I live a complicated but fairly interesting life. When I am at home, I can with some precision calculate the nutritional content of my food intake, but things get more difficult when eating out, attending business dinners, travelling abroad, dealing with emotionally fraught family situations etc.
At present I am trying to meet three objectives:
1) to lose about 7 or 8 kilos weight - for general health reasons and also in order to reduce pressure on my lower joints (I have already had one hip replacement operation)
2) To get fit after several sedentary years and a heart bypass operation (I am 71)
3) To get my Blood Sugar under tight control.
To achieve these, I am using three main tools: Strict control of food content and quantity, Exercise, Insulin Injection with pretty frequent monitoring of Blood Sugar, Weight, Waist Measurement, Carbohydrate Intake, and Glycaemic Loading.
Because of my rather inconsistent lifestyle, I am trying to develop a computer algorithm that, given: {a blood reading, an estimate of exercise about to be undertaken, an estimate of food intake expected, and personal details such as my weight}, Will give me a recommended dose to get me through the next 12 (or so) hours
I hope that this will enable me to achieve tighter control than hitherto.
One parameter that I have yet to work on is a target BS level just clear of hypo with a small safety margin. I would welcome any views as to the right margin to aim for. Obviously the accuracy and resolution that the algorithm is capable of, affects the margin that I must aim for. Also there are bound to be biological factors that will tend to increase margin at the expense of control accuracy.
I would particularly welcome a collaborator on my Algorithm Project. I do not have any medical qualifications, but am an engineer with a great deal of curiosity and a scientific background.
I am already having some success, My BS is consistently 1.5 points lower than when I started my project, Hypos are now virtually non-existent and extremely slow starting and shallow if they do occur. My daily dose of Insulin is more stable, but the ratio of AM to PM dose is more difficult to get right than I expected.
I look forward to any input from members.
As a come-on, I suppose that as well as being useful to me, others may also be interested in using an accurate method of living with low sugar and zero hypos. Certainly I think it should be possible to do better than the NHS seems to offer.
At present I am trying to meet three objectives:
1) to lose about 7 or 8 kilos weight - for general health reasons and also in order to reduce pressure on my lower joints (I have already had one hip replacement operation)
2) To get fit after several sedentary years and a heart bypass operation (I am 71)
3) To get my Blood Sugar under tight control.
To achieve these, I am using three main tools: Strict control of food content and quantity, Exercise, Insulin Injection with pretty frequent monitoring of Blood Sugar, Weight, Waist Measurement, Carbohydrate Intake, and Glycaemic Loading.
Because of my rather inconsistent lifestyle, I am trying to develop a computer algorithm that, given: {a blood reading, an estimate of exercise about to be undertaken, an estimate of food intake expected, and personal details such as my weight}, Will give me a recommended dose to get me through the next 12 (or so) hours
I hope that this will enable me to achieve tighter control than hitherto.
One parameter that I have yet to work on is a target BS level just clear of hypo with a small safety margin. I would welcome any views as to the right margin to aim for. Obviously the accuracy and resolution that the algorithm is capable of, affects the margin that I must aim for. Also there are bound to be biological factors that will tend to increase margin at the expense of control accuracy.
I would particularly welcome a collaborator on my Algorithm Project. I do not have any medical qualifications, but am an engineer with a great deal of curiosity and a scientific background.
I am already having some success, My BS is consistently 1.5 points lower than when I started my project, Hypos are now virtually non-existent and extremely slow starting and shallow if they do occur. My daily dose of Insulin is more stable, but the ratio of AM to PM dose is more difficult to get right than I expected.
I look forward to any input from members.
As a come-on, I suppose that as well as being useful to me, others may also be interested in using an accurate method of living with low sugar and zero hypos. Certainly I think it should be possible to do better than the NHS seems to offer.
and welcome to the forum