Can moderately high blood sugar make you gain weight?
I am currently on the low-carb diet The 4-Hour Body (or the slow-carb diet as they call it). I eat 4 times a day and am getting around 40% carbs, 40% protein, and 20% fat per day. However, I'm not losing any weight. I have currently been taking Metformin and 30 units of Lantus insulin daily. I was reading that insulin can cause weight gain. So, I've been doing a little experiment this week. I stopped taking my Metformin and insulin (I know. Not smart, so let's skip that in the discussion for now) to see if I started losing weight and to see how well I could control my sugar with just food. My doctor originally wanted to get my sugar down below 130. He said that would be a good number for me. Since I've been off my meds this week, It has been between 130 and 160 throughout the day. So, I'm getting close by controlling it with just food.
However, I still haven't been losing any weight. I've been watching sodium and calories to make sure I don't eat too much, but still no weight loss. So, I'm wondering if my higher sugar levels can cause weight gain or at least stop weight loss. I know that when your numbers are up in the 200's and higher, you'll generally lose weight from all of the sugar that you're peeing out (that happened to me years ago), but my numbers aren't so high that I'm peeing too much. So that leaves me to wonder if moderately elevated sugar can prevent weight loss.
Like I said, let's focus on that question instead of the general prudence of my experiment.
I am currently on the low-carb diet The 4-Hour Body (or the slow-carb diet as they call it). I eat 4 times a day and am getting around 40% carbs, 40% protein, and 20% fat per day. However, I'm not losing any weight. I have currently been taking Metformin and 30 units of Lantus insulin daily. I was reading that insulin can cause weight gain. So, I've been doing a little experiment this week. I stopped taking my Metformin and insulin (I know. Not smart, so let's skip that in the discussion for now) to see if I started losing weight and to see how well I could control my sugar with just food. My doctor originally wanted to get my sugar down below 130. He said that would be a good number for me. Since I've been off my meds this week, It has been between 130 and 160 throughout the day. So, I'm getting close by controlling it with just food.
However, I still haven't been losing any weight. I've been watching sodium and calories to make sure I don't eat too much, but still no weight loss. So, I'm wondering if my higher sugar levels can cause weight gain or at least stop weight loss. I know that when your numbers are up in the 200's and higher, you'll generally lose weight from all of the sugar that you're peeing out (that happened to me years ago), but my numbers aren't so high that I'm peeing too much. So that leaves me to wonder if moderately elevated sugar can prevent weight loss.
Like I said, let's focus on that question instead of the general prudence of my experiment.