"Todd" > wrote in message
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>
> Hi Ozgirl and Karen,
>
> When I was inducted into the "pin cushion club" it was with
> diabetic ketoacidosis. This is a whole different issue than
> someone not feeding themselves enough. I was not eating
> enough fat, eating tons of carbs, and my cells were
> burning their own fat and yelling to my liver that
> they were starving, despite how much I ate. Very
> insulin resistant. I have fortunately stopped loosing
> weight since Paleo.

Are you sure of this? It is rare for a type 2 to have that.
>
> You can monitor your keytones with keyto sticks. They
> are fairly cheap at Wal mart, over by the diabetic supplies.
> I can eat all the fat I want and no keytones. They only come
> when I fast and burn my own fat. (I don't fast on purpose.)
> This is why dieters on no carb diets monitor their keytones.
> They actually want to go into ketosis. Never heard
> of it doing any damage.

I'm pretty sure that they monitor their ketones. And that only needs to be
done if you have really high BG, or so I was told by my former CDE.