LCHF for t1

I've dabbled in low carb on and off for a couple of years, I get a lot of grief from older family members about it (gandparents eat more fruit than most elephants). But since saturday I'm back on the band waggon, the most ive had that ive counted was about 27g sunday as I was in london traipsing about. The last 3 days my bloods havnt been higher than 10 so I class that as a win and ill be weighing myself currently 9st 7 or 8 want to loose 6/7lb in 4 ish weeks.

I found that eating a lower carb diet, it seemed to make using a pump a bit easier and had less worry about hoi g too high. For some meals, I was able to just use my basal and leave the bolus alone. However, through eating more fat like full fat yogurt, cream cheese, blue top milk, my bodyweight increased a tiny bit resulting in more basal and also there was a marked increase in my triglyceride and LDL was higher than my HDL so got advised to take a statin which then started to affect my vitamin D levels.
I now still eat low carb, but eat a lot more fish, eat small amounts of meat and increased my veg consumption but not potatoes. I lost the extra bodyweight and my cholesterol has dropped a fair bit with just taking a statin 3 times per week.
So beware of cholesterol rising and then decide what to do

Agree with the cholesterol rising. After the heavy loading of cream and cheese with me and hubby our cholesterol went wrong way round too.

We have one single cream coffee a day and 100g yogurt as full fat but the rest of diet is the better fats like avocado. Olive oil, nuts, and fish. Hubby can eat lots of fish whilst I'm limited to a teaspoon or two at maximum. His cholesterol is hugely better now. His trigs are 1.0 or less for the past year whereas they had risen to almost 3 whilst on the 'heavy' fats. Not good...

Good point iHs I forgot how bad our cholesterol went in the wrong direction...Mine reverted beautifully too but now badly affected by the Letrozole tablets. They say cancer is more of a risk than heart so keep taking the tablets! Who knows our future eh?

I need more insulin when I eat dairy or saturated fats.
I do eat red meat such as lamb chops and lean steaks but in small amounts.
I weigh heavily on mono / plant fats to keep my cholesterol and weight at good levels. Not only does dairy raise my bs an drewuire more insulin I could never lose weight with it

LCHF for nearly 18 months and loving it. I generally have around 50g carbs daily over my 4 meals, BG's are in the 4/5/6 range throughout the day, with the exception of the dawn phenomenon which can raise it to mid-7's, but quickly comes down with a breakfast of berries, nuts, double cream.

Have not needed any insulin at all for last 12 months, unless a 'treat' meal out is a high carb one, then I carb-count to work out a dose. As I'm very sensitive to insulin I only use a ratio of 0.5 unit : 1.5CP's, and then only inject if taking on more than 4CP's in one go. Injecting 10 mins before the meal prevents a spike. Having a half unit pen makes this easy.

Loads of energy, weight down to my teenage levels (I'm approaching 50 !) can't beat it
No more hypos or hypers, but still test, test, test to be sure. Is easy to keep to mid 5's for driving.

Shame that the NHS still don't advocate the massive benefits - we will educate them over time! Can't believe that I was still functioning with my original hba1c of 101