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I low carbed for about 8 months three years ago and acheived great results, HBa1c was 6.6 without taking any novorapid at all (only background) and I lost a lot of weight was my lowest adult weight ever at one point (9.5 stone).
However I found low carbing hard to maintain, and when I got pregnant was actively advised not to.
After eating for two and injecting to match I put on 4 stone in my pregnany of which I was only able to lose 2 after.
As time passed and I could no longer blame it on the baby, I have tried different dieting approaches to lose the remainder of hte weight but nothing really worked.
I have acheived equally good hba1cs using a 'carb and inject' dafne-esque method, as I am so scared of developing further complications I am pretty good at injecting now to match my carb intake.
BUT! All this has been at the expense of my body as I've put on a lot of weight and now cannot fit into any of my old clothes and hate my body etc. I've also had problems with hypos.
I think I need to retun to low carbing and give it a good six months and i'm hopeful this will sort the weight issue out. But every time I start to low carb I get put off by the limited foods I can eat, and it's easy to get distracted by social situations where everyone else is eating carby foods.
However I'm now at the point where if it's a lifetime of low carbing or a lifetime of being a big fatty, I'd rather the former.
how do I get back into low carbing without feeling so restricted in what I can eat? particularly if I want to lose weight?
However I found low carbing hard to maintain, and when I got pregnant was actively advised not to.
After eating for two and injecting to match I put on 4 stone in my pregnany of which I was only able to lose 2 after.
As time passed and I could no longer blame it on the baby, I have tried different dieting approaches to lose the remainder of hte weight but nothing really worked.
I have acheived equally good hba1cs using a 'carb and inject' dafne-esque method, as I am so scared of developing further complications I am pretty good at injecting now to match my carb intake.
BUT! All this has been at the expense of my body as I've put on a lot of weight and now cannot fit into any of my old clothes and hate my body etc. I've also had problems with hypos.
I think I need to retun to low carbing and give it a good six months and i'm hopeful this will sort the weight issue out. But every time I start to low carb I get put off by the limited foods I can eat, and it's easy to get distracted by social situations where everyone else is eating carby foods.
However I'm now at the point where if it's a lifetime of low carbing or a lifetime of being a big fatty, I'd rather the former.
how do I get back into low carbing without feeling so restricted in what I can eat? particularly if I want to lose weight?