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Loraell84

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I am a 32 yr old type 1 mum of 4. I have had diabetes from age 7 and never let it rule my life. As with most long time diabetics I have had complications along the way. I have retinopathy and all 4 of my children were born before 34 weeks, but I have never struggled with my weight until I decided to give the pump ago last year. Unfortunately the pump was not for me and now I am stuck with a extra stone and a half that I just can't shift!!!! I am currently on levemir and humalog and take 1 500mg metformin aday. I am a very active person I run a small holding and walk dogs professionally so can walk upto 4/5 miles a day yet still I can't lose this weight. The DSN suggested low carb but I'm worried as I am so active I will constantly be low which would be awful in my line of work. Can anybody help weight loss ideas groups or better still a exact weekly meal plan I could follow. I will give anything ago right now
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Laura
 
I'm interested as to why the pump caused your weight gain - did you change your diet at all then? Or did you have a lot of hypos on it? Just asking in case there's a clue there or any useful ideas springing from it :) I lost weight when I went on the pump do I can't help with ideas of why that happened.

When I was first diagnosed, I put on weight. I found reducing carbs a little helped. I also found making notes of what I ate helped too as I could see places where I could cut carbs easily, and also places where I was eating extras that I didn't need.

So for me, record-keeping and a slight carb reduction helped :)

Edited to add - if you're on Metformin, is that because of insulin resistance? That might make weight loss a little harder (the resistance not the Metformin)

The only other thing to ask, is if it could be linked to hormones?
 
I'm not sure that it was defiantly the pump that caused the weight gain it just all happened around the same time . The metformin is for PCOS which I have had since 2010 yet never caused weight issues as this only happened last year
 
@Loraell84, you can adjust your insulin doses if you do go low-carb so it shouldn't mean more hypo's.
 
Loraell84 said:
I'm not sure that it was defiantly the pump that caused the weight gain it just all happened around the same time . The metformin is for PCOS which I have had since 2010 yet never caused weight issues as this only happened last year
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I know that PCOS can make it harder to lose weight. Could it be that? If you suspect it might be related, maybe getting advuce about diet for that and then fitting that to your diabetes would help? I don't know much about PCOS, but a friend has it and she watches how much carbs she eats.

My advice about the notebook still stands though. I found it really helpful to look at a whole day's food written down in front of me. That and regular walking helped me shift the extra few pounds I'd put on.
 
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