craig.turner1981
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Hi everyone,
I'm a newbie to the forum. Type 1 diabetic since the age of 12 and now the grand age of 31. My brother recently gave me a book advocating the benefits of eating paleo, and since then that has snowballed into reading about Bernstein, and the low carbohydrate diet for athletes. As I'm sure you are all familiar with, and I am especially annoyed with myself, is the lack of information on reliable and consistent food nutrition and exercise for type 1's (or type 2's). I've always (I'm being big headed here) considered myself a good athlete and have always tried to take care of myself but found exercise, especially endurance events, very limiting and scary things to undertake. However, since going on a ketogenic diet one month ago, I'm well on course for completing my first half marathon in a couple of weeks without having any fears of my blood sugars going low half way round the course. I was just wondering if other type 1's (or type 2's) have found endurance events since turning to a ketogenic diet? I really want to push myself this year (I'm optimistic enough to belief a full marathon might be possible later in the year) and would like to know if anybody has any tips for pushing the boundaries that little bit further?
Thanks everyone, and all the best with the blood glucose control. Oh, and as an aside, anyone find that red wine (on a completely unrelated note) makes them much more sensitive to insulin the following day? And how has going on a ketogenic diet affected your insulin dosage? I'm currently on 7 units of Lantus and 4-7 units of Novorapid a day. Cheers.
I'm a newbie to the forum. Type 1 diabetic since the age of 12 and now the grand age of 31. My brother recently gave me a book advocating the benefits of eating paleo, and since then that has snowballed into reading about Bernstein, and the low carbohydrate diet for athletes. As I'm sure you are all familiar with, and I am especially annoyed with myself, is the lack of information on reliable and consistent food nutrition and exercise for type 1's (or type 2's). I've always (I'm being big headed here) considered myself a good athlete and have always tried to take care of myself but found exercise, especially endurance events, very limiting and scary things to undertake. However, since going on a ketogenic diet one month ago, I'm well on course for completing my first half marathon in a couple of weeks without having any fears of my blood sugars going low half way round the course. I was just wondering if other type 1's (or type 2's) have found endurance events since turning to a ketogenic diet? I really want to push myself this year (I'm optimistic enough to belief a full marathon might be possible later in the year) and would like to know if anybody has any tips for pushing the boundaries that little bit further?
Thanks everyone, and all the best with the blood glucose control. Oh, and as an aside, anyone find that red wine (on a completely unrelated note) makes them much more sensitive to insulin the following day? And how has going on a ketogenic diet affected your insulin dosage? I'm currently on 7 units of Lantus and 4-7 units of Novorapid a day. Cheers.