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Little Rage
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I know people say AT LEAST 10g of carbs per IU, but is there a limit?
such thing as TOO MANY carbs post insulin shot?
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The more you use the more fat you'll gain, so the limit should be determined by how fat you mind getting. Anywho, you can do insulin with no carbs, but I recomend doing ALOT of research first. Its very effective, but its dangerous.
mrflexdiesel
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Yeah, I was going to say the same thing as Body did. You definitely would be on the safe side by consuming as many carbs as possible but the more you take in over what you're body will require is going to assimilate to fat a lot easier than normal. If you're naturally pretty lean than it's probably nothing to worry about, but if you have a tendency to put on body fat fairly easy I wouldn't over do it. Even eating clean while on slin for most puts some extra body fat on em.
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Frackal
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Insulin w/ no carbs is retarded and unecessary IMO..... look, bodyfat is not THAT hard to lose... trying walk the razor's edge with insulin is foolhardy. Use it, use the 10grams / iu, be responsible, and worry about losing the fat later. Jeez.
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Bishop4
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yes agreed from past experience here also. 10 grams per iu worked out great for me. got a little fat, but hey.....you expect that. if your a skinny dude, i'd take in as many carbs as you can though. i wouldn't do it personally since i would get very fat around the belly. 
Insulin won't make you fat unless you eat fat. It will cause you to appear fatter if you consume too many grams of carbs or carbs of the wrong kind. The trick to just getting bigger with insulin is to determine by trial and error how many grams are necessary to fill the muscle cells with gylcogen without taking in an excess.....which will "spill over" into intercellular fluid and cause that bloated, puffy look.
Either way, its easy to eliminate water retention or fat. It's not so easy to come back from coma induced by sever hypoglycemia. I understand what BBF is saying.......some users tell me they can get along with protein instead of carbs, but I stick to the regular carb thing although I do use less than 10 grams and do ad in some fast protein.
Either way, its easy to eliminate water retention or fat. It's not so easy to come back from coma induced by sever hypoglycemia. I understand what BBF is saying.......some users tell me they can get along with protein instead of carbs, but I stick to the regular carb thing although I do use less than 10 grams and do ad in some fast protein.
02gixxersix
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When I first started insulin, which was recently, I used 10g/i.u. However, I now only use 4 g/i.u. If I feel the leaast bit hypo I just have a glass of juice. I'm not recommending a low dose of carbs post shot, that just seems to be what works for me. I do however end up feeling a little bit hypo about an hour and a half after the shot. If I take in the recommended 10 grams, or even as low as 7 grams, i dont feel hypo at all. By the way, the onset of hypoglycemia sucks, and you're better off safe than sorry with insulin.
