Diabetes Support Group

Just got diagnosed 6 weeks ago with Type 1. I'm 40 years old, in great health, eat right, exercise a lot, not overweight, quit smoking 8 years, and had NO symptoms other than being slightly more thirsty than normal. Last time my BG levels were tested I was normal (2012), but this year they were about 500 on an 18 hour fast. I was over 900 after a normal meal (with lots of pasta and bread), and honestly feel lucky that I'm still alive. Sort of came out of the blue, and shocked the shit out of me.

My 14 day average BG was under 100 yesterday for the first time, so I'm getting it controlled. Been a real pain in the ass, though, because I love breads, grains, cereals, and beer. I actually started a modified Atkins' diet with low carbs (60-90 grams per day) and lots of fat. It's actually made a huge improvement in my cholesterol numbers to do the low-carb/high-fat diet, and it makes it extremely easy to control my BG numbers.

Honestly, I hope to have numbers like yours - just getting A1C #'s in the fives would make me plenty happy (the first A1C test I took couldn't even measure how high my numbers were - the value was simply noted as "14+&quot . What sort of diet do you eat to get the numbers so low? My doc's big on self-maintenance, as long as my numbers are good and I'm not experiencing any neuropathy or retinopathy. But, the CDE he sent me to wants me to eat 200-300 grams of carbs per day, and I can't control my numbers with that level of carb intake.