l want your personal stories only ... please do not bother giving mefrom textbooks, doctors, or websites.

Some diabetic experts strongly warn again high-fat diets for diabetics. Some others recommend low-carb diets, with plenty of fat and protein.

If you are diabetic and you have tried a high-fat, low-carb diet, what has been your personal experience? Did it lower your blood sugar and improve your diabetic control, or did it cause health problems?

Again, if you do not have personal experience (or experience of someone you know), please do not bother responding. Thanks.

My son has Type 1 & we have always been more concerned with the carbs because of the effect on his blood glucose readings. When his sugars r high & he can not eat carbs he will eat meats & cheeses which r high in fat but do not raise the blood glucose levels. l do know that as he gets older the fat content will have to be something he watches out for because with naturally high blood glucose levels u tend to have more sticky plaque to clog the arteries. It is also my understanding that some people with Type 2 r ketosis prone & if that is the case should never go on the low carb diets.

yup, l eat everything

yes l have tryed it and it dont work go for the carbs everytime potatoes every meal l say

My endocrinologist said that the high-fat warning was because many type 2 diabetics r trying to lose weight, & high-fat proteins will just plain have more calories, making weight loss more difficult. If ur weight is not an issue, it is not as crucial to avoid high-fat means.

HOWEVER, this is my own personal endocrinologist who knows me & my situation. l have very low cholesterol, something that runs in my family, which is unusual for many type 2 diabetics.

l have found through experimentation over the past 11 years is that what works best for me is a low-glycemic diet. Low-glycemic is not low-carb. l do okay on low carb diets but apparently my pancreas needs some carbs to stimulate the production of what insulin l have, because l do better when l have carbs & protein together than if l have straight protein. So l have whole-grain, high fiber, complex carbs with plenty of protein & vegetables.

l know this is not exactly what u asked but this is my experience, & what has worked best for me.

One of our closest friends has done the low carb routine for yrs including Atkins theory of fat being very ok. The result is that she still insulin dependent, has many diabetic complications including a yr or more to heal leg injury & a progressive inability to tolerate solid foods.

My husband experimented with the low carb high protine all the fat u want diet when he was first diagnosed with diabetes & found his blood sugars went from high to crash (what is called brittle diabetes). Later he began a low glycemic eating plan. (high complex carb low fa some but nly moderate animal protein t) His insulin need has dropped. His chronic & supposedly diabetic related leg rash is gone w/o further med. For him there is far greater control, fewer highs & a lot fewer dangerous lows this way than on the high protein high fat eating plan.

Some say carbs r the diabetic is enemy but all food eventually metabolizes into a sugar if the body is to utilize it at all. Simple carbs do metablize too fast therefore leading to highs & lows unless balenced. The high fat deal raised his cholestoral & the lower fat higher fiber is helping.

Obviously each person is uniquebut we knowseveral diabetics who have felt they did better on more fiber & complex carbs than on high protein fat

You may want to read The Good Calorie Diet by Phillip Lipetz there is a fair & sensible presentation of why blood glucose levels go as they do & why certain things effect them as they do,