What you eat VS. calories

Thanks. That helps some. So only if your body is NOT at equilibrium, or IR, does the fat storage happen.
As far as my mom, actually, I think they said recently it was some weird type 1 diabetes, even though she got it at age 50. I don't believe she ate lots of bad stuff. She used to smoke though. And no history of pancreas problems or kidney problems. She has only recently (since she was diagnosed) been on lots of meds because of her kidney, which is b/c of the diabetes. She has had one kidney transplant and now has a virus that is making her new kidney fail so she needs another one or dialysis. I don't know of any other problems that could have caused it. She has ridiculous water retainment b/c of this and has way more than most people with her problems. Docs are miffed about that too. It might not be able to be explained. They don't know everything for gods sake.
My nutritionist was explaining the insulin/fat storage thing as it pertained to weight gain and never mentioned IR or just for the sake of making it so you're not hungry. So as she had put it, it sounded like "eat more protein, eat less sugar so your blood sugar doesn't go nuts and store fat", which is why I had asked the question in the first place. Maybe she's misinformed then.
And whenever I do eat sweets, I never feel different. Never feel a high from it; same goes for caffeine (almost never have that now as well). I never felt any different when I had those things. Maybe I'm some sort of freak :p I can sleep just as well/not well after eating ice cream cake than eating a chicken breast. Maybe that means something, dunno.
And I don't know what the situation was when I did the pin prick sugar test. I don't think I had just ate.
 
If you don't get a weird feeling in your body/head/etc. you are probably not IR, from my non-medical opinioned self.

It probably means you're okay. And especially if your mom has a diabetes that's not quite diagnosed. Type 2 is pretty easy to diagnose and it's well known that it's hereditary.

So, you're in luck.

Is it better to eat protein that sweets? Sure -- protein fills you up longer, so you don't have to eat as often as you do sweets. And it's HEALTHIER in terms of nutrients!

Good luck in your path to weightloss!
 
This has probably been mentioned somewhere along the line, but there is a big difference between fat gain and weight gain. I'm sure eating all those cookies (going back to the original post) would make you gain fat, but so long as you're in caloric deficit or equilibrium, it won't make you gain weight. If you were to eat 1400 cals of cookies, you'd lose muscle (no protein + no stressor on muscle to require it to build or maintain + some caloric deficit at 1400 cals = muscle atrophy). So I would agree that eating cookies causes an increase in insulin which stimulates fat storage, but you're body is still requiring it's basal calorie requirements, and you're not maintaining your muscles in any way, that's where it will get it's fuel, by catabolizing muscle. Energy balance maintained, no WEIGHT gain. And while you're losing muscle, your BMR will decline (muscle is a more energy consuming tissue than fat, how much more I don't know, many conflicting sources say many different things) yadda yadda yadda.
 
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