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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1675696" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>What are you eating [USER=6160]@megan[/USER] ? Reducing carbs causes physiological insulin resistance, so your insulin to carb ratio may change to require more insulin to deal with low amounts of carbs in a meal <em>because</em> of the low carb diet. A low carb diet also means your body is going to want to get glucose from somewhere, if it can't do that the easy way (from carbs) it will do it the hard way by turning protein into glucose (gluconogenesis). So instead of bolusing for just carbs, a low carb diet means you have to consider bolusing for protein.</p><p></p><p>If you are trying to lose weight you still need to think about burning more calories than you are taking in, whether or not you are eating carbs. If you are in calorie surplus, you won't lose weight. Fatty foods (like cheese and nuts) that might be eaten to replace carby foods have a lot more calories than carby foods. Protein and carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram, while fat has 9 calories per gram.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1675696, member: 32394"] What are you eating [USER=6160]@megan[/USER] ? Reducing carbs causes physiological insulin resistance, so your insulin to carb ratio may change to require more insulin to deal with low amounts of carbs in a meal [I]because[/I] of the low carb diet. A low carb diet also means your body is going to want to get glucose from somewhere, if it can't do that the easy way (from carbs) it will do it the hard way by turning protein into glucose (gluconogenesis). So instead of bolusing for just carbs, a low carb diet means you have to consider bolusing for protein. If you are trying to lose weight you still need to think about burning more calories than you are taking in, whether or not you are eating carbs. If you are in calorie surplus, you won't lose weight. Fatty foods (like cheese and nuts) that might be eaten to replace carby foods have a lot more calories than carby foods. Protein and carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram, while fat has 9 calories per gram. [/QUOTE]
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