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Type 1 Losing weight, type 1 diabetes

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ri99

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Hi everyone!

My hubby has type 1 diabetes and he stopped eating meat about a year ago. He eats egg in cakes and biscuits but other than that there is no intake of non vegetarian food (not even eggs). Recently, we have noticed weight loss and when we checked, he has lost 3 kgs. Additionally, he does look thinner and his clothes have become slightly loose. And this has only happened in the past 2 months, I would like to know if going vegetarian is really the problem or there is something more to this. He tries to keep eating throughout the day although his lunch/dinner schedule is not on time always. It is a little messed up.

Thanks!
 
Hi @ri99 . If you could tell us more we maybe able to help.
What is your husbands insulin and regime?
What was his last HbA1C?
How well controlled are his sugars on a daily basis?
Apart from weight loss, are there any other symptoms you've noticed, frequent urinating, lethargy, thirst, blurred vision?
Has anything in his day to day life changed or is he under any type of stress?

I'm no expert but would imagine going vegetarian could quite easily see a reduction in someone's weight, but it's strange it's only happened recently.
Also with his weight loss where does that put him on the BMI scale?
 
Sugars are in control (goes low sometimes at night) , very active and very healthy. He takes insulin while eating dinner, lunch and light snacks. Haven't recorded HbA1C ing a long time (he's had diabetes for 12 years now). No other symptoms. No stress as well. BMI is in the normal range.

Thank you so much!!
 
@ri99 - I'm not T1, so I am not posting from a diabetes perspective.

If you say that you recently noticed he was looking a bit thinner, and when weighed he had lost 3kg, the do you think the weight loss has been really slow, but somehow you just noticed it?

I think everyone's weight varies a bit, just day to day. We have high days and holiday, or days when we eat a lot (think Sunday dinner, versus a light evening meal on another day), and we have "not too hungry" days.

If I have a couple of really hungry days, as I did last week, I can gain a 1kg, but as soon as I get over the hunger and normalise my eating, it just disappears again.

To be honest, if all other factors are good - he feels well, bloods are good and he hasn't been exercising any differently, or under stress, it makes sense to mention it to the medics; just in case. They're always interested in weight loss.

Until the appointment comes around, maybe he could adopt a step-on/step-off routine every morning, to just track his daily fluctuations to ensure he hadn't weighed on a "light day".

Obviously, that doesn't explain why his waistband could be loosening, but worthwhile all the same?

I'm a very slight person and I do the on/off routine every morning, then once a week I do a proper weighing, which measures more metrics than simply weight. That probably sounds bonkers, but I tend to lose weight if I'm not careful, and it takes a while to gain it back.

But, to reiterate, unexplained weight loss shouldn't be ignored.

Good luck with it all.
 
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