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aimeeo

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Insulin
Had a baked potato and spaghetti hoops for dinner, thought I had correctly carb counted and given the right amount of novorapid but checked my blood sugars 2 hours after and they were 10.5.. checked again there now and now they have creeped up again to 12.3. Any ideas why this has happened ?
 

did you have a lot of fat with it too..? maybe it is the mysterious pizza-effect ...
 
No didn't have any fat just had the potato and spaghetti hoops
 
how many grams of carbs was it all in all...?

maybe the blood can only transform a certain maximum amount at a time and therefor it is continuing to rice longer than normal... it was like 300-400 grams of carbs or what ?
 
I guess the spaghetti hoops contributed too. What was the total carb count of the meal?
 
Ok. It's possible the pasta part is giving you a slow rise. If it's a meal you like, you could try again with slightly more insulin so that you can find what amount works for that meal. I get similar highs after baked potato and baked beans so I just add a tiny amount to my bolus.
 

Hi, just wondered....did you weigh the potato raw? Cooked baked potato has lost water and has a lot higher carbs wt for wt than raw, and higher than cooked boiled wt for wt. i often try and guess, but i cant - very annoying if eat baked potato out, i am often mistaken in estimate for carbs
 
Good point @ann34+ I always weigh my potatoes raw too. Whenever I try to eyeball them I get them wrong.
 
Yes cooked it raw! Never thought about that
 
aimeeo said:
Yes cooked it raw! Never thought about that
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bit confused - did you weigh it before cooking to work out the carbs? if so the other reason for a high could be that potatoes have very varied consistencies, i usually try to avoid them, as too many carbs for me. That said, i baked one yesterday and just had half, with baked beetroot and carrot and sunflower seed and bean salad - very nice!
 
Sorry I meant to say yes I weighed it when it was raw.. should I have weighed it when it was cooked would that make a difference ?
 
a quick google, raw potato is 18g carbs/100g, baked with skin is 21g/100g - now I'm not sure if the raw value includes skin.

if the potato was 200g before cooking that makes the carbs 36g + the hoops 20.4g so ~56g of carbs in that meal.

edit: any butter on the jacket?
 
Nope no butter
 
aimeeo said:
Sorry I meant to say yes I weighed it when it was raw.. should I have weighed it when it was cooked would that make a difference ?
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No, weigh it when raw. I weigh mine in ounces because it's easy to,remember the carbs eg a 6oz raw weight potato is 30g carbs, 4oz is 20g carbs, etc. if you weight it raw, you then know the carbs before cooking.

Experiment - try a slightly larger bolus, or a slightly smaller potato, or adding fat to slow down the spike, or bolusing more in advance of your meal. It's a pain, but usually you can work out a good solution that suits you.
 
Thanks for the help
 
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