Long Term 5:2er Diagnosed with Type1 Diabetes

[WicksEnd]

I began 5:2 in January 2013, successfully lost 3 stone and have been maintaining somewhere between 9st 4 & 9st 7 for the last 18 months or so. I maintain on 6:1 ish tweaking as needed.
Anyway, started to lose more weight, frequent visits to the loo & blurred vision, felt like shite and ended up in hospital yesterday with diagnosis of type1 (likely,not 100% confirmed but they don't think it's type 2 as I'm not overweight and there's no family history)
So I'm now injecting insulin 5 x a day, and I've had that much info given to me, I don't know my arse from my elbow!
So obviously, for now I'm knocking the fasting on the head, but just want to know if anyone with type1 does 5;2?
I know it sounds vain but I really really do not want to put the weight back on, I'm hungry all the time at the moment, like never before, and I'm going to have to introduce breakfast and snacks at times.
Any thoughts/advice welcome.

Sorry to hear that, tough news that you will need time to understand and get used to. Do read carefully any information they gave you.
If you are confused, this explanation from DiabetesUk may help.

I'm sure you have to stabilise first, but I would be surprised even then if a doctor would agree to 5:2 for a T1. You could ask them if you could later go to 14:10, i.e. a daily 10-hour eating window.

In the meantime, try to eat as healthily as possible within TDEE. If possible cut out alcohol, sweet junk, crisps etc until you get used to the insulin and whatever eating regime is appropriate.
If you need snacks, do make them healthy ones, not junk. Hopefully they gave you guidance on what to eat. If not, or you didn't understand, do ask your doctor asap.

They should have advised you how to match exercise with insulin, but if not, maybe just stick to 30 min walks.

On your next visit, I recommend you ask to discuss a weght management & exercise plan, in particular if / how to adjust your insulin to that.

I hope things settle down soon and that you get the specialist support you need.

Thanks for your reply, I can't type your user name, it's giving me a craving

I have an appointment with a dietician next week but I've a suspicion it's all going to be low fat this that and the other as the NHS still seems to promote this, but we'll see.

I'm on set dosages at the moment until I learn to adjust depending on the amount of carbs/activity. My Hba1c was 102 so aiming to get that down is priority. They've been really good at the hospital but have concentrated on teaching me to inject and test bloods initially rather than diet but I do eat fairly healthily, always room for improvement though.

Drinking tea rather than Friday night wine

Wicks I have heard of diabetics doing low carb to help keep blood sugar even, as a new t1 you would need to be very careful, but there is information on line about this and it would also help with your weight.

OP don't make any dietary change without consulting your doctors first