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Type 1.5/LADA Diabetes
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<blockquote data-quote="MeiChanski" data-source="post: 2110052" data-attributes="member: 503481"><p>Hello!</p><p>To be honest with you, my parents were in tears and worried that they were willing to accept anything to help me. Doctors didn't know what was wrong with and I was in the very deep end of DKA. I am thankful there was something that saved me and that was insulin. At the beginning of my diagnosis, I lost a great deal of weight and when they put me on insulin - I resumed eating and regained the weight back. But when I went to secondary school, image among girls was a big deal and thats when the bullying and nasty comments dug at my confidence which then led me onto a self destructive path - not doing my insulin, not eating, not testing and I was back into DKA again. My 11 year old said DKA was a good thing because of the weight loss, which wasn't wise because I was killing myself.</p><p>I've lost the weight when I was 16 and managed to stay stable for the last few years. Once you learn how to adjust insulin for carbs and reduce the amount of hypos and hypers, there wouldn't be any room to gain additional weight. Once you've done a carb counting course like DAFNE, you'll have some knowledge to incooperate low carb or keto. I wouldn't have attempted low carb if I didn't know much about insulin adjustment because hypos will occur and thats when eating because you have to eat, not because you want to eat happens. (Hypos always need to be treated)</p><p>Unless you started doing strength training and working out your muscles or gaining muscle, which will mean you'll be far much heavier. I am far much happier now despite being a little jiggly, <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MeiChanski, post: 2110052, member: 503481"] Hello! To be honest with you, my parents were in tears and worried that they were willing to accept anything to help me. Doctors didn't know what was wrong with and I was in the very deep end of DKA. I am thankful there was something that saved me and that was insulin. At the beginning of my diagnosis, I lost a great deal of weight and when they put me on insulin - I resumed eating and regained the weight back. But when I went to secondary school, image among girls was a big deal and thats when the bullying and nasty comments dug at my confidence which then led me onto a self destructive path - not doing my insulin, not eating, not testing and I was back into DKA again. My 11 year old said DKA was a good thing because of the weight loss, which wasn't wise because I was killing myself. I've lost the weight when I was 16 and managed to stay stable for the last few years. Once you learn how to adjust insulin for carbs and reduce the amount of hypos and hypers, there wouldn't be any room to gain additional weight. Once you've done a carb counting course like DAFNE, you'll have some knowledge to incooperate low carb or keto. I wouldn't have attempted low carb if I didn't know much about insulin adjustment because hypos will occur and thats when eating because you have to eat, not because you want to eat happens. (Hypos always need to be treated) Unless you started doing strength training and working out your muscles or gaining muscle, which will mean you'll be far much heavier. I am far much happier now despite being a little jiggly, :) [/QUOTE]
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