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Type 1: Low carb high fat diet

Stonie

Stonie

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Type of diabetes
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Hi I'm currently using an insulin pump, I need to bring my hba1 down I was thinking about trying the low carb high fat diet, has anyone found this has worked for them I need some advise please, thank you for your help in advance xx
 
Hi and welcome!

You may find this video interesting.
It is from the recent Public Health Collaboration Conference, and is a talk by a T1 doctor who low carbs.

 
That's a lot of what this forum is about. MANY of us in different progressions of diabetes find LCHF I valuable.
test test test as your insulin needs will most likely need to be lowered.
 
Brunneria said:
Hi and welcome!

You may find this video interesting.
It is from the recent Public Health Collaboration Conference, and is a talk by a T1 doctor who low carbs.

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Thanks for posting this...couldn't agree more with Dr Ian Lake...I think pretty much everything he said was absolutely spot on
 
Hi @Stonie
I've been following LCHF for just over a year now and the results have been incredible in terms of improving my Hba1c which is now down to 49...the lowest it's been since diagnosis 16 years ago...with very few hypo's. Although initially there was a huge adjustment period...and a lot of insulin tweaking I can now safely say that I have a good handle on it and feel so much better for it too.
Please keep in mind though that you will need to adjust your insulin doses quite significantly so you may need some guidance from your DN on how to do this if you're not confident doing it yourself.

Dr Bernsteins 'Diabetes solution' was a great source of reference when I started LCHF and a book that I still often refer to.
 
Stonie said:
Hi I'm currently using an insulin pump, I need to bring my hba1 down I was thinking about trying the low carb high fat diet, has anyone found this has worked for them I need some advise please, thank you for your help in advance xx
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Hi, I have been on a low carb diet for over 12 months and at first was excited to find my weight loss took me into my premium BMI range and my blood glucose levels came down to between 5 and 6 mmol. However, I am now finding it hard to retain my low blood glucose readings and am having readings of 11 and 12 mmol no matter how few carbs I consume. I am now thinking that my body has changed due to having been low carb for so long and it is now worse off and therefore today I have changed back to having carbs in my diet. I also found that the cost of purchasing low carb foods such as Flax meal, chia seeds, low carb muesli and special low carb bread cost so much that it wasn't practical. I will now see what happens to my blood glucose over the next few months to see if they regulate better. It's worth a try if you want to lose some weight and get a quick drop in glucose levels but I no longer believe it is a long term solution to diabetes. Best of luck.
 
Wraakian said:
Hi, I have been on a low carb diet for over 12 months and at first was excited to find my weight loss took me into my premium BMI range and my blood glucose levels came down to between 5 and 6 mmol. However, I am now finding it hard to retain my low blood glucose readings and am having readings of 11 and 12 mmol no matter how few carbs I consume. I am now thinking that my body has changed due to having been low carb for so long and it is now worse off and therefore today I have changed back to having carbs in my diet. I also found that the cost of purchasing low carb foods such as Flax meal, chia seeds, low carb muesli and special low carb bread cost so much that it wasn't practical. I will now see what happens to my blood glucose over the next few months to see if they regulate better. It's worth a try if you want to lose some weight and get a quick drop in glucose levels but I no longer believe it is a long term solution to diabetes. Best of luck.
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I have been on a very low carb diet for nearly 3 years.
Even though I have plateaued out after losing five stones, I still am losing a little bit.
I have never been so healthy since my twenties, (40 years ago).
All my endocrine problems, my brain problems(anxiety) my lethargy, my feeling really awful day after day, have all disappeared.
I now work full time and have so much energy.
All thanks to very low carb.

It works!
It is the only one that does successfully over time.

Read the success stories forum, that will give you an idea of what you need to do.

Oh yeah, it is not high fat! It is higher fat than you previously ate.
 
Wraakian said:
Hi, I have been on a low carb diet for over 12 months and at first was excited to find my weight loss took me into my premium BMI range and my blood glucose levels came down to between 5 and 6 mmol. However, I am now finding it hard to retain my low blood glucose readings and am having readings of 11 and 12 mmol no matter how few carbs I consume. I am now thinking that my body has changed due to having been low carb for so long and it is now worse off and therefore today I have changed back to having carbs in my diet. I also found that the cost of purchasing low carb foods such as Flax meal, chia seeds, low carb muesli and special low carb bread cost so much that it wasn't practical. I will now see what happens to my blood glucose over the next few months to see if they regulate better. It's worth a try if you want to lose some weight and get a quick drop in glucose levels but I no longer believe it is a long term solution to diabetes. Best of luck.
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Have you added more protein? Protein raises some of us and we need to keep it moderate. LCHF is NOT high protein.

Another thought is have you had a c peptide or GAD test to see if you could be potentially LADA?
 
I have been lchf for 15 months; it has given me my life back.

I'm now a weight I haven't been since my teens (am approaching 50 !), and have loads of energy, and far fewer D complications. Cholesterol initially spiked, now is nicely in the normal range, and hba1c is steady at 45, and am hoping for a further drop on the next test.

Looking back in my diary at how I was, and speaking to friends who all worried dreadfully about me in the early days, I wonder how I managed to function at all .

It doesn't work for everyone, but I would heartily advise you give it a go; lots to gain, only carbs to lose . I've had the added benefit of coming off insulin altogether, and BG's are always in the normal range. This 'could' be a honeymoon; time will tell but I'm embracing it for now. I still test several times a day, and obviously need to be 5 for driving, but am happy with how things are at present.
I usually have around 50g carbs per day.
 
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We low carb with my 5 year old T1 daughter. She was diagnosed 10 months ago and we chose to low carb about a month after diagnosis, after realising that the just eat anything and dose for it approach was clearly not going to work for us. She now has an hba1c of 5.7% and is thriving.
 
CathP said:
We low carb with my 5 year old T1 daughter. She was diagnosed 10 months ago and we chose to low carb about a month after diagnosis, after realising that the just eat anything and dose for it approach was clearly not going to work for us. She now has an hba1c of 5.7% and is thriving.
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Carb counting never worked for me. Not even for one meal and I was only eating 20 c per meal!!

Koodos to you for figuring it out and joining her.
 
Kristin251 said:
Have you added more protein? Protein raises some of us and we need to keep it moderate. LCHF is NOT high protein.

Another thought is have you had a c peptide or GAD test to see if you could be potentially LADA?
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Many thanks re the protein, I did add more during my low carb dieting. I have now looked at eating much more green salads and vegies plus steel cut oats with chia seeds each morning with fresh fruit throughout the day and cutting down my portions of meat and fish on my plate. This has been very successful keeping my blood sugars down, however I cannot as yet see myself med free and am now taking 3 gliclazide, 4 metformin and 1 sitagliptin per day for my diabetes type 2. The good thing is that I have recently found my blood sugars to be between 4 and 6 every afternoon at 3pm which means I can have 1 naughty cake or other treat at that time - if my blood glucose is above 6 mmol then I do not have any such treat. This way I can regularly have my cake and eat it too. This works well for me and keeps my HbA1c perfect.
 
Wraakian said:
Hi, I have been on a low carb diet for over 12 months and at first was excited to find my weight loss took me into my premium BMI range and my blood glucose levels came down to between 5 and 6 mmol. However, I am now finding it hard to retain my low blood glucose readings and am having readings of 11 and 12 mmol no matter how few carbs I consume. I am now thinking that my body has changed due to having been low carb for so long and it is now worse off and therefore today I have changed back to having carbs in my diet. I also found that the cost of purchasing low carb foods such as Flax meal, chia seeds, low carb muesli and special low carb bread cost so much that it wasn't practical. I will now see what happens to my blood glucose over the next few months to see if they regulate better. It's worth a try if you want to lose some weight and get a quick drop in glucose levels but I no longer believe it is a long term solution to diabetes. Best of luck.
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I have been low carbing for decades and never bought any flax meal, chia seeds or low carb muesli - and only bought the lidl protein rolls in the last few weeks. I stuck to the foods suitable for Atkins Induction - no seeds or grains, which seem to be sufficient to keep me in good health. I've only been diagnosed for a couple of months, and am only back on low carb for that length of time (so much for lowering cholesterol by diet) - but even if low carb, some foods have a higher impact on blood glucose than an equivalent amount of carbs from foods listed for Atkins Induction.
 
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