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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maco" data-source="post: 2358549" data-attributes="member: 465882">For type 2’s obviously avoiding carbs can be massively beneficial, but for type 1’s we don’t need to avoid or restrict them. The main thing we need to know is how many carbs is in the meal we are eating. Last night for instance I went to the local fish shop & got sausage chips curry sauce & a bread bun (cheat meal). Using the carbs & Cals app i estimated around 150grams of carbs, I then ate a portion of sticky toffee pudding with cream for desert a following 35grams of carbs. So 185g of carbs in one sitting, I calculated the carbs took my insulin and my readings never went above 10 & I woke up this morning at 7.2. If you have a read on the diabetes uk page there’s a good read about type 1s and carbs, it quite openly says we don’t need to avoid or restrict them. It’s like anything in life, eat them in proportion. If you are fit & healthy but started to eat 200/300gramsOf unclean rubbish carbs you’ll gain weight. I know of a few bodybuilders who are type 1 who compete professionally & they have to eat 500grams of carbs per day in there ‘off season’! Now look at them lads they are in the shape of there life’s, 14/15/16 stone with a tiny amount of body fat. If your interested google a man named Anth Bailes or Jason Poston, both IFBB Pro bodybuilders with diabetes. Them lads eat massive amounts of carbs</blockquote>

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