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<blockquote data-quote="Spiker" data-source="post: 621019" data-attributes="member: 102150"><p>I'm a big LCHF fan, but it's not the only way to solve the problem you've raised. It's a very common problem for new T1 diabetics and it's a great shame clinics don't advise people what to do.</p><p></p><p>The most important thing, the key thing, is to reduce your total insulin once you get back to what is a good healthy weight for you. And of course, maintain good blood sugars. There are a variety of ways to achieve this (less insulin + good blood sugars), but it is the essential requirement to stabilise your weight.</p><p></p><p>At diagnosis, you will have been prescribed an "anabolic" (weight gaining) dose of insulin. It's pretty shocking that clinics don't follow up a few months later to correct this. I gained weight for years after diagnosis and the clinic could not tell me what to do, even when I asked. They basically didn't know. Certainly the dieticians didn't know, and if you ask a question like that you unfortunately get directed to the dieticians, who are not the best informed on Type 1 diabetic physiology, rather than the consultants, who probably would be able to give the right answer if they thought about it.</p><p></p><p>So you must reduce total insulin while maintaining good blood sugars. This means some form of carb reduction, maybe in combination with exercise. How you do it doesn't matter that much. When I stabilised my weight I had never heard of LCHF. I just reduced my basal (Lantus) dose, and stopped feeling hungry all the time and so stopped overeating. There was no diet plan, no exercise plan. So that might work for you. If not, I would recommend LCHF as being effective and relatively easy, but it's not the only way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spiker, post: 621019, member: 102150"] I'm a big LCHF fan, but it's not the only way to solve the problem you've raised. It's a very common problem for new T1 diabetics and it's a great shame clinics don't advise people what to do. The most important thing, the key thing, is to reduce your total insulin once you get back to what is a good healthy weight for you. And of course, maintain good blood sugars. There are a variety of ways to achieve this (less insulin + good blood sugars), but it is the essential requirement to stabilise your weight. At diagnosis, you will have been prescribed an "anabolic" (weight gaining) dose of insulin. It's pretty shocking that clinics don't follow up a few months later to correct this. I gained weight for years after diagnosis and the clinic could not tell me what to do, even when I asked. They basically didn't know. Certainly the dieticians didn't know, and if you ask a question like that you unfortunately get directed to the dieticians, who are not the best informed on Type 1 diabetic physiology, rather than the consultants, who probably would be able to give the right answer if they thought about it. So you must reduce total insulin while maintaining good blood sugars. This means some form of carb reduction, maybe in combination with exercise. How you do it doesn't matter that much. When I stabilised my weight I had never heard of LCHF. I just reduced my basal (Lantus) dose, and stopped feeling hungry all the time and so stopped overeating. There was no diet plan, no exercise plan. So that might work for you. If not, I would recommend LCHF as being effective and relatively easy, but it's not the only way. [/QUOTE]
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