Many diabetics struggle to lose stubborn weight. This is because stubborn weight is rooted in an issue with the hormones insulin and cortisol that keeps them overweight.

This article weight loss for type 2 diabetes will help you discover why diets don’t actually work, and what you as a diabetic and overweight person needs to do to shed those extra pounds.

Diets Don’t Work to Lose Weight for Diabetics

The biggest error overweight and diabetic people make when they want to lose weight is going on a diet.

Basically diets like a low calorie diet, a low carbohydrate diet, and a low fat diet don’t work, unless you do them right. And most people don’t do that because they are misinformed about nutrition.

So here is what happens when people go on a diet. A diet means you cut back on eating too much food for a while, and then later go back to eating normally when the diet is over.

As long as the diet last, you might lose some weight in the beginning, but that is mostly just water, and not actually any fat. And when the diet is over, and you go back to eating normally again you’ll gain all the weight back on and more.

The reason is you have deprived your body of nutrients when you go on a diet and this slows down the metabolism so that when the diet is over you’ll just gain all the weight back on and more.

The key to weight loss is to get all the nutrients you need without cutting back on any of them.

So the solution to lose weight is not to go on a diet. But to create a healthy and lasting dietary change that will help to get your body healthy. Check out our blog post How to Start a Healthy Lifestyle Change.

Yes! The key is to get your body healthy, because then the weight loss will naturally occur. I.e, a healthy body will naturally slim down. Therefore don´t focus on losing weight. But focus on becoming healthy through healthy eating and living.

There be a reason that obese people got obese. And that is unhealthy living, and/or stress that alters the hormones insulin and cortisol so they can´t lose any weight before they fix this issue.

Insulin Is a Fat Burning And a Fat Storing Hormone

Obese people are in what we can categorize as the fat-storing mode. Simply because they have a continous too high insulin level causing them to store fat rather than burning it.

So the key to weight loss is to re-balance insulin and cortisol, and to increase insulin sensitivity through getting the right kind of nutrition, and intermittent fasting.

My Recommendation

I recommend The Smoothie Diet for weight loss. A delicious and tasty program designed to get you the right nutrition through smoothies. Check out a video review here.

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Conclusion

For diabetics to lose stubborn weight they need to re-balance their insulin level and their cortisol level keeping them obese.

This, through a healthy and lasting lifestyle change with the right kind of nutrition and regular exercise.