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How to bolus for a carb-free meal?
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If it's your first time at trying a low-carb meal (remember there's carbs in tomato sauce) then leave the bolus and see how your bg levels behave, but really its just trial and error and by monitoring your bg levels will determine how much insulin you need, if you do bolus I'd be sure to make it a small dose and increase it next time if necessary.
On injections I always had to split-dose for low-carb meals.
On injections I always had to split-dose for low-carb meals.
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It really depends...
Eggs.. I count as 4g of carb per egg.
For the meal you are listing.. Its hard to know because was it just a homemade tomato sauce? Was it a cup worth or two or three? Etc.
It really is a suck n see situation....
Eggs.. I count as 4g of carb per egg.
For the meal you are listing.. Its hard to know because was it just a homemade tomato sauce? Was it a cup worth or two or three? Etc.
It really is a suck n see situation....
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Thanks for the input.
I had meat (plus veggies) for lunch and I injected just one unit. It was good that I did that since I could see a moderate upward movement of my BG (it peaked at 6) even with the bolus.
For dinner I had one smal avocado and lots of other low-carb veggies with olive oil. Again, I injected one unit. But this time I went a little bit low (around 4), so I ate a slice of crispbread (6g carbs) and pistachio nuts (about 10g carbs) .
My conclusion would be that proteins made the difference. (I had meat for lunch but almost no proteins for dinner). For foods with carbs I would just count the carbs. When there are no carbs, I suppose one should count the protein ??
I had meat (plus veggies) for lunch and I injected just one unit. It was good that I did that since I could see a moderate upward movement of my BG (it peaked at 6) even with the bolus.
For dinner I had one smal avocado and lots of other low-carb veggies with olive oil. Again, I injected one unit. But this time I went a little bit low (around 4), so I ate a slice of crispbread (6g carbs) and pistachio nuts (about 10g carbs) .
My conclusion would be that proteins made the difference. (I had meat for lunch but almost no proteins for dinner). For foods with carbs I would just count the carbs. When there are no carbs, I suppose one should count the protein ??
