Hi everyone,
I wanted to ask some advice regarding the LCHF diet.
I'm Type 1 diabetic and 18 years of age and right now I'm on a moderate/high carb diet with low fat and although I'm doing okay, I would like to try out the LCHF to get a better hold of my sugars.
I think that the high amount of carbs (around 250 a day) and insulin make it much harder to manage my Diabetes and I hope that with the LCHF diet I will have less spikes and achieve better BG control.
The only thing that's holding me off on it is the fact that most of the people do it to lose weight and since I'm really not wanting to lose weight because my weight is OK and so is my BMI.
I wonder if there is a way to still eat low carb with the benefits of it, which would be achieving better BG control and not losing any weight either.
Also, I am a fan of cycling and I go 2-3 times a week for a ride, during that I burn a lot of calories that I normally refill with extra carbs. So I don't know how that would do for me since I normally take very little fat before a ride because I feel like it makes me slower and slows down digestion of the carbs.
Could I replace that with Protein / Fat ?
So, I was wondering if I could somehow be on a LCHF diet with all the benefits and still be able to exercise.
I wanted to ask some advice regarding the LCHF diet.
I'm Type 1 diabetic and 18 years of age and right now I'm on a moderate/high carb diet with low fat and although I'm doing okay, I would like to try out the LCHF to get a better hold of my sugars.
I think that the high amount of carbs (around 250 a day) and insulin make it much harder to manage my Diabetes and I hope that with the LCHF diet I will have less spikes and achieve better BG control.
The only thing that's holding me off on it is the fact that most of the people do it to lose weight and since I'm really not wanting to lose weight because my weight is OK and so is my BMI.
I wonder if there is a way to still eat low carb with the benefits of it, which would be achieving better BG control and not losing any weight either.
Also, I am a fan of cycling and I go 2-3 times a week for a ride, during that I burn a lot of calories that I normally refill with extra carbs. So I don't know how that would do for me since I normally take very little fat before a ride because I feel like it makes me slower and slows down digestion of the carbs.
Could I replace that with Protein / Fat ?
So, I was wondering if I could somehow be on a LCHF diet with all the benefits and still be able to exercise.