• mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    I’m type 1 and you can have all of my fat. Isn’t ot harder to lose weight with diabetes? Why would it be harder to put on fat?

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      8 months ago

      Type 1 diabetics can’t put on fat without insulin injections. I already explained why, if you don’t believe me open any random textbook on metabolism.

      As Type 1 diabetic to lose weight all you need to do is stop insulin and live your life, sooner or later all the fat will be gone: Under normal circumstances we’re always burning a little, regaining a little, as Type 1s can’t gain without injections you’d only lose.

      On the flipside doctors will try to make sure that Type 1s do have enough fat on them to survive for a while, mortality rate before insulin was discovered was insanely high: Eat something and lose consciousness because your blood sugar is too high, don’t eat enough and you’ll starve sooner than later, hard to strike a balance there without any help from modern medicine.

      As Type 2 it’s not really harder to lose weight than as a non-diabetic, thing is though people who become type 2s generally have lifestyle (and/or other) issues that brought them there in the first place. Correlation, not causation.

      • mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 months ago

        Yeah but you can’t go without insulin… Even if you don’t eat anything your body still needs insulin Sure if you’re starving yourself you lose weight but that is not really the point