Continual glucose monitors

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Anonymous wrote:Agree it’s super weird and disordered to use a CGM just to try to hack your blood sugar or whatever to lose weight

More disordered than counting calories/macros/ketones/fat grams/WW points? There is no diet that doesn’t include monitoring something. It’s pretty arbitrary to say that tracking your glucose levels is weird and yet weighing your food and counting calories is a-okay. It’s just that one of these things has been normalized by our juggernaut of a diet culture and the other hasn’t.

this, exactly
I also want to add that blood sugar levels drive lot of things in our body from sleep quality to mood swings, it affects cravings and hunger. It might be the hack to solve obisity and diabetis epidemics (wich might be chicken and egg problem based on some research)
But sure, lets yet again shame people for trying to lose weight not by simple eat less move more/CICO model that failed way too many times already.

OP here - I went ahead and started using the Signos system. It's been informative. I didn't have a lot to correct as I was already making fairly good choices. I was prone to carb cravings, big energy dips etc.

I've started implementing the Glucose Goddess book suggestions as someone suggested in this post. I've been eating my carbs, fats and proteins in a particular order and I also timed my eating yesterday so I could walk or exercise after I eat. i scored 100% yesterday on Signos. I feel like a million bucks this am. I'd have no interest in bakery good right now even if it was right in front of me.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

Have a good day.

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NP. I have prediabetes and recently tried a CGM. It was really eye opening. All sorts of foods I thought were good for me (oatmeal, grapes, whole wheat bread, salads that were too big) caused incredible blood sugar spikes. I won’t use it forever, but it provided information about my biology that I will use to improve my diet in the future and hopefully lose some weight.

I think having T1 would be incredibly hard, and my heart goes out to those folks. But it doesn’t take anything away from them if people who aren’t sick use CGMs. Don’t we want everyone to try to get healthier where they can? It’s hard to stay healthy in modern America with all our easy access to junk food. I didn’t truly understand how bad the food really was until I saw my own data. Maybe it would persuade other people too (even non-diabetics) and we could make some step toward improving the overall health of Americans (even the bro/bio hackers! 😊).