Weight gain during menapause

You are type 1 diabetic, how much do you weigh and how tall are you? 1210 calories is mostly likely far too low for you if you are overweight.

yes exercise is good but exercise is not the answer to losing weight, diet is!!!! It has to be emphasised.

I am hypothyroid too. It makes no difference to my weight but i am sure being diabetic 1 is a big factor for you. So long as people blame conditions like hypothyroidism for their weight gain they will not do what has to be done with their diet. If your hypothyroidism is stabilised with medication, then you can lose weight as easily as anyone else. I can't say the same is true for diabetics. I don't have diabetes but i do know its harder for people with diabetes 2 so i assume there may be some similarities there.

As a diabetic you must know what things you are supposed to eat and how much?

The main thing i've learnt this year is that carbs are bad news for diabetics. So you need to cut your carbs and those you eat should be more low GI. Eat more fat instead of carbs for your energy needs and more protein. More vegetables more fruit.

I had a go at low carb this year and read some books about it. I don't know that doing the atkins thing of very low carb is necessary because after a longish period of time, they say there is no difference in the weightloss between low carbs and other types of diet. But if you want to try low carbing at all, then there is a woman with a good and useful website . its not got a snappy name and neither does she. phlaunt.com is the website i refer to. She is a diabetic and has spent quite along time focussed on the matter researching it and writing books and her website to help others. You might want to check it out. I don't think i agree with absolutely everything she says insofar as it applies to me but i did learn quite a bit from her and liked her calculator thing. I asked some other forum people about her books and they spoke well of her. So you might want to look into it.

If you go low carb, you still have to watch your calories. But the nice thing about low carbing is that you are less hungry than when you eat a lot of carbs. The not so great thing about low carbing is that you have to cut out some foods. So if i'm recommending it to you, i would strongly urge that you don't try to go too severe low carb because its hard to sustain. On the other hand moderate low carb is not hard to sustain so i would suggest starting at the top end and working down if the top end isn't working well enough for you.

I would suggest starting at somewhere like 150 maximum carbs a day because that should be quite easy. Its once you get down to 100 or less that you will have to start cutting out food like bread completely.

Another thing i suggest, i noticed that other low carbers talked about desserts a fair bit. I think its not a good idea to eat dessert very often if you want to lose weight. When you eat dessert, basically you can't afford to eat your healthy food that you actually need because you will increase your carb limit or your calorie limit too much.

I think dessert is basically one reason why a lot of people, if not most, fail at diets of any kind. Life is easier without dessert. Of course there are ways to put on weight but none so fast as by eating dessert in my experience.

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You might want to seriously consider investing in a Heart Rate Monitor. I got one and I'm super glad I did because it lets me know the no kidding calories I was burn and it helped me learn how hard or not hard I was pushing my self. I bought the Polar FT4 for about $60 on amazon and THEN I bought a fitbit and that's helped even more because it tells me about my whole day like sleep movement/steps (I guess fitbit is coming out with HRM version in 2015). I'm only 5'3" so most calories burn estimations were always too high for me (bummer). The fitbit will sync with your MFP account too.