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<blockquote data-quote="becca59" data-source="post: 2210127" data-attributes="member: 264425"><p>As it isn’t an actual HBA1C result don’t take your Libre/Glimp app results as red.</p><p>The fact that you cook from scratch a lot is a big positive. You are in charge of what is going into the food. Putting in some extra effort at the beginning of a new dish will pay dividends. Write down every item you put in down to the last g/ml and then sit down and work out how many carbs are in it. Then see how your body reacts and make notes of insulin taken and levels. Make a chart for the back of a cupboard door and write down carbs in everything you eat. The chart thing I did a couple of weeks after diagnosis and 6 years later it is still there. I hardly refer to it now, but in the early days, boy was that chart poured over. What I am trying to say is, yes all this extra work is a pain and irritating when you cannot just sit and eat. However a few months work now it will have paid dividends and the working out required will be negligible. As the main cook in my house I have Post it’s on the go with meal on, carbs to be eaten, how much insulin to take and my pen primed ready to inject whilst deep in cooking territory. </p><p>I know it’s not the same as just sitting and eating what we want and however much we want. But we have to make the best of a bad job in the easiest way possible. For me accuracy is important. It can be done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="becca59, post: 2210127, member: 264425"] As it isn’t an actual HBA1C result don’t take your Libre/Glimp app results as red. The fact that you cook from scratch a lot is a big positive. You are in charge of what is going into the food. Putting in some extra effort at the beginning of a new dish will pay dividends. Write down every item you put in down to the last g/ml and then sit down and work out how many carbs are in it. Then see how your body reacts and make notes of insulin taken and levels. Make a chart for the back of a cupboard door and write down carbs in everything you eat. The chart thing I did a couple of weeks after diagnosis and 6 years later it is still there. I hardly refer to it now, but in the early days, boy was that chart poured over. What I am trying to say is, yes all this extra work is a pain and irritating when you cannot just sit and eat. However a few months work now it will have paid dividends and the working out required will be negligible. As the main cook in my house I have Post it’s on the go with meal on, carbs to be eaten, how much insulin to take and my pen primed ready to inject whilst deep in cooking territory. I know it’s not the same as just sitting and eating what we want and however much we want. But we have to make the best of a bad job in the easiest way possible. For me accuracy is important. It can be done. [/QUOTE]
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