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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone explain the to me.  When you're hungry, you're blood sugar is low, so you need to eat.  If you consume too much sugar but have a functioning pancreas, insulin keeps your blood glucose from going too high.  So if anything, a CGM can tell you when you need to eat but not when you've eaten too much. It's unclear how it can help healthy people lose weight.  Sounds like junk science to me.[/quote]
That is actually about dynamic blood sugar/insulin levels. 
When you hungry, and you blood sugar is low, you eat something like pastry (fries/sweet potato/beets, whatever) that elevates blood sugar very fast. Pancreas release insulin, based on that spike, a lot of it, and lowers blood sugar significantly, essentially overshooting, and you're back at we're you were - hungry because of low sugar. And in people with metabolic abnormalities, insulin response might be delayed, causing minor hypoglycemia.
CGM allows you to single out food that cause spikes, and prevent high-low rollercoaster.[/quote]

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