Weight Loss and what you eat?

[T1Life]

I saw my dietician today and she advised me that the "Atkins" Diet that I am on is not a healthy way to reduce BG levels and lose weight. This was a shock to me, I was under the "illusion" that low carbs = weight loss, however I took it to the drastics and ended up only having 30g carbs a day and piling up on the fatty foods. (That should have been the biggest clue eh? "fatty" foods...hehe)

Anyway my question is does anyone calorie count and how do they incorporate the carb intake? I mean you can have a bag of crisps for 100 calories but the carb content is high...

Is it where you look at the calories and then look at the carbs, if both are reasonably low, you eat it?

I'm confused because I have been low-carbing for about 3 months and I don't remember what its like to eat like a normal person 😛

Silly question sorry!

 

[teapot8910]

Hi Sookie

I found that the Visual Carbs & Cals book helped me maintain my weight.

The GI diet may also be worth a look

xx

 

[T1Life]

Wow that book sounds like exactly what I need 🙂 I will look into that and the GI Diet. Thank you so much!

 

[Cate]

I've been sort-of-dieting since the start of September and have lost nearly 10kg so far. I've done it by purely managing calories though, and just bolused for whatever carbs I've eaten.

I haven't even done any exercise yet...just cut out snacks and tried to make healthier choices. I'm expecting it to get a bit tougher from the New Year, there's another 20kg ish to go...baby weight is a nightmare!

The Atkins diet isn't great for diabetics I think because it's designed to make your body produce ketones, which obviously could cause some alarm if you check them.

 

[Robster65]

Hi Sookie.

The norm for T1s is to eat something like 100-250g of carb per day but if you want to lose weight, you can cut down the calories to something like 1500 calories for a man or about 1200 or so for a woman.

You don't really want to be cutting out carbs to the extreme.

Rob

 

[Andy HB]

I've essentially just been watching the calories and cut out a lot of saturated fat from my diet. I've also replaced some of my minced beef meals with quorn mince instead (usually in the form of chilli san carne). My carb intake could be considered quite high at 250g on average each day, but that has lots of room to be reduced should I want to (but I don't).

My diet, combined with regular exercise has resulted in a loss of 50lbs over 12 months.

Generally, I am suspicious of all 'extreme' diets and prefer a little bit of this and a little bit of that approach.

Andy 🙂

 

[hotchop]

I experimented with the atkins a few weeks ago and thought it was great, in principle.. Atkins is now low carb rather than no carbs, apart from the first 2 weeks or so on phase 1.

The frist 4 days were great, ilost 5 llb i think......... then the headaches and nausea kicked in and the first thing i reached for was the bread.. the whole loaf of fresh white, smothered with strawberry jam.

I should of persevered as my bloods were avaraging a bloomin brilliant 5mmol but the feeling c**p got to me at the first hurdle

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