Ah, so now you're touching on why I need something to help me measure food intake vs energy expenditure.
BMI is at the low end of the range but I don't look healthy there. Gaunt is how my physio described me recently.
Anyone out there got any fitbit info???
Hi again
@Circuspony , ok good info from you in the latest posts, so now we know that:
- Your bg is in good control and your 'lowish weight' is not because of 'insulin starvation'.
- Your weight is already in the low end of the BMI scale and you would enjoy to carry a bit more to look more proportionally toned all-round to not look too skinny / fragile / gaunt.
So welcome to the club!
I am exactly the same, though have been in that low end for 25years plus by now. It is a never ending struggle for me to keep up my weight within my own preferred range around 72 kilos or so when I am not weight/fitness training intensively. With that I can build up to around 75-78 kilos, buts its a never ending struggle.
If I do 'nothing', besides eating whatever I want when I am hungry or not, and I take my correct doses of insulin, then I even drop down to around 66 kilos. And there I also look 'gaunt'.
Not sure though why you are so much into a fitbit?
My company offered us an 'Ionic' model at a previous sales meeting and I certainly also used it for a while. But its not like it exactly can measure your total daily calorie burn at all. It has a lot of nice features like GPS for tracking your pathways, your heart rate and what I really liked, a sleep tracker, as had a period I thought I didn't get enough in deep sleep phase. And then there is a 'pacer coach' which can be ok to tease you to go/run that extra mile. Also some other stuff but cant recall. But nothing like a wrist band or activity tracker can measure your true calorie burn at all. It can give you some indicators, mainly benchmarking one episode versus another and versus your average etc. But the value are nothing related to your absolute calorie burn. And thereby, not relevant to make any justified conclusion regarding your calorie intake versus your calorie burn.
Cant recall all the names right now, but we were a group of Type1s that a month or so ago entered into the discussion of 'bulking up for type1s', as we apparently were several that were challenged to do that. Just to gain weight and keeping it is a difficult thing, especially as you want to bulk up on muscle and not fat. But by doing so we all also had the common observations that our background metabolism was immensely raised and that also our bg was easier to control. E.g. our bigger muscles burned more energy also at rest and they also serve as a bigger buffer for your body in terms of glucose when/if needed, also if going slight hypo.
Plenty of good pages of information is available on this subject, so think you easily can find a wealth of information by doing a bit of online search. Alternatively, lets see who else will join this conversation, as recall that we were a good handful of folks that 'suffered from this aspect' and were into same regime styles to keep up a good weight and muscle strength/size.
