@novarapidboi26 it’s only stayed beautifully steady cause I didn’t eat a thing
There is another way - take your insulin with your food.
Starving yourself is not the solution.
If you are having problems maintain BG between 4 and 10 whilst eating, you need to urgently talk to your diabetes team.
There are people who have had type 1 diabetes for 50+ years and still going. They have not done so through starving themselves or only eating meat.
True... but not what I was replying to?But if someone with type 1 eats a low carb high protein meal such as only meat, their BG will rise and they will need insulin.
You’re not wrong there. But type ones don’t need to avoid carbs provided they can dose insulin correctly for them. And when we cut carbs (as I myself do), we also need to learn to dose for protein, which is just as complicated, if not more so. The bg rise for proteins differs not just between type of animal consumed but also by cut sometimes. It can be an absolute minefield.True... but not what I was replying to?
I was replying to the statement "everything has carbs" .
You’re not wrong there. But type ones don’t need to avoid carbs provided they can dose insulin correctly for them. And when we cut carbs (as I myself do), we also need to learn to dose for protein, which is just as complicated, if not more so. The bg rise for proteins differs not just between type of animal consumed but also by cut sometimes. It can be an absolute minefield.
I don’t think I “suffer” as such - although I have taken on that mentality in the past. I refuse to be a victim anymore. It’s robbed me of almost twenty years, and I realised the choice was either “get busy living or get busy dying” and I chose to live.There is no easy part of this chronic illness we all suffer
I don't feel ill anymore since I began taking insulin. It's a lifesaver, literally.There is no easy part of this chronic illness we all suffer
can you link me some good info on dosing for protein please, ive just overhauled my entire approach after failing for years on my old system and know nothing about dosing for protein, i have always been told by med pros that it is free from carbs, but that would explain my spikes if this is not the case.You’re not wrong there. But type ones don’t need to avoid carbs provided they can dose insulin correctly for them. And when we cut carbs (as I myself do), we also need to learn to dose for protein, which is just as complicated, if not more so. The bg rise for proteins differs not just between type of animal consumed but also by cut sometimes. It can be an absolute minefield.
Edited to add - there’s literally no such thing as a “free food” for a type one. Everything has to be accounted for and dosed accordingly.
@ert I don’t have any courses where I am, @helensaramay I understand what you’re saying, but sometimes it’s easier to just stop eating completely, so that your blood levels stay level, I know that’s dangerous, but there is really no other way unless you eat like carrots all the time, but even carrots have a lot of carbs, everything has carbs and even eating with no carbs, isn’t safe because we need carbs as much as they end up becoming the problem, even when we need them to survive. @MeiChanski I have a lovely girlfriend I can talk to and trust with all my heart, sadly though. Recently our relationship saw a struggle, when I started talking to other people I feel horrible typing this right now but I wasn’t seeing her enough and then, when I thought I’d lose her I thought it’d be a good idea to act out, even more and got drunk, and smoked right in front of her, I am such a f***ing idiot I got this, lovely, beautiful girl standing right in front of me running for me , and I run the other way, all because I couldn’t face her after she had found out, I had been talking to other people I’m such an ass to do that to her she drives hours to see me, and on top of it I upset my sick mother who does absolutely f***ing everything for me and I just tell her to f**k off like who the hell was I to say that to my loving mother it’s all been a bit hard that’s not even the half of it but yea I have my girlfriend to talk to and I can assure you I will not talk to people again because I couldn’t bare to lose her I will break completely my life has been so much better with her and I’ve only realised that now I have no idea why she forgave me but she said because she loves me I’m sorry Rose I love you too babe please don’t leave me