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Moggely said:
@Mel dCP this is probably a silly question as i am not type 1 but very interested. So you guys can eat pretty much what you want and then inject for it is that how it works?. Of course i understand that many wouldn't as some may have to watch weight and so on. Also does the insulin cause a lot of weight gain. I'm type2 but it was so high on diagnose early this year that the doctor said.." not to me but to my husband" which i'm still angry about:banghead: because he doesn't have the condition i do. anyway he says insulin is a fat explosion and we don't want her on that. Needless to say i got it down to 5.8 from 11.4 in 3 months. Still i was curious about food and then injecting for it. Actually any type 1's can answer that.
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Hi moggley as far as im aware insulin does not cause weight gain and yes t1 can eat what they want as long as they cover with insulin but like everone not just diabetics if you eat loads you will put weight on regardless
 
I did, in the first few weeks on insulin, put on some weight. I think it was mostly to do with eating more carbs than I had been doing to cope with the fixed dose of fast acting I was initially on. Now I'm adjusting my doses to suit what I'm eating/what walking or other physical activity I'm doing, I'm slowly edging back towards the low amount of carbs I'd become accustomed to in those glorious months of being told I was T2, and when diet and meds controlled that. Since then my weight is stable and beginning to be edging back down again. Slowly. Which is OK with me as I want it off and to stay off.

But, yes being on insulin, my diet is now much more varied, mainly because I have more pulses, fruit and starchy veg in it and have worked out which ones need some insulin, even if I was told they don't, for me, they do. I'm preferring to keep grainy carbs to a minimum as they seem to be the ones which affect my blood sugar roller coaster more and seem to be the culprits in the weight gain for me.
 
Moggely said:
@Mel dCP this is probably a silly question as i am not type 1 but very interested. So you guys can eat pretty much what you want and then inject for it is that how it works?. Of course i understand that many wouldn't as some may have to watch weight and so on. Also does the insulin cause a lot of weight gain. I'm type2 but it was so high on diagnose early this year that the doctor said.." not to me but to my husband" which i'm still angry about:banghead: because he doesn't have the condition i do. anyway he says insulin is a fat explosion and we don't want her on that. Needless to say i got it down to 5.8 from 11.4 in 3 months. Still i was curious about food and then injecting for it. Actually any type 1's can answer that.
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It is great that you were able to start on the road to control without having to go on insulin. I know if I’d had that option I would have jumped on it. Unfortunately Type 1s do not have that option it’s either that or ultimately death to not put too finer a point on it. Once on it, every waking (and sleeping) hour, you have to be aware of levels to keep yourself safe. It is hard work and boring.
I personally do not believe insulin causes wait gain in type 1 diabetics. The fact that people suggest this makes me annoyed. What you put in your mouth does. The more you eat the more you have to inject. If you eat more calories than you burn, you will put weight on. It’s not rocket science. My weight has remained stable nearly 5 years after diagnosis.
Some type 1s will low carb like type 2s to make their management of this condition easier. It makes dose calculations more predictable. Others can manage easily, eating what they want and matching insulin to it. Others like myself take the middle of the road approach. It is a totally personal thing. If we wanted to eat that bit of cream cake or Mars bar then we could as long as insulin is matched to it.
Type 2s really shouldn’t unless they too are matching with insulin, as they wouldn’t be able to catch that sugar rise.
 
evilclive said:
Haven't we all been there? The shovelling of food in to correct a hypo is definitely something I've done many times. I'm working on it, and I definitely have to try quite hard to resist the temptation.
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I feel this pain......I over treat hypos...after 44 years I still struggle.....

Tony
 
Good morning y'all :) 6.6 waking so I'm pleased with that, pre bolus before a bowl of porridge and poached egg/wholemeal bread.
I'm a little annoyed with ,myself taking so long to have the good idea of a small supper bolus, and it'll remain a good idea till I hypo in my sleep :p but anyway :)
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Insulin & weight gain? If I ate more I'd use more insulin and would gain weight, I know this as in my younger gym days I was over a stone heavier, BMI 27.9 and used a fair bit more insulin to keep the weight on, the more insulin, the more carbs you can metabolise and if you eat more than you burn for a long period, the weight gain you'll get won't be the weight gain (lean mass) you're looking for.
 
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Moggely said:
@Mel dCP this is probably a silly question as i am not type 1 but very interested. So you guys can eat pretty much what you want and then inject for it is that how it works?. Of course i understand that many wouldn't as some may have to watch weight and so on. Also does the insulin cause a lot of weight gain. I'm type2 but it was so high on diagnose early this year that the doctor said.." not to me but to my husband" which i'm still angry about:banghead: because he doesn't have the condition i do. anyway he says insulin is a fat explosion and we don't want her on that. Needless to say i got it down to 5.8 from 11.4 in 3 months. Still i was curious about food and then injecting for it. Actually any type 1's can answer that.
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I think it is not so simple for T2s. T2 often involves insulin resistance and there seems to be an association between insulin resistance and weight gain. Therefore adding more insulin if the body is already producing too much can, in theory, make weight increase.
That's what I've gathered from some of the T2 discussions anyway.
 
Good morning. Awoke to a 9 this morning. Pretty pleased as was home made curry and rice for tea (large portion too). Split bolus....3/4 before food and the other 1/4 hour and a half later. Dropped to 4.6 before teat with a steady straight arrow. Long may it continue :)
 
Moggely said:
@Mel dCP this is probably a silly question as i am not type 1 but very interested. So you guys can eat pretty much what you want and then inject for it is that how it works?. Of course i understand that many wouldn't as some may have to watch weight and so on. Also does the insulin cause a lot of weight gain. I'm type2 but it was so high on diagnose early this year that the doctor said.." not to me but to my husband" which i'm still angry about:banghead: because he doesn't have the condition i do. anyway he says insulin is a fat explosion and we don't want her on that. Needless to say i got it down to 5.8 from 11.4 in 3 months. Still i was curious about food and then injecting for it. Actually any type 1's can answer that.
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Types 1's can pretty much eat what they want as long as they cover the carbs with insulin. As has been mentioned a lot eat low carb, not for me I lurve my food especially the carby foods :). I am lucky with my weight, have been around the 75kg mark for the last 10 - 15 years, so for me insulin doesn't make me gain weight :). Congrats on getting your levels down in such a short time
 
Morning everyone,

That 7 unit Levemir dose that I did by mistake yesterday morning, came and got me last night, I had an almost continuous hypo for several hours, during the night. But I survived. Seriously interfered with my sleep, though.
 
Moggely said:
@Mel dCP this is probably a silly question as i am not type 1 but very interested. So you guys can eat pretty much what you want and then inject for it is that how it works?. Of course i understand that many wouldn't as some may have to watch weight and so on. Also does the insulin cause a lot of weight gain. I'm type2 but it was so high on diagnose early this year that the doctor said.." not to me but to my husband" which i'm still angry about:banghead: because he doesn't have the condition i do. anyway he says insulin is a fat explosion and we don't want her on that. Needless to say i got it down to 5.8 from 11.4 in 3 months. Still i was curious about food and then injecting for it. Actually any type 1's can answer that.
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The answer to that is really a yes no one.

It is like a lot of things, yes we can eat most things but all things in moderation.

Insulin will cover, but you have to calculate for it and even then we can get it wrong espically if eating fatty slow digesting foods like curry, Chinese, pasta etc.

I think, some T1D gain weight before they are diagnosed because of the excess amount of sugar floating so the body will metabilise the stuff and store it as fat (I think thats how it works) but generally start to lose it once there on insulin and regain control of their BSL and also alter their diet.

And just to throw a spanner in the works, and no doubt upset some, I do eat anything. I survived the 70, 80 and 90's boil in the bag fish, £1 cottage pie etc. Now a days I do, with the help of Mrs K, watch what I eat simply because as I get older my metabolism is changing and my appetite is not as it was some 30+ years ago :)

On a side note I had a sausage casorole last night with couscous and green veg type things worked out the carbs and inject 2 units :eek: That has to be the least amount of insulin I have EVER injected for an evening meal and stayed in the 6s all night woke with a 7.3.
 
Meetings, bloody meetings ! I forgot to up the basal for a meeting today. Another lesson to relearn!!
And all that exercise walking to and fro did nuthin' to help !!!
You win some, you lose some. In the washing machine of life sometimes the socks come out in pairs, sometimes not !!
 
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