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Hi@CC1, and welcome to the T1 Club. You’ve had a rough ride. Even though the insulin’s made you feel so much better if it were me I’d go a little easier with the exercise for a while as I got used to the way my body reacted to it. You may also need to build up a bit of muscle again after all that weight loss! Classic T1 onset symptom.
When you go for a walk, and in fact all the time, make sure you’ve some fast acting car with you just in case your blood sugars drop to hypoglycaemia and you need to raise them. I use jelly babies but some people prefer glucotabs as they’re not so tempted to eat the lot and move from hypo to hyper.
I suspect the medical team will want to see how your blood sugars react to the insulin doses you’ve been given before they calculate the best doses and insulin to suit you. We all have different requirements. You don’t say what insulin and what dose you’ve been given but nevertheless it’s great it’s making you feel better! It’s great too that you’ve come to this forum.
If you want to help them get your doses right then one way is to keep full notes of your blood sugars before you eat, the grams of carbs you eat at each meal and your blood sugar readings 2 hours and 4 hours after you’ve eaten. It’s worth it even if you feel your life’s been temporarily taken over by data. You’ll need a set of scales that weighs in grams and has a function that adjusts to zero while your bowl or plate is still on the scales. That way you can add each type of carb and calculate the grams for the whole amount (in your head or on paper). I use Carbs and Cals, which you can get as a book or an app, to see what the carbs are in common foods. For others I search the net. Information on food packets is also great for this.
It should all become second nature after a while, and you’ll probably also get used to the physical and mental signals that let you know how your blood sugars are behaving.
You seem to have a lovely can do attitude . I hope you find that once this initial period of adjustment and learning’s been moved through T1 won’t hold you back from doing the things that make life good.

Hi and welcome to the club none of us wanted to join! As Helen says, we have the freedom to eat as little or as much carbohydrate as we want, we just need to match our insulin to it. Personally I eat very little carb because I could never match my insulin to it; @Knikki has my share and is quite the professional cake fiend. Different strokes and all that.

With all the tech and knowledge T1's can expect a normal or close to normal life expectancy now. But exercise with insulin is more of a trick at learning, it's good for all of us so it's worth learning. But just make sure you take Glucose tabs or your favorite fast sugar hypo treatment with you. Just that little bit of extra workout can throw you a curve.