Key_master_
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
The carbs that the body doesn’t need in the first place are causing the weight gain it’s not just a side effect of the insulin. They both go cap in hand.What you get is the same as you get in non diabetics. Unless you're insulin resistant.
Adding more carbs results in more insulin requirements. The insulin is a side effect rather than a cause of weight gain in this circumstance.
Metabolism is mostly a myth, the science says it differs by very very little between people. I'm not lucky or special, I just count calories. You can't create energy from nothing, as well as you can't create weight from nothing.
Literally 99% of people on the planet will lose weight from eating less calories. Changing a lifestyle other than eating less is not required unless you've invented a perpetual motion human body.
On low carb diet we consume just enough carbohydrates to get us the vital vitamins and minerals to keep our bodies in optimum health. That’s usually 12g dinner and 12g with evening meal. I skip mine in the morning as I have an omelette and my dawn Phenomenon is slightly potent so avoiding them stops a spike. Anything like bread and potatoes, rice or pasta do nothing but put more strain on a diabetic. They certainly have no nutritional value whatsoever. Injecting insulin and trying to match it to high carb foods is a nightmare I've been trying that for 17 years. No real great success. If it works for you keep on going.
Yes but in non diabetics it’s regulated on the exact amount the body needs and is it’s own. Diabetics on the other hand are injecting a completely foreign body when injecting insulin, it’s not our own and no one knows how much is attacked and wasted, so more is then used to get the desired control of blood glucose. Also there is leakage of injections afterwards. No one knows how much of that can be wasted either.
Then there’s the unpredictability of injections, not just sites but the dose, you say you had to have 20+ before for 200g carb meal if that was all in one injection site that’s another factor of dose unpredictability.
I’m not going to argue with you. I’ve seen my mum and all my aunties as well as countless friends try calorie controlled diets and reduced fat non sense and do you know what? They are still over weight, now I have lived with my mum since my dad passed away and have Cooked all her evening meals. She is a non diabetic, Not watching the calories, I cook using double cream, use butter, we eat rib eye steak, plenty of eggs and lots of cheese. No reduction in calories and she has lost more weight than ever before. Her calorie intake has gone up by over a half.
I have also seen countless other diabetics change their diabetes following the same methods.. carbs are our enemy that take huge risky shots of insulin to cover. I know what a chip taste like, I also love donuts but I ain’t swapping my leg for one..