I know this is probably a silly question as it has quite an obvious answer!
I love my carbs. I love pasta, rice and potatoes. In the past, I've tried to take the right amount of insulin to cover this but it's so easy to get it wrong and misjudge it - it also means I can end up taking whopping amounts of insulin!
Would you recommend I reduce my carbs? It should make my diabetes easier to manage, yes?
(I'm also doing Slimming World so although I've read a little about LCHF, I'm not keen to start eating loads of 'fattier' foods!)
Great work, and brill advertisement for low carb! I'm new enough to the low carb way of eating but I love it so far: great bg control, more stable mood, and much less hunger all in all! Can I ask you what you tend to eat on a typical day? And was the weight loss mainly due to diet/ exercise r a bit of both? 6 stone is phenomenal
That sounds more like severe starvation than a sustainable low carb diet though.
I think @zand's quote is brilliant; "It's just my personal view that people need legs more than they need carbs".
As you know currently 94% of Type 1 diabetics fail to get HbA1cs below 6.5% Type 1 diabetics are told to dose adjust to 'eat normally' which means eat carbohydrates.
I think it is completely reasonable to equate carbohydrate with poor control; look at those statistics!
You might have a justification for your shocked CAPITALS if zand was suggesting dropping an essential nutrient, but she is not; she just pointing out to someone who is asking about reducing carbohydrates that the best way to get better control is to do just that and remove the problem to the greatest extent possible.
Best
Dillinger
Whatever floats your boat!If you read my previous posts on other threads I had mentioned that I had a sleeve gastrectomy in April, so I can't eat big portions anymore, which is good for me as my portion sizes were huge prior to this and my insulin dosage was ridiculous! So that is why LC is working for me. I've never felt healthier, and no I am not severely starving my body! For the size of my stomach now, I eat as much as I can, and the LC for me will be sustainable...for the rest of my life!!! It's the best thing I have ever done in order toget my diabetes in a more "normal" range too.
impossible.
Until this year I had never been higher than 6.5% but have been 7.0%, 6.7% and 6.8% through the last 9mths. Carbs? Not changed
Well, reduce your carbs then and your HbA1cs will improve.
The primary elevator of blood glucose is dietary carbohydrate, even AMBrennan would agree with that surely? So, address the primary issues first and look to the ancillary issues after that.
People get suspiciously hysterical on here about what 'low-carb' means and I think that it is an irrelevance; low-carb means as few carbs as are necessary to normalise your blood sugars.
This thread is about whether people recommend a low-carb diet for diabetics; I am genuinely at a loss as to why the usual suspects get so upset that people actually do recommend that approach. If you don't want to do it then fine; the buffet tables that way, but why not allow people who haven't made up their minds the chance to consider alternative approaches, especially when they are as effective and as simple as not eating starchy carbs?
Dillinger
I'm T2 but believe strongly in minimising meds in all things. Eating low carb enables me to do without meds. If I was T1 I would want to minimise insulin dosing. Why anyone would want to take more poison just because there's an antidote handy defeats me.
Oh and yes it makes me feel better, fitter and satisfied with what I eat.
I fully support robinredbreast ...to,suggest insulin or medication that people need for any health problem is indeed insulting when it is referred to as poison ....I am happy for you that you are feeling better, fitter and satisfied.
As a type 1 for 25 years Insulin is my life line, even if I have eggs and bacon, an omelette I still have to take Insulin. I have never taken poison in my life and talking about Insulin being an antidote is an insult and a negative response to type 1's who take it,.whether it is 10 units a day or 15,20, 30,40 or 50 units.. Also, don't forget the type 1 children as well.
Any diabetic reducing their carb intake is most certainly a good thing. I for one am happy in my reduction.
Whatever floats your boat!
I do however think that 10 grams of fat per day is dangerously low.
I see you are type 2, diet alone...that just speaks for itself! How rude you are!
paul-post: 630696 said:Oh great! A REAL 's and them' attitude and for real this time! What the heck do you mean about "Type 2 and diet alone that just speaks for itself??!! This is prejudice pure and simple in my book! How rude you are Geordie lass more like! [/QUOTE
Sorry Paul...i dont wish to offend any type 2's on this forum. I was just directing my disgust at the rude member who was being very negative about my low carb plan. i am not a rude person, as you put it...but when other members are being rude to me I will let them know!! My point was that she did not understand the positive effects that low carbing has on type 1's and their bg levels as it is in my opinion different to being type 2. Enough said!!! I am not getting into a bickering game as this just becomes very childish.
"Whatever floats your boat"..... what are you going on about!?? I didn't ask for your opinion. I was merely giving my advice as to the OP's question about low carbing! Not interested in the slightest whether you think my fat intake is too low or whether you think I am starving myself. I suggest if you haven't got anything positive or constructive to say then don't say anything at all!
You obviously do not have any idea as to the positive effects that low carbing has on Type 1 diabetes. I see you are type 2, diet alone...that just speaks for itself! How rude you are!
I am happy for you that you are feeling better, fitter and satisfied.
As a type 1 for 25 years Insulin is my life line, even if I have eggs and bacon, an omelette I still have to take Insulin. I have never taken poison in my life and talking about Insulin being an antidote is an insult and a negative response to type 1's who take it,.whether it is 10 units a day or 15, 20, 30, 40 or 50 !.. Also, don't forget the type 1 children as well.
Any diabetic reducing their carb intake is most certainly a good thing. I for one am happy in my reduction.
If you give it some thought you might find my suggestion as to your extremely low fat intake actually is constructive."Whatever floats your boat"..... what are you going on about!?? I didn't ask for your opinion. I was merely giving my advice as to the OP's question about low carbing! Not interested in the slightest whether you think my fat intake is too low or whether you think I am starving myself. I suggest if you haven't got anything positive or constructive to say then don't say anything at all!
You obviously do not have any idea as to the positive effects that low carbing has on Type 1 diabetes. I see you are type 2, diet alone...that just speaks for itself! How rude you are!