hi Sid, would you mind letting us know how many carbs you eat, roughly per day? Especially interested in how many you ate when you were losing the weight? Many thanks!
Sorry, edited as I meant to add my thoughts... I'm no scientist so can't comment on the weight gain issue as a fact or not.. but I DO know from personal experiences and careful diet/BG/Carb counting, that carbs DO increase my BG levels, more than any other food.
I also know that in the weeks when my carbs are very well controlled and under 100g daily, I lose weight; but when the carbs totals are between 100-150g, I dont lose weight, just maintain. If I eat over 150g, I put weight on (I know this for fact as I did it at Christmas and again over a birthday weekend recently... those extra carbs can make the difference of up to 3lbs extra weight for me in one week!).[/quote]
If you are gaining weight over 150g of carbs then you are going over caloric maintenance or are seeing extra water/ glycogen weight. As the link abov states- carbs do not directly make you fat (only via de novo lipogenisis- which is very rare) carbs make you fat by burning carbs instead of fat... However, if you are eating at maintenance (or below) this is nothing to worry about.
As I stated before though, I am not going to preach a high carb diet on a diabetic forum, that would be silly! I was just sharing the conclusions from various people that were very kind to get back to me via email yesterday (and a few more coming through today from some more, which I am very surprised about!)
I would also like to hear how many carbs on average everyone here is eating- if there is another thread discussing this, I apologise!
Thanks.
Sorry, edited as I meant to add my thoughts... I'm no scientist so can't comment on the weight gain issue as a fact or not.. but I DO know from personal experiences and careful diet/BG/Carb counting, that carbs DO increase my BG levels, more than any other food.
I also know that in the weeks when my carbs are very well controlled and under 100g daily, I lose weight; but when the carbs totals are between 100-150g, I dont lose weight, just maintain. If I eat over 150g, I put weight on (I know this for fact as I did it at Christmas and again over a birthday weekend recently... those extra carbs can make the difference of up to 3lbs extra weight for me in one week!).[/quote]
If you are gaining weight over 150g of carbs then you are going over caloric maintenance or are seeing extra water/ glycogen weight. As the link abov states- carbs do not directly make you fat (only via de novo lipogenisis- which is very rare) carbs make you fat by burning carbs instead of fat... However, if you are eating at maintenance (or below) this is nothing to worry about.
As I stated before though, I am not going to preach a high carb diet on a diabetic forum, that would be silly! I was just sharing the conclusions from various people that were very kind to get back to me via email yesterday (and a few more coming through today from some more, which I am very surprised about!)
I would also like to hear how many carbs on average everyone here is eating- if there is another thread discussing this, I apologise!
Thanks.