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11-09-2003, 06:06 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Alaska
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| | | Havin trouble with pasta
I am having a hard time counting my pasta carbs. The package read as follows.........1/2 inch circle dry..............what the **** does this mean?........lolI counted what I THOUGHT would be the correct carb count but obviously I was WAY wrong since my BS reading told me so. How do you count pasta? |
11-09-2003, 07:07 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Rhode Island
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| | | Before I cook the pasta, I put the pasta on the scale.
I have 3 servings. Each serving for the pasta I have is 42carbs per serving.
Having a total amount of 126 carbs.
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11-09-2003, 07:10 PM
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This is what I've been told by me diabetes educator/ dietician...1 cup of cooked pasta has about 45 carbs in it. I know that there are lots of different types of pasta, and this is kind of general, but if you measure out a cup or whatever amt you want and adjust your insulin accordingly you should do ok. However, everyone is different and different foods can impact your bs in different ways. Pasta is one of those foods that usually make my bs spike too. |
11-10-2003, 07:20 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: SF Bay Area
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| | | I have a hard time predicting my pasta carbs, too. Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. I don't know how true this is, but I read somewhere that if you overcook the pasta, it shoots the sugar content up drastically.
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11-10-2003, 07:32 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
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| | | Havin trouble with pasta
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This is what I've been told by me diabetes educator/ dietician...1 cup of cooked pasta has about 45 carbs in it.
| =3 units per cup of pasghetti and meat bulbs, or most any pasta
this is the scale I go with, almost the same as Tony's, and if I measured right, I, usually, am just fine
I'm having problems with Chili. You have to have crackers in your chili, right? Well, smart me, I sometimes forget to count the crackers as I break them into the chili and KA ZANGO either way too high, like tonight or oopsie and Crash low
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11-12-2003, 07:43 AM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Tony
Having a total amount of 126 carbs. | Tony,
Can i ask how much insulin you take for that much carb at one meal? That souds like an insanely huge portion to me, but then again, i am a girl with a tiny appetite.  I was at my boyfriend's parents' house this weekend and his mum is an excellent cook. We eat a little too well while we are there and i couldn't believe that in one meal i had 100 g of carbs! I don't try to limit myself, but i generally don't have more than 60g at any one sitting. I was so full after that meal that i took a 2 hour nap!
But in general, for pasta i do the same as you - pop it on the scale before i cook it. This works well for me, but i am not always good about guessing the carb content of the sauce!
Andrea |
11-12-2003, 11:16 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Alaska
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| | | My carbs run anywhere from 30 to 150 a meal, just depends on what I'm eating of course but when I'm hungry I eat a lot.
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11-12-2003, 05:25 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Rhode Island
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| | | Andrea,
For 126 carbs I Bolus 6.3units.
20/1 at night and 25/1 during the day.
That same night I ended up eating more. I must of had any where from 60 to 100 carbs more.
I only weigh 155 pounds and I can pack down some food.
I must have problems!
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11-12-2003, 06:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Alaska
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| | Then Tony, you and I have the same problem. I'm 148 lbs
I challenge you to an eating contest!!!  |
11-12-2003, 06:32 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Rhode Island
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| | Quote: Originally posted by _ALASKA_
Then Tony, you and I have the same problem. I'm 148 lbs
I challenge you to an eating contest!!! | LOL...
Your on. But this contest may not be good for our Diabetes. 
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11-12-2003, 11:05 PM
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| | | Holy schmoley Tony - that is a lot of food! As i said, i don't limit myself purposely, but i just can't eat that much at one sitting! I usually don't have much more than 160g carb in the whole day! Maybe that is why i am always hungry...hmmm....
You are also quite sensitive to insulin. Do you find that your insulin to carb ratio changes at all when the overall quantity of your food changes? Do you think it would still be 1:25 in the day if you had a snack of 25g vs a dinner with 200g of carb?
Andrea |
11-13-2003, 06:02 PM
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| | | During the day i don't eat as much as I do at night.
I don't think my insulin to carb ratio changes with the quantity of food I eat. But I do notice sometimes when I eat out it seem like i'm not taking enough insulin. I had a bagel one morning and I know those bagels have 75carbs. I took 3units. I corrected a few times that day but my sugar didn't come down till that night. I was done for the whole day.
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11-14-2003, 09:04 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
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| | | Havin trouble with pasta
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But I do notice sometimes when I eat out it seem like i'm not taking enough insulin. I had a bagel one morning and I know those bagels have 75carbs. I took 3units. I corrected a few times that day but my sugar didn't come down till that night. I was done for the whole day.
| I have noticed the same thing. When I eat out, even though I have checked the Carb count at restaurant's web site, I seem to miss wth how much insulin I take and it through me off for the day too.
Generally, I do better when I "guesstimate" the amount of carbs rather than take the Co.'s word for it.
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11-14-2003, 03:21 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
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| | | WOW! I wish I had your carbohydrate to insulin ratio! I have a ratio of 6 to 1. For every 6g of carbo's I eat, I take one unit of insulin. I try to limit my carbohydrates to about 90 per day TOPS. Usually it is less. I am always battling weight even with that lower amount of carbo consumption. I am female 5'7" and about 150 pounds. I would give anything to be able to eat a few more carbs and take a little less insulin, but I can't.
As for the bagels I can't eat them at all unless I do a dual wave bolus to cover them. For one bagel (they usually have 40 carbs in one whole one) I would take about six units of insulin up front and then square wave about 2 units over a two hour period. For some reason bagels come back and bite you again about two hours later. I also square wave for pizza and it works perfectly. (Don't eat that to often either).
Nancy |
11-15-2003, 01:37 AM
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| | ALASKA,
Hmmm, 1/2 inch circle...now is that radius, circumference or diameter?! LOL you poor sucker! If you and Tony have an eating contest, I want to be the judge!! He eats as much-if not more-at one meal than I eat all day!! And here I don't even have to say anything to that one...it's self explanatory... 
Nancy,
I'm similar to you. I'm 5'2", 125 lbs. (yikes-**** this pump that made me gain 10 lbs!!) and my CHO ratio is 1:5 generally. My Dr. figures it's because I was only on NovoRapid when I was on MDI; no backround basal during the day. NPH only at night.
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