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Originally Posted by Jodie  I am doing the DAFNE course soon and I am just wondering if this is the way you count carbs say if something has 19.3 carbohydrates in do you round that to 20 and then divide by 10? and then you get the carbohydrate portion and then thats how many units you take |
I did the DAFNE course last November and you are pretty spot on with the procedures it uses. Your above example assumes that your ratio is 1 unit of insulin per CP though. However I agree with some of the other posters that converting to carb units is just making things more awkward than they need to be. My current ratio is 1:10 and I don't bother converting the carb grams into CPs.
Another thing I would say (and it's probably obvious) is that if you are going to eat a few different items I probably wouldn't do any rounding until the end when you've calculated the total amount of carbs. It may not make a huge amound of difference because for some items you will be rounding up and other items you will be rounding down but I prefer to have a completely accurate total and then round.
