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[quote=Anonymous]NP. I used Stello.  I had been (wrongly) told by a doctor that my extreme thirst caused by a medication was really diabetes, even though I had repeated normal glucose and A1C. (Yes, doctors are idiots.)  I was also curious if it could help me lose weight.  Plus, I wanted to see if low or high glucose was connected to a particular kind of "crash nap" I was experiencing many mid-afternoons.

I learned that some things I thought were healthy, were, when eaten alone, spiking my blood glucose (hulled barley).  I learned that my blood glucose patterns, spikes included, were entirely normal and therefore I was not diabetic.  I learned that my crash naps were NOT caused by some kind of post-prandial glucose spike or crash.  But, I could also see that manipulating my diet to create extended periods of lower glucose with little to no spikes had absolutely no impact on my weight.

All of this information made more insistent about getting a hyperparathyroid diagnosis and surgery.  After the surgery, I used a CGM and ate a similar diet to previous CGM uses.  I discovered that post-surgery, my entire glucose baseline + spikes (24/7) shifted down by about 10 points.  Pre-surgery glucose was in "normal range" but just higher than post-surgery, which was also normal.  Yes, hyperparathyroidism affects glucose metabolism, inhibits fat breakdown and causes fatigue (those crash naps disappeared after surgery) in a way that put 40 pounds on over a decade.

Post-surgery, I can eat without gaining weight, whereas previously, even the tiniest deviation from a super-strict high protein, high fiber diet caused me to pack on the pounds.

TL;DR a CGM can be a useful tool to figure out what is going on (or not going on with your body), but it's not just glucose patterns connected to eating that cause weight gain. 
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