new to the diabetic forum , my story

 Hi,

I'm a type 1 diabetic with symptoms of type 2 (insulin resistance and overweight). Type 1 diabetics never become Type 2 and vice versa. If you're a type 2 on insulin, you remain type 2, just the method of treating your diabetes has changed. You're a type 1 if your pancreas failed on making insulin. Type 2 diabetics still make insulin, but their body is no longer capable of using the insulin the way it's supposed to be.

As a type 2, your pancreas has worked overtime to produce extra insulin for your insulin-resistant body. Over time, the islet cells in the pancreas wear out from being overworked, and your pancreas produces less and less of its own insulin. Once your pancreas is producing no insulin of its own, you can technically have the symptoms/conditions of both a type 1 (no insulin production) and a type 2 (insulin resistance).

I'm type 2, but metformin and Januvia (sitagliptin) did pretty much nothing for me. The only thing that ever worked for me (short of insulin, which I never went on) was a low-carb, unrestricted-fat diet. I do still have some insulin production, though, because I've been off all meds since about 6 months post-op, and my last A1C was 4.8, so something's working!

The surgery did seem to work for you.  One of the therories that we play around with is that if you never took insulin you have a better chance of being "cured" by weight loss surgery.  Are you still doing that low carb unrestricted fat diet?

Can you post some info about what you did and did not eat?

Actually, on a diabetes forum I frequent, a growing theory is that diabetics should be put on insulin earlier, as opposed to oral meds, because injecting insulin allows the pancreas to not have to work as hard to produce (or over-produce) its own. So, I would say you are probably right about those on insulin having a less likely chance of post-op resolution IF they were put on insulin only after years of oral meds because at that point, clearly, the severity of the diabetes had progressed to the point that the oral meds were nolonger effective. However, if someone had been on insulin from diagnosis instead of waiting to go oninsulin as a last resort, then their pancreas might still have enough functionality remaining to produce sufficient insulin on its own post-op.

I'm not still eating low carb, though I know I should and will eventually get back to it. Stress took me off my normal schedule/plan (working 60+ hours a week and planning my own wedding with 2 wedding receptions next month). When I am eating well, I eat mostly just meat, cheese, eggs, and an occasional vegetable. It doesn't sound like much variety, which can burn some people out, but I don't have much problem with it. Here are some meal examples:

- salad of lettuce and baby spinach, grilled chicken, bacon, hard boiled egg, cheese, and a creamy dressing
- boneless chicken baked with bacon and cheese, broccoli with cheese
- meatballs with no sugar added pasta sauce and lots of cheese metled on top
- eggs over easy and sausage patties (or Canadia bacon) with hollandaise sauce
- rotisserie chicken from the grocery store (just pick up a chicken and pick at it all day!)
- pork tenderloin with side of baby brussels sprouts cooked with butter and parmesan
- baked ham with side of mashed cauliflower
- burger with no bun topped with cheese, bacon, and lettuce, dipped in mayo mixed with bbq sauce
- sliced up hotdogs topped with melted cheese
- egg salad, either alone or spread on cheese slices

Anyway, you get the idea. No potatoes, rice, bread, pasta, carby veggies...always eat the protein first and then only the veggies if there's room.

Hello! I was diagnosed as a Type I at age 19....never a Type II. I have some of the same fears about injecting insulin and gaining weight. My doc says that it CAN make weight loss slower but that I shouldn't worry about staying fat. There are plenty of type I diabetics that aren't overweight : )

Jill, that makes so much sense.  Twenty years of the pills did burn out my pancreas and then had to take insulin.   Then it felt like everything I ate turned to fat.  Going immediately to insulin would save the pancreas.

Thanks for the great list of low carb meal ideas.

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