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The tank is always full. Even if you don't eat any carbs.
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Conventional 'wisdom' is that depleted glycogen reserves have to be replaced. The normal advice to athletes (I'm not an atlete but I am active) is that depleted reserves can normally replaced within 24 hours if a diet high in complex carbs is followed, if a diet high in fat/protein is followed it takes much longer (according to one source up to a week).
I was advised to carb load/replenish when I was marathon training, (sports medicine doctor who gave conventional advice and said it applied to me just as much as to non diabetic runners .) I also found I had to eat more carbs when backpacking and thinking back had one day on holiday last year when I went low all day(though not 'lo') and for the rest of the week ate more carbs every day. I was more shocked this time as the only real difference to normal was the reduced carbs.
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It sounds like you have too much insulin action.
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I think you're right I should have reduced my basal earlier. I do this for formal exercise but don't really think of shopping as exercise.
With the flexibility of pumping I thought I would be able to be more flexible and on occasions eat less/use less insulin, certainly to avoid eating for the sake of feeding the insulin.
So far I am using less (on MD1 TDD was about 32, normal days now about 27. On the 'low' carb day I only used 20 and was quite sucessful in maintaining a good BS level that day but not the next. I think thats what surprised me as the only real difference to normal was the reduced carbs.
One of the reasons for going on the pump was to avoid the frequent but low grade hypos not to get more
I must be one of the few people that doctors tell off for having too low an HbA1c! Back to the drawing board.
