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<blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 88501" data-attributes="member: 11712"><p>Hi Jo</p><p></p><p>As phoenix says you are still early stages of being a diabetic, so there is still a lot to learn and propable changes ahead...</p><p></p><p>I've actually been on the DAFNE course and it goes a lot further than just teaching carb counting, it covers many aspects of diabetes, dealing with hypos', sick day rules, how to work out correct bolus injections, carb ratio's, how to handle excercise etc... What blood tests, you should be having, what they mean... How to build a diary that gives good information about your control, that you can work from when problems solving etc...</p><p></p><p>As to carb counting side of it, yes they do use 'healthy eating' as there template but they do understand that diabetics all have different tastes and diets... There aim, isn't to tell you that you've got to eat or XXX amount of carbs, You choose what carbs you want to eat and the quanities, they give you the information on how to work-out the insulin needs to match this choice...</p><p></p><p>The ethos of DAFNE is to give us back our choice of what we want to eat, and when we want to eat it... So if you chose to low carb or high carb, you will have the information you require to follow this choice...</p><p></p><p>There is plenty of time to ask questions, about anything you don't understand, want to know about the different aspects of diabetes... and you build a repore with the diabetic team that you can't build within via the appointments system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jopar, post: 88501, member: 11712"] Hi Jo As phoenix says you are still early stages of being a diabetic, so there is still a lot to learn and propable changes ahead... I've actually been on the DAFNE course and it goes a lot further than just teaching carb counting, it covers many aspects of diabetes, dealing with hypos', sick day rules, how to work out correct bolus injections, carb ratio's, how to handle excercise etc... What blood tests, you should be having, what they mean... How to build a diary that gives good information about your control, that you can work from when problems solving etc... As to carb counting side of it, yes they do use 'healthy eating' as there template but they do understand that diabetics all have different tastes and diets... There aim, isn't to tell you that you've got to eat or XXX amount of carbs, You choose what carbs you want to eat and the quanities, they give you the information on how to work-out the insulin needs to match this choice... The ethos of DAFNE is to give us back our choice of what we want to eat, and when we want to eat it... So if you chose to low carb or high carb, you will have the information you require to follow this choice... There is plenty of time to ask questions, about anything you don't understand, want to know about the different aspects of diabetes... and you build a repore with the diabetic team that you can't build within via the appointments system. [/QUOTE]
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