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<blockquote data-quote="ElyDave" data-source="post: 677900" data-attributes="member: 74042"><p>In my opinion, you can discount any carbs you are taking in during exercise. That doesn't make it a free for all though.</p><p> </p><p>Essentials are</p><p>1) appropriate basal rate on pump, or reduce basal dose on MDI</p><p>2) if cycling within 2-3 hours of eating reduce bolus (when on MDI I could do a 4 hour club ride on 0.5U levemir that morning and no bolus)</p><p>3) test regularly and eat to the meter. Again, my experiment of 1 had me testing every 45mins on the bike and earing approx 30-40 g carbs per hour. The guide books would say significnatly more, but I've spent several years working on fat utilisation.</p><p> </p><p>There is no one size fits all strategy and my approach would be different if I didn't have time to dose adjust or if I'm doing a shorter ride of say one hour.</p><p> </p><p>I'm going to try and put it into practice on the pump on Sunday, temporary basal of 30% of normal starting 1 hour before the ride.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ElyDave, post: 677900, member: 74042"] In my opinion, you can discount any carbs you are taking in during exercise. That doesn't make it a free for all though. Essentials are 1) appropriate basal rate on pump, or reduce basal dose on MDI 2) if cycling within 2-3 hours of eating reduce bolus (when on MDI I could do a 4 hour club ride on 0.5U levemir that morning and no bolus) 3) test regularly and eat to the meter. Again, my experiment of 1 had me testing every 45mins on the bike and earing approx 30-40 g carbs per hour. The guide books would say significnatly more, but I've spent several years working on fat utilisation. There is no one size fits all strategy and my approach would be different if I didn't have time to dose adjust or if I'm doing a shorter ride of say one hour. I'm going to try and put it into practice on the pump on Sunday, temporary basal of 30% of normal starting 1 hour before the ride. [/QUOTE]
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