# Basal Discussion Deep Dive for Everyone

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/basal-discussion-deep-dive-for-everyone/4536>\
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA\
**Created:** [July 20, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/basal-discussion-deep-dive-for-everyone/4536 "2018-07-20T14:32:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/basal-discussion-deep-dive-for-everyone/4536/60 "2018-08-12T01:59:29Z")

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> [@T1Allison](#):
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> How frequently do you employ this tactic? Under what scenarios? Just curious.

It would actually be easier to say when I don’t do it. Because I always do it except under a few circumstances like these:

- Away from home - lack of access to my own refrigerator and pantry totally screws up the tactic.
- Any travel situation, driving or flying.
- Working in an office, which I don’t usually need to do.
- Something like a dentist appointment where I can’t stop and eat.
- Any time I am needing full concentration and can’t take a break for eating or can’t afford the mental lapse a low might bring,
- Any time when I am trying to cut weight and the extra eating will screw me up.

Other than that, I will do it.

It is generally not any kind of crashing low, or anything that needs a lot. Just a handful of peanuts, or a few potato chips or bite of cookie, or something small like that.

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