still losing weight, bg numbers good

lalaleroux · Mar 21, 2020

Is this weird?

I was tad overweight at diagnosis in October. After diagnosis, doctor asked me to lose about 10 pounds. I saw a dietitian, researched diet for diabetes to death and learned all about carbs and the effects on blood glucose. Cut those carbs and sit around 20-25 per meal. My meter rarely says about 120 two hours after meal, and my first A1C was way down. The app I am using to track my numbers suggest it will be in the "normal" range next time.

But here is the problem. I lost the 10 pounds. I am not big eater so meals aren't huge. I lost more weight. I am eating what works for the meter, but I think I am not eating enough calories. All the meal plans are designed for weight loss, but I am now down almost 30 pounds from where I started! I can't lose any more.

So my question is, how do you get more calories without the carbs??? This is making me crazy. I am taking metformin, type 2. My blood glucose responded right away to the new dietary changes so I am not concerned I think with a wrong type 1 diagnosis as the weight loss happened after I changed things up. And my numbers are really good (when I am.)

So what to do?

xfieldok · Mar 21, 2020

Forget calories. Eat more fat and protein.

DCUKMod · Mar 21, 2020

lalaleroux said:
Is this weird?

I was tad overweight at diagnosis in October. After diagnosis, doctor asked me to lose about 10 pounds. I saw a dietitian, researched diet for diabetes to death and learned all about carbs and the effects on blood glucose. Cut those carbs and sit around 20-25 per meal. My meter rarely says about 120 two hours after meal, and my first A1C was way down. The app I am using to track my numbers suggest it will be in the "normal" range next time.

But here is the problem. I lost the 10 pounds. I am not big eater so meals aren't huge. I lost more weight. I am eating what works for the meter, but I think I am not eating enough calories. All the meal plans are designed for weight loss, but I am now down almost 30 pounds from where I started! I can't lose any more.

So my question is, how do you get more calories without the carbs??? This is making me crazy. I am taking metformin, type 2. My blood glucose responded right away to the new dietary changes so I am not concerned I think with a wrong type 1 diagnosis as the weight loss happened after I changed things up. And my numbers are really good (when I am.)

So what to do?

Lalaleroux, I was in a similar position to you when I got very trim. I got trimmer still. When I was trying to stem the loss, I did the following.

Firstly, I just upped my portions of everything a bit. Not huge amounts, but just a larger piece of chicken or meat, more veg and a little more fat. However that wasn't enough.

To be fair, it's been several years now, s I can't be certain which way around I did the next steps. It was either cheese or nuts next, not stemming the loss, then I added the other.

When I added, aside from upping the portion control, my cheese and nuts were in controlled portion sizes. I dealt in units of babybel cheese and eggcups of nuts.

Once I had balanced the scales I could vary what I ate much more, but I gained a clear picture of how much I had to eat, or order to hold my weight steady.

It's not necessarily a quick process,and you may find yourself astonished by what you can and have to eat, if the carbs are being kept low.

Good luck with it all.

still losing weight, bg numbers good

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