700 g Carbs Per Day, 90% Time-In-Range, 4.5% A1c...Meet Matt – E108

Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience

Mastering Diabetes

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Meet Matt: T1D, 700 g carbs per day, 45 u insulin per day, 4.5% A1c.

💉 Matt was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2000.⁣
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Later in life, he found himself nearing 300 pounds, lacking energy, and unable to control his blood glucose.

🌱 A coworker of Matt’s who is plant-based began talking to him about diabetes control and the ability of a plant-based diet to help. After watching videos online from Nutritionfacts.org he and his wife decided to try eating plant-based for 30 days. After a week, and consuming as many documentaries and podcasts as they could, they decided they could never go back. They both felt great and Matt noticed the amazing blood glucose control.

“I transitioned from a low-carb diet to a high-carb diet and found my insulin per carb ratio was dramatically lower. I was eating 125g of carbs per day beforehand and using about 35 units of insulin, and now I eat upwards of 500-700g carbs and use around 45-50 units per day.” 

Before and after going plant-based:
Fasting Blood Glucose (mg/dL): 110 - 88⁣
A1c (%): 7.2 - 4.5
Weight (lbs.): 270 - 194
Cholesterol (mg): 170 - 149
Fat p/day (g): 50 - 30
Carbohydrates p/day (g): 125 - 500-700
Total Units Insulin (ml): 35-40 - 45-50 ⁣
90% Time in range

“My transition was first started due to interest for health reasons but quickly transitioned to an ethical and health reason. I am also an amateur athlete and have completed several long-distance races including full-distance Iron Man, ultra marathon, 24-hour OCR, marathon- all while being plant-based and obviously diabetic. Never once have I worried about blood glucose control and I have never had issues with training or racing.”

You can follow Matt's journey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ironmans_and_insulin/

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0:00.0	speaking in Austin and I was on a panel with four other type one diabetics. They started talking about
0:04.7	what they eat and their carb count because they were proud of the low carbs. And being the last
0:09.2	person to speak, I was like, yeah, I'm at, I'm vegan. I'm kind of a unicorn in the diabetic
0:13.4	community because plant-based diabetic don't really go together. And I eat about 500 to 700 grams
0:18.5	of carbs a day and I take, you know, maybe 40 units insulin
0:21.5	and everybody's jaw drops.
0:23.4	It was so funny.
0:24.4	My A1C since we've been plant-based has honestly been at or below five the entire time.
0:30.4	Yeah, my weight's never really been an issue ever since we went plant-based.
0:34.1	And that was the crazy thing.
0:36.1	I mean, having been severely severely overweight it's one of those
0:38.7	mental things that always plays in the back of your head like you get fearful you know with body
0:42.7	dysmorphia of like gaining weight the same way that you know as diabetics were fearful of carbohydrates
0:47.3	but what's odd is being plant-based i no longer have a fear of like gaining that weight and being
0:53.8	you know that size again
0:55.2	and being that unhealthy again. And then also the same thing with carbs. I was talking the other day
0:59.6	about that. I was like, man, I just ate 200 grams of carbohydrates in a meal. Like that's,
1:03.5	that would have been insane earlier, you know, pre-plant based.
1:25.9	Yeah. Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.
1:31.3	We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy, and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the Mastering Diabetes Program.
1:39.3	Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and how to simplify
1:46.3	your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using food as medicine.
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