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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the_anticarb" data-source="post: 257302" data-attributes="member: 16982">I'm an insulin dependent mody, but have been diagnosed as t1 and t2 at different times in my life (including, strangely, one consultant who said he couldn't diagnose me at all!)Anyway, when first diagnosed in 1992 I was told to eat wholemeal/wholegrain starches and avoid sugars/junk food.Fast foreward to now and the only way i can tolerate foods like rice, bread and potatoes is by taking a nice big shot of novorapid beforehand....had a lovely curry last night with a starter of samosas and onion bhajis, needed to inject 12 u over the course of the evening for this (it was a special occasion, I don't eat like this very often!). I definitely have a problem with all carbs, it doesn't seem to make much difference if their sugary or not. I even went for a walk yesterday, and because my bg was 4.5 ate a cookie beforehand to avoid going hypo...after 30 mins brisk exercise I'd gone up to 7!My point is, all carbs are the same to me, the only way I can keep my blood sugar steady is to eat a low carb diet OR play the novorapid guessing game, which if played wrongly leads to the hypo rollercoaster game. This makes logical sense, as all carbs break down in the body to glucose, which becomes blood glucose.But tell this to your average HCP and they look at you like you've just landed from Mars!I agree that the 'carbs is good' message comes from the old mixtard days where T1s had to have a certain amount of carbs at regular intervals to balance their rigid insulin regimes. Also, it's become dogma - for the medical profession to admit they've made a mistake and change their advice so fundamentally would require a massive change.I do agree that for the average healthy non diabetic, unprocessed carbs are a good source of energy...but why pretend we are like them? We're not...our  bodies don't work properly, for a variety of reasons we cannot produce enough insulin...so why this pretence that we can have the same diet?</blockquote>

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