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- Type of diabetes
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Something I’ve started noticing since going back onto a pump in January & having my CGM fitted is that routine seems to be a massive key player in the fight for tight control. I’ll give a few examples of what I’m noticing.
When I first started the pump, every time I went to the gym & did weight training my BG would spike massively. Usually to atleast 15/16mmol, but the longer I’ve had the 780G fitted and the longer it’s adjusted to my body these spikes don’t happen anymore at all.
Now when it comes to food, I usually sit down Sunday night & plan my diet for the week ahead. What foods, what weights & what snacks to meet my macros for the gym. For the last 10 nights each meal was the same & my time in target range had stayed at 100% for the full 10 days. Easily the most time I’d ever spent in target. Anyway on Sunday gone I decided to swap up a few of the carb & protein sources, for example sweet potato instead of white potato for evening meal & salmon instead of mince or tuna. Breakfast continued the same & for lunch I kept to my usual 200g of rice but again swapped mince for chicken.
All meals are weighed out, so I know exactly how many carbs/fats are present & exactly how much insulin to take. I started this new diet yesterday & my insulin resistance just seems to of gone crazy, waking up at 5/6mmol. After breakfast shooting up at 10/11 which is high for me lately & no matter how much corrective insulin I give it doesn’t budge for a good 4/5hrs. With lunch it seems perfectly fine like it’s been other weeks, then again with the evening meal 6/7mmol before & raising to 10/11 after the meal & running at that level until 3/4am.
To me it’s as if I’ve changed a routine & my body is taking time to adjust to it, anyone else had anything like this?
When I first started the pump, every time I went to the gym & did weight training my BG would spike massively. Usually to atleast 15/16mmol, but the longer I’ve had the 780G fitted and the longer it’s adjusted to my body these spikes don’t happen anymore at all.
Now when it comes to food, I usually sit down Sunday night & plan my diet for the week ahead. What foods, what weights & what snacks to meet my macros for the gym. For the last 10 nights each meal was the same & my time in target range had stayed at 100% for the full 10 days. Easily the most time I’d ever spent in target. Anyway on Sunday gone I decided to swap up a few of the carb & protein sources, for example sweet potato instead of white potato for evening meal & salmon instead of mince or tuna. Breakfast continued the same & for lunch I kept to my usual 200g of rice but again swapped mince for chicken.
All meals are weighed out, so I know exactly how many carbs/fats are present & exactly how much insulin to take. I started this new diet yesterday & my insulin resistance just seems to of gone crazy, waking up at 5/6mmol. After breakfast shooting up at 10/11 which is high for me lately & no matter how much corrective insulin I give it doesn’t budge for a good 4/5hrs. With lunch it seems perfectly fine like it’s been other weeks, then again with the evening meal 6/7mmol before & raising to 10/11 after the meal & running at that level until 3/4am.
To me it’s as if I’ve changed a routine & my body is taking time to adjust to it, anyone else had anything like this?