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Hi, my stepson has type 1, is 24 and is as skinny as a rake. However, his diet is high sugar, high Lucozade and Ribena (he glugs the stuff), high carbohydrate. If I ate like him I would have been 24 stone at 24 yrs old. Yesterday evening he ate two dinners at a friends house (curry and rice, hunters chicken and roast potato), followed by two puddings (sticky toffee), followed by figs with marscapone cheese. Then he came home and during the night (he doesn't sleep well) he ate the remaining 75mm slab of home baked white bread and goodness knows what else. He became type 1 at 12 yrs of age and has always had a fine instinct of knowing when he needs to dribble insulin and how much. I think he goes through a lot of insulin. When I say he is thin, his thighs almost match my biceps and he has NO bum. He is continually anxious and whizzing, doesn't sleep well, is on medication for depression and anxiety. The medical community articles I have looked at tend to talk about control of blood sugar, its all about control of blood sugar (understandably), but looking elsewhere I catch the odd reference to body-builders abusing insulin to lose weight and there is a thread here that talks about anxiety, hormones and brain triggering a hunger for carbs. Surely it is better to control your sugar/carb intake and have a low dose of insulin, without going hypo, rather than always being on a high burn with commensurate high levels of insulin (even if they are the perfect levels for that intake of carbs)? Any ideas? can you point me to any research articles ?