Great work Sprogladite! This is starting to look really good (aside from that sneaky hypo). I understand the issues you're having with your folks, my Mum lives with me and sometimes it's a bit like being ported back to 1982, I have to explain with gritted teeth that I'm not a toddler
😉. I imagine it's doubly difficult for you because they will think they know how to handle diabetes because they got you through it as a kid, for them to acknowledge a change now would be difficult for them because it implies they might not have done the best for you as a child and all parents want to do the best for their kids however badly that might be expressed.
Having an untested basal requirement will make it more tricky for you, but we can't always do things exactly the way we'd want to. My basal requirement was a point of contention for 18 months after diagnosis (still is sort of) and I managed to find the right ratios, so whilst it's not ideal it can be done. You just need to keep in mind that your basal could be off, write everything down and remember that you might have to tweak ratios when you change your basal. Don't get me wrong in a perfect world basal first every time, but sometimes we just have to work with what we have. We'll all have different opinions here because we all have different experiences, so keeping that in mind, I didn't go lower carb whilst testing my ratios, I went simple but higher carb than my normal diet, simple and normal carb levels, and then carb and fat combos. I covered the full range of options because I eat very healthily 90% of the time (I even shock myself sometimes at my desire to eat raw veg!) but then there's the 10% when I don't, I eat the full range of foods, so I wanted to be able to cope with them all, up to and including the slice of Christmas cake I'll inevitably eat, the gingerbread latte I'll want to drink at some point, the whole lot. I'm not daft, I'm not going to eat cake for lunch every day, or drink 4 gingerbread lattes a day or a week or even a month. I just wanted to know that I knew how to handle those things. For me that was a process, so test phase 1 was simple, straightforward meals, when I'd got that down, I moved to phase 2 with higher carb items and some tinkering with ratios, timings etc, then phase 3 also known as the cake phase where I experimented with more volatile carb and fat combos. The only food item that defeated me, and continues to challenge me is hummus of all things, and it's not even high carb! The little terror refuses to be controlled, but I am steely and determined, and if I live till I'm 80 I'll still be trying
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I'm rambling now, just wanted to say well done
so far, and don't forget to wash and press that lab coat!
