as of this morning weighed in at 124.
A bit more context:
In June of 2012, I started eating low-carb, mostly to try to lose weight and counter the constant, crippling exhaustion I felt. My weight at that time was 186, BMI 32.2. I was also diagnosed as pre-diabetic around then.
I can only speak for myself, and I’ve learned that diet is a weirdly contentious subject, so I don’t have any desire to argue about any of this. All I can say is what works for me. Low-carb has genuinely transformed my life. For the last two and a half years I’ve avoided starchy carbs and sugar (though I confess to indulging in dark chocolate and the odd glass of wine). I no longer get exhausted, my blood sugar levels stay effortlessly normal, I have tons of energy, and I’m not on the constant carby roller-coaster of having to eat every 4 hours. I normally have 2 meals a day, or even just one if I’m busy and forget to eat.
The lowest my weight got was 116, last August. I was exercising a lot at the time and it just dropped off. Friends were telling me not to lose any more weight, which was a bit frustrating since I wasn’t trying to. I’m not exercising as much these days for various reasons (mostly annoying sports injuries), and my weight hovers now around 122-124. It’s been there for about the last year, with no particular effort on my part other than eating the low-carb way I always eat. However, FOR ME (again I can speak for no one else), I feel slightly too pudgy at the moment and I’d like to get more toned. It’s an exercise issue, though, not a diet one.
So, basically, I’ve lost over 60 pounds and have kept it off now for two and a half years. For me low-carb is The Answer. It controls my blood sugar levels with no effort, keeps me happy and active, etc. etc. When friends ask my advice on losing weight, I of course tell them about low-carb, BUT with the caveat that it’s a lifestyle. You don’t stop eating starchy carbs just to lose the weight and then go back to the french fries and brownies once you’re lost it.
Thanks for asking.
Can you explain to me why?
No, but from time to time I try to check back on old threads I have participated in. Especially with weight loss issues, follow-up is important.
Congratulations on being one of the 1%, so to speak. And thank you for sharing.
Congrats on your success, ZuZu’s Petals!
I’m also low carb and have maintained a 50 pound loss for just over a year, but I still have more to lose and am struggling a bit to get back on the weight loss bandwagon.
I can maintain the loss without tracking everything I eat (seeing as I now have a good portfolio of low carb meals), but I suspect I’m going to have to go back to tracking every mouthful via My Fitness Pal or similar.
Ladies and gentlemen: I give you the dictionary definition of “obsessive stalker”.
Yeah, but sometimes obsessive stalking is important.
But Wendys has bbq pulled pork cheese fries, and their only for a limited time. I have to eat them every day before they are gone, forever.
https://www.wendys.com/en-us/fries-sides/bbq-pulled-pork-cheese-fries
I would have gone with obesive stalker myself.
Follow up on your own weight loss, or that of subjects in a legitimate study, sure. Follow up with a stranger on the internet? Creepy.
Let’s see if I have this straight:
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In a discussion about diet and obesity, somebody volunteers a public post on the internet regarding their weight loss and weight loss strategy;
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Another poster politely asks if he can follow up with them in a year or two about their progress and the poster graciously agrees;
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The other poster does follow up in the same discussion and the poster graciously provides a status update.
That’s the “dictionary definition” of “obsessive stalker”?
Are you freaking serious?
Why? She volunteered information about her weight loss and weight loss strategy; I politely asked if I could follow up with her; she agreed; and I did so.
If you volunteer information about yourself in an online discussion, it’s completely reasonable for people to politely ask questions of you and to politely and reasonably follow up.
I think this is the part where your error lies.
And “politeness” is a useful word to mention twice in the same sentence.
Well, yuhhh… since your motives in doing so are, uh, what now?
Yeah, that’s pretty weird.
Fuck you!! I gained 4 pounds just by looking at that link. Looks like I’m going to have to eat a bunch of honeywheat doughnuts to get that weight off.
Removing the fat did not change the metabolic issues which is evidence that the fat did not cause the metabolic issues.