Haha I feel better knowing I’m not the only one these things happen to as well! I hadn’t thought about the low doses before and the fact they probably don’t last the full 3-4 hours, that’s a good point! I had a great start to day, stayed nice and steady overnight and through breakfast but then waited too long to bolus for lunch (a salad) as I was sitting a little low beforehand so crept up to 6 and stayed there longer than I’d like but pre bolusing definitely worked for breakfast so part of this is needing to be patient while I work out how low carb works compared to lower carb which would have seen me having 30g carbs each meal. It definitely changes how you need to think and react. If I can just work it all out...I’m very impatient! Thanks for all your help!
Here again, just a salad with no avocado I would spike no matter when I bolus. I’ve tried protein and veggies with some other fats , no avocado and I go higher than if I did eat some avo. There’s something magical that happens when I eat it with other foods. But it still acts like a carb if I don’t have protein in the meal, I’ll rise higher than with protein.
Fatty animal fat makes me rise higher but later. If I have a burger I have to split my bolus. Mediterranean fats do t do that at all. And other than avocado they don’t slower or lower my rise. Or keep me steady. It’s kind of ridiculous I have to eat avo with every meal but it an enormously healthy fat and I love it and since I eat small meals it’s no biggy. I just plop a wedge on my plate.
I’m glad prebolusing is helping. It does take some time to figure it out and also figure out Approx when you’re running out of insulin. I peak in about an hour. Wherever I am then I’m not going to go any lower. Then as the day goes on it lasts slightly longer but not as long in the morning.
How low carb are you aiming for?
And NOBODY ever called me patient. Lol