shelleyboo
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is it true,the more insulin you have to take the more hungry it makes you??
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is it true???
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trophywench
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The thing is, insulin is amongst other things - a growth hormone. So you may not actually feel any hungrier and you may not actually eat any more - but you still may put weight on.
Bummer, isn't it!
So it's best to only take enough for your bodily requirements!
For what it's worth, I've hardly put any weight on since diagnosis - I did put 3 stone on at one stage but that was only through sheer pigginess on my part and made me so miserable I've never done it since!
Bummer, isn't it!
So it's best to only take enough for your bodily requirements!
For what it's worth, I've hardly put any weight on since diagnosis - I did put 3 stone on at one stage but that was only through sheer pigginess on my part and made me so miserable I've never done it since!
shelleyboo
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Robster65
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As far as I'm aware, the same rules apply to us as any other.
calories in minus calories out will decide whether you gain or lose weight.
If you inject too much insulin, you will need to eat more and gain weight. If you inject the right amount of insulin for what you eat, then you won't gain weight, providing what you eat is a sensible amount for your height and activity level.
Insulin itself will not put weight on you. It's the calories in the food and drink that do that. Insulin merely enables your body to metabolise it and either use it as fuel or lay it down as fat.🙂
Rob
calories in minus calories out will decide whether you gain or lose weight.
If you inject too much insulin, you will need to eat more and gain weight. If you inject the right amount of insulin for what you eat, then you won't gain weight, providing what you eat is a sensible amount for your height and activity level.
Insulin itself will not put weight on you. It's the calories in the food and drink that do that. Insulin merely enables your body to metabolise it and either use it as fuel or lay it down as fat.🙂
Rob
Ellie Jones
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Even though insulin is part of the growth hormone, and it's other job apart from regulating blood glucose levels is that of laying down fat for storage, injecting it doesn't mean there's a foregone conclusion that the individual will put on weight..
If the diabetic put weight on, then it's one of the factors out of balance, either injecting too much insulin or the curse of all the human race consuming too much food🙄
Me at 47 I'm a stone lighter than I was when I married my first husband at 19, then I was 9.5 stone I went down to 6.5 stone and struggled ever since to get my weight up and keep it around the 8.5 stone mark..
If the diabetic put weight on, then it's one of the factors out of balance, either injecting too much insulin or the curse of all the human race consuming too much food🙄
Me at 47 I'm a stone lighter than I was when I married my first husband at 19, then I was 9.5 stone I went down to 6.5 stone and struggled ever since to get my weight up and keep it around the 8.5 stone mark..
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