Diet Model Revolt!!!
FurryLittleBunny
Posts: 27 Member
Ok - I'd like to do something on here: In my heart-of-hearts, I've always thought my dieticians were “full of it.” I’d go to them and ask them how to lose weight, and one put me on a high-carb diet (so, of course I gained – so mad!), another put me on a 1600kcal diet (again, I gained), and so on. When I was younger, I exercised (running) so hard and so much that I created a groove in my kneecap that needed surgery!! – Again, I hardly lost weight on the diets of the nutritionists…even while exercising like mad. Now, I’m a bit older and wiser, and I think that the models that work for normal people do not work for insulin-dependent diabetics…at all. Now, I know that the doctors and dieticians don’t want to put young girls/women/kids/men/etc. at risk for diabetic bulimia, but how frustrating is it when we want one thing (to lose weight)…but we’re “shinned on” with the wrong models (this is what works for “normal people” so let’s give it to diabetics too!)? Wouldn’t it be better to all work together to see what works (and what doesn’t) and get a better, revised “diabetic eating model?” That’s what I want to do here: I know from personal experience that when I eat very low carb diets, I use less insulin, and therefore, I’m better able to get into shape and lose weight. What other things have you guys learned?? Perhaps we can start a “cookbook” of things that are low carb, good tasting (using spices or whatever), that we can fill up on without adding all the bad carbs and fat. Talk to me Bunnies!!! Oh..and friend me! 
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This is a topic very very close to my heart. I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a 12 year old. By 15 I had Bulimia and had that for 15 years before I was 'found out'. I have mostly recovered from the Bulimic symptoms but weight loss is still a really difficult thing for me. I just recently saw this post on a friends facebook page, and thought this may be useful to read as it sounds like something I could have read many years ago.
http://emotionaleatingwithdiabetes.com/buy-the-book/
I have not read the book as not sure where I can get it from in my country but would be really interested to read it.
I will get back to this topic over the weekend as I'm at work and shouldn't really be on here but wanted to let you know lil Bunny that this is a topic that is very close to me as well 0 -
Well, luckily, I never experienced any eating disorders. I do however think the nutritional advice given to me as a type 1 has been wrong. I may be "off my rocker," but I'd like to at least discuss the issue with others like me. I just think we're a different kind of critter and the current models don't work...so let's invent a new one. :happy:0
