# Experiment Bolusing for Chinese Food

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/experiment-bolusing-for-chinese-food/3364>\
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA\
**Tags:** insulin, flatliner, extended-bolus\
**Created:** [January 29, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/experiment-bolusing-for-chinese-food/3364 "2018-01-29T00:58:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Millz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/millz/32/12204_2.png) [@Millz](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Millz)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/experiment-bolusing-for-chinese-food/3364/1 "2018-01-29T00:58:41Z")

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Last night we had Chinese food and I decided to try the approach to insulin dosing that Daisy Mae & Eric have discussed (thank you very much)!!

> [@Success at over bolusing at a restaurant](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/success-at-over-bolusing-at-a-restaurant/2495/1):
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> over bolus and if your BGs are too low, eat more

At 6:00pm my BG was 84 and I estimated a 60 carb meal then bolused 65% upfront with the remaining 35% extended for an hour. I had a about 1/2 cup of rice with a beef and portobello mushroom dish (which didn’t have much of a sauce).

I like the way it worked out, BG didn’t go above 115. This confirmed what I already suspected, I need to bolus more aggressively when eating higher carbs meals.

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**Author:** ![daisymae](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/daisymae/32/1199_2.png) [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/experiment-bolusing-for-chinese-food/3364/2 "2018-01-29T01:37:31Z")

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> [@Millz](#):
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> This confirmed what I already suspected, I need to bolus more aggressively when eating higher carbs meals.

this graph looks perfect. but, even if a meal is high in carbs, sometimes when you introduce fatty foods into the mix, it slows down the carbs from digesting, so you kind of need to fiddle with it; i had two large slices of pizza the other day and i bolused 35% upfront and 65% over a 2.5 hour extended bolus. it worked out like yours did. a perfect flatline. but YDMV.