I am a type 1 diabetic and my nurse recommended that I started a Keto diet to try and help loose weight. I started the diet about 7/8 weeks ago. It has dramatically reduced my insulin intake from 25 units of Lantus in the morning and novo everytime I eat too 20 units of lantus a day with no novorapid and having average levels of 6.3 for the past 7 weeks. I have lost a stone in that time and although I am pleased with that I thought I would have lost a lot more by now sticking to the diet 100%. My weight seems to have stopped also, I do a very active job so this combined with the diet I feel like I should be in a better place than I am now. Has anyone had the same experience and tried a different diet?
Thanks Jack
Hi Jack,
The only Type 1 diabetics I know personally are both as thin as a rake.
As others have pointed out,
Keto is not (necessarily) a crash diet but meant to be sustainable. Thus your weigh loss is a great result with the added bonus that you have flatter BG levels. So enjoy your success!
As a Type 2 on a LCHF lifestyle aiming for 20gms to 50gms of carbs per day and eating either protein or fat to satiety, I found I was losing between 1 and 1.5 lbs per week on average. Though this has slowed down as I dropped to the middle of the 'normal BMI range'.
Although a Low Carb diet seem to melt away fat by magic (without a conscious calorie reduction), eventually the Calories In to Calories out becomes the determining factor again.
Alternatively could you be now replacing excess body fat with new muscle? Weight isn't really as important as many make out! There are fit and healthy people who are considered 'Overweight' or even 'Obese' on the BMI scale just as there are unfit, unhealthy people who are in the 'Normal' or the 'Underweight' BMI range. Think of athletes such a weight lifters, heavyweight boxers, shot-putters, hammer throwers etc. most if not all of those would be considered Obese. I am old enough to remember Daly Thompson in his prime, his BMI must have been 'Overweight or Obese'. Yet he could run good times in the 100 and 400 meters as well as do the 'Field' events side of 'Track and Field'.