Hi my names kwisj and i am a 50 year old type 1 diabetic…..the type that has to inject insulin. I’ve been reading about the fast diet and its not recommended for people like me, but not recommended is not prohibited!!! So i’ve just started the diet today….already hit all sorts of diabetic bumps: nothing serious but very annoying.
I am fit and healthy diabetic with 30 years of diabetes under my belt and no complications so far. My last Hb1ac test was 6,4 which means I’m nearly normal. I’m a regular excercise taker: five times a week for an hour each session. However; having reached 50 years old last year I have noticed the weight slowly creeping up, despite taking regular exercise and not eating excessively. That’s all really. I guess I will keep a regular update on the diet forum just in case there are folks in a similar condition as I and who might be interested to see if a type 1 diabetic can benefit from the fast diet.

The fast diet book says that the fasting process increases the bodies sensitivity to insulin….I would have to strongly agree with that. the day after the fasting, I had my normal breakfast, 1 piece of toast, coffe and a boiled egg, and I injected my self with 1 unit of humalog insulin..( I normally inject between 2 and 4 units). Less than two hours later I was hypo glycemic and had to take an orange juice. The long lasting insulin I injected was 20 units, normally I inject 33. So in this very short time I appear to be more sensitive to my insulin.
I have noticed a comment that another diabetic also found he needed less insulin after fasting
will keep posting as I learn how my body deals with the diet
take it easy
Kwisj

underestimated the fast insulin quite a bit there…high blood sugar injected a further 5 units…coming down now

third day of fasting over with. And no problems….strangely enough I did have low blood sugar at about 5pm yesterday, during the fast day. which I solved by haveing a slice of bread. And then at about 6am this morning my sugar dropped to 45 mg/dl (2,5 mmol/dl) But it dropped very slowly and did not cause a problem. I had a glass of milk and my sugar rose. Not sure how my sugar can fall without insulin, but it did: I did not inject any insulin yesterday.
So today back to my normal regimen, and no problems.
kwisj

thank you Lael. Well yesterday was the fourth day of fasting, and no problems. At 5 am in the morning my blood glucose was 53 mg/dl. I ate 1 slice of bread to increase it: rising to 90 mg/dl by 8:30 am. Again, after getting up in the morning, I did not inject any long action insulin. And did not eat until 2 pm.
I injected 5 units of slow insulin before an hours bicycling at 2pm, raising my heart rate to between 140 to 150 bpm during the exercise. Pre excecise my blood glucose was 150 mg/dl, and post exercise my blood glucose was 153 mg/dl. I ate 1 slice of bread before starting my cycling about 15g of carbohydrate.
At about 8 pm I had my main meal: 600g of broccoli and 1 slice of bread. I noticed later on that my sugar was increasing to 182 mg/dl, so I injected 2 units of fast acting insulin, which controlled the rise which by 8:30 am the following day (this morning) was 119 mg/dl.
So today normal breakfast, normal long and slow acting insulin and normal amounts of food to be eaten. Weigh lost so far: 1.7Kg….not bad if you ask me and apart from the first fast day, no trouble with the diabetes.
cheers Kwisj

Hello Redsunset…..when I started the 5:2 fast diet, and had no plan to not inject my basal insulin….but on the first day I injected a little under half my daily dose…I was with low blood sugar all day and all night into the next day. So as a test I decided on the next fast day not to inject any at all, and that seemed to solve the problem.
Today is another fast day and my sugar has been fine. I have injected 1 unit of fast humalog insulin this morning at about 11:30 as my sugar was 177 mg/dl and increasing. By 16:30 it had dropped to 64mg/dl. So i ate a slice of bread and it went back up by 17:45 to 103 mg/dl. at 19:30 I had an evening meal of 400mg of vegetables and a chicken breast with another slice of bread: now my sugar is increasing to 161 mg/dl and I have just injected 1 unit of fast insulin.
From my fast days that I now have completed, I can tell that my sugar drops all day, the biggest drop when I injected 15 units of basal insulin, and I had to eat something nearly all day to keep the sugar from falling dangerously low.
The last time I talked to my dr he was bit concerned that my general glucose levels where too low, so he wanted them to increase a little bit. I had a HbA 1ac of 6,4 which he said was to low as I do suffer from too many hypos. He changed my basal insulin to the one I now use and I have slightly higher glucose all the time.
I will be talking to him in September about my fast diet. And I will be asking him why does my sugar level fall throughout the day if I do not inject my basal insulin?
On my fast day that I take exercise I do inject 10 units of basal insulin so that my body can metabolise glucose to allow me to do exercise.
I did find that I have been more sensitive to insulin the day after the fast, but not after all the fast days.
However, after all that I have lost 3 kilos in three weeks….Like you say type 1 diabetics can follow the fast diet, we just have to be more careful. Personally as the fast is just for one day, for me, it’s easier not to inject the basal insulin on those days. And because I use the freestyle libre flash monitor, I can see what my glucose is doing and if it starts to go high I can control this with the humalog fast acting insulin. This has not been a problem. Your english is fine BTW
take it easy
Kwisj

Hi Redsunset…no I did not misunderstand you at all. I guess as I have only being following the fast diet for 5 weeks now, I am still trying to work out my own personal method. I have had diabetes for 30 years, so I guess I do not have any residual insulin production. Last week I did have trouble controlling my glucose, but I found the reason to be that the needle was blocked on my humalog pen!!!! Which kind of messed things up a bit. But now all back to normal.
I have lost weight, and my waist size has gone down, so I am happy with the results. I am going to stick with the diet. Tomorrow is another fast day, so I think I am going to inject 5 units of slow insulin in the morning and five in the evening to see how that works.
Take it easy
Kwisj

just weighed myself this morning and 87 kilos…result after 7 weeks: 5 kilos lost, waist down from 99 cm to 92. speaking as an insulin dependent diabetic, no problems following the diet once you get used to it.My target weight is 85 kilos, so still a few more weeks to go.
take it easy
kwisj