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Comment by BadMoonT2 on November 12, 2010 at 7:16pm

Lisa, since I don't use insulin I can't be of much help offering advice about resuming low carb, but I know you have to be careful because your insulin requirements will go down and you could go low.

This group has several members who have very successfully been low carbing, using insulin and achieving excellent A1C's. This is a great group and I've learned a lot participating in it.

I mainly wanted to comment on your picture. Is that a wolf? Beautiful animal at any rate

Comment by Lisa on November 12, 2010 at 6:58pm

Ok people inspire me :) I was low carb before I started insulin. Been on 62 un of Lanus Bolus and 50 u novolog before each meal and 500 metformin at each meal. I need to work my carbs down without dropping dead. I used to eat 30 carbs a day and now I eat 60 per/4 hours rapid acting.

Any one you wants the recipe for easy homemade yogurt that truly anyone can do for penny cheap. Just let me know.

Comment by onesaint on November 9, 2010 at 11:32am

cheesy... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07fat.html?_r=3&pagewanted...

For motivation, I use high BG numbers, but also, I have retinopathy and really dont want more surgery. Im thinking if I can keep my BGs as close to normal as possible, I may be able to avoid that. Once things start going wrong, tight BG control become big motivation.

Comment by Gerri on November 9, 2010 at 10:34am

Thinking back on my crazed numbers before low carb keeps me motivated. I don't want to be on that roller coaster again. I felt awful. Considering I lived on bread (my downfall) & pasta before diagnosis, I can't believe how they don't hold much appeal anymore. Doesn't work for everyone, but if I'm dying for something I'm fine with just a bite. It's the first bite that tastes the best anyway.

Like DWQ, I've found low carb substitutes for most things from low carb recipe sites. I make cookies, muffins,biscuits, cakes, brownies, crackers, ice cream that are very low carb.

Comment by Dee on November 9, 2010 at 6:59am

Thank you all! I'm going to keep persevering!

Comment by The Diabetic Welfare Queen on November 9, 2010 at 6:34am

I also try to make as many low carb alternatives of the foods I crave as I can... so if I want pizza, I make low carb pizza... It's really the cheese/pepperoni/fat smell that I crave, anyway... not the crust. I always left the ends. Somehow, I always felt it was too much bread to eat. The same with bagels. Could never eat those things... they'd make me feel like I had a big brick in the stomach. lol Now I think my body was just trying to tell me something. :)

Comment by BadMoonT2 on November 9, 2010 at 6:31am

Dee: carbs have as a drug like effect on the brain by releasing serotonin which makes us feel good. Hence the term comfort food. Perhaps a 12 step program is is in order :) This is why they are so hard to give up. I do look on certain foods as poison, I think that helps. That pizza smell is tough but so far I have been able to avoid succumbing.

I agree with Hanna my meter is the best motivator. My Doc thinks I test too much for a T2 (7 to 10 times a day) but I tell him "that's what keeps me on the straight and narrow with my food choices"

Comment by Hana Rous on November 9, 2010 at 6:14am

Dee
your healthcare professionals have forgotten the "Do no harm.." part of the Hippocratic oath. If I were you ,I'd go back to what acually WORKS and if they complain, remind them. You sometimes have to be very firm with doctors. They have a tendency to think they know it all and often they don't.
Let your meter be your motivator. It's what I find works for me.
Hana

Comment by Dee on November 9, 2010 at 5:16am

Hello, I was doing great on low carb but after succumbing to my hospital's insistence that I needed carbs I have 'fallen off the wagon' and know, deep down, that low carb is best for me but I must admit I do find it hard. Wish they wrote motivation type books like they do for weight-loss diets! Any motivation tips out there people? I once read (probably on here?) that diabetics should look at high carb food like it's poison which was very motivating until the beautiful smell of pizza wafted past me!

Comment by The Diabetic Welfare Queen on November 9, 2010 at 5:16am

I'm on food stamps. I still low carb. :) It's not impossible.

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