gbswales
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I am really not sure what is meant by "intolerant" (in that does that mean they are good or bad for diabetes)- all I know is that I had better control of my diabetes when using a low carb diet rather than low calorie. I did this over a year and it had very little impact on weight loss but my levels were much better controlled. Having got bored with maintaining it my levels are now more erratic again. I am an instulin dependent type 2 diabetic but have the complication that my pancreas was damaged 10 years ago by chronic pancreatitis.
However my reason for going low carb was to be able to eat more of the things that I fancied and the discipline of making low carb cakes and other foods may well have resulted in me counting more accurately. So I will abstain but I do think it is good to experiment and find what suits each individual best rather than trying to stick to a predetermined regime that impacts on your moods and lifestyle. I cam off it because I was finding things like low carb pasta too expensive and the low carb cakes too time consuming to make but I will probably give it a go again sometime - for me to control my diabetes I have to find a way to make the disease fit my lifestyle rather than the other way around
However my reason for going low carb was to be able to eat more of the things that I fancied and the discipline of making low carb cakes and other foods may well have resulted in me counting more accurately. So I will abstain but I do think it is good to experiment and find what suits each individual best rather than trying to stick to a predetermined regime that impacts on your moods and lifestyle. I cam off it because I was finding things like low carb pasta too expensive and the low carb cakes too time consuming to make but I will probably give it a go again sometime - for me to control my diabetes I have to find a way to make the disease fit my lifestyle rather than the other way around