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ARE MY MEALS SPREAD APART EAVENLY

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I personally don’t worry about having my meals evenly spaced. I eat breakfast pretty soon after getting up because it helps stop my Foot On The Floor issue; I eat my lunch usually around 12.30pm but it can be as early as 12 or as late as 2pm on the odd occasion. I try to have my evening meal started by 6pm, but that doesn’t always happen.

The beauty of the basal/bolus regime rather than the two injections a day is that we have far more flexibility in when we eat 🙂
I just worry about insulin stacking but on previous threads I believe that's more to do with if any corrections are needed you mustn't do them less than 4 hours apart. Bolusing for food is just that - you're only bolusing for the amount of carbs you eat.
What time roughly do you have your breakfast?
 
I just worry about insulin stacking but on previous threads I believe that's more to do with if any corrections are needed you mustn't do them less than 4 hours apart. Bolusing for food is just that - you're only bolusing for the amount of carbs you eat.
What time roughly do you have your breakfast?

It's not that you MUSN'T do corrections less than 4 hours from your last bolus, it's that you need to be very careful that you are not unnecessarily correcting when you just need to be patient and let your existing bolus demonstrate clearly enough that it's insufficient before doing so.
 
It's not that you MUSN'T do corrections less than 4 hours from your last bolus, it's that you need to be very careful that you are not unnecessarily correcting when you just need to be patient and let your existing bolus demonstrate clearly enough that it's insufficient before doing so.

I test mostly on waking, before meals then bedtime so if corrections are needed ie only if my bgl is over 10mmol at these testing times then this is the only time I do a correction (so with a mealtime bolus) - if bgl is 10mmol or below then I don't need to correct
 
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