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Started insulin, gained weight. Help please.
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<blockquote data-quote="GrantGam" data-source="post: 1566410" data-attributes="member: 295621"><p>I've never found insulin to cause weight gain and I simply don't believe it does by itself, certainly with T1 diabetes.</p><p></p><p>Insulin allows glucose to transfer from the blood stream into muscles and fat. It's the glucose which is stored that "makes you fat"; not the insulin itself. The higher the carb intake, the higher the insulin requirements, unfortunately many diabetics correlate the higher insulin dose with the weight gain, rather than the higher carbohydrate intake. Insulin to carbs (or I:C ratio for bolus insulin) is fairly linear. You need the insulin or you don't, it's as simply as that. And what determines whether you need that insulin or not, is almost exclusively carbs. I'm not taking into consideration periods of illness, stress, hormones, etc for this discussion.</p><p></p><p>Look at it this way, as a T1 - if you have sugar in your blood you need to get it out of there with exogenous insulin. How did the glucose get there in the first place?</p><p></p><p>-Carb consumption</p><p>-Liver's natural glycogen release</p><p></p><p>Given that we can't really do anything with our liver (metformin is prescribed to some T1's but it's fairly uncommon); the only other variable to change is the carb intake. Remember that there is also the option to exercise and increase the amount of calories burned, so that you're balancing outgoing and incoming energy.</p><p></p><p>I'm a firm believer that insulin does not make you gain weight. I'm also a firm believer that food makes you fat. The only weight gain I noticed post DX was all the muscle and fat I'd lost due to DKA from my undiagnosed T1. All the weight that returned was absolutely necessary and was simply a case of putting back on what I had lost.</p><p></p><p>I appreciate that insulin in T2 diabetes is a different story, and I don't know anything about 3c in all honesty. But I've shared my opinion with T1, insulin intake and alleged weight gain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GrantGam, post: 1566410, member: 295621"] I've never found insulin to cause weight gain and I simply don't believe it does by itself, certainly with T1 diabetes. Insulin allows glucose to transfer from the blood stream into muscles and fat. It's the glucose which is stored that "makes you fat"; not the insulin itself. The higher the carb intake, the higher the insulin requirements, unfortunately many diabetics correlate the higher insulin dose with the weight gain, rather than the higher carbohydrate intake. Insulin to carbs (or I:C ratio for bolus insulin) is fairly linear. You need the insulin or you don't, it's as simply as that. And what determines whether you need that insulin or not, is almost exclusively carbs. I'm not taking into consideration periods of illness, stress, hormones, etc for this discussion. Look at it this way, as a T1 - if you have sugar in your blood you need to get it out of there with exogenous insulin. How did the glucose get there in the first place? -Carb consumption -Liver's natural glycogen release Given that we can't really do anything with our liver (metformin is prescribed to some T1's but it's fairly uncommon); the only other variable to change is the carb intake. Remember that there is also the option to exercise and increase the amount of calories burned, so that you're balancing outgoing and incoming energy. I'm a firm believer that insulin does not make you gain weight. I'm also a firm believer that food makes you fat. The only weight gain I noticed post DX was all the muscle and fat I'd lost due to DKA from my undiagnosed T1. All the weight that returned was absolutely necessary and was simply a case of putting back on what I had lost. I appreciate that insulin in T2 diabetes is a different story, and I don't know anything about 3c in all honesty. But I've shared my opinion with T1, insulin intake and alleged weight gain. [/QUOTE]
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