Changed my diet and now I keep having hypos, is this normal?

[sg295]

Hi all,

So I wanted to start eating a bit healthier as I wasn’t eating as healthily as I liked.

I’ve cut out pretty much all sources of fat (or at least saturated fat) so the chocolate, crisps, pizza etc are gone.

I have replaced these things with fruit instead and while this is much healthier, it’s causing me big issues re hypos. I have a big old spike but it then crashes around 3 hours later sending me to have a hypo.

I’m assuming it’s this dietary change that’s caused it as the basal seems fine and my usual ratios have always worked up till this point. I also can’t think of anything else I’ve changed or done differently recently to cause this.

I’m wondering if the lack of fat is perhaps speeding things up, as I know when you eat fat it can make things absorb more slowly, and therefore by not having enough I keep crashing?

Any advice much appreciated 🙂

 

[Lucyr]

Have you changed anything else alongside the diet - changed your drinks or exercise?i
It could be the diet, it could be coincidence, but either way if your ratios aren’t working, change them. For the spikes either add more healthy fats (avocado, olive oil, nuts etc) or try prebolusing earlier before meals, or look at which foods the spikes are after and change those. Eg if you’ve changed a bag of crisps for an apple and that’s spiking too much, try blousing earlier or adding peanut butter to your apple.

 

[sg295]

Have you changed anything else alongside the diet - changed your drinks or exercise?i
It could be the diet, it could be coincidence, but either way if your ratios aren’t working, change them. For the spikes either add more healthy fats (avocado, olive oil, nuts etc) or try prebolusing earlier before meals, or look at which foods the spikes are after and change those. Eg if you’ve changed a bag of crisps for an apple and that’s spiking too much, try blousing earlier or adding peanut butter to your apple.

Hi,

Thanks for your message.

I can’t really think of anything else that’s changed. It’s just been over the last week or so that I’ve had more hypos and it seems to have coincided from me eating way less fat.

Maybe I’ll do a double whammy - change my ratio down a bit and also include some healthier fats back in and see what happens. I may even find that once I start adding some fats back in that my ratio can go back to normal, who knows?!

Thank you 🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sorry to hear you’ve been having a few hypos @sg295

The spike-crash does sound a bit like a combination of too steong a ratio, and the insulin action being a little too slow for the carbs to me (at least, that’s what I would suspect if I saw that pattern).

Are you correcting the spike by adding insulin, or is it the initial dose which then arrives and brings your levels back down, but just a bit too far?

 

[rebrascora]

The weather has also got a lot warmer the last few days and that is causing me to have more hypos. I appreciate you say that your basal is right but maybe it was but isn't now that the weather is changing and the mornings are getting lighter.

 

[sg295]

Hi,

Thank you both for your replies.

Today I decided to try adding some healthy fats into my lunch (nuts and avocado) and also changed my ratio down.

As a result I’ve had a grand total of…0 hypos 🙂

I will keep doing this for a few days to check it’s not a fluke but maybe I’ve learnt my lesson - that I need some fat in my diet and just need to swap out the less healthy for more healthy options and that maybe if I eat slightly healthier then I don't need so much insulin 🙂