I WANT TO EAT PIZZA HELP

I eat pizza about once a month with Animas Vibe.
I use combo bolus over 4.5 hours at a ratio of 40:60 and avoid massive BG swings.

These are home made thin crust vegetarian pizzas.
I use mozzarella cheese but probably not as much as you get on a Dominos pizza.
So my pizzas are probably slightly last carbs and not as fatty.
But still very tasty.

 

I follow the Paul Hollywood Pizza base recipe which I roll pretty thin.
My toppings vary but, as conventional ovens don't get as hot as wood fired pizza ovens, I do not over stack it with toppings. Otherwise, I would suffer from "a soggy bottom".

Good luck with your pizza making and longer combi-boluses.

 

Great advice to use the extended bolus button or whatever the animas version is. The more fat you have your pizza the greater the time you'd need to extend the bolus due to the carb being slowed down in its absorption by the fat so you might get varied results just by having a different brand of pizza or one with more or less topping! Homemade tastes better but bear in mind it isn't just what's in the dough that needs to be counted unless you do a keto version of same. Enjoy your pizza and good luck (or 'educated guess' being optiomistic) with the dosing!!

 

The other thing to consider (as it has not yet been discussed) "Do I have to eat pizza"? Yes, the 2 hour BSL spike is avoided only to be delayed. I am not denying anyone the challenge of trying to tackle this and finding what works. It just seems a lot of carbs and fats. But each person to their own, it is a free world. Enjoy the journey and the challenge of the split bolus dosing which might also be needed for split pea and bean dishes !!

 

When I was on a pump with annoyingly delicious food like that, I'd use a 60/40 or sometimes even a 70/30. Don't be afraid to test it, pizza gives you some kind of sugar boost an hour or two later. In my experience, I'd just make sure that you've got more fast-acting insulin (I.E the 60%) FIRST and the extra 40% last. Make sure the bigger number comes first - the smaller amount of insulin being released later on should keep you flat as the pizza breaks down.

 

Maybe try the fat head pizza - or even the cauliflower base one - I can't comment on either as I don't see the attraction in eating pizza.
I can't say I have never eaten pizza, but I wouldn't feel any urge to have a whole one.
Those who do have had their itch scratched by the alternatives, so it might be worth giving them a try. How to inject for them - ah - well - .....

 

Fat head pizza is a great alternative, quick and easy to make, lots of recipes on the net

 

I too have had this dilemma, and for me what works is as follows.

So because when I have a treat I have to be a greedy bas****, I eat half of a pizza to myself, theres about 80g carbs in my half of pizza. Now when I used to eat this, my sugars about 2 hours later, great, 5.5 or something, then when I wake up the next morning, oopsie, its now 14.

So what I do now is, I take my Novorapid (which I take at meals, could be different for you) but instead of taking the full 8 units, I take 4 units (but I add 2 on usually), then an hour or hour and a half later, I take the next 4 units. I do spike a bit more after the hour and a half, however come 4 hours later my sugars have been far more stable. Just a thought

I mean, now my half pizza doesnt have that much carbs as Ive moved to thin crust pizza, and may make a switch to even lower carb, lower fat variants soon

 

When I was diagnosed one of my hobbies was making pizza so I miss that tremendously.
With my trial CGM I wanted to test my home made pizza and found I peaked 6 hours later but didn't go back to normal until 10 hours after. So the plan next time is to split the dose into 3 and take quite a lot more. The other plan would be to only have a couple of slices.

 

Definitely you should. Probably the thing I miss the most about the pump, you can't do that sort of thing with injections I don't think. Atleast, not without multiple.

still eat pizza tho i aint letting that stop me from some good pepperoni ygm

 

Hi there @bidder1603 - just thought I would add to this (albeit a little late) - I had the same problem, as I love pizza - however, @bulkbiker gave me this fantasitc option for a low carb pizza - tastes as good as (if not better) than normal pizza, strange as it may sound - absolutely no need to miss out! -
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/missing-pizza.122788/

 

We do 50:50 dual wave over 3.5 hours for regular pizza