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Originally Posted by Eddy  Makes sense. Levemir is short-lived enough that I could increase my overnight dose. (Of course, eating sane meals probably is a better tactic.)
It would be intriguing to see if people prone to weight gain have smaller postprandial spikes than those who seem to have no trouble keeping the weight off. |
I wouldn't raise my basals to deal with a meal like that, I think your better off injecting and firefighting later, as i guess you would have done. Raising basals will only cause problems the next day as you will end up with too much insulin in your system.
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Originally Posted by Eddy Hungry before, stuffed afterwards. A quart of potato-based soup, a fair amount of pasta, a few slices of bread, another dish... it's doable. Yes, it requires well more than one plate -- not to mention an hour (sometimes a little more) to eat everything.
You should have seen my pre-DX meals. And I was still losing weight...
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How can you loose weight with that kinda meal, thats impressive.
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Originally Posted by Eddy Hmmmm. So we high-basal people just like to stockpile, eh? |
I prefer the term "hording".
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Originally Posted by Eddy
I've heard the protein/fat theory. Never happens to me with sane-sized meals. Perhaps excess * gets converted to glucose; that's what I was trying to say by "releasing more glucose". And if high-basal people like to "stockpile", perhaps that's why I need a crazy-large meal to observe the latent upward drift...
FWIW, I actually seem to have an easier time nailing those huge meals. Large quantities of food digest more predictably, and any insulin-measurement errors are dwarfed by the total dose size. The problem is guesstimating the portion size... but spreading the release (of both glucose and insulin) over five hours instead of two makes things easier to me.
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Fat definitely effects my carb intake giving me spikes later in the day/night. I guess if you take that many carbs, your body will have to put it some were and it can only metabolise food at a certain rate so it’s quite possible that your belly still contains food hours later, which results in a constant upward spiral. There is my non-technical explanation.
