Losing Weight With Type1
Ok I'm really trying to lose some weight. I haven't changed any of my eating habits or anything but I've gained almost 10lbs in the past two months. I'm on the pump, and I increased my insulin in November, but I haven't noticed my weight gain until recently. I've been exercising several times a week AND dieting..counting calories, eating healthy snacks...and I'm still not able to lose any weight. (Not to mention the fact that sometimes when I exercise, my sugar goes low and I have to have a juice or something anyway!) My basal rate is 1.4 units per hour, and my insulin to carbohydrate ratio is 1:10. How much insulin is everyone else taking? And Does anyone have any suggestions about losing weight??
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Permalink Reply by PowerPumper on -
Gary Taubes ("Good Calories, Bad Calories") and others are arguing, and have actually argued for many decades, that insulin does cause fat gain. I've tried dieting many times, and the only success I've had is limiting carbs. The correlation between mass produced, highly refined carbs and obesity is too much for me to discount.
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Permalink Reply by THERESA KIRKLAND on -
I found the opposite. When I began taking avandemet four months ago, I began to loose. My doc. says it hyped up my hormones or something like that. I have been fighting fat since i was 12. Now at 43 I have finally found myself loosing without trying. I also have little or no appitite. I was given Blood pressure med, anxiety med., and My sugar med. Looks like I should have had this yrs ago. I just didnt know all the factors that contrubute to sugar problems or at least cause problems with it.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Dennis on -
With insulin are bodies are able to do something it couldn't do before,use glucose .This could mean that you are now also now have more spare calories to be stored as fat.
The best approach is to build muscles .Hit the weights. Muscles burn sugar better.Look at inches not weight. Your jeans are more of a better gage than your bathroom scales.
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