Paleo - reduced carbs diet and type 1

Been doing a bit of reading around this and being a bit if a diet fad cynic am tempted to tweak my diet in this direction for these reasons.. Reducing carb intake and therefore high BS spikes, reduced BG insulin (my BG insulin intake has been creeping up over the years), reducing the number of lows during the day (which I find can wipe me out for the rest of the day sometimes too). I'm wondering that to gradually reduce my processed carb intake (like bread, breakfast cereal) and compensate with more fruit, dried fruit and proteins instead (nuts, eggs). I think I eat pretty healthy and pretty much vegetarian by habit, my control is ok, I tend to run on the high side of normal for my hba1c but would be happier with middle normal here. I hate feeling like I'm on a roller coaster during the days sometimes and end up running higher than I'd like. I did Dafne in 2008 straight after my type 1 diagnosis but figure using diet to help even out the blood sugar pattern and be bit more focused on maintaining or even reducing insulin intake as a result would be good? I tend to correct a fair bit too, and also wonder if insulin can be bad for us too so am thinking diet tweak and less processed food (not that I eat a lot of this) can only be a good think?

I'd be interested to hear opinions and thoughts on this

Mike

Hi do a search on the forums for 'my diabetes experiment' an excellent book that covers a lot of what it sounds like you want to do. It builds on DAFNE in that it goes further in areas such as weight loss and exercise. I found it very interesting although I have yet to do any of the 'experiments' in the book, there is a lot of info about the difference between burning fat to lose weight and burning sugar and muscle. It should also help with BG control as well. It's written by a diabetic so it has a lot of realism in. I.e what we want to do is not always what we actually do, it expects a degree of failure when you try to achieve the experiments.

Great info - will look it out = thanks.

Day 2 and I'm kind of half and half, normal carby breakfast, mid morning crash then dried fruit, salad and nuts keeps me going till tea time. Not feeling too hungry either. See how we go. Carb free tea later and going to keep an eye on my BG insulin intake. Exercise regime to build in a few days time.

Hi
I've over the years tried many options to reduce my insulin amounts, since been told when I was a 11 until now 41 years on.
I reached a point when 1 day I sat down too considered the reasons I always aimed to reduce my insulin intake. After all its your life style that gives you the need to take the amount of insulin you need to control your BG levels.
Everyone is always trying to eat healthy the right food etc, but as a type1 if you eat 5 CP,s weather its healthy food or not you need to take the correct QA depending on your ratio.
Before I went on the Dafne course my HBac1 was 7 to 8 (60-65) ,but more important I was taking.
40 BI Latus then 15/15/15 QA which the doctors had told me to do.
that's 85 units a day.
After the dafne course my HBac1 is 6 to 7.
BI is 30 but my QA is 5/5/5 total of 45. Almost half.
The Dafne course also gave me the information to reduce it further because I was in total control.
I started running yes even at 52 its possible, with exercise my ratio changed from 1:1 to 1:0.5
So when I look back at the problems I had with highs and lows, and not been to bright it seems
It was the what I was doing that caused these not what I had to eat,
If I had changed my ratio from 1:1 to 1:0.5 I wouldn't' have had the lows when active,the opposite is ture aswel when sitting around at home doing nothing I should have increased my ratio to 1:2 or 1:1.5 this would have stopped the highs,
In short exercise is the only ture way to reduce your insulin intake with the added option with healthy food your well on your way to reduce your insulin.
Today I've been for a run my QA reduced down to 2/2/1 for meals of 5CPs mainly potatos and bread
Even with exercise I find my BI stays the same,I never say its sorted so I also will read this book sounds like even a veteran like me can be shown new things