If you are losing without trying and you still don't have a confirmed diagnosis then its highly likely you won't be able to do much until you get on the correct meds for the condition.I need to gain weight but I'm really struggling to eat enough calories whilst keeping my sugar as normal as possible, obviously bread pasta etc are bad, so what else will give me calories allowing me to run and exercise without dropping weight?? I cant find anything to replace carbs adequately.
My initial question was for calorific food that wont spike me badly but will possibly allow me to compensate for my lack of sugar/carbs, but I do realise it's really not that simple.
Hi everyone, and thanks for the replies.
Initially I was diagnosed as type 2, I stopped eating all sugar where possible and managed to get my HbA1c down to 'normal' levels, but the diet wasnt sustainable as running gym etc was leaving me not eating enough calories, my weight went from about 90kg to 78 which I'm putting down to suddenly not eating sugar, which largely comes attached to fat carbs, so although I didnt eat LOTS of sugar it had a dramatic impact giving it up. My Doctor agreed I needed to be able to eat more 'normally' and prescribed metformin. This has had little effect so I was sent to see a consultant, who guessed it might be chronic pancreatitis, I've never had any symptoms of this at all and all my bloods were clear and always have been, although I do realise it doesnt always show in bloods. My diabetic nurse is dubious and now thinks I'm type 1 as I fit few of the criteria for type 2, and the reason I can keep my sugar reasonable some of the time is purely down to exercise/running. My problem is that if I eat pretty much anything my sugar goes up to double figures, and this is very random and sometimes its okish, other times a can of tuna will spike me to 12 plus, there is no consistency. So as a consequence I'm worried to est anything and I'm not taking in enough calories, because I spike if I do!
My sugar runs anywhere between 4 and 18 mmol/L which is apparently why I feel rough some of the time, energy levels are intermittent, sometimes I'm ok others I feel exhausted, but have largely put this down to my shifts etc... but maybe it's my sugars?
My initial question was for calorific food that wont spike me badly but will possibly allow me to compensate for my lack of sugar/carbs, but I do realise it's really not that simple.
I hope you get a diagnosis soon. It does sound from the rapid weight loss and spiking bgs that you do not have enough insulin on board rather than you are insulin resistant (type 2) if in spite of dropping carbs/sugars. Metformin works by stopping the liver making glucose but if you are producing less insulin from your beta cells (type 1) then there is less inhibition of your glucagon producing alpha cells (insulin and glucagon are yin and yang!) so your blood sugars would still be high.Hi everyone, and thanks for the replies.
Initially I was diagnosed as type 2, I stopped eating all sugar where possible and managed to get my HbA1c down to 'normal' levels, but the diet wasnt sustainable as running gym etc was leaving me not eating enough calories, my weight went from about 90kg to 78 which I'm putting down to suddenly not eating sugar, which largely comes attached to fat carbs, so although I didnt eat LOTS of sugar it had a dramatic impact giving it up. My Doctor agreed I needed to be able to eat more 'normally' and prescribed metformin. This has had little effect so I was sent to see a consultant, who guessed it might be chronic pancreatitis, I've never had any symptoms of this at all and all my bloods were clear and always have been, although I do realise it doesnt always show in bloods. My diabetic nurse is dubious and now thinks I'm type 1 as I fit few of the criteria for type 2, and the reason I can keep my sugar reasonable some of the time is purely down to exercise/running. My problem is that if I eat pretty much anything my sugar goes up to double figures, and this is very random and sometimes its okish, other times a can of tuna will spike me to 12 plus, there is no consistency. So as a consequence I'm worried to est anything and I'm not taking in enough calories, because I spike if I do!
My sugar runs anywhere between 4 and 18 mmol/L which is apparently why I feel rough some of the time, energy levels are intermittent, sometimes I'm ok others I feel exhausted, but have largely put this down to my shifts etc... but maybe it's my sugars?
My initial question was for calorific food that wont spike me badly but will possibly allow me to compensate for my lack of sugar/carbs, but I do realise it's really not that simple.
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