Hello all. A bit of a lurker here.
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as an adult 2.5 years ago. About a year ago I managed to lose 25 lbs over many months due to running 3-4 times a week. When I went back to univeristy I stopped running mostly due to hating winter running. The weight slowly crept back up. But the real nail in the coffin was this summer. I was vegan for a year and decided it wasn't for me so when I came off I super binged on everything I restricted myself from eating before. So I gained a lot of weight naturally. I weighed in at my heaviest at 192lbs which is the fattest I've ever been. Getting close to 200lbs scared me so about 9 weeks ago I started going to the gym 5 days a week. Then 39 days ago I started tracking my calories in and out.
I also can't really run right now thanks to a super annoying calve injury that I am working to fix with my physiotherapist. My gym routine is 3 days of weight lifting with 2 days of cardio.
I have been at 1700 calories a day minus one reward day a week where I have a meal that I've been craving. This is mostly for my mental health as I don't think I could cut everything from my life without crashing and falling off the diet plan. (I'm a 5'10" female if that helps understand my calorie plan).
But diabetes is hard. I left whats called the "honeymoon phase" in diabetes this past July. The honeymoon phase is where your pancreas is still sort of working and pumping out insulin so you need to inject less. But my pancreas offically died and now I'm all on my own. My sugars have been less than ideal and I work with my diabetic nurse frequently to try and get me in control but so far nothing is working.
My biggest issue is that my sugars like to go low from exercise so I am forced to eat glucose tabs before and during exercise to essentially stop myself from dying. This means extra calories that anyone without diabetes wouldn't have to take. And that's fucking frustrating.
I also have to eat a bed time snack due to my bipolar meds being tough on the tummy. So again even more calories that a "normal" person wouldn't have to take. But I account for these calories anyways in my daily total.
And to top it all off my weight loss has been slow as hell. I've been tracking all my calories but I've still barely moved. And now for some reason in a matter of days I gained back 4 lbs. I get this is likely water weight from the holiday season. But what if it isn't? What if I'm doing something wrong?
I just need help guys. And motivation. Losing weight this time is so much harder thanks to my diabetes being more of a bitch. The irony being I'm trying to lose this weight FOR my diabetes and my health.
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