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Originally Posted by SueM  DAFNE is not stick all you can in your gob and eat it.
What it does is teach you how to adjust your insulin for normal eating.
Now if you sit and stuff your face all day long whether you are diabetic or not then that is not normal eating is it?
DAFNE does not preach any kind of diet. It just teaches you to use your insulin in the correct manner.
No matter what you eat needs portion control and that is the key to diabetes control.
I have not done DAFNE either, but I have spoken to many who have and they have been very positive with their comments and also the greater control it has given them over their diabetes and life.
So don't knock it until you have tried it. |
Ok Sue, thanks for the info. I'm very happy indeed that people have been and are getting improvements from Dafne. Please forgive my "all you can eat" comment, it was a careless way of saying it sounds like it might encourage people to think the carbs equation is solved without perhaps considering a lower amount of carbs. For many people of course, it isn't an issue. For other people that couldn't be further from the truth. I don't like seeing people slip through the cracks of doctrine - if it happens. If not, and if Dafne really doesn't encourage people to completely expect a medium or high carb diet to be solved through ratio dosaging... then all is good!
Check ant hill's post in "diabetes" forum for someone who's come up against a big brick wall with it - he has followed the rules and control is way off unless he breaks with his Dafne instructors rules of a certain I:C ratio. And sure, he might be an exception (I would hope so!). There do seem some worrying elements in some implementations of Dafne. (Maybe it's just the local version being so blindly brittle - do you know if it is common to dictate a certain I:C without modification?). Hopefully they will improve these fundamental issues where they occur.
Nethertheless, chastisement received and understood!
