Bridie9408
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How do you work out when you eat if you are on four injections a day. What I mean are you stuck with having meals on time every day.
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hi bridie as long as you have bolused correctly for the carbs you are eating with each meal you can eat whenever you want you dont have to stick to 3 meals a day as long as you inject for what you eat at the time 
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I try to have dinner at roughly the same time every day in order for my liver to kick in at roughly the same time every day, other than that I don't see the point in having a set number of injections per day or set times per day where you have to eat or inject.
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Hi @Bridie9408. MDI can eat when we want, no set times. As long as you bolus for the carbs you are eating all is good. I eat when I am hungry lol
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I am a grazer - I eat when I want and this is often more than 3 times a day.
I am also slim so weight loss is not a problem - if anything I have the opposite problem and grazing seems to help.
When on MDI there is no restriction on when to eat. You can have 6 meals a day; you could have one meal a day.
As long as you can calculate how many carbohydrates there are in your food, you can eat what you want. You can have a roast with potatoes, parsnips, yorkshire pud, ... one day and a salad the next. Your insulin dose is likely to be different but you will learn how to calculate this.
Take a look at this: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/insulin/multiple-dose-insulin-injection-therapy.html: it explains how MDI works.
(As I keep saying, this website is an amazing diabetes reference library with lots of great stuff like this.)
I am also slim so weight loss is not a problem - if anything I have the opposite problem and grazing seems to help.
When on MDI there is no restriction on when to eat. You can have 6 meals a day; you could have one meal a day.
As long as you can calculate how many carbohydrates there are in your food, you can eat what you want. You can have a roast with potatoes, parsnips, yorkshire pud, ... one day and a salad the next. Your insulin dose is likely to be different but you will learn how to calculate this.
Take a look at this: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/insulin/multiple-dose-insulin-injection-therapy.html: it explains how MDI works.
(As I keep saying, this website is an amazing diabetes reference library with lots of great stuff like this.)
