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<blockquote data-quote="Pneu" data-source="post: 311738" data-attributes="member: 28827"><p>Hi Anti-Carb.. </p><p></p><p>I guess a little bit of input from a low carb (most of the time!) type I. </p><p></p><p>1. Low carb should make your blood glucose much easier to control.. if your background insulin is correct then the small amount of carb that you will eat will have little effect on them.. </p><p></p><p>2. Low carb will reduce hypo's and their severity.. for most type I's hypo's are insulin induced.. i.e. we miss calculate and inject to much.. these hypo's are bad news because rapid insulin lowers the blood glucose so quickly it is very hard to spot what is going to happen before it is! On low carb you eat much less carb.. therefore less rapid insulin and what you do take you take in small amounts.. for most people insulin when injected in large amounts can become a little but unpredictable so you cut this risk as well. </p><p></p><p>3. If you want to eat carb's do so at lunchtime! This gives you the whole day to sort out your blood glucose if they do go squiffy and means that you aren't going to bed at night having carb binged and injected a load of insulin worried about what your BGs are going to do. Also this gives your body some time to process the carbs.. I have found that a carby evening can give me more of a DP in the morning. </p><p></p><p>4. Amount of carbs is a difficult one.. for most type II's we would say eat to a level that gives you good BGs.. clearly in type I that isn't an issue.. I personally find that less than 60g a day gets a bit limiting but others happily eat less. </p><p></p><p>5. Generally if you low carb then you will also find that your calorie intake falls.. unless you are swimming in double cream or eating piles of cheese! I find it pretty difficult to eat over 1800 calories even if I do eat a load of dairy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pneu, post: 311738, member: 28827"] Hi Anti-Carb.. I guess a little bit of input from a low carb (most of the time!) type I. 1. Low carb should make your blood glucose much easier to control.. if your background insulin is correct then the small amount of carb that you will eat will have little effect on them.. 2. Low carb will reduce hypo's and their severity.. for most type I's hypo's are insulin induced.. i.e. we miss calculate and inject to much.. these hypo's are bad news because rapid insulin lowers the blood glucose so quickly it is very hard to spot what is going to happen before it is! On low carb you eat much less carb.. therefore less rapid insulin and what you do take you take in small amounts.. for most people insulin when injected in large amounts can become a little but unpredictable so you cut this risk as well. 3. If you want to eat carb's do so at lunchtime! This gives you the whole day to sort out your blood glucose if they do go squiffy and means that you aren't going to bed at night having carb binged and injected a load of insulin worried about what your BGs are going to do. Also this gives your body some time to process the carbs.. I have found that a carby evening can give me more of a DP in the morning. 4. Amount of carbs is a difficult one.. for most type II's we would say eat to a level that gives you good BGs.. clearly in type I that isn't an issue.. I personally find that less than 60g a day gets a bit limiting but others happily eat less. 5. Generally if you low carb then you will also find that your calorie intake falls.. unless you are swimming in double cream or eating piles of cheese! I find it pretty difficult to eat over 1800 calories even if I do eat a load of dairy. [/QUOTE]
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