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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 200013" data-attributes="member: 11712">Higher doses of insulin doesn't mean that you will automaticall put on weight, bit of an urban myth to a certain extent..Two ways a T1 puts on weight, 1, eating a diet that provides more engery than the body requires to maintain a healthy weight.2, they feed the insulin!1st one this is common to any human being diabetic or not, verious factors, such as age, sex, height and activity levels determine what engery needs are body needs to maintain a health weight...  Doesn't matter what diet you chose an healthy one or other wise if you food consumption provides more energy/fuel than required the body will store this as fat for lean periods..2nd one, the diabetic is feeding the insulin, rather than taking the insulin to match what they are eating, causing the first effect to happen..When I was first diabetic, you had a exchange system of carbs, which meant that your carb allocation was prescribed to you similar to your insulin being prescribed no good, as what would happen if you suffered a lot of hypo's the first suggestion you were given was increase your carbs to soak up the excess insulin...  So no wonder diabetics would put on weight as they ended up feeding the insulin with carbs, going past the engery/fuel their body needed, so the insulin laid this spare fuel down as fat..I used to go home and do the opposite, drop my insulin rather than increase carbs..The extreme low carbing can have the reverse effect actually increasing the insulin you need to maintain blood glucose control, as carbs aren't just the only think that effects the amount of insuin one needs,  Protien does and Fat content can effect the insulin dose..  I find that for high protein and fat meals will need more insulin than a meal with slightly higher amount of carbs in them..You can't give somebody a figure of a daily amount of carbs, this has to be sorted out by the individual the best combination/ratio's of carbs/protien/fats if these are pitched right at individual level, then you find that healthy weight is maintained, and insulin use is kept to a minimal level etc..So if you find you have better control with a slight raise in carbs, then you probably find that this will also enable you to maintain a healthy weight while using the right amount of insulin to avoid increase of weight...</blockquote>

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