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<blockquote data-quote="evilclive" data-source="post: 2039860" data-attributes="member: 488171"><p>Just popping my head up to say I'm not low carb either.</p><p></p><p>At its heart, T1 is fairly simple - eating carbs sends sugars up, putting insulin in takes it down. You need to balance the two. This can be done by adjusting what you eat, what you inject, or both.</p><p></p><p>In the absence of testing, fixed food + fixed insulin was the normal way of doing things for years. But we now have easy testing, so changing things to make them work is recommended - DAFNE is about changing the insulin to match doses. If you're on fixed doses, you'll have to change the amount you eat if your blood sugar levels are wrong. Or exercise the sugars off - that can be very effective.</p><p></p><p>I was diagnosed in the age of easy testing, but before DAFNE, so worked it out for myself - higher sugar? More insulin. More cake? More insulin. Hypo? Less insulin. Tiny meal? Less insulin.</p><p></p><p>In practice, it's actually more complicated than that, with the long acting insulin to take account of too, but the idea that you can change things to match what your body is doing is key IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="evilclive, post: 2039860, member: 488171"] Just popping my head up to say I'm not low carb either. At its heart, T1 is fairly simple - eating carbs sends sugars up, putting insulin in takes it down. You need to balance the two. This can be done by adjusting what you eat, what you inject, or both. In the absence of testing, fixed food + fixed insulin was the normal way of doing things for years. But we now have easy testing, so changing things to make them work is recommended - DAFNE is about changing the insulin to match doses. If you're on fixed doses, you'll have to change the amount you eat if your blood sugar levels are wrong. Or exercise the sugars off - that can be very effective. I was diagnosed in the age of easy testing, but before DAFNE, so worked it out for myself - higher sugar? More insulin. More cake? More insulin. Hypo? Less insulin. Tiny meal? Less insulin. In practice, it's actually more complicated than that, with the long acting insulin to take account of too, but the idea that you can change things to match what your body is doing is key IMO. [/QUOTE]
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