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Comment by lisa c on August 24, 2012 at 5:01am

First...Must get on Nutrition facts.org. This guy does amazing research and the latest blurbs speak about why you cannot gain weight eating nuts! I do drink coffee. I love to get a couple hits of expresso once a day and then drink green tea the rest of the day. i think coffee is a bean and a good thing. Dark chocolate is staple too. Just small 1-2 oz/day.

Keep me posted. Love to talk vegan and love the connection with other T1s!

Comment by andrea on August 24, 2012 at 4:10am

wow thats incredible!! i really do feel so much healthier already. im glad you mentioned the nuts, i eat a lot of nuts and worried that it was keeping me from losing weight. they are so delicious and filling though and really keep me satisfied. also, do you have coffee? i gave it up for one month but once i started again i did not see a big difference in my numbers, i hear so many mixed reviews about how coffee helps your health and harms it.

Comment by lisa c on August 24, 2012 at 3:22am

Vegan T! 42 years. Feel better than ever. Ave daily dose is 13 total units and I eat all day long. Weight is 110 and 5.4".
Do lots of nuts, seeds, avacado, flax, nutritional yeast, nut milks and nut butters, low carb, but much popcorn and fruit in for m of apples, berries, gojis, dates, drued fruits, etc.

I believe the least amount of insulin we put in these bodies the better. When i remember injexting pork and beef insulin back in early days, it makes me cringe! Spread the vegan for T! word!!

Comment by andrea on August 23, 2012 at 7:07pm

hi everyone. i have recently started a vegan diet and i already notice my insulin needs decreasing! i am pumping. I went from taking about 27 total units before starting the diet, and now find that my daily totals are around 19 totals units! its an amazing feeling and i am very happy with the results, i have not lost any weight but i know that these things take time. I have been needing temp basals to avoid lows and i hardly need to correct! AND I switched from a very high meat and dairy diet. I have always been low carb and do maintain that even now as a vegan. All of these success stories are what really keeps me going, is there anybody who really dropped their insulin needs much lower than they used to be?? if so how much?

Comment by Kristen on October 27, 2011 at 11:56am

Just something I wanted to share:
I told another type 1 diabetic I know that I am vegan and he told me to watch my cholesterol levels in a very foreboding, disapproving kind of way. :P He seemed to think that veganism can attribute to high cholesterol, which he has (though he is not vegetarian or vegan).

Comment by Kristen on August 18, 2011 at 6:00am

Hello everyone! I am new on this site and also fairly new to being a type 1 diabetic. I was a vegan before my diagnosis, so I can't say whether or not I am having more success with my blood glucose levels with a vegan diet. Anyhow, it is refreshing to see that some diabetics practice a vegan diet and survive... Lol. (I say this because the low-carb treatment is quite prevalent.)

Comment by ohmyglucose on June 1, 2011 at 9:05pm

I'm new to the community and excited to see your group. I'm mostly vegan, and one of my best friends runs the site Veganish - check it out it has great recipes and purty pictures. Hope to connect with ya'll. I've found eating vegan does help me control my levels better, but there's always exceptional days, hours, even weeks. Oh well, guess no choice but to keep tryin'...

Comment by Sarah Keech on February 25, 2011 at 10:09am

Sorry. I refuse to get a slow cooker, pressure cooker or deep fryer. I am at the point where I only want to replace items that get worn out. I think I have everything else. BTW coffee grinders make excellent herb mincers if you have an extra one on hand.

Comment by Alice on February 25, 2011 at 10:04am

I could use a vegan pressure cooker recipe for excess potatoes. Anyone got one?

Comment by Chef Robert The Happy Diabetic on February 6, 2011 at 4:39am

Who's heading to TCOYD in Santa Rosa,CA next week? Stop by and say hello. I will be speaking their.

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