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Increased appetite or loss?

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Ausra

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I was told by nurse just after the diagnosis that a lot of type ones lose their appetite, but for me the opposite-since i got diagnosed I can't get rid of wanting to eat all the time.
Anybody experienced any changes in your diet?
 
Hi Ausra
Yes , though never a big eater..except on a binge before Diabetes days I have found my appetite has diminished over the years. I think the manipulation of your blood sugars , or mine anyway ,does not cause the natural response of hunger :cry: I miss it . I never feel hungry anymore except when I Hypo and then it's joined by those horrible symptoms , so it is not enjoyable to feel hungry anymore.
Interesting how we have found the opposite
Take care Hun
 
Fallenstar, I am jelous..
I never feel hungry anymore too, but for me it is because I eat all the time
Interesting, really, I wonder if I am doing something wrong.
Thanks for your answer, wish you all the best!
 
Hey Ausra
Are you eating all the time because you are chasing lows? What are your levels like?
If you go low Ausra do you have a really hungry feeling as one of your symptoms?

I remember in my early diagnosis days getting to the end of a big meal being pogged and then going hypo and feeling those false feelings of starvation again...I don't really get those anymore . I just seem to have lost all my feelings of hunger even at hypo now. In one way it is quiet liberating though not to be bound by a need to eat..now I do it to stabalise my BG and "feed" my body..oh and I still ,thankfully ,love the taste of food , but if I wanted to I could take it or leave it. Sad really as it used to be one of my driving forces and great joys in life :roll: but things change and we adapt

Do you put weight on Ausra? and what foods do you crave?
 
I get 3-4 lows a week. When i go low sometimes i do not notice, it's only when it drops bellow 3 i start feeling shaky, sometimes it follows by hunger, sometimes i feel sick and can't even think about food, but after first bite i can't stop.
My levels are good 4.0-7.0 in the mornings, then throughout the day i do not test a lot, because I have something to eat about every 2 hours..i can't last longer..i can't wait for 3 hours to pass after a meal. It does not matter if I have a big meal, or a snack..after 2 hours or sometimes 1 hour i want something again. And usually that 'something' is something sweet. I tried swaping 'something sweet' to 'something healthy', like a fruit or youghurt but after that i still have to have something sweet. So it didn't work.
Once I lasted 7 hours without food, but after that i felt very ill.
For me, opposite as for you Fallenstar, food was never my driving forces, i hardly ate anything at all but after the diagnosis (and 3 months before diagnosis) everything changed so drastically.
I mentioned it twice to my nurse, but she never took it seriously, once she said i've got nothing to worry about as i actually need to put some weight on. I weight 63kg now and that has happened in two moths. I was 52 before. What happened was that i increased my basal from 10 to 15 units and that's when i gained all those 11 kilos, but my food intake didn't change. I never cared about diets and how much i weight, but now i am getting really worried.
 
Hey Ausra
No way is 63KG overweight, 52KG I'm sure would have been underweight for you, so don't you worry about your weight, please. It sounds like you have good figures with your control but maybe you are "feeding" the insulin? With the need to eat so often and being hungry all the time. I used to feel like this on Mixtards, which in essence, is what you were doing with the mixtards, feeding them!
You really need to try and go for the healthy snacks if you can and not the sweet ones, not easy if you feel hungry and the cravings are keen ,but a low GI will sustain you longer. OR, a pure protein snack will cut out the hunger pangs altogether, a slice of ham with cheese, try it it works. Cut out the carbs for your in between meal snacks and see if this makes a difference.

Low carbing is not for everyone but it does cut out the hunger pangs for me, and it keeps my control much more stable, so you could see if this approach would help you in your overall diet. You will certainly lose weight with this approach, if that is what you would like to achieve.
Following this lifestyle, I am on an increase in overall calories as apposed to when I was eating mainly carbs, but I have lost weight and only recently has in stabalised with cutting down on my training...but it's a personnel thing really I just don't want to get too thin....You get to a certain age and it's either your **** or your face :wink: :lol: So something had to go, and it was the miles, as my improvement in control was just too much to sacrifice . I'm still running daily and competing .Just not the ultra marathon miles.

There are a lot of other things you can try before adjusting your dose if that seems right for you. Try some more exercise, then you may need to cut back your Basal ..this will certainly make you lose weight, the exercise alone . Or like I mentioned ,the low carb approach will if you are up for it.

You do sound like you are doing fine though but I understand it is how you feel about yourself that is the most important and if you felt better before at a lower weight then I can understand your frustration...it's not easy where insulin is concerned :cry:
 
Thanks Fallenstar!
I doubt if i am 'feeding the insulin', but there is a good thought in this and you might be right after all. I will discuss this with my nurse on next appointment if she will take me seriuosly this time.
Ham with cheese..hmm..i should really try
I tried low-carb diet, high in protein, but this diet made me eat even more. I ate raw foods, cut out all sugar and sweeteners, salt, my skin looked better then ever but couldn't last long with this diet, i didn't feel happy, only when i tasted the sugar again smile went back to my face and the whole world started looking better place to be I know ..it's bad..
Exercise is always a good idea. For me people who exercise and lead active lifestyle are my idols and i remember one day of last summer going for a run in my local park and running in the middle of the park across the grass with a smile on my face, running like a child would..
When it comes to exercise i am a person of the moment, i could never make this my routine as i believe i would loose the joy. I love when i suddenly feel up for it. It does not happen very often or when it happens it is not the right moment, but once a week (not every week ) it happens and then i go to exercise. My job is hard fizically and i count my working hours as my exercise..i know it's not the same and exercising while working do more damage (to my back for example) then good, but it is still being active in some way even though it does not lift my mood up as a normal exercise would.. So i guess i should go for a run at least twice a week..for a start
I love the way writting in this forum affects my thinking..i get carried away a lot and i know my english is not perfect (far from perfect). So talking here do good for me in many ways: my english is improving, my mood is getting better and i come up with some ideas how to improve my diabetes and plus i get to talk with people who know about condition from their own experience. It really helps because I do not know any diabetics in my life. My family is diabetic-free.......was..
Thank you Fallenstar for positive posts, you know how to get to people hearts you have a very nice way of giving advise.
Take care!
 
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