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Very low carbs for me. Eggs, bacon mushrooms mostly and some spinach. I'm baffled by the docs are still prescribing things like oats, bread to diabetics. You'll need a tonne of insulin for that. you'll more than likely end up taking too much insulin, then go low and the diabetes cycle will just...

That's scary.

I've been in the same position when I was your age. A lot of us were, and there will be more to follow. It's a natural phase of acceptance. The only advice I can give you is to just stop and think about the situation. We are lucky to be alive, life is so precious. Unfortunately we have gotten...

Yep, that is totally down to uneducated doctors. You see the way they have been taught us to pile in the carbs and meds, and they will eventually lead to full blood insulin dependence.

I know of a person where their epilepsy was totally eradicated by using the keto diet. The interesting thing was they were actually prescribed this diet by a medical doctor, so the keto diet is practiced in the medical world of epilepsy.

Agree! We are told as type 1's to have 60-70% of our diets consisting of carbs... Sure this will just keep the pharma companies rich with the amount of insulin needed!

Hi all. New to the Forum but not to diabetes. I just would like to ask people here what do they think of the level of knowledge displayed by the diabetic treatment teams they visit? I ask this out of frustration. In recent times I was trying to come up with ways to better manage my Blood...

To me it seems that the diabetic medical teams force us to make up 60-70% of our diet with the one food (carbs) that makes diabetes worse. It makes zero sense. I've argued this point on number of occasions only to get a half assed scare mongering story about ketones. The truth is the...

Same as others have mentioned most or all of the doctors will try and say being powered from Ketones is a bad thing with type 1 diabetes. I for one can tell you this is totally untrue. I've been diabetic 11 years now and the past 3 months on Keto is the best thing that has happened for my...