Hello everyone,
Apologies if the answers to my questions are here - I've scoured the forums for answers or ideas but here goes:
I need to lose weight. I am 196lbs so 14 stone there abouts. I have about 3 stone to lose.
I started doing much more exercise at Christmas and its going well. I dropped my carbs back to 80g - 120g a day and am on about 1400 calories a day. Im consciously sticking to a 35% protein a day which gives me about 100g a day.
All was going well. I had been able to reduce my daily insulin by about 15 units ro about 20 units a day and 28 over night which over the last 3 weeks with exercise resulted in small weight loss of 4lbs.
No ketones.
Until yesterday. Then had a most horrendous day with ketones and trying to reduce them which I did successfully with water and eating with normal insulin levels. This morning - no ketones.
The only thing which had happened was I did 30mins on my spin bike Friday eve which resulted in only needing 2 units to cover my evening meal.
Have i reduced insulin too much? My bloods when I got up yesterday were low at 3.3mml then up to 5.2mmol an hour later therefore not high or low just normal. My hba1c is 6.5 or 48. So why the ketones? And how do I stop this happening again or am I just meant to stay larger forever...
Any thoughts greatly appreciated as I'm nervous to carry on if im damaging myself.
Apologies if the answers to my questions are here - I've scoured the forums for answers or ideas but here goes:
I need to lose weight. I am 196lbs so 14 stone there abouts. I have about 3 stone to lose.
I started doing much more exercise at Christmas and its going well. I dropped my carbs back to 80g - 120g a day and am on about 1400 calories a day. Im consciously sticking to a 35% protein a day which gives me about 100g a day.
All was going well. I had been able to reduce my daily insulin by about 15 units ro about 20 units a day and 28 over night which over the last 3 weeks with exercise resulted in small weight loss of 4lbs.
No ketones.
Until yesterday. Then had a most horrendous day with ketones and trying to reduce them which I did successfully with water and eating with normal insulin levels. This morning - no ketones.
The only thing which had happened was I did 30mins on my spin bike Friday eve which resulted in only needing 2 units to cover my evening meal.
Have i reduced insulin too much? My bloods when I got up yesterday were low at 3.3mml then up to 5.2mmol an hour later therefore not high or low just normal. My hba1c is 6.5 or 48. So why the ketones? And how do I stop this happening again or am I just meant to stay larger forever...
Any thoughts greatly appreciated as I'm nervous to carry on if im damaging myself.