Yes, I feel like I’ve been cheated of years of my life, but I knew I felt like hell and kept drinking the koolaid. I should have been more proactive in hunting for a solution for myself. I could keep going, so I didn’t prioritize myself and let it slide. Still, no matter what, I’m incredibly grateful that this finally fell in my lap and for how good I feel now. There’s no way to go back and “could/should/would have” done anything, so I focus on the good now. How good I feel, how good I look (compared to before), how good it feels to be able to buy clothes without any fuss anymore, and how good it is to be experiencing as little pain as I do now. Life moves you forward through time, not backward (thank heavens!), so I keep my focus where it should be and occasionally throw a raspberry over my shoulder just for the satisfaction of it. 
Do you ever get angry?
same here. Makes me crazy and angry. Same with ordering the “consistant carb” diet for diabetic patients.
Not really angry. It was my fault, I didn’t address my weight issues logically, like I would have approached problems in other areas of life. I was just trapped feeling sorry for myself, neither changing what was obviously not working, nor putting any thought into it.
Now I’m only sad for others, like my brother. He likes to discuss with me for fun and his new favorite topic is my way of eating, because it’s so completely against the common understanding of a healthy diet. Easy to make fun of. He doesn’t even understand how far he’s off.
If I show him the science he doesn’t read it, because there’s a study for everything AND he’d have to admit that I was right…
Yes really angry. I followed the low fat rules for 35 years. I only learnt that lowering carbs could lower my blood pressure last year - and not from any of my medical personnel. I m not sure what to do about it- get slim and well and spread the word, I guess
Had my yearly physical recently and my bp was 102 over 68. It’s never before been below 120 over 78 and at my heaviest was getting into the 140 range. This way of eating has made huge differences in my health and general well-being.
I try to maintain an attitude of calm reflection. But last fall when I was held in intensive care after post surgical complications following 2 weeks of involuntary fasting due to a hernia gone bad my eyes teared with bottled rage when the nutritionists kept pestering me with an endless stream of cookies, sherbet, fruit juice and candy bars all of which they kept leaving with me despite my utter refusal to eat any of their shit and their unwillingness to provide any real food and then they had the nerve to scold me because I cut off the IV they were using to pump sugar directly into my arm.
I really relate. And I feel cheated that finding a doctor that is properly informed would be difficult. We really need to be our own health care advocates. That’s sad. In the US (where I am) we pay for our health care. I don’t really consult my doctor on my diet because my markers/weight have been normal/average. But they usually throw in a “follow a mediterranean diet”.
My GP once tried to push a statin because he read the cholesterol wrong. (Not to mention ALL the controversy about what the cholesterol#s actually mean.) I changed GPs.
In addition, when I have mentioned my depression doctors only wanted to treat my depression with was drugs. I’m 41 yrs old so it’s been something that I’ve been dealing with on my own mostly. I really think Keto has drastically improved my wellbeing (even if this is a n=1 experiment). I feel like I’d love to tell other sufferers about it.
YES. Very angry. The correct info was out there. When I got my T2D diagnosis from my internist 12 years ago, I was told to eat lowfat and lose weight. Eat several small meals per day. The only weight I’ve lost since then is from eating Atkins/ lowcarb / and now keto. Thank you Dr. Atkins, Dr. Bernstein, Dr’s Phinney, Volek, and the whole crew who were courageous enough to shout it from the mountaintops that the Emperor has no clothes, to quote the old story.
Yes, very angry. Over a year and I’m still learning how to live with the rage.
I get angry when I think about all the problems I could have avoided if keto had been conventional wisdom when I was growing up. I feel like I’ve been lied to over the years, however I’m happy I found the truth at all in this mad world, and with plenty of life left to enjoy to boot.
Yep, I get angry all the time! (And I’m not even diabetic!)
Whatever your political leanings, the diabetes epidemic in the US is just a straight-up disaster for health care. The modern way of handling chronic diseases makes it virtually impossible to have a decent health care plan that’s sustainable and fair. And that’s not even touching on the human suffering it causes.
There was a moment in the latest Fasting Talk podcast when Jason Fung mentioned that he can’t get ethics board approval to just have a researcher study the data that he’s gathered in all the years of REVERSING T2D in his patients. Just to be clear: they’re not approving a study with fasting; they’re just being asked to approve the compilation of data that’s already gathered for clinical work that’s already been done. They consider fasting so unethical that they don’t even want to look at data that shows that it’s effective (because someone might believe it and try to replicate it, apparently).
But somehow that the standard of care regularly leads years of misery, to amputations and blindness and heart failure… (And then just to torture myself I go to the ADA website and see the pharmaceutical sponsors right there on the site). I just can’t even…
But I love that many of you are much wiser in your approach. Will try to emulate 
I’ve been 70 - 90 pounds over for 26-27 years. I’ve destroyed my knees working out 5-6 times a week trying to lose weight on CICO. Yes, I’m pissed. At 35 I was told that I needed new knees but was too young and too fat. Great.
The knee pain and swelling over the last 10 years has prevented me from doing much. When your knees swell up and hurt after spending 30 minutes walking through Costco, that is all you do. Taking turmeric the last 3 years or so has helped immensely, no more swelling and pain has decreased a lot.
Today I hit 50 pounds down (since February of this year) and actually feel like walking. Pain is bearable and no swelling afterward. I’m 48 now and probably still need new knees, but I’m not going to make that decision until I get to my goal weight.
Lots of wasted time and damage - but what is done is done. Moving forward. I just donated 2 HUGE bags of large clothes. I’m never going back.
So often I wish I’d persevered when I tried Atkins in the 90’s. I did lose, but I was doing “lazy Atkins”, similar to lazy keto, and eventually gained the weight back and more. The problem with doing any kind of low carb/ high fat plan is when you go off it. If you’re used to high fat, and add back in bread, cookies, potatoes & pasta = perfect storm for gaining weight.
I’m finally down over 30 lbs from my high water mark 3 years ago, with 15 lbs to go, all on keto. If I’d done it decades ago, I might not have my painful arthritic knees. They’re better with less weight but the damage is done. And my knee replacement hurts as much as the un-replaced one, say la vie.
@birddog27 keep at the weight loss, and riding the bike will maintain your quads for your knees. I tried tumeric but it gave me digestive distress, so never found out if it would help. How do you take it?
@betsy.rome - I take this before I go to bed. If I’m having a rough day, I take it in the morning as well. I like that it has the pepper extract.
Yeah - I just signed up at a gym and started weights, I’ll sit on a bike a couple times a week and see how it goes.
I’ve been listening to Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes on audible. Yes I get angry! So many studies and results of studies that were blatently ignored. People have been dying from the current nutrition and exercise advice. That’s just not ok and I can’t wrap my head around why it is still ok when all this info is readily accessible.
I get annoyed when over-weight people tell me I’m going to die if I follow Ketosis. I tell them that I felt like I was dying at the start of this year because of the carb-BS. With countless gut to brain connection issues I decided to go paleo for 6 months and then discovered keto 3 months ago. I feel like I am reborn again.
As much as I try to get angry at our brain-washed society I can’t now. Keto just seems to chill me where as carbage did the opposite. I was a raging bull.