Losing weight and on insulin

taintedsoul

Hi all,

So have been in the gym and trying to lose weight since around June this year and was around 109kg give or take, I'm just 6ft tall and male.

Currently I'm at 103kg as of this morning, the weight kinda came off in bulk say September/October but has since stayed the same. Seems I have tried harder at the gym too and it's not budging.

Befor i was on insulin(type 1 diabetic now since 2017)i was still overweight but only 94kg....I wasn't in the gym at the time but just eating and taking a ridiculous amount of insulin as I wasn't sure what I was doing, probably 80-100 units a day compared to 35-40 now max. Got myself together done the dafne course and count carbs for everything now, i find it easy to avoid choc, pastries and sweet stuff mostly. Still eat bread and potatoes but a lot less than what i used too.

I try to train 4-5 times a week and in work I can rack up alot of steps too, but I'm struggling to lose more weight, I've read a few threads here and they've mentioned my fitness pal and counting calories so that's my next plan, does 1800 calories sound enough per day for height and weight?

I'll add i mostly done 5 min warm up then 5 or 6 exercises with weights...recently got this fitness watch in gym and I've been trying out more cardio, up to 2.5km on treadmill befor doing weights.

Looking for tips or Any info losing weight, not sure the insulin is much to do with it not coming off but when I learned how to carb count 2 years ago I lost weight just on taking less insulin per day.

Cill94

Any insulin Qs should really be directed to your GP.

Personally not a big fan of trying to estimate your calorie needs as it's so inaccurate. I would just log a normal week of food to find what your daily average is, and then knock -10% off that to put yourself in a small deficit. (So if you eat 2500 a day, you'd drop to 2250). Then reduce as needed to continue making progress.

markmoto

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058277841/losing-weight-and-on-insulin

Did you ever try fasting?

taintedsoul

Nope never tried it, not sure it would work with the gym and insulin though?

Willing to have a look into it if you have some links I can look at? I'd be a bit concerned about sugar levels after the gym if I was fasting.

taintedsoul

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057668#Comment_120057668

Thanks for the input, I'll try get a weekly average as you said and knock of 10%.

markmoto

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120065797#Comment_120065797

There is lots of info on google and youtube to research prolong and intermittent fasting with type 1 diabetes.

But all I can say

Periodic cycles (probably a good few years) of prolong fasting appear to reprogram pancreatic cells and restore insulin production, according to research led by Valter Longo of gerontology and biological sciences.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/2534/a-diet-that-mimics-fasting-may-reverse-type-1-and-type-2-diabete/

Studies show for example that the production of metabolic hormones (among others adrenalin) increases when fasting up to 180%. The level of growth hormones (especially somatropin) also multiplies. This interaction is the reason why intermittent fasting can preserve or build muscles and at the same time reduce body fat!