Spiker
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It's great that you have your basal right and now you need to get your carb ratio right. This is essential, there is no skipping it.Thanks to the insulin leprechaun, have done the fasting trial and the basal is allright; on 8 units Am & 4.5pm. Cant comment on the carb ratio since never could learn how to calculate that, but thank heavens my correction dose says that 1 unit of fast act=lowers 40 mg/dl.
Been doing some reading on the Tag thing, but the only thing I got was that u need to calculate 50% of the protein and 10% of the fat to have it right?
TAG, protein dosing and fat dosing, do not worry about now and not until you have the carb ratio working. You may never need to worry about protein or fat dosing. Get the carbs right first. Then ONLY if you see some unexpected high BG results after eating protein, try a protein dose, but start small, say 20% or 25% of the grams of protein as grams of carbs, and work your way up slowly from there as needed.
That's grams of actual protein in the food, not grams of meat or fish etc. Bernstein can be very confusing on this.