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@OP Hello! I'm glad for you that your diet is working wonders =) Many things have been said and told and adviced and what not in this thread so far. I'm hoping to be able to just add some thoughts without recommending or compelling people to do things, because I don't think people listen best to advice that was forced on them.
Firstly, I am curious to learn more about the ketogenic diet as you practice it. With the cutting of carbohydrates you would need another source of energy that would technically have to be larger in volume to achieve the same amount of energy (proteins, for example, give a lot less energy per mass than carbohydrates. Fats give slightly more but if I remember correctly we do not absorb all the fats that we consume). I can imagine that this causes changes in your body on a much larger scale than just losing weight.
Secondly, I would like to express compliments for having chosen such a diet in consideration of your diabetes. I can imagine that a no-carb diet works wonders for you with respect to insulin levels. You won't have to inject much before meals now, I guess, and it's more stable I would think? Let me know!
Lastly, I'd like to inquire about your thoughts on the diet as a whole, rather than just the changes you go through. More specifically, and I'm not trying to sound like a treehugger here, how hard is it on the mental side of life? With just 1500 calories while exercising I assume you go to bed with a feeling you wouldn't mind a T-bone steak before falling asleep haha. That's all about mental fortitude, but not every diet is as straining as the next and this might be influenced by the details of a diet.
Oh, I guess I want to say also, in response to your comment on scientific research within this subject, that research in nutritional values and this entire field is a very difficult thing to interpret. Many a paper published are not fully free of ties with the industrial facets and Universities that have a relatively low influx of cash are not inclined to publish papers that demolish certain interventions. It would cause them to lose face, so even though there might be X articles on how awesome intervention A is, there's probably also X articles that were never published on how terrible intervention A is.
Let me know through PM when and if you replied, I'm happy to learn more about this!
Rik
The human body can digest fats just as easily as carbohydrates. The body uses bile salts to digest and uses beta oxidation to metabolize them - as much as you could possibly eat.
Compared to a normal diet, it is much easier to limit yourself or even fast, because the insulin that normally triggers the body's hunger response is not present since there are no carbohydrates. You are right about the insulin too. I now only use 7 units of insulin per day. I used 50 per day before.
To summarize the process of the diet
1) The hardest part is finding 10 recipes you like enough to fill up your week (85% fat 10% protein 5% carbs)
2) After three days, your gut bacteria "adjust" to the diet and cause mild discomfort that only lasts a day or two
3) You need to have more electrolytes than usual because this diet increases the amount that your kidneys work
4) Caffeine helps too
This paper below explains all of the health benefits of a fat diet vs a carb/protein diet. Excess carbs and protein in the blood changes your body's hormonal signalling in a way that disallows the cleaning of toxins. Under a high fat diet, the body is constantly detox-ing. High-fat/ketogenic diet has been proven to reduce if not eliminate all occurrence of diabetes/cancer. There are no incentives here other than honest science.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390257