Hi @Adam I am also a vegan and a type 1. I have been a vegan for over 30 years and a type 1 for 16 of those years. But I am not High Carb Low Fat, I eat whatever I want, as long as it’s strictly vegan, although most of my foods aren’t high fat. I am also retired now so I am not as active as I was, but I do make sure I ride my exercise bike 10 miles every day.
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From what I understand, there are plenty of low carbers that have DP too. Mine was pretty strong for a while and then slowly tapered off, so it is very mild most of the time now. Although I have been going through something lately that my body can’t make up it’s mind if it wants DP or FOTF or nothing at all. That has been a little exasperating.
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I think calories really depends on how many calories you need or maybe want. If you are going to follow the low fat plan, Mastering Diabetes that Marilyn talks about has a video you can watch and a chart that guidelines what foods to eat. Of course you can sign up and get help along the way,
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I never had issues with digestion but I was already a vegetarian for over 50 years and over 30 of those a vegan. Since it is a different profile of food that you aren’t used to you might get some gas until your body gets used to different foods.
One thing is when a low carb person first tries a higher carb meal plan, from what I have picked up, is their numbers will fluctuate a lot at first more. They just aren’t used to carbs anymore.
Personally I think the way I control mine the most is by prebolusing half of my dose before I eat and the other half when I eat. The next thing that helped a lot is my Dexcom and setting my alerts to give me plenty of warning before I go out of range.
I have a A1C of 6%. I did post a bunch of my stats from Clarity. Type 1, Being Vegan and my numbers.