Grazing and dosing

[everydayupsanddowns]

That kind of buffet food is my absolute food nemesis!

I find it impossible to estimate correctly, and almost always run high afterwards.

My strategy, such as it is, is to over-estimate initially. Then attempt to under-eat (aiming for approx 1/5 or 1/3 less than my carb guesstimate). I’ve managed to get it right on a handful of occasions, but then often have a slightly panicky feeling because of the amount of IoB, which can look pretty eye-watering!

Cracking food though! 🙄

 

[Inka]

Just proves we’re all different @everydayupsanddowns I tend to underestimate carbs because I don’t want to risk a hypo. Also, alcohol tends to be involved and that can lower my blood sugar too. I generally stay in range, apart from once when I grossly underestimated the carbs in vegetable crisps and shot up to 19! 😱 Or perhaps the problem was that they were too nice and I’d stuffed twice as many in my mouth than I’d planned

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Just proves we’re all different @everydayupsanddowns I tend to underestimate carbs because I don’t want to risk a hypo. Also, alcohol tends to be involved and that can lower my blood sugar too. I generally stay in range, apart from once when I grossly underestimated the carbs in vegetable crisps and shot up to 19! 😱 Or perhaps the problem was that they were too nice and I’d stuffed twice as many in my mouth than I’d planned

Yes my strategy is largely based on the number of buffers where I have hit the teens during the event, and stayed there for several hours!

YDMV and all that!

 

[Robin]

I went to a buffet last night, I dosed conservatively, but then I forgot to top up later (too busy talking) AND I forgot to count the white wine, for which I always need to add a bit, and then was still peckish when I got home and had a chocolate biscuit! So I hit 14.2 by 9pm. Guesstimated a 2 unit correction, and woke up at 5.6 this morning. I call that a result, Ok, I was too high for a short while, but hey, it’s Christmas!

 

[trophywench]

it's the 'forgetting after' that beats me every time I try to do it!

 

[rebrascora]

I went to a buffet last night, I dosed conservatively, but then I forgot to top up later (too busy talking) AND I forgot to count the white wine, for which I always need to add a bit, and then was still peckish when I got home and had a chocolate biscuit! So I hit 14.2 by 9pm. Guesstimated a 2 unit correction, and woke up at 5.6 this morning. I call that a result, Ok, I was too high for a short while, but hey, it’s Christmas!

Mine went the other way. i managed to keep it in range all afternoon and evening. Went to bed at nearly 1am on 8.3mmols and gave it 1.5u correction after I climbed into bed as I suspected it might go up a bit and an increase of 2u Levemir as I hadn't done much exercise yesterday and woke up at 8am this morning on 14.7!! Jabbed my 20u of Levemir and a very guesstimated 11u of Fiasp and went back to sleep and woke up a shocking 2 hours later 😱 on 7.7 with a downward sloping arrow and still had to jab another 4 units and wait another 15mins for it to come down enough to eat breakfast. My graph shows it steadily dropping down from 14 to the bottom of range after breakfast and then rising slightly again without quite hitting the red, so I consider that a very well timed and dosed correction, even if it was totally fluked. The extra 2 hours sleep was much appreciated, but not the 8 hours above range most of the night, totally ruining my TIR. Of course it would happen the day before my consultant appointment. My overnight levels are always really tricky though and I am either too low or too high the majority of the time. It knows I can't keep an eye on it whilst I sleep.

 

[dannybgoode]

Thanks all for your thoughts and comments. Just another thing for me to get used to I guess.

I seem to respond pretty quickly to correction doses so just will try and keep more on top of them as and when required.

My pre -tea reading just now was 7.5 so happy enough I'm back in the zone 🙂