CALSHOT
Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Hi,
After a few years of weight gain I've decided to do something about it (finally)...
I'm Type-1 and have been for 28 years. I'm using Novorapid/Lantus to control my sugars.
For around 15 years I have been dose adjusting for what I eat. Although I've not attended a DAFNE course this has been self taught and to date my hospital stats are very good (except my BMI and Cholesterol).
Pre these 15 years I had a scheduled approach to my care giving injections and eating at specific times. I used mixtards back then.
At the start of my own version of DAFNE I counted successfully the Carbs of my food and dose adjusted correctly. However, I've fallen off that track over the last few years by eating what I wanted and educated guessing / rounding my doses.
This has been fine as my HB's at the hospital remained very good. However, the downside has been under/over estimating my food/insulin ratio. If I under estimate my food, I have to give another Jab later on when my sugars go higher. If I over estimate, I need to eat more food later on as my sugars drop.
The requirement of another jab or another bit of food to counter a high/low has definitely caused weight gain (I mostly over estimate the Carbs).
Basically... although I give myself a Jab against the food I eat, I ultimately wait to see what my sugars rise to. Then give myself a Jab to correct.... rather than calculate the Carbs of the food I'm eating and base my insulin on that.
1. Does anyone else suffer from this trap?
2. I want to get back into counting the Carbs. I used to have a multi-coloured book (15+ years ago) that detailed the Carbs per food item. I want to obtain a similar book that shows a simple list. I've found a book called "Carbs&Cals" but it shows images rather than a list.
Does anyone know of a book that can help? I want to take it to work and be easily referenced.
I'm not after carbs for meal types just the ingredients.
3. Is there an App that can give this info on an Android phone?
Many thanks,
Simon
After a few years of weight gain I've decided to do something about it (finally)...
I'm Type-1 and have been for 28 years. I'm using Novorapid/Lantus to control my sugars.
For around 15 years I have been dose adjusting for what I eat. Although I've not attended a DAFNE course this has been self taught and to date my hospital stats are very good (except my BMI and Cholesterol).
Pre these 15 years I had a scheduled approach to my care giving injections and eating at specific times. I used mixtards back then.
At the start of my own version of DAFNE I counted successfully the Carbs of my food and dose adjusted correctly. However, I've fallen off that track over the last few years by eating what I wanted and educated guessing / rounding my doses.
This has been fine as my HB's at the hospital remained very good. However, the downside has been under/over estimating my food/insulin ratio. If I under estimate my food, I have to give another Jab later on when my sugars go higher. If I over estimate, I need to eat more food later on as my sugars drop.
The requirement of another jab or another bit of food to counter a high/low has definitely caused weight gain (I mostly over estimate the Carbs).
Basically... although I give myself a Jab against the food I eat, I ultimately wait to see what my sugars rise to. Then give myself a Jab to correct.... rather than calculate the Carbs of the food I'm eating and base my insulin on that.
1. Does anyone else suffer from this trap?
2. I want to get back into counting the Carbs. I used to have a multi-coloured book (15+ years ago) that detailed the Carbs per food item. I want to obtain a similar book that shows a simple list. I've found a book called "Carbs&Cals" but it shows images rather than a list.
Does anyone know of a book that can help? I want to take it to work and be easily referenced.
I'm not after carbs for meal types just the ingredients.
3. Is there an App that can give this info on an Android phone?
Many thanks,
Simon
