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Hit a real low.

grantg said:
slow & steady gets u there its a marathon and not a sprint :) insulin resistance / average weight/bmi etc.



your doing exceptionally well. especially over the last few days! thats some amount of progress you should be very proud! :)
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I am pleased with my progress and very grateful for everyone's support.

Just finished putting food together for work tomorrow. I've calculated carbs for everything because I think it'll be easier doing it the night before when I'm going to be at work.

Overnight oats for breakfast with strawberries and blueberries.
Chorizo, cheese and salad wrap and a Greek yogurt for lunch.
Gym Kitchen paella for my dinner. Ready meal because I couldn't face anymore cooking today.
 
Failed myself today. Breakfast and lunch were fine, the struggle came at the cinema and I failed. Popcorn and chocolate, guessed on insulin dose, BG now quite high. Just given a correction and hoping it comes down before bed.
 
one thing to consider with correctional dose, if eating other food shortly after careful not too close together. 2 injections in space of a couple of hours levels can drop pretty quickly due to insulin stacking effect.

the cinema trip sounds like fun what did you watch? i've seen an advertisement for a freaky friday sequel (just the poster) think its called freakier friday? I remember the original film being pretty funny years ago half tempted to watch when or if comes out on amazon video. the new superman movie was ok prefered the original ones... wanting to watch the new fantastic four :)

purpose of correctional doses is to fix mistakes which do happen :) thats the entire purpose. good job. only other bit of advice have is if guessing ensure to have some glucose handy incase a little too much. ps loads have forgotten if or when they've injected. i found making it part of routine directly after injecting to mark it in the libre app, some others love echo6 pen (which can do half unit doses makes things easier for carb counting .. .not needing to round as much) holding pen to the nfc will insert doses for you if prefer, that smart pen also has a last dosage function which tells you the time and amount :)
 
philly1991 said:
the struggle came at the cinema and I failed. Popcorn and chocolate, guessed on insulin dose, BG now quite high.
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Not a fail.
Eating popcorn and chocolate at the cinema is perfectly normal, healthy behaviour.
Non diabetics do it all the time and produce the appropriate amount of insulin to go with it, us T1's need to try to inject the appropriate amount of insulin instead because we don't produce it ourselves.

Your experience today taught you you need more insulin for popcorn and chocolate than you thought, so next time you can adjust your dose.
High numbers after dosing aren't a fail at all, they're useful data to work with for the next time you have something similar.

I think you're doing really well, you've been injecting for all your food since starting this thread!
Mis-guessing or miscalculating is not a fail, it's something to work on. Not injecting because of a mental block is much harder to deal with.
 
I’ve gone through the same thing, honestly. For a while I was either skipping doses or just guessing and then chasing highs later, and it felt like I was stuck in this cycle where the more I messed up, the less motivated I was to fix it. What helped me a bit was focusing on just one thing I could control instead of trying to get it all perfect, like making sure I never missed my morning shot, even if the rest of the day went off track. It wasn’t a magic fix, but it gave me something to build on, and it slowly got a bit easier to stay consistent.
 
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