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<blockquote data-quote="Eldra" data-source="post: 1538091" data-attributes="member: 421443"><p>Hi,</p><p>This is a very interesting thread! I have had the exact same problem as you [USER=406622]@Odin004[/USER]. I switched to low carb about a month and a half ago. I am now between 50 and 80g carbs per day; I aimed initally at 120g but ended up slowly reducing inconsciusly... I was at about 190g/day before!!! However, these past couple of days my body reacted in the most funky way possible to insulin. Long story short, I would get higher after a meal than should be expected, and sometimes 6 units or more could do little to correct this. Needless to say this thread rang a bell to me!</p><p></p><p>I never used to count proteins however, and started to eat more of those to compensate in calories as I was losing weight. By the way, it seems even for me (76-77kg for 1.75 m high) LC diets make me lose weight (I am at about 73-74 kg now). This is annoying as I am actually NOT overweight and would like to avoid becoming underweight. I would be very interested in any feedback on similar issues with T1 who switched to LC diets, so feel free to give me feedback (maybe by MP to keep the thread topic-coherent.</p><p>To come back at this IR problem, I noticed today that the amount of proteins I ate for lunch should theoretically have been accounted by with 6 more units of insulin that I did NOT inject on top of the 5 units for 30g of carbs and 1 unit of correction. And 3h after the meal, I needed to inject... 6 units of insulin to cover the high BS value.</p><p></p><p>I am not sure how to handle the matter, but for the sake of science, I may try to account for proteins and see how my body reacts to this. However I believe on the long run I will go back to about 110-120g of carbs/day, as I don't see the interest of having to count for BOTH protein and carbs and end up injecting the same amount of insulin.</p><p></p><p>I will give you all feedback on the evolution of this matter so as to corroborate (or not) the results obtained.</p><p>Sorry for the quirky English, this is not my native language.</p><p>Best wishes to all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eldra, post: 1538091, member: 421443"] Hi, This is a very interesting thread! I have had the exact same problem as you [USER=406622]@Odin004[/USER]. I switched to low carb about a month and a half ago. I am now between 50 and 80g carbs per day; I aimed initally at 120g but ended up slowly reducing inconsciusly... I was at about 190g/day before!!! However, these past couple of days my body reacted in the most funky way possible to insulin. Long story short, I would get higher after a meal than should be expected, and sometimes 6 units or more could do little to correct this. Needless to say this thread rang a bell to me! I never used to count proteins however, and started to eat more of those to compensate in calories as I was losing weight. By the way, it seems even for me (76-77kg for 1.75 m high) LC diets make me lose weight (I am at about 73-74 kg now). This is annoying as I am actually NOT overweight and would like to avoid becoming underweight. I would be very interested in any feedback on similar issues with T1 who switched to LC diets, so feel free to give me feedback (maybe by MP to keep the thread topic-coherent. To come back at this IR problem, I noticed today that the amount of proteins I ate for lunch should theoretically have been accounted by with 6 more units of insulin that I did NOT inject on top of the 5 units for 30g of carbs and 1 unit of correction. And 3h after the meal, I needed to inject... 6 units of insulin to cover the high BS value. I am not sure how to handle the matter, but for the sake of science, I may try to account for proteins and see how my body reacts to this. However I believe on the long run I will go back to about 110-120g of carbs/day, as I don't see the interest of having to count for BOTH protein and carbs and end up injecting the same amount of insulin. I will give you all feedback on the evolution of this matter so as to corroborate (or not) the results obtained. Sorry for the quirky English, this is not my native language. Best wishes to all. [/QUOTE]
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