Is there anyone among you who gained weight quickly after starting insulin injections?.
I have a problem where a sudden weight gain and I want to know how to control weight while taking insulin injections. I was exercise regularly, but it doesn't work.
So, this problem is very disturbing my emotions and sometimes I take the easy way out by not taking insulin injections and the effects, I became very sick when my blood glucose is very high.
(I was T1 diabetic)
Weight gain can become a problem with insulin. When you first get diagnosed your body is not functioning right and you often lose weight; when your body regains the weight that is a sign of health. But some of us go on to gain weight after this point. I have 18 years recovery from an eating disorder, but still it was very disturbing to find myself slowly but surely gaining. I have always found it hard to lose weight. But I have lowered my carbs and slowly very slowly am losing again. I will say that for me the "low carb/high fat" diet doesn't work. Maybe I took the "high fat"(and high calorie) part too far with a couple foods in particular but it did not halt the gain. Now I've gone to lowered fat and low carb and am slowly losing.
I understand, Lyna, how upsetting it is to gain weight, especially for some of us. But please, please, don't try to manage it by not taking insulin. That is called Diabulimia, a form of eating disorder and is very dangerous. I hope you have stopped doing it. If not, please get help in doing so and finding a more reasonable way to stop gain and perhaps start a little loss if needed. There are also type 2 drugs that a type 1 can take if they've developed insulin resistance that also help with weight gain.
If you're T1 and are starting, you may just be regaining weight you loss because having undx'ed T1 can cause weight loss, basically starving to death, which is not a very pleasant feeling. Depending on how long it went on, it may have gotten you used to feeling poorly, which may make you more tolerant of not feeling well than someone who's pancreatically normal or controlled T1/T2.
I totally agree with Zoe's comments about diabulemia. It is very dangerous. I would follow the doctor's instructions, test your blood sugar a lot and see what happens. If changes need to be made, you will need to be the one to make the changes but you have to be organized about it, at least to the point of thinking about it. I suspect that if you can do the odious chore of documenting things in some manner that is useful to you, it will become easy. I would also suggest hanging around here, @ tudiabetes.org/forums. Even if it's not exactly a situation you are dealing with, a lot of threads will explain the problems and you can use that to learn things about how to attack your own problems successfully!
Write down what you eat and then try to swap the biscuits ( for example) for a piece of fruit as fruit will take longer to eat and make you feel fuller without putting on the pounds. Speak to your diabetes nurse as they are always helpful. Don’t lower your carbs without talking to the nurse until you are used to balancing your carbs with the insulin as you will end up with low blood sugars and you will have to eat more to make them right again (defeating the object of a balanced diet and keeping your weight right)