Personally I bolus for 1/2 proteins. It is said roughly 58% protein turns to bs and roughly 10% fat. Timing on injecting insulin will matter too as protein is slow and fat slows it more. I find I have to inject either right before or during the meal or infill go low 1st before my food gets there. I try to eat just a few veg to fill in the gap.
In short, that's based on a 100 year old study that has largely been debunked. It's widely agreed that a good bit of excess protein does convert into glucose. However, "Glucose" doesn't necessarily equate to "blood sugar."
I'm sending a link to the post where we discussed how to bolus for fat and proteindo you know website to learn how to calculate insulin dosage in the meals that contains only protein and fats ??
Latest paper I can find on the matter published September last year is "Optimized Mealtime Dosing for Fat and Protein in Type 1 Diabetes. Application of a Model Based Approach to Derive Doses for Open-Loop Diabetes Management".
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/diacare/39/9/1631.full.pdf
It seems a few people who post here adopt a very similar dosing strategy.
Cheers
David
If I was to be cynical, I'd suggest that that paper simply affirms that the best way to treat HCHF or HCHP meals is using the combo bolus and determining the best split requires trial and error, as many well managed Pumpers have already found out!
It's interesting actually. This is a key issue with the two major open source "Artificial Pancreas" projects. One uses specified carb absorption times while the other works it out as it goes based on carb amount entered. I find the second one is far easier to use and more effective for me.Yep, that's the way it seems. If I am to read papers correctly there is just too much individual variation on how we process foods and insulin to come up with a standard that applies to all, just look at how different our ratios can be. This appears to have been in part the problem with the Warsaw method. All very frustrating for diabetics!
However from my perspective the recommendation in the paper combined with your and others feedback (strategies used) are a really good base to work from.