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Hello can anyone help im really trying to lose weight and well failing... Ive cut out all the junk well most of it, ive tried slimfast and all ive managed is from 92kg to 89kg and its so depressing that i cant lose it! can anyone help? Im a type 1 pump user!
 
Diet alone won't cause weight loss, it has to be combined with exercise. Are you at all active?


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I walk about 6 miles most days! To and from work!
 
Hi,

I am newly diagnosed and know nothing about insulin or its effects.

The only way to lose weight is a combination of exercise and cutting the calories. Whether you cut the calories by reducing your carb intake, or your fat intake, or both, is your decision. There is no other way, and the more calories you cut, the more weight you lose.
 
The first thing you need to know about insulin is that its only task is to store blood glucose as fat. That is why T2 generally are over weight but T1underweight. The more carbs you eat as a non-T1 the more insulin is released and the glucose is turned to body fat. The less carbs, the less insulin is needed.

Exercise has little impact on weight while diet has a lot. Fat doesn't make you fat, while carbs do as every single carb you get into your body is converted to sugar.

Weight and hunger is about hormones. It is hormones that signals you need to eat, it is hormones that tell you are satiated. These things are very complex. Going on a low carb high fat diet restores the hormones to a normal function along with normal bg.

Had it really been so simple as calories in-calories out we wouldn't have weight problems. I find hunger a powerful force so I eat until I am full AND loose weight so long as I eat enough fat but few carbs. .
 
I know totto is desperate to flog the high fat diet, but his simple statement "The more carbs you eat as a non-T1 the more insulin is released and the glucose is turned to body fat." may not be entirely correct as the only possible answer.
And "The first thing you need to know about insulin is that its only task is to store blood glucose as fat" is not accurate either.

If your diet is good, if you aren't eating excess calories, if your bs is good, then you should not gain weight, you'll use the glucose you consume simply for energy.
If you eat more calories than you are expending you will gain, as excess carbs are turned to body fat.
You can try low carb high fat, or you can try portion control, and you could switch to healthy food and simply eat less of everything, among many other diets. You need to find one that suits you, as it's a diet for life.

There may be other reasons why you are gaining weight as a T1 as well, I'm T2, so possibly other more knowledgeableT1's could comment as well.
 
Reducing your carbohydrates so that you need less insulin may help as insulin undoubtedly promotes weight gain. T2S who are placed on insulin stimulating meds are told to expect some weight gain for that reason.

You could also try doing a lot more strenuous exercise as that will also reduce the amount of insulin you need.

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Hale, Bluetit1802 and Douglas are quite right that it's about reducing the calories so that your burning more than you consume, as a suggestion enquire about joining a gym and ask the personal trainers there to recommend some exercises for you.
 
Not quite as applicable, but as a T2 I get the extra benefit that improving my muscle mass at the gym also improves my insulin resistance, more muscle, the muscle is expending more energy, so uses more glucose which also brings my bs down.

As a T1, you're still burning the energy, still increasing muscle mass, and still bringing bs down that way though.
 
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Hi,

You say you walk about 6 miles most days, to and from work. How long does it take you? You could perhaps walk a bit more briskly to get your heart pumping and also time yourself, aiming to cut the time it takes you, but do this gradually. Walk a bit faster each day. Swimming and cycling are also good. If you enjoy swimming perhaps there is an aqua-aerobics class at your local pool. This is an excellent choice (even non-swimmers can do this) because you get the full benefit of an aerobics class without the stress and strain on your joints, and it is very enjoyable. I'm an overweight pensioner with an arthritic knee and hip but I manage very well.
 
Hello

Well it used to take me about 40ish minutes but now it takes me about an hour due to sciatica And im not very good at swimming, I end up panicking and then not being able to breathe ha! :/
 
I've found a pool where it's 4 ft deep, so I'm fine now.
 
NicolaAnne1994 said:
Any tips for strenuous exercises then?
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My T1 son (on a pump) when he's not doing a sub 50g / day regime keeps to around 130g / day and supplements with 30 mins a day on an exercise bike. My nieces husband who is also type 1 (injects) is an exercise fanatic and cycles miles each day. He says he requires very little insulin. My nephew T1.5 (injects) does standard DAPHNE advice and has put on weight since his diagnosis three years ago which he constantly tries to lose...
 


I'm married to a T1 who is having trouble losing weight. His best results come when he reduces the AMOUNT/PORTION SIZEof food he eats and the matching insulin. You CAN'T lose weight on large doses of insulin. I suspect a lot of DAPHNE information is counter productive in weight loss. It is designed to allow you to eat pretty much what you want, often by INCREASING insulin. INSULIN is the fat storage hormone. You need to minimise your use of it.
Hana
 
Hana, I had a separate thread asking what insulin does and saw your response here.

I was told insulin is the key that let's the energy into the cell. So what you say about fat storage makes sense, but I don't understand why you need less insulin with exercise. Surely if I am exercising I need more energy and therefore more keys (insulin) to let it in. Clearly I've confused something somewhere - can you help/explain?



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I have been on a low carb diet for the past 14months and have lost a total of 16lbs in that time.
Before that I was on a calorie count diet starting at 226lbs and lost 30lbs from April 2010 to the December but then stalled so that's why I decided to try the low carb which is going very well and I have been declared a "non" diabetic on my last check up.
 

Yeah I lost loads of weight prior being diagnosed with diabetes and then put it back on a few years after and its just so hard to lose and I too have done DAFNE!
 
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