Intermittent fasting and Suppliements

[Dean C]

Hi All,
I’ve posted a couple of times on different forums on here and found that this little community of ours is brilliant!

So, I wanted to ask another question, has anyone done or doing intermittent fasting being a type 1 diabetic? I am looking at doing this during the new year for health, weight loss and general well-being, I’m concerned about reducing the ability to eat but I always see a high after 5 and through until th evening anyway. Also, I wanted to ask whether there are any auppliemtns people generally recommend on here? There must be a reduction in minerals, vits and all sorts with our infliction….?
Thanks,
Dean

 

[Lucyr]

It’s reccomended that those of us using multiple injections per day or pumps and adjusting our own doses do skip meals from time to time for basal testing purposes. Intermittent fasting is the same thing really - skip a meal and keep an eye on your bg. So I can’t see any problems with it.

If you’re on a mixed insulin, or not confident to keep an eye on bgs and adjust doses yourself as needed, then it would be completely different and dangerous though.

 

[skoosh75]

Hey , I do the 14/10 intermittent fasting , I'm type 2 , what I have found recently is my energy levels are throug the roof .

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Type 1 diabetes should involve eating a normal balanced healthy diet, so there shouldn't be any need to take vitamin or mineral supplements, unless you are aware that your dietary choices are being limited in other ways (eg those who eat a vegan diet can find adding Vit B12 helpful as that is harder to get on an entirely plant-based menu)

 

[42istheanswer]

The current standard recommendation on vitamin D is that everyone in the UK should take vitamin D from Sept/Oct until Mar/Apr but that isn't specific to diabetes, it's to do with our latitude from the equator. (When it was first mooted it was "north of Birmingham" but they seem to have decided that "whole of UK" is a simpler message)