It's not just the numbers, Zand. There's the social/psychological aspects of food too. I like bacon just as much as a low carber does, but I get more out of it if it's on a bit of toast - the textures, the crunch.
Being dx'd T1 is a big headspin, and one of my first thoughts (in pre-internet days when I couldn't google it) was that I would have to eat a very restricted diet. It played a big part in coming to terms psychologically with the condition when I learned that with careful use of insulin, there was relatively few limitations.
Low carbing to the extent advocated by Bernstein and Noakes would, for me, feel like giving up, like diabetes had beaten me, forced me to restrict my eating options. But I've found ways, none of them particularly complex, just timing of pre-bolus, food combinations to buffer simpler carbs, and a glance at my cgm every now and then, which means I can safely maintain a good a1c with no dangerous hypos whilst still eating pretty much anything on Dr Bernsteins "No" list.
Stephen Ponder's Sugar Surfing is of more relevance these days: there's a chapter in how to bolus for a burrito!
We do need to bear in mind how a newly dx'd T1 is looking at the world in the first few days after dx. Their entire life has changed. Chucking in an entire dietary change, basically excluding an entire food group, could be hugely damaging to their mindset. I would probably have jumped out the nearest window if someone had told me I could no longer eat x, y, z.
I'm not denying there is a place for low carb, not at all - as I've said earlier, I low carb in certain situations. But I do worry that enthusiasts sometimes present it as the only option, not just one of many, and can be quite disrespectful of contrary views. Bernstein is a case in point - he describes people like me who like a bowl of rice and a bit of cheesecake every now and then as using, "industrial quantities" of insulin. That's insulting.
