Okay, now what? I've been on a low carb diet for twelve weeks, have lost forty
pounds and feel great. Does anyone know if there is a factual connection between
blood type and insulin resistance? I'm curious after reading a brief article on the
subject. This is my first time on this so I am not certain of the usual questions, etc.
found here.

Wow, 40 lbs in under 3 months! This is awsome. Congrats!

I don't know about blood types, hopefully someone who knows will jump in

Wa'il

I was amazed each week when I went to the clinic to weigh in and saw that the pounds were just falling away. The last two weeks things have slowed down a bit, but I still feel good about the low carb eating I'm engaged in. My family has their doubts and sometimes laugh at my dinner plate, but I really have a desire to live to be a hundred plus like my fathers family and not perish before I'm eighty of heart disease like my mothers. I'm doing this for my life. I think the first thing I noticed was the loss of water retention and then came a mellow sort of feeling that helped me concentrate at work. Dead lines, answers to design techniques seemed to just flow from my mind to my mouth in a really organized manner. For the past five years I now see that I was fighting depression, self-esteem problems, and a lot of fatique over trying to eat a healthy low fat, high carb diet. I never lost a pound or an inch and I was irritable to boot. My boss was the first to notice my alertness. I feel like I'm twenty again and not 45. Thank you, for your response and I'm sorry that I went on as I did. I just don't get too many people to talk to about this as they don't understand or care to. It feels good to see my thoughts and feelings in other peoples words as in these forum's. I still have 60 lbs to go to where I will stabilize my health, but then I believe that this is a life long commitment. I never heard of the Atkins diet until the last year. I follow another source of information that has really benefited me and kept my hopes up. It's a book by Calvin Ezrin and Robert E. Kowalski called "The Type 2 Diabetes Diet Book, Insulin Control Diet." For anybody with type 2 this is a really good resource. Thanks again and don't worry I don't always talk (type) this much.

I can't believe how good I feel. I have been on the diet for only 4 days and I can feel a hugh difference already. My leg swelling and pain have subsided and I have lost the bloat. I can actually breath better, go figure?

Kat

Never heard of insulin resistance and blood type but I've just developed type II at the tender age of 39 and I'm an O+ if that ties into anything!!!

Nicola

There is a book called Eat Right for Your Type that goes into the differences between blood types. As I recall, type O's are the natural meat eaters, but I can't remember what it said about insulin resistance.

Here is the link to the website:

http://www.dadamo.com/

Karen

Welcome Kat,

I don't know anything about blood types either but it sure sounds like your doing well .....40 lbs in 12 weeks!!! HOLY you know what! LOL

Doreen is the expert here, you'll love her. Bet she will be around soon to chat with you. Keep up the good work

Wendy

Welcome,

Great job, losing 40 lbs in 12 weeks, way to go. Just started this forum, and already feeling comfortable, hope you do as well.

Di

There's a somewhat useful review of the book at About.com, Click here to read it. If you scroll down the page, there are links (in the pink box) where you can click on your blood type for 5 pages of food lists. Foods are listed as beneficial, neutral or avoid. Interesting, but ...

I'm a type A (go figure), and according to this, I'm supposed to be strict vegetarian, maybe some fish. Hmmm .... been there, done that, am now allergic or at least sensitive to most grains.

For Karen's type O, indeed it's the hunter-gatherer type, except no pork, bacon or ham, and NO DAIRY! is beneficial, maybe butter and some goat cheeses. Oh, and no caviar either, or berries or melons ..

Type B can eat anything, and type AB is an amalgam of types A and B.

I haven't read the book myself, so can't comment on the insulin-resistance link. Perhaps it has to do with the Type O's, who have the hunter-gatherer type? Blood type O is most common, approx. 45% of the North American population. Type A is second, around 40%, type B third at 4%, and type AB is only 1%. It's kind of hard to imagine that type A's should all be high-carb eating vegetarians, because we know that high-carb, lowfat and lowmeat diets fail 95% of the time in the population as a whole.

Oh well, the food lists are interesting, do check them out...

Doreen

DoreenT:
blood type O is also called "thrifty " genotype.
Since it's the most ancient blood type, they suppose to store fat in order to survive famine, and will be the last one to die in case of it. but also because of this strong fat storing genes, ppl with this genotype have higher level of insulin and can become IR if not careful with the carbs . I'm not sure if it's that simple bu I'm type O+, and I laways had to be careful with bread and potatoes in order to control my weight.

I'm not sure if this is true, there are very slim and healthy ppl who either are vegeterians or live on a high carbs/low fat diet and feel fine on it. my DH is type A and even he's not a vegeterian he can't live without carbs like fruit and whole grains. He's not a big meat eater either. He can eat oatmeal with low fat milk for BF not be hungry for hours.
I can live without grain and don't feel deprived as long as i have some sort of animal protein preferably with fat, vegetables and some fruit for desert. I also know other type A who are slim and thrive on cereals, fat free yougurt and bananas. I'll be miserable and hungry all the time on this diet. I browsed the Metabolic Typing Diet book by William Linz Wolcott. This book was highly recommended by Dr.Mercola. The basic concept is that everyone is metabolically unique and one man's meat is another man's poison. This is link to a Dr.Mercola site on this diethttp://www.mercola.com/2003/feb/26/metabolic_typing.htm in case anyone is interested. The book didn't impressed me because for a mixed type it's hard to calculate your nutriotional requirements.
I'm not sure if it's the blood type or anything else but the concept makes sense to me.
Regards,
Dina

I'm supposed to avoid beef, chicken, and pork. However, rabbit and pheasant are OK. I guess walking four hours to get to a place that sells this exotica is good for me!

Rachel

I went and checked these pages out and at the risk of being blunt - does anybody else see a scientific implausability here? I mean pu-leeze....

As an RN, with background in biochemistry and nutrition ... I tend to agree with you. But, I thought best to just present the item for folks to decide for themselves (says I, who normally slams quackery with a baseball bat). Indeed, Dr. D'Adamo , the creator of Eat Right 4 Your Type has a small and loyal following, but his program has NOT stood the test of true scientific study.

Oh well, as I said, it makes interesting reading...

Doreen

Apologies Doreen, I didnt mean to imply any criticism of you and I think you have probably given us all an interesting evening?? reading up on this stuff. Its just one of those truly amazing diets that even more amazingly, as you've said, attracts a loyal following.

There you go, Rache - your route out of your catless home and student loan. The Olde English diet - there's got to be money in it!!

Nicola

No criticism taken my dear! I was agreeing with you, and relieved that someone actually stated what I was thinking all along! LOL ... that'll teach me for not saying what I really think! OK, for the record, I think this blood-type diet is a crock!

Kudos to you! Doreen