Re: Diet Pops and no carb mixers
Elizabeth Blake wrote:
"BigNascarFan" wrote
Low carb does rule and so does minimal insulin for T1's. Injected
insulin is a poison-use only as much as you must! If you're fat
you're chasing the insulin. T1 advice!
T1 43 years, last A1C 5.2 Hypurin lente and Iletin II neutral only
twice a day.
I had a lot of problems chasing insulin on injections. I consumed I don't
know how many hundreds of extra calories a day treating lows. I went on a
pump in May, using Humalog,
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and have finally been able to lose weight. I do
not do low carb. I average about 175 grams of carbs a day. If I decide to
have pasta for dinner and also had a high carb breakfast (cereal) my daily
carbs can easily hit 250. I don't have pasta too often but I don't feel
guilty when I do. I still have some lows, caused by calculating carbs wrong
or unexpected activity after eating, but they are easily treated. 15g of
carbs fixes it, instead of 60, 75 or more while on long-acting insulin.
I eat whatever carbs I want, I cover with
Humalog,
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and I've lost a lot of
weight since March (when I first saw an endo, pump came in May). My total
daily insulin is anywhere from the mid 30's to mid 40's right now. Higher
if I put in a new set that didn't work and my BG shoots up, and I need a
large correction.
My pumped insulin isn't poison, it's freedom.
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most people dread it."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Man and Superman, "Maxims for
Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality" (1903)
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Liz > Type 1 4/1987
in my experience, slow insulin is better
(i.e. both meal and especially background)
problem for t1s is that our weasel FDA have
permitted weasel Lilly/Novo to ditch the best
background insulin (UL and L; human/beef/pork)
you're not t1 all that long. whatever made
you move to a pump (5/'05) so soon?
did you also move to lispro at that same time?
if yes, what did you use before?
in my opinion/experience, you could lose weight
using slow insulin (both meal and background)
the issue of insulin is also an issue of diet choice.
in my experience, diet choice changes take serious
hard work (3+ years)
bill t1 since '57, ex 8-yr pumper, beef-L 1x, simple MDI
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