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Did you guys have to reduce your basal when you cut carbs? If basal is meant to be half ur insulin I can see you would have to. I hypo'd overnight
 
Hi Emmotha - yes! In fact, if I have a couple of higher carb days, I have to increase my basal quite a bit to bring the baseline back down.

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My basal is now two-thirds of what it was when I was medium carbing (120-150g/day). Can't remember what it was on full carbs. I had to increase it by 50% over christmas when my carb intake went up a bit.
 
Well I'm only on 7, I had been on 6 for <60g carbs but as I are more it crept up.
Shall I go straight to 5, or try 6 for a couple of days?
 
Emmotha said:
Well I'm only on 7, I had been on 6 for <60g carbs but as I are more it crept up.
Shall I go straight to 5, or try 6 for a couple of days?
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Personally, I would go to 5 and work up if necessary. Main thing is to avoid hypos.
 
I've just put mine down from 8 to 7, think it needs to be 6 but going to stick at 7 for few days.
 
4.7 this morning, was pretty much in 4s and 5s yesterday but had 3 readings in the 3s :( will see how today goes x how's yours?
 
To give you a comparison Emmotha, my basal is still 20u per day even with low carb and to account for the proteins in meals I am still taking roughly 4-6u bolus with a split in timing.
 
Butterflykeri said:
I've just put mine down from 8 to 7, think it needs to be 6 but going to stick at 7 for few days.
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I was on 7 (4 am, 3pm), now with 3 x 1u NovoRapid available (O wondrous NovoRapid, the grief worry and sheer misery it has saved me) it's back down to 5 (3 am, 2 pm). Just for comparison.
 
Well done on your improved levels Emma. Can I ask what you're having for breakfast? That's the meal I find hardest on low carb


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Keep it up - it works wonders. Like Robert, my diabetes wasn't the best until I started low carbing. I coulnd't get my HbA1c below 7 without loads of hypos. Low carbing makes excellent control easy and reduces hypo frequency and severity.
 
Yeah breakfast is hard. Luckily at work I can buy bacon and mushrooms from the canteen if I'm not in a meeting.

Omelettes are good, you can cook them the day before too and eat them cold.

Cold "fry up", ie high quality cocktail sausages (good ones are under 0.5g per sausage) and tomatoes with a cold boiled egg
 
Oh and M&S do a lovely ready to eat crispy bacon pack :)

Whatever you fancy though really. It's only society that tells us that certain foods are only meant for breakfast time. Have a Greek salad if that's what you fancy
 
Emmotha said:
Oh and M&S do a lovely ready to eat crispy bacon pack :)

Whatever you fancy though really. It's only society that tells us that certain foods are only meant for breakfast time. Have a Greek salad if that's what you fancy
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Yes I love that bacon. I have it for lunch or a snack but guess it would be a good breakfast too



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