Hi Everyone, especially Karabea
My story is sooo similar to yours (and I'm having the exact same difficulties) and this prompted me to join the site. Hopefully together we'll eventually find a solution...
In December I was hospitalized with ketoacidosis, and was placed on an insulin pump while I was unconscious so that the doctors could better monitor what was going on. I gained
15 kilos (that's 33 lbs) in 2 weeks - the gain was so incredible that they actually brought in a different scale because they thought that the first one was broken! Since I'm very athletic (about 2 hours of sport per day) they had me on a 200 g carb, 1900 calorie diet.. since then we've been gradually reducing the calories and the carbs (and thus the insulin doses) as well as augmenting my daily exercise to 4+ hours per day. Despite all of this I weigh in at 70 kilos (154 lbs) at xxx (5'1), whereas my normal weight before, with diabetes well-regulated, was 50 kilos (110 lbs).
On to a possible solution : my mum has been doing loads of research to help me out with this, and there seems to be a lot of disagreement on how to eat, etc. Something I'm going to try is limiting not only the number of carbs but the type of carbs as well, avoiding stuff like pasta, bread, rice, basically the starchy stuff, and instead having vegetables and a little fruit to go with it (apparently though if you do this, to not lose muscle mass one must get enough animal protein). So, instead of having a small bowl of pasta to get my 30g of carb per meal, I'll have loads of veggies (1 giant can of green beans only has 6g of carb!). So, if anyone has tried something like this, let me know - and of course I'll share everything I know about this with you guys
