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Bluey1

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After being on a pump for a little over a month I have seriously been counting carbs and horrified how many I consume per day it's about 190. I suspect that is way to high. How many carbs do you consume a day?
 
I don't consume crabs. I don't like seafood. ;)

Seriously though, as a T1 you can in theory eat what you want and inject insulin to cover it.

The reference intake for an adult in the UK is 250/ 260g. Personally I usually take in about 30 to 40g per meal so I'm looking at 120/150g with the odd biscuit here and there. I find my sugar levels easier to control with this amount of carbs.

Just do what's right for you.​
 
I do eat crab but not every day. Carbs? Average 100-130 a day. But can be more depending on circumstances e.g family day out, socialising or having a working lunch where food choice is not totally within my control.
 
I eat an average of about 150g carbs per day.
Why do you think 190g is too much?
Do you not have good BG control?
Or are you considering using a low carb diet to lose weight?
 
As others have said, your total carbs are fine if your blood sugars and weight are fine. There are many low carbers on this forum but that probably reflects the fact that there are many T2s on here, and low carb does seem to work for T2s. As a T1, you can make your insulin balance your carbs, so do whatever works for you, and different regimes work well for different people...

As for me, I'm 100g a day ....ish. But I'm female and trying to reduce weight....
 
Average 50-100. A lot more if out/celebrating/Christmas. I desire things like potato, rice and bread less these days. I don’t try and stick to this amount, it has just naturally occurred
 
I have been eating low carb/keto for about 6 weeks now. I find it great for losing a bit of weight slowly and don't overly miss the carbs. Adding to that it brought the amount of insulin I require down and it's a no brainer for me. However it seems either I am coming down with something or the weather is effecting me but my insulin needs are creeping up again, despite not doing much different.

I may throw in a few extra carbs somewhere in the next few weeks, and see how I go with that.
 
I probably have about 160-190 carbs most days, its slightly less than I used to have (but that's mainly cos I thought I was starting to put on weight).
 
Chowie said:
After being on a pump for a little over a month I have seriously been counting carbs and horrified how many I consume per day it's about 190. I suspect that is way to high. How many carbs do you consume a day?
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I eat around 100, up to a maximum of 150 depending on appetite, of planned carbs, plus an ungodly amount of sugar for correcting dropping blood sugars (working on getting this down, but I'd say at least 50g and sometimes a lot more!) It's perfectly ok to eat 190g per day as long as you split it up into reasonable sized meals/snacks throughout the day (I never eat more than 60g at once), are feeling satisfied and not hungry, and are happy with your blood sugars.
 
For the last 3 days not more than 60.

I have been told this is a terrible idea which will cause me to become insulin resistant and have horrible things happen.

I have also been told that it's a great effort and will reduce the amount of insulin I have to take (duh)

In the end I don't think anyone really has any idea what the long term results will be which is annoying.
 
I like to eat 100-150g per day but need huge insulin doses, still. I'm hugely insulin resistant.
Hoping to get more mobile now no snow and ice. I'm disabled at mo.
Looking to reduce my basal soon. Any sniff of a hypo i will reduce.
Son's birthday cake and pizza has raised my fbg this morning :(. I'll work hard to reduce everything for a better one tomorrow. My birthday at the weekend and don't drink so maybe some copy purfume.
 
NoKindOfSusie said:
For the last 3 days not more than 60.

I have been told this is a terrible idea which will cause me to become insulin resistant and have horrible things happen.

I have also been told that it's a great effort and will reduce the amount of insulin I have to take (duh)

In the end I don't think anyone really has any idea what the long term results will be which is annoying.
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You ever heard of the theory that everybody is different and reacts to treatments/conditions differently?

Who told you you'd become more insulin resistant with less carbs?
 
There's an interesting phenomenon of "Physiological Insulin Resistance" that comes alongside a significantly reduced carbohydrate diet @JoeT1 .

The theory goes that as your body adjusts to using fats as its energy source, it reacts less to insulin in order to avoid using the limited glucose that will be needed by the brain in addition to the ketones. My experience of what this looks like is that it's around about a 10% increase in basal rate, after you've adjusted to needing less insulin as a result of reducing carbs. Net result is that it makes very little difference to your overall TDD.

I can't speak for others though.
 
tim2000s said:
There's an interesting phenomenon of "Physiological Insulin Resistance" that comes alongside a significantly reduced carbohydrate diet @JoeT1 .

The theory goes that as your body adjusts to using fats as its energy source, it reacts less to insulin in order to avoid using the limited glucose that will be needed by the brain in addition to the ketones. My experience of what this looks like is that it's around about a 10% increase in basal rate, after you've adjusted to needing less insulin as a result of reducing carbs. Net result is that it makes very little difference to your overall TDD.

I can't speak for others though.
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That's very interesting. And also something that I could be seeing right now. I noticed my Basal originally dropped dramatically, but now seems to be creeping back up, but not to the level it was before going keto.
 
I'll be around 190g too, in porridge/wholemeal bread/cooled & reheated rice, I weigh just over 80kg and aren't aiming to lose any weight, I eat no processed food and the carbs are 'complex' ones that mostly digest to mimic my insulin uptake.

Mostly being an operative word :p
 
Had to click on this purely for the thread title. All I can think about now is eating a fresh crab sandwich. I try to keep my carb intake to 120g a day and just match my insulin likewise.
 
It largely depends on breakfast for me. Sometimes I enjoy a 0g carb breakfast that I can just crack on and make (bacon, scrambled eggs and mushrooms :hungry: is a favourite) but equally I've found things to do during my 30 minute pre-bolus on mornings I want porridge or a croissant. So anywhere between 70g-200g depending on what I'm doing each day.
 
Looking at my 30 day average on my pump I'm at about 266g of carbs. I have been having a lot of lasagna recently though....
 
I roughly have around 200-210 carbs per day. And i sometimes need to top myslef up with the odd biscuit depending on how busy I am at work.

I could eat more but I find it easier to control my blood sugars with the carbs I consume at the moment.
 
I eat 30-40g of carbs a day.

I started this around seven weeks ago - been following the NHS low fat/very carby guidelines for 20 years with the constant nag to lose weight but found I was getting fatter and fatter and needing more and more insulin. So I figured it was high time I tried something different. I’ve dropped my Lantus from 18 units twice a day to ten to accommodate the drop in carbohydrate and rarely need more than a couple of units of Novorapid during the day. I’ve lost half a stone in that time too, although that wasn’t the reason I changed my food - I did it solely to get my sugars as close to normal as possible. It seems to be working, the MySugr app predicts an HbA1c of under 40 (it was 94 before Christmas), but I’ll find out next week as I had blood taken today before my diabetes clinic next week. I feel great too.

@NoKindOfSusie - as I understand it, the insulin resistance we may get from low carbing can generally be reversed by eating more carbs for a few days when you notice your requirements going up. I’ll try that as and if it happens.

Tl:dr - you can eat as much carbohydrate as you like as long as you cover it with the right amount of insulin. I’ve chosen to eat very little, and so far it seems to be doing me good. Caveat - we’re all different and what works for one might not for another.
 
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