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I have been a type 1 diabetic for 27 years, but over the last few months I have had issues with my weight. I have dropped from 10 stone 3 down to 8 stone 10 and want to be back up to above 10 stone. I haven't changed anything about my eating routine, except over the last month I have eaten more, with no success. People have told me it is down to stress, but I am not sure. Can anyone help?
 
If you really cannot seem to put weight on at all it would be worth getting checked out by your docs.
I know I went though a period of slowly continually losing weight over a fairly long period of time despite eating 2 or 3 times as much as anyone else.
For me is was actually undiagnosed coeliac disease (gluten-intolerance) which was causing me in essence to not absorb a large amount of what I was eating ( I was always hungry) - I also had a lot of wind as well but well, I'd always be a windy type since I was a kid, but it had possibly got worse, not everyone with coeliac feels ill when they eat gluten - I didn't (and so didn't believe them when they told me)
 
Hello and welcome to the forum @Mr Gnome

Have you seen your GP to get checked over yet ?
 
Mr Gnome said:
I have been a type 1 diabetic for 27 years, but over the last few months I have had issues with my weight. I have dropped from 10 stone 3 down to 8 stone 10 and want to be back up to above 10 stone. I haven't changed anything about my eating routine, except over the last month I have eaten more, with no success. People have told me it is down to stress, but I am not sure. Can anyone help?
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Hi @Mr Gnome , welcome to the forum.

How is your blood glucose in general at the moment? If you're running high regularly it might cause weight loss.
 
Mr Gnome said:
I have been a type 1 diabetic for 27 years, but over the last few months I have had issues with my weight. I have dropped from 10 stone 3 down to 8 stone 10 and want to be back up to above 10 stone. I haven't changed anything about my eating routine, except over the last month I have eaten more, with no success. People have told me it is down to stress, but I am not sure. Can anyone help?
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Weight loss is never a good sign. I would ask your GP for further tests to get to the cause (which isn't necessarily diabetes-related.)
 
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