Weight lose

Hello everyone,
I'm after some info on the issue of weight lose while being a type 1 diabetic. My doctor told me the other day that because of my two types of insulin I'm on and another medication I'm on it is going to be harder to lose weight!!!!! 😡😡😡😡 not happy so wondering if anyone else out there has the same issue. My cal intake is less than 1200 four weeks no weight lose, first two weeks I exercised every second day (5k walk) second week walk (5k) every second day alternate day I road for 6-12 klm all that and no weight lose.
Do we have to have 130grms of carbs a day?? Was thinking if I replace one meal with no carbs I shouldn't need hardly any insulin??? And if other two meals I can reduce the carbs in them it's less insulin again?? Any thoughts and comments gladly appreciate.
Regards Fi 😃

I discussed with my endo last week the idea of a low-carb, high fat diet, and was very surprised to hear that she had no problem with me trying it. This will be my first ever diet, so will be interesting to see how it goes. It comes from talking to other type 1 diabetics at an exercise conference a month ago, some of whom were having much better success in managing their blood glucose with it.

The details are covered in the books The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living by Stephen D. Phinney, and The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance by Jeff S. Volek (both available from Amazon). I have both on order, but have not read them yet, but once I have, I plan to try the diet.

In my case, my goal is not particularly to lose weight (losing 5-8 kg would be nice), but rather to normalise blood glucose levels as much as possible. One of the things that I hadn't really thought about was if we reduce our carbs to he minimum required, then we take less insulin, and this leads to fewer hypos and extreme highs. Something clicked when I heard this at the conference. My most extreme BG swings occur on the days that I have the most carbs, so it makes sense to reduce carbs to the minimum required to still be healthy.

The T1Ds that I was talking to who have successfully implemented this diet, are on about 45 g of carb each day. There is a period though where the person doing the diet will feel very flat for a while as the body switches from being fueled by carbs to being fueled by fat, and for that reason, it isn't a diet that has a particularly high success rate.

Something I have been trialling while waiting for the books to arrive, is reducing my carbs down to about 40g per meal, and having protein with each meal. That has been really helpful in avoiding the swings. If I decide against doing the low-carb, high fat diet, then I'll look to do a low-carb with protein diet instead.

Your body's instinct is to hold onto weight when you diet, but if you keep making small changes, and exercising while eating less, you will eventually lose weight.

Whatever you decide, do run it past your GP or endo first so that you don't miss out on essential elements in your diet. All the best with it.