low carb diet

Its all about what works for you.

I have a lower carb diet that many non-diabetic people I suspect (120-150 carbs most days - except when visiting friends/family where it tends to rise), but thats certainly nowhere close to many of the T2 members of these forums or a number of low-carb/keto T1's

Personally I cant do lower than that - due to a number of factors , but yeah iI do what works for me - doesn't matter what works for everyone else

ie you need to try it yourself to see if you can get it to work

Niamh1 said:

Great but have you seen a improvement in your hba1c

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Not from lowering my carbs no I don't believe so.

It is slightly easier to control - but a lot of the work is actually done by the auto-mode on my pump - I have a very very variable basal requirement (can tell when I change sensors weekly)

You will have to try it for yourself to see if it works for you, just cos it works for one doesn't mean it will work for you.

I eat Keto and very low carb most of the time. I do it mainly to lose weight and hoping numbers will drop. They are certainly not as low as I would like.
I am hoping the weight loss over time will give me the improvement I need.
But yes it is worth it. I know if I don't everything goes up!

For T2s I'd say yes, definitely
For T1s it's optional
For all the other variants, I don't know, not my area of interest

I tried very low carb for a while when I was first diagnosed. It was helpful while I got to grips with things. I now have around 150g carb a day, so not LCHF by any means, but less than I probably had pre diabetes.

For me personally, going lower than that isn’t worth it because I still have somewhat erratic blood sugar. I feel a real failure when my BG level is out of range and I haven’t even eaten the carbs, I just find it depressing. This is just me though, everyone is different - only you can assess whether the benefits outweigh the costs for you.

I grew up eating a normal (full) fat, fairly moderate carb diet, so for me as a T2 it's been both fairly straightforward and very well worthwhile being able to cut right down on carbs, particularly after ending up eating a very high carb diet for a while that actually caused me some serious brain fog issues for several years pre-diagnosis.

Eating low carb normal fat for the last 9 years has enabled me to reduce and keep my glucose down to mainly low pre diabetic levels, and as a bonus got rid of that brain fog and most importantly put and end to a lifetime of chronic migraines - my brain obviously prefers running on ketones to carbs. I've lost some much needed weight without any real effort, and reducing carbs also seems to have fixed my hay fever problems too!

I actually believe that a low carbohydrate/ketogenic type of eating is perfectly natural and it certainly suits me very well.

However, it's entirely up to you to decide whether or not you discover any benefit by trying it.

ArtemisBow said:

I feel a real failure when my BG level is out of range and I haven’t even eaten the carbs, I just find it depressing.

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Please don't ever feel a failure - one thing I discovered fairly quickly was that there are all sorts of non-dietary issues that also affect our glucose levels and that we have little or no control over - illness, pain, stress, some medications (e.g. statins, steroids), etc, and I've seen higher levels from some of them than I ever have from any dietary "indiscretions"! I'll see if I can find it again, but someone recently posted a link to a site listing over 40 other issues that can affect us!
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Here you are: https://diatribe.org/42-factors-affect-blood-glucose-surprising-update