Q: how much weight can i loose by not taking my insulin and how long will it take?
Leanne,
By not taking insulin in order to lose weight means you will be practicing an eating disorder known as "diabulimia." You will lose weight, but you will also permanently damage your eyes, kidneys, fingers, toes, liver and overall circulatory system as a result of dangerously high blood sugars.
Essentially, you will be in an almost catatonic state, risking real death, in order to TEMPORARILY LOSE WEIGHT.
After you lose the weight through diabulimia you'll have two choices:
-start taking your insulin again and gain the weight back because your body will try to recover from all of the damage you just did to it.
OR
-be hospitalized with serious DKA, or wind up in a coma, or die.
Diabulimia is not a joke.
Look at these articles:
Diabulimia to lose weight -My Story
Is Diabulmia really that bad for me?
Losing weight as a person with diabetes is just as challenging as someone without the disease. It's about changing your habits and your life, not just about being thin. You will not be thin and happy if you're practicing diabulimia. You will feel miserable, look miserable, and be risking death.
You are capable of losing weight healthfully. Talk to a nutritionist, a personal trainer and your endocrinologist to help you get started. And please, please, don't turn to diabulmia--it's not the answer for anyone!
Ginger
Honestly you can lose as much weight as you want. But it's not worth it at all. I didn't take my insulin for the longest time because I wanted to be skinny and it got me no where but the hospital. If my mom wouldn't have found me the night that she did I would be dead right now, just because I wanted to be skinny. You won't feel good at all, you won't even be cute skinny you will look deathly skinny. It's no game. Even now it's hard for me to get my diabetes under control and i struggle with it everyday of my life. Taking your insulin is so important, you don't realize it when you're doing it and you're losing the weight but once you try to bounce back and recover you realize it's what you should have been doing all along. Trust me, take it from somone who has been there, please.
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