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There is also some basic information and a video here @AndreaVonBerl

The nuts and bolts of carb counting

When you live with type 1 diabetes, carb counting is a great way of managing your blood sugar or glucose levels. It can give you more freedom and flexibility in what you eat when you're preparing meals at home, grabbing food on the go or eating out. Carb counting does take some time and effort...
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'Think like a pancreas' is a very good book.
I, too, when i started, had a list of things i 'couldn't eat'. And then i figured stuff out, and now the list is empty.
If you are on fixed doses, and not counting carbs, then, yes, your blood sugars will be all over the place.
I'd say the place to start is getting your basal insulin, abasaglar, at the right dose. Thats the dose that keeps you level overnight.
From there, you can start to work out how much of your bolus insulin, fiasp, you need per gram of carbs.
Once this is cracked, you can forget about your diatetes (as much as ever going to be possible) and get on with your life

And i would recommmend taking control of your diabetes as soon as possible. With the best will in the world, a dsn aint going to know YOUR diabetes as well as you (soon) will. A good set of problem solving/experimental science skills help!

If you want to post your libre chart we can make some recommendations.

As to answering your question, i have a nutty muselli for breakfast. 40g carbs, 4 units of insulin taken at least 25 min before eating, then a 20min walk or however long it takes for my blood sugars to peak and start going down.
The fat in the nuts stop the oats in the muselli peaking too much
That works for me, but excercising when insulin is at its peak can be a bit tricky as levels can fall quite quickly.
Also fiasp works faster than my insulin.

It does all become easier with time.
Read 'think like a pancreas' and be aware type 2 is very different (i went low carb for a while, despite being repeatedly told by the kind folks on here there was no need...and they were right!)
 
Tdm said:
'Think like a pancreas' is a very good book.
I, too, when i started, had a list of things i 'couldn't eat'. And then i figured stuff out, and now the list is empty.
If you are on fixed doses, and not counting carbs, then, yes, your blood sugars will be all over the place.
I'd say the place to start is getting your basal insulin, abasaglar, at the right dose. Thats the dose that keeps you level overnight.
From there, you can start to work out how much of your bolus insulin, fiasp, you need per gram of carbs.
Once this is cracked, you can forget about your diatetes (as much as ever going to be possible) and get on with your life

And i would recommmend taking control of your diabetes as soon as possible. With the best will in the world, a dsn aint going to know YOUR diabetes as well as you (soon) will. A good set of problem solving/experimental science skills help!

If you want to post your libre chart we can make some recommendations.

As to answering your question, i have a nutty muselli for breakfast. 40g carbs, 4 units of insulin taken at least 25 min before eating, then a 20min walk or however long it takes for my blood sugars to peak and start going down.
The fat in the nuts stop the oats in the muselli peaking too much
That works for me, but excercising when insulin is at its peak can be a bit tricky as levels can fall quite quickly.
Also fiasp works faster than my insulin.

It does all become easier with time.
Read 'think like a pancreas' and be aware type 2 is very different (i went low carb for a while, despite being repeatedly told by the kind folks on here there was no need...and they were right!)
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Thank you so much, you are right i take 16 basal insulin and 4 units of insulin before a meal but I need to educate myself better so I will get the book ,i was told to eat straight after taking my insulin to eat but it does not always work this way
 
AndreaVonBerl said:
Because it just does not work and the Nurse knows it does not work,I was just wondering what other people eat to figure out what could be good for me,I know everyone is different
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The thing about insulin (and many other meds) adjustment is it has to happen on an incremental basis. Running hig h for a while is much less likely to cause you long term problems that hypo after serious hypo. (To be clear: Not all hypos are serious, but they can be if doses are much too high, and other reasons I'll spare you right now.)

I'd urge you to stick with it, because then there are only a limited number of moving pieces in the jigsaw. Changing eating and eating patterns, plus trying to work out accurate insulin doses is making things much more complication, in my view.

Of course, it is up to you what you do, but working with constantly changing parameters won't be helpful to you or your nurse. Again, in my view.
 
AndreaVonBerl said:
Hi, Thank you 🙂 .. this is breakfast?
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Yes. I used to each muesli, yogurt, and fruit. But on holidays (depending what was available in hotel buffets) sometimes I made something similar to a Greek salad. And at some point I listened to a podcast on food and they were talking about the enormous variety of customs on breakfast (across time and place), in the end making it obvious that there's nothing much that's common. So I try and eat things which are easy enough to make and interesting. (I think the beans+chili+tomatoes+herbs and whatever came from a newspaper article listing snacks that chefs liked to make for themselves.)
 
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