To low Carb first?

[kareeta]

Hi All
Im about to restart my low carbing, not been disciplined enough this year yet and undone all my good work from before Xmas.
I happened upon a video on youtube when I was looking for losing weight with Type 1, it was a doctor in Oz saying that the body only has two modes when you are Type 1 - storage and burning fat. Apparently the bosy can only be in one mode at a time so therefore it is apparently almost impossible to lose weight while still injecting a lot because of insulin being a fat storing hormone.
My question is, in order to get the weight loss issue off the ground how low card should I be going in order to flick the switch as it were? I'm so confused :crazy:
Thanks in advance

 

[borofergie]

The fat burning mode you were reading about is "ketosis". To get there (and to stay there) you have to be eating less than 50g a day of carbohydrate, and to be certain less that 30g a day. This is just the Atkins diet induction phase.

Dillinger just wrote a great post on it here:
viewtopic.php?t=27702&p=255815#p255815

You might want to check out the Low Carb diet forum for more information.

 

[kareeta]

Thanks for the quick reply,

I have been reading all the low carb stickies for the last couple of hours. Interesting material if not subject to the individual.