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I'm 49 years, around 390 lbs. I want gain as much as possible. unfortunately I suffer from type 2 diabetes in early stage (treated with metformin). I think it could be reversable. If have also a fatty liver.

I think viszeral fat could be a cause for my problem. I think about losing a bit and exercise to reduce the bloodsugar level and help my liver and start with a new nutrition plan. With nearly no sugar or fructose, only complex carbs and much saturated fat from Palm oil, cocos oil and dairy products.

Diabetes seems to be the body rejecting any more growth. The blood sugar tends to rise and the sugar is flushed out in your urine.

It's not just sugar that the body rejects, it's anything that would make you fatter.

What you actually need is to lose weight by eating more suitable food and get fit. The problem would mostly clear up.

However your desire is to get fatter. The path to that is to allow the diabetes to get worse so that the doctor prescribes insulin.

Once you take insulin you're forcing your body to accept the food it was rejecting thus converting it to fat.

Those super obese 600lbs life people usually don't have diabetes. The ones that do abuse insulin in order to keep over eating.

Taking insulin is not like shooting up with heroin as they like to scare you with. It's a tiny very thin needle you stick in a fatty part of your body and you don't even feel it. The worst part is probably pricking your finger for the blood test.

It's your life and your body. You're the one who should decide. The sensible thing to do would be to cure your diabetes and get fit, you can do it if you work at it. Where's the fun in that?

I have thought about both options, of course. I want get as fat as possible, but avoid health damage as long as possible.

My plan:

- Do moderate exercise (walking an hour per day)
- Restrict fructose, sugar and plant oils.
- Eat much more dairy products and animal fats.
- Eat complex carbs with vegetables
avoid bread and wheat starch. It has the most worse impact on bloodsugar. More than chocolate.

I'm very curious on the results.

Beside soy oil, sunflower oil, cottonseed oil and peanut oil contain large amounts of linoleic acid. It seems that the consumption of more Omega 3 fatty acids can help to stop inflammations. Basically the viszeral fat causes a permanent inflammation in the body.

becommingoverweight, the chap's name is ruinme. Clearly it's a decision he is capable of making. When I give advice I don't expect people to take it, I expect them to consider it and take their own responsibility for what they do.

No one should take any advice without owning their decision. Therefore there is no such thing as dangerous advice, only unwise decisions.

It's interesting you say weightgain can still happen using fat instead of carbs. That's not how I comprehend insulin. I see it as a hormone that regulates whether the body is storing energy or releasing energy. It's a lot more complex since it's not the only factor.

One problem causing diabetes seems to be that the body actually needs the high blood sugar and it can achieve this by releasing it's stores of sugar rather than from dietary sugar. The diabetic may not even consume any food at all but the body will find a way to release sugar into the blood. Really quite a complex system that the diabetes industry oversimplifies.

There are many different theorys about diabetes. For me is clear that there is a connection to fatty liver and viszeral fat.

I will try a diet rich on dairy fats, omega3, vegetables and complex carbs. I will withdraw any kind of sugar and wheat starch and plant oils and will see what happens.