Experimenting with more aggressive bolusing

[lh378]

I wanted to share with the group and would like to know your thoughts:

No-spike rice

I experimented tonight: I’ve been eating 1 cup of quinoa for a few days always with some chickpeas and “meat”( chicken turkey, beef,…etc) Good BG at 2 hours. However…There was always the delayed rise after a few hours. I wanted to minimize my carbs, but always felt hungry… (Every meal there is green vegetables, but I tend to not count them because very minimal affect on carb count) Then I came across some information that too much protein/fat could actually cause insulin sensitivity probl…

@lh378

This was Sunday:

For dinner: I had 1.25 C quinoa, reduced my meat portion (it was italian sausage),had much less chickpeas than previously- only 4g carbs of chickpeas (it was only 5 chickpeas). And some carrots. Total dinner carb count 44g. Bolused based on I:C 1:10. I did not prebolus because there was a little IOB (less than 1 unit) from a previous snack.

1. 5 hour BG : 131
   2 hour BG : 126
   3.5 hour BG : 130.

4 hour BG: 121

Tuesday
7:25 pm pre dinner BG : 101
bolused 6 units for about 55 g of carbs consisting of:
Costco Rotisserie chicken breast (unknown carbs- best guest 3g) on two slices of rye pumpernickel bread (28g) sandwich, less than 1/2 grapefruit (< 15g), some carrots/chickpeas (4g) , and broccoli (5g). I did not prebolus figuring that I would eat the broccoli first and the sandwich next.
10 pm BG 100 - this looks very encouraging
11 pm - 187 - what’s this? Is the Costco Rotisserie Chicken breast one of those nasty fatty foods that would cause a delayed BG rise? I will have to read the ingredient label more thoroughly. I decided to take 1.5 units - I currently only have 8mm pen needles. looked for a spot on my lower thigh with less fat, hopped into the shower.
12 midnight : 165 - yup - I guess there was something in the prepared outside food - the Costco Rotisserie Chicken.

Perhaps I could have bolused more aggressively than the 6 units for this dinner. However, I wonder if the 10 pm BG would have been lower than 100, and then I would likely have overreacted, and over corrected. As it is, most endo’s would say to me, 187 it’s not bad. And I brought it down to 165. (I just started a new cartridge of expired, but refrigerated Novolog, today, Tuesday. It may or may not be related to these wonky numbers. I don’t think that it is the cause because if the insulin were ineffective, my BG’s would be in high 200 to mid 300’s)