Hear hear Graham.
T1s and T2s are coming at the Diabetes thing from totally different angles.
T1s are Diabetic because they have too little insulin - which is why they are usually slim. T2s are Diabetic because they tend to produce too much insulin - which causes them to be overweight. They have plenty of insulin floating around their bodies, but the cells become resistant to receiving it.
My Mum was a slim T1. I was a fat T2 (I say was, because I am considerably slimmer now). But I was fat long before I ever got to the point of becoming Diabetic.
Years ago, when I was in my 20's I was told by a Naturopath that I should eat low-carb. When I did, I lost weight and had energy and slept well and all the things I hadn't been able to do for a long time. But I wasn't disciplined or mature enough to stick to it and the carbs would creep back.
I also wasted a lot of time feeling sorry for myself - why me? Why am I fat and they aren't? Why don't I have any energy? Why can they all eat what they want and I can't - you know the thing.
What has really made the biggest impact on me now and why my mind-set has changed completely is the realisation that carbs are damaging everyone. Now I don't feel sorry for myself any longer - I feel sorry for everyone else.
All those fat people out there have issues with insulin and carbs whether they are diabetic or not - that's why they are fat! You are skinny because you don't produce enough insulin (the only way you might get fat is if you ate loads of carbs and injected loads of insulin). But either way T1s, T2s and 'pre-diabetics' or those with 'Syndrome X' (impaired glucose tolerance) have problems dealing with carbs.
T1s might be able to get away with higher amounts of carbs - generally their cells do not have problems accepting the insulin, but T2s should definitely keep the carbs low, especially if they don't want to end up on insulin. If it hasn't gone too far or for too long, T2 could potentially be reversible if the carbs are kept low enough for the insulin resistance to no longer be a problem.
But I am probably wasting my time trying to convince you. It seems to me that you are on quite a different wavelength to the majority on here.
You seem to think that we have it all wrong. You also seem to be misunderstanding a lot of the comments or over-exaggerating them. Are you not reading them properly? Ken mentioned earlier on the thread that he meant 'not feeling hungry between meals' yet you still didn't get that. Of course we get hungry - just not ALL the time, like many of us used to! It's a healthy balanced hunger now that is properly satiated.
You seem to be getting angry and inflamed over quite innocuous comments. Is it because people are not 'saying' what you want to 'hear'? Loads of people on this thread answered your original question and more than adequately, yet all you saw was the 'hunger' thing.
This kind of response is not helpful. There are a lot on here who are struggling to get their Diabetes under control. You may be perfectly ok with yours, but they aren't and negative comments about low-carbing are not helpful. Whilst some can get their sugars under control on perhaps 60 - 80 gms carb per day, others need to go a lot lower - it all depends on the level of insulin resistance they are dealing with.
Because you are T1 this may not make sense to you, but as a T2 and as someone who is aware of my extreme gluten intolerance and the fact that I need to be VERY low carb in order to keep control, I fully endorse the low-carb ethic.
As Graham stated, please don't make the mistake of confusing the two.
(PS. By the way, there is a very strong link between T1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease, so much so that offspring of a T1 should be tested fairly regularly for Celiac - and believe me, whatever the ratio mentioned on the internet you can probably treble it). The testing procedure for Celiac only registers as positive if the reading is over 10, but any IgA reading indicates a level of gluten intolerance - and the testing procedure throws up an awful lot of false negatives - my Doctor said that she now has to get people tested perhaps three or four times or more before they will show a positive reading. I wish she had known that when I went for testing. It won't work for me now because I have been off gluten for too long (and I'm not going back on it again) but it makes me a bit cross because she only developed an interest in it and a better understanding of it (she didn't know zilch about it when I first mentioned it to her 18 months ago and asked for testing) because I triggered it, and lent her books and stuff on it. Comes to something when I am teaching my Doctor!)
