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<blockquote data-quote="noblehead" data-source="post: 118363" data-attributes="member: 11028"><p>Agree with Fergus on keeping insulin to a minimum helps you to lose weight. Far from joining the debate about what to eat or diet to follow when trying to lose weight, there are far to many ego's on this forum as it is, what is important is to correctly match insulin to the carbs you consume.</p><p></p><p>Many type 1's, including myself up until only a few month's back, don't match the two together correctly, therefore you were either running your blood sugars to high, or to low whereby you would end up eating more food than you originally intended. Learning to work out insulin to carb ratio's is the most helpful tool in weight reduction, most of us have a different ratio throughout the day, you may need 1 unit of insulin to match 10g of carbs in the morning, but on a evening you may need 1.5-2 units of insulin per 10g of carbs, all depends on the individual, my insulin needs are less on a morning than they are on a evening.</p><p></p><p>I found before I knew about insulin to carb ratio's, I would eat my food with what I thought was the correct insulin, be quite full and content but 2 hours later go low, eat quick acting glucose and something carby, and curse myself for not giving the correct dose of insulin in the first place, thinking that I was not ready to eat again, but had to to stop the hypo. Now, I don't have as many hypo's, so I don't eat between meals much now! A small, but very effective way to cut back on the carbs/calories consumed.</p><p></p><p>Therefore Ian, if this is the case with yourself, especially as you like to use the gym a lot, it may be worth you learning how to do this for yourself. Ask your DSN about any DAFNE courses in your area, on this course you will learn how to dose adjust insulin to match food, and also how to take into account exrcise when injecting insulin, there is some very useful information to be learned. So, as I've said and others have posted, too much insulin does cause weight gain, by cutting back slightly does improve weight lose.</p><p></p><p>Feel free to pm me should you require any more info.</p><p></p><p>Nigel</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="noblehead, post: 118363, member: 11028"] Agree with Fergus on keeping insulin to a minimum helps you to lose weight. Far from joining the debate about what to eat or diet to follow when trying to lose weight, there are far to many ego's on this forum as it is, what is important is to correctly match insulin to the carbs you consume. Many type 1's, including myself up until only a few month's back, don't match the two together correctly, therefore you were either running your blood sugars to high, or to low whereby you would end up eating more food than you originally intended. Learning to work out insulin to carb ratio's is the most helpful tool in weight reduction, most of us have a different ratio throughout the day, you may need 1 unit of insulin to match 10g of carbs in the morning, but on a evening you may need 1.5-2 units of insulin per 10g of carbs, all depends on the individual, my insulin needs are less on a morning than they are on a evening. I found before I knew about insulin to carb ratio's, I would eat my food with what I thought was the correct insulin, be quite full and content but 2 hours later go low, eat quick acting glucose and something carby, and curse myself for not giving the correct dose of insulin in the first place, thinking that I was not ready to eat again, but had to to stop the hypo. Now, I don't have as many hypo's, so I don't eat between meals much now! A small, but very effective way to cut back on the carbs/calories consumed. Therefore Ian, if this is the case with yourself, especially as you like to use the gym a lot, it may be worth you learning how to do this for yourself. Ask your DSN about any DAFNE courses in your area, on this course you will learn how to dose adjust insulin to match food, and also how to take into account exrcise when injecting insulin, there is some very useful information to be learned. So, as I've said and others have posted, too much insulin does cause weight gain, by cutting back slightly does improve weight lose. Feel free to pm me should you require any more info. Nigel [/QUOTE]
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