Tweaking the Regimen

[Lottadata]

As I posted here a while back, I did six weeks of very stringent low carb eating only 22 g a day with no insulin. I lost some weight, which was nice, but I ended up ravenously hungry all the time which wasn't. And by the end of the six weeks I felt dead exhausted all the time.

I always say, "Hunger is a symptom" and so that sent me back to the drawing board.

Here's my current regimen which I'm glad to report has taken care of hunger and is making me feel a lot better. I'm losing weight still too (only 4 more pounds to go to goal.)

1. Metformin. It does very little for my blood sugar, but it is magical for weight loss. Don't know why, but I decided I better go back on it. 1500 mg a day in two 750 doses. I was having a lot of trouble with it causing intense heartburn. Splitting the dose helps some as does taking it only after I've eaten.

2. Lantus. I'm using half the dose of Lantus I was using when I was eating at a higher carb rate. It's keeping my fasting blood sugars much more normal and that is probably why I'm not hungry. Before even with very low carb, after the 6 weeks with no insulin, my blood sugar rose up to 110-120 mg/dl.

3. One meal a day with carbs & Novolog. I found long ago that I do a lot better with some carbs in me. So I'm eating mostly low carb meals with occasional higher carb meals. Usually it's nothing more than a slice of high fiber whole wheat toast and peanut butter. Or 1/2 a serving of lasagna. It makes a huge difference in my energy level.

I'm keeping my total daily dose of insulin to about half of what it was back when I started gaining weight. Oh, did I mention I'm still losing weight? Not being hungry makes all the difference.

And the energy level; is so much better. I've been using it to polish up the Diabetes book I've been working on all winter. It is due to come out in April. Details on my blog http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com.

[eddiemcm]

I have the same reaction to very low carb-feel
like crap.I probably need a minimum of 50 grams of carbs a day when my activity level is high.A lot of people seem to do very well with
Bernstein's 6-12-12.We all need to experiment,
measure and determine what works best for us.
Adjusting one's life to diabetes isn't fun but it
beats the alternative.
Cheers
Eddie

[Charran]

It's very interesting to see the discussion about carbs and energy levels. When I first started out with LC, I started with Atkins and just couldn't do it. I felt awful ALL the time. As soon as I switched plans and started eating more carbs, I felt instantly better. Some people seem to do so well on very LC and have tons of energy and some like me.....just don't. I've often wondered why that is?

[Nancy LC]

It takes a few weeks for your body to adjust. At two weeks, you were probably just beginning to get adapted to burning ketones rather than glucose. Giving it another week or two and your results might have been a lot different.

[eddiemcm]

I tried VLC for 3 months and always felt like crap.Maybe I didn't get enough fat in my diet.
To me,it's always been hard to get a lot of fat calories on locarb WOE.Incidentaally I found a link from a google search that claimed that 50 grams of carbs is optimum for type 2 diabetic-
30 grams for type 1.Bernstein's 6-12-12=30.
He's a type 1.Hmm....
Eddie

[MizKitty]

I'm still off the insulin, for about 10 days now, and carefully watching the numbers. My numbers went up into the 120's and 30's at first, but have slowly come down into the low 100's. Although this morning's FBG was 120 for whatever unknown reason, the general trend is down.

Daytime numbers are running 101 before eating to 117 PP.
My fasting BG went up the most, so I split my 1000mg metformin xr dose too. Taking half at bedtime instead of all in the morning. That seems to have helped shave some points off the FBG. I'm wondering about taking it all at bedtime?

I still have weight to lose, so am going to continue to watch carefully and see if continued weight loss continues to bring the numbers down, but I'm not opposed to going back on Lantus if not. I liked my 80's and 90's better.

I don't really have a problem sticking with a VLC diet. Fitday tells me my daily average for the past month is:
Calories: 1289
Fat: 91 821 66%
Carbs: 40 75 6% (net 19)
Fiber: 21 0 0%
Protein: 88 352 28%

Yep. Tweaking and monitoring. Monitoring and tweaking.

BTW, looking forward to your book; will definitely buy copies for me and my son.

[Charran]

It takes a few weeks for your body to adjust. At two weeks, you were probably just beginning to get adapted to burning ketones rather than glucose. Giving it another week or two and your results might have been a lot different. I do agree that you have to give a plan a chance to work. I"m not new to LC at all. I've been doing this for years basically. I have a story similar to alot of people here. Got diagnosed with diabetes, followed the CDA regulations for diet, saw my diabetes get worse, decided to take matters into my own hands, started researching, found LC! I started on Atkins and stuck with it for about 6 months with people telling me I had "induction flu" and various other things. As I said in the previous post, I felt horrible ALL the time. I was constantly tired, no energy, slept alot and felt actually quite physically sick. Then once again I decided that I needed a change and went searching again. I started adding more carbs into my plan and found out that I needed those extra ones to make me feel better. I have SB listed as my plan, but there are things on there that I can't do, so at best it's probably a modified SB that I follow.

Even though we all technically are "diabetic", I think there are so many variances in it and everyone has to find what works best for themselves. It does take alot of experimenting. I'm at the point now that I think I know my body quite well and can predict how it will respond to certain foods even though now and then it throws me a curve ball.

I learn so much from the people who post here regularily and I find it interesting to read about what everyone has found that works for them. It's great that we can share like this in a supportive environment and appreciate individual differences.

Thank you to all who openly share their daily struggles! :)

[Lottadata]

I ate very low carb for many years and by the end I ran into the same energy problem.

After six weeks I should have felt better, not worse! Also, the rising fasting blood sugars told me that I really needed insulin.

But I use such tiny doses of insulin that it isn't practical to eat very low carb with insulin. There's some kind of threshold for me where when I inject less than one unit, I don't see an effect.Two works the best, but with two I need to eat 20-25 grams.

We are all different, and our diabetes has different causes. Our metabolisms also differ in the extent to which they can metabolize fat.

Whatever the issue, my bottom line in this order is:

1. Keep blood sugars low enough to prevent complications.

2. Eliminate physiological hunger.

3. Lose weight.

Losing weight while hungry and with blood sugars high enough to take out my few remaining functional beta cells is a bad idea.

[dancinbr]

Wow a great thread.

I should have looked sooner.

I find it difficult to stay near 30 carbs, but there are days that I do.

On most days I am around 60 carbs and feel pretty good.

My wife always teases me how tired I am. However, that has more to do with our lifestyle. I have been getting up at 5-6am all my life and going to bed 9pm or so.

Now that I am retired I stay up beyond 9pm, but I am dozing in my easychair. I cannot seem to adjust my waking hours to hers. She gets up at 9am - 10am and has energy all the way til midnight when she goes back to bed.

Just cannot do it.

Anyway, I find that I like to have more carbs on ocassion.

I am using Levemir Basil at 35 units. What this has done for me is bring my sugar range down to 85 3 hours after eating.

I generally can maintain a profile of 85-130 or so with the 130 about an hour after eating. So I am trying to emulate the "normal" person who peaks at 120.

Keeping LC I can keep my upper reading around 120. The basil brought my whole range down.

But like Lottadata I am seriously thinking about Novalog or equivalent for when I know I am going to have a larger carb meal.

That is the next thing I am going to do is ask my Doctor to give me a novalog prescription so I can keep those dangerous peaks from happening.

Like I said most time I stay LC between 30-60. I can go up to 100 and I am still good, but sometimes.... well you know the rest.

Good thread.

Thanks,

Ralph

[Lottadata]

Ralph,

You need to realize that I need Novolog to keep my peaks where yours are now. And your fasting is better than mine, too. (My situation is complicated by the problem I have with overactive counterregulation that pushes my blood sugar up the minute it starts to head to normal levels.)

I was going well over 140 eating 10 g of carb a meal without Novolog.

Years ago I ate 60 grams a day for years, but that was in the days of the old blood calibrated meters, so I thought I was doing great because I was under 140 at one hour and my fasting was around 100, but of course, that 140 turned out to be closer to 160 when they recalibrated the meters and the fasting was more like 110!

I think all those years of too high a fbg probably eroded what I had left of my basal control. There is plenty of evidence that 110 is too high for fasting bg. Whatever the explanation, it is shot to heck by now.

[RobLL]

Ralph - I use Regular Insulin, three hours before the middle of my intense workouts, or (given the absence of Lispro) to lower unexpected highs. It is available at Walmart for $22 for a thousand units. Cheaper for me than my insurance co-pay, and I get two months out of a vial before I throw away what's left.

What I have found is that the 23 units of Lantus covers my basal, but does not lower highs. If I am high it takes a couple days to get below 100 without the added dose of Regular. Oddly enough by eating less than 50 carbs a day, if I am at 85-95 in the morning I will stay there for the rest of the day, by two hours after a meal.

[dancinbr]

Ralph - I use Regular Insulin, three hours before the middle of my intense workouts, or (given the absence of Lispro) to lower unexpected highs. It is available at Walmart for $22 for a thousand units. Cheaper for me than my insurance co-pay, and I get two months out of a vial before I throw away what's left.

What I have found is that the 23 units of Lantus covers my basal, but does not lower highs. If I am high it takes a couple days to get below 100 without the added dose of Regular. Oddly enough by eating less than 50 carbs a day, if I am at 85-95 in the morning I will stay there for the rest of the day, by two hours after a meal.

I have been reading up on Regular Insulin as well as Humalog and Novolog.

I am a bit confused on your reply.

I thought Regular Insulin was used like 45 minutes before each meal to keep the peaks from happenin as a result of eating some carbs.

Please explain a bit further.

Thank you,

Ralph

[dancinbr]

I better do more research.

Now what I am reading is Levemir is best injected twice a day.

Right now, I am at 35 units and could go up a bit more once daily.

Perhaps, I should split the dose into two parts and do 18 in the AM and 18 in the PM.

I should have read up on it more sooner.

OH well.

Dr. B does say twice a day is better and it is all about how long it lasts in my system.

Doing twice a day may in fact help me with my dawn phenom.

So here we go 18 in the AM and 18 in the PM and perhaps I need to up it once I have it going this way for a few days.

I will let you all know.

Thanks,

Ralph

[Korban]

I am splitting my Lantus now - or in the process off. I read on another forum a suggestion that instead of splitting 50/50 (down from 100/0) all at once that it might be better to work toward 50/50 over a few days. That comment made sense to me and I am in the process of that now. I did 16units(pm)/4 units(am) and will probably do 12(pm)/8(am) starting tonight, etc. Of course YMMV.

Have a nice day /smile

[Lottadata]

Re R insulin.

I loved it. I would inject an hour before meals and it would lower the meal and also provide a bit of background basal action for me, so my morning fasting readings were lower.

Then last November it stopped working for me. It's not clear if the problem is that my local Wal-marts are selling old stuff that isn't working properly (I got some from the other Wal-Mart in driving distance but it didn't work either) of if I have developed antibodies.

It stopped working a few weeks after I started using NPH.

Weird, and the only advice I could get from Bernstein (on the teleconference) or Steve Freed from Diabetes in Control was to use Novolog/Lantus, which I'm doing. My endo had no clue either.

The Lantus/Novolog is working well, but I am having a problem of waking up at 5AM jittery with bgs higher than they should be which probably means I'm dropping too low in the early hours. I have cut my carbs down to about 40 a day with only one meal using insulin.

Weight very slowly dropping.

[Cajunboy47]

Jenny and Ralph.....

Both of you have somethings in common...

1. Neither of you have a journal.
2. You both have interesting posts.
3. It is difficult to catch up with you because you are journal-less

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I believe it would be so nice for everyone if you each had a journal, so others could track your activites daily and get a better understanding of your successes... So, it is my suggestion that you each consider starting a journal, even if you do like me, forget to post in it some of the time..:):)

Anyway, I'll be leaving these boards again by the 13th. I'm heading off to China again. I'll be gone from 2 to 7 months this time, but also this time, I should be returning with my fiancee.

Having an Herbal Doctor to help me with my diet and health has been a real blessing. I wish you both the best...

[dancinbr]

Hi Cajunboy,

I do have a journal, but haven't updated it lately.

Go to go learn how to set up the button as you have done.

Here is the URL http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=341547

I need to journal more frequently.

I got caught up in simply responding to different threads.

Thanks for the heads up.

Hey everyone, take a look at my most recent journal update at

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=341547

comments are welcomed.

I got a rude awakening of how WRONG my insulin injection approach was happening according to Dr. B.

I am happy I went back and re-read the insulin chapters.

My head is spinning again, but I have a new plan and lets see how it goes.

[Lottadata]

Jenny and Ralph.....

Both of you have somethings in common...

1. Neither of you have a journal.
2. You both have interesting posts.
3. It is difficult to catch up with you because you are journal-less

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I believe it would be so nice for everyone if you each had a journal, so others could track your activites daily and get a better understanding of your successes...

I have a lot better things to do with my time than to post the minutiae of my daily routine, and I doubt most people reading here would be interested.

I do blog at http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com but most of my postings are on topics of interest to the general community of people with diabetes rather than meanderings about myself.

[Cajunboy47]

I have a lot better things to do with my time than to post the minutiae of my daily routine, and I doubt most people reading here would be interested.

I do blog at http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com but most of my postings are on topics of interest to the general community of people with diabetes rather than meanderings about myself.

:) Starting a journal was just a suggestion...

I've read many of your posts and you do meander about yourself, although I think it should be called; "sharing your experience".

If you had a journal I could make sense of your sharing without bugging you with a question or even posting anything as I could follow your logic more easily...

Since you are opposed to my suggestion, that is ok, I was just making a suggestion.

But, the point in posting anything is to help others and that includes being asked questions for clarification, right? So, I need to ask you a question so I can understand better...

In your first post in this thread, you stated you did a six week stringent low carb diet at 22g a day. What six week period would that be? I cannot tell from your post if it is something you just did in the last 6 weeks or a 6 week period several years ago.

We can all learn from other people's experiences, right?

Comparing things you've said in other posts lately to what you're saying now makes it important for me to know when you did the 6 week stringent l/c diet, so I can better learn from your experiences......

Thanks for sharing............... Ron

[RobLL]

I have been reading up on Regular Insulin as well as Humalog and Novolog.

I am a bit confused on your reply.

I thought Regular Insulin was used like 45 minutes before each meal to keep the peaks from happenin as a result of eating some carbs.

Please explain a bit further.

Thank you,

Ralph

Bernstein reports that Regular starts in about 40 minutes (I did his test on this and confirmed it), and at its strongest at about 3 hours after injecting. My intense workout is in its middle at 8:30, so a 5:30 injection hits that just about right. My peaks from dropped from 130 to about 100. Sat and Sun gym has different hours, so shot at a different time

[dancinbr]

Bernstein reports that Regular starts in about 40 minutes (I did his test on this and confirmed it), and at its strongest at about 3 hours after injecting. My intense workout is in its middle at 8:30, so a 5:30 injection hits that just about right. My peaks from dropped from 130 to about 100. Sat and Sun gym has different hours, so shot at a different time

Thanks.

Ralph

[BellaMagia]

I have a lot better things to do with my time than to post the minutiae of my daily routine, and I doubt most people reading here would be interested.
I do not agree with this statement. I guess I have nothing better to do with my time. :D While I do not think everybody on this forum should rush to my journal as a part of a daily routine, I think the "meanderings" in life are what this forum is all about. I have gained valuable information that I could use in my own battle with the lifestyle changes I have chosen. I am very grateful to read the journey that someone has made before me and want to be a journal in which others recognize themselves. I may not be the one to help anyone, but inspiration can come in the strangest forms. I think that posting your lessons learned is not only helpful to track yourself, but to educate others that may want to learn. Educating, nothing could be better use of time,right?
~Bella~

[dancinbr]

I do not agree with this statement. I guess I have nothing better to do with my time. :D While I do not think everybody on this forum should rush to my journal as a part of a daily routine, I think the "meanderings" in life are what this forum is all about. I have gained valuable information that I could use in my own battle with the lifestyle changes I have chosen. I am very grateful to read the journey that someone has made before me and want to be a journal in which others recognize themselves. I may not be the one to help anyone, but inspiration can come in the strangest forms. I think that posting your lessons learned is not only helpful to track yourself, but to educate others that may want to learn. Educating, nothing could be better use of time,right?
~Bella~

If you take a close look at Lottadata's url's at the bottom you will discover that she is our favorite Jenny who has posted all kinds of great information for all of us.

She also has a blog as well.

Best wishes,

Ralph

[Cajunboy47]

I do not agree with this statement. I guess I have nothing better to do with my time. :D While I do not think everybody on this forum should rush to my journal as a part of a daily routine, I think the "meanderings" in life are what this forum is all about. I have gained valuable information that I could use in my own battle with the lifestyle changes I have chosen. I am very grateful to read the journey that someone has made before me and want to be a journal in which others recognize themselves. I may not be the one to help anyone, but inspiration can come in the strangest forms. I think that posting your lessons learned is not only helpful to track yourself, but to educate others that may want to learn. Educating, nothing could be better use of time,right?
~Bella~

Very great point you made. I salute you for the tactful way you said it. Actually, the way Jenny stated it, insults the intelligence of all posters, but I doubt she meant it that way. She may have been having a bad day, so I would give her the benefit of the doubt.

[Cajunboy47]

If you take a close look at Lottadata's url's at the bottom you will discover that she is our favorite Jenny who has posted all kinds of great information for all of us.

She also has a blog as well.

Best wishes,

Ralph

Ralph, I checked out that url.... There is a link at that url for a promotion of Actos. If you read through the Actos web pages of information, you'll find they promote the ADA diet. So, is that great information that is being provided?

Jenny is visiting this low carb forum and her website is currently promoting a book she is publishing and her website is promoting advertisers who are anti-low carb and pro ADA. There seems to be some conflict of interest going on here. I believe Jenny is pro insulin use in her thinking. This being said and noting a possible conflict of interest, I see no credibility. My presumption is Jenny's website might be finanaced by a drug company that is in the insulin dispensing business and it makes me believe the information provided at that website might be biased.

Remember, this is the Internet and we can't believe everything we read..:)

[Lottadata]

Cajunboy neglected to mention that the ads on my site that he cited were GOOGLE Ads. I have blocked almost a hundred Google advertisers, who are selling dangerous crap. New ones emerge daily.

But anyone who actually reads my blog or web site knows my feelings about Avandia as I have posted about it in detail. In fact, Cajunboy might be interested to know that I posted both about Avandia causing heart failure and about its ability to cause macular edema more than a year before the news hit the papers.

The Google ads earn a small amount that barely begins to offset the time and expense I put into maintaining the blog and the web site.

My "web site" doesn't mention my book. I have a single blog post about it on my blog. When the book is available, of course I will mention it on the site, but that's a ways in the future.

It is very unlikely I'll ever earn more than pennies an hour for the time I've invested turning the mass of information on the site into a book. It's a lot of work. Anyone who thinks I'm doing it to get rich doesn't know much about publishing.

Cajunboy's tone is due to the fact he isn't happy that I have cast doubt on the supplement he is touting.

Thanks to those of you who have said kind things about my site/blog etc!

[Cajunboy47]

Cajunboy neglected to mention that the ads on my site that he cited were GOOGLE Ads. I have blocked almost a hundred Google advertisers, who are selling dangerous crap. New ones emerge daily.

But anyone who actually reads my blog or web site knows my feelings about Avandia as I have posted about it in detail. In fact, Cajunboy might be interested to know that I posted both about Avandia causing heart failure and about its ability to cause macular edema more than a year before the news hit the papers.

The Google ads earn a small amount that barely begins to offset the time and expense I put into maintaining the blog and the web site.

My "web site" doesn't mention my book. I have a single blog post about it on my blog. When the book is available, of course I will mention it on the site, but that's a ways in the future.

It is very unlikely I'll ever earn more than pennies an hour for the time I've invested turning the mass of information on the site into a book. It's a lot of work. Anyone who thinks I'm doing it to get rich doesn't know much about publishing.

Cajunboy's tone is due to the fact he isn't happy that I have cast doubt on the supplement he is touting.

Thanks to those of you who have said kind things about my site/blog etc!

If Google does that and you have no control as you claim, then just post a disclaimer ...problem solved. :)

Your tone is that I am casting doubt about you....:lol: And, that URL link does promote your book; "Blood Sugar 101" as coming out in April...

I share my experience with others. My experiences are my experiences, if I'm touting, then you're touting and everyone else is touting also...

I'm sure you're well intentioned in your work and devoted to helping diabetics, but remember this.... you give a lot of advice. Recently you were giving advice to a liver transplant patient and didn't know it till several posts later... Sharing our experiences is one thing, but giving advice out that can potentially harm others, that's dangerous.

You're a writer and a publisher. I have no literary credentials, so I'm not a professional as you are. If I can get such an impression of you and let's both assume I'm wrong about you. As a friend, not your foe, I'd advise you to get a lawyer to review your book to avoid a lawsuit from big pharma, cause I have a feeling you might get yourself in trouble from not being able to see the forest because of the trees...

You said I am not happy "due to the fact"... now, that's funny! :lol:

My fact is this: I am skeptical of you because I've read many of your posts, and I've visited your websites. Realizing you're a professional who has something to gain financially by what you say, even if it is just pennies, I can't help but notice that you make a lot of assumptions and present them as facts and in my life's experiences, someone like you needs to be taken with a lot of precaution.

[Lottadata]

If giving advice is harmful, they better shut down this entire web site.

But your post really makes me laugh.The first time I ever posted online about Dr. Bernstein's diet, back in 1998, I was met with similar fury and told my advice was going to kill people with diabetes. This was in the days when people believed that a low carb diet would destroy your kidneys and give you a heart attack.

Now here we are on a whole forum devoted to discussing Dr. Bernstein's diet on a forum completely dedicated to low carbing.
And low carb advice has changed the lives of a lot of people with diabetes over the past decade. I hope it will change the lives of a lot more.

Google prohibits sites that display their ads from discussing the ads on the pages. I had a statement on my site about the google ads and they made me remove it. I thought long and hard about the ads, but since every other diabetes site runs them, it isn't like people who come to my site are being exposed to anything they haven't already run into just about everywhere else.

Steve Freed's site, which sponsor's Dr. Bernstein's teleconferences, runs ads for all sorts of crap that Dr. B loathes. Last I looked they had a big ad for Atkins products full of maltitol.

The site that seems to bother you so much is a blog. The post about the book is a blog post from last week. The next time I post it will move out of view. That's how blogs work.

You can have a blog too where you can hold forth about anything you want to in whatever way you wish. That's the beauty of the Web. No one is special. We are only as authoritative as the information we have to present and everyone who visits us can do what they want with that information.

[dancinbr]

Can we both go back to our corners and get back to sharing.

This line of posts is not good.

Ralph

[RobLL]

Anyway, I'll be leaving these boards again by the 13th. I'm heading off to China again. I'll be gone from 2 to 7 months this time, but also this time, I should be returning with my fiancee.

Having an Herbal Doctor to help me with my diet and health has been a real blessing. I wish you both the best...

grrr grrrr grrrr, I like your posts too. You must get yourself occasionally to a Internet Cafe (Internet tea bag maybe :D ) so we can keep up to date with you. Have a great trip. Rob

[Cajunboy47]

Posted by Rob

grrr grrrr grrrr, I like your posts too. You must get yourself occasionally to a Internet Cafe (Internet tea bag maybe ) so we can keep up to date with you. Have a great trip. Rob

I like your posts too. If I ever have to use Insulin, your postings will be my primary guide..... I just found some updated information on the Internet about the Immigration process, so it looks hopeful I might be back in 3 months. I've got my fingers crossed...

As for basil insulin use, I also like the postings by Ralph and Jenny...

You guys have good tracking and from the little I know, when you use insulin, you better be able to track things pretty methodically or you'll probably only achieve spikes and hypos...

Hopefully, I'll be back sooner than later. By the way, they have Internet Rooms. They average about 200 computers in a typical Internet Room location and they are expensive, 1 yuan per hour (13 cents usd)... :):)

[dancinbr]

Cajunboy - be safe and get back soon.

When using insulin, you must track.

The basil insulin is a whole lot more forgiving.

I have figured out my doses so that I achieve lows around 80 now.

You can go too far and end up lower and that can be dangerous.

But, I have taken my time incrementing and measuring for the last several months now.

I am tweaking my doses now.

I added a dose for overnight.

This morning I awakened with a FBG under a 100 for the first time in a long time.

I may back off just a little on my morning dose since I did have a low of 72 yesterday. Not too low, but... again my target is 80-90 wanting the average at 85.

I have to go back a look and see what the margin of error of my accuchek is?

I think it is 1% or so.

If you begin to use fast acting insulin such as Novolog then you must be much more careful since this can cause lows if you mis-calculate your carb intake.

But again, my objective is to be as close to the 6-12-12 "small numbers" regiment recommended by Dr. B. However, there will be days when I want to splurge and that is what I want Novolog for.

Many people can stay with 6-12-12 and I can too; most of the time.

But there are situations and times when that will not work and I don't want to worry about it.

I stayed around 10-10-15 yesterday.

Small numbers works.

I know that 1 gram of carb raises my BG by 1.

That is for me not anyone else. We all react differently.

I know my peak of a mixed protein/carb meal is between 2-3 hours. I know that some carbs linger for much longer since they are delayed.

This is a learning experience all the way.

But back to Cajunboy, do find one of those internet places and post while you are in China.

Best wishes,

Ralph :D