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Thursday I went to see a diabetic nurse. She gave me a "diet" that I should follow. I told her that I was consuming anywhere from 40 to 90 carbs in a day. She looked at me and said no wonder you gained 50 pounds!

Basically I gained 50 pounds because my last Dr had me on 100 to 300 units of insulin a day! I have pcos and IR. I had been asking for months to start taking metformin to help with the IR.

I saw a new endo a month ago, put me on metformin without questions and in about a month I dropped 12 pounds. And my insulin dropped to about 40 units a day total. With help from the low carb diet.

Now that I am going on the pump, my new endo wanted me to visit the diabetic nurse to learn how to count carbs. She said that my low amount of carbs were leading to gaining weight due to the fact that my liver produces more sugar?

Anyway she now wants me to eat 150 to 200 a day! I tried that on thursday and friday and I was soo sick from it! I could barely get out of bed to exercise, so tired, and the metformin was making me sick because of the high carb/fat increase to my diet. Plus my readings were all over 200. I personally think I am just going to throw this "diet" out the window!