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Difficulty finding the right balance

rowan

rowan

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Location
Tamar Valley, West Devon
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Overall I'm very happy with lchf but I'm still finding it hard to find the right balance of fats. My numbers are coming down but my weight is coming off very slowly, and has stayed the same for the last week or so. I still have around 2 stone to lose and have been losing gradually over the last year or so, so wasn't expecting a huge drop when starting low carb, but I've even put a vouple of pound back on over the last week!

I've swapped the double cream for single again to save the added calories of double cream, but when I reduced fats a few weeks ago I started feeling very weak and dizzy for a week or so.

A few times I've tried increasing carbs to around 50g a day from about 30 and I felt a little better, and my BG wasn't affected that much, and in fact the dawn phenomenom was a bit lower the next mornings, so would that mean that very low carb isn't right for me? Or should I just keep trying to find the right balance?
 
You have to keep trying to find the balance. The balance may be more carbs. I know I don't get my best bloods, if I go too low carb.

Only you can determine that.
 
AndBreathe said:
You have to keep trying to find the balance. The balance may be more carbs. I know I don't get my best bloods, if I go too low carb.

Only you can determine that.
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That's very interesting! I thought I was imagining it, I thought the lower the carbs the better, but it seems maybe not. Can anyone expain why slightly more carbs should be better?
 
rowan said:
That's very interesting! I thought I was imagining it, I thought the lower the carbs the better, but it seems maybe not. Can anyone expain why slightly more carbs should be better?
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That's a bit like asking why can I eat rice and maybe you can't.

To be honest, I don't think it really matters what we find works, provided it works for the underlying components, which I would suggest would be blood scores and weight (whether losing, gaining or maintaining). If diabetes were simple, none of us would be here. We'd be sitting planning uniform ally similar meals and taking the same medication, or no medication at all.

You just have to make one small change at a time, record it, review it and tweak again, where necessary. As you are discovering, it can take weeks or months to find the right balance, and even that will change as insulin resistance improves or weight reduces - both of which had impacts on my blood scores.
 
rowan said:
Yes you're right, silly question! ;)
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To be fair Rowan, I don't think there is such a thing as a silly question on here. I read your posts and questions with interest as you seem to ask some bloody good question, many that I never think of, and as a newbie every little helps. :)
 
shelts said:
To be fair Rowan, I don't think there is such a thing as a silly question on here. I read your posts and questions with interest as you seem to ask some bloody good question, many that I never think of, and as a newbie every little helps. :)
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Thank you, you can always trust me to ask a few daft questions ;)

But after a few days of having single cream instead of double I've lost another 2lbs! Maybe I was just overdoing the 'eat as much fats as you like' :hungry:
 
So tonight my BG was 6.6 before dinner, I had gammon steak, cabbage and 100g tiny baby potatoes boiled in their skin (16g carbs), and 1.5 hours I'm 5.5! Seems I can eat some potatoes now?!

Feeling very weak and lifeless for the last few days though, no energy to get out in this lovely weather :depressed:
 
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