So I don’t know that my answer will actually be helpful…but I’ll throw it out there just in case it is…
…I left my career in 2019 and it took me a while to figure out what methodology would work for my new and much more unpredictable activity levels as a SAHM.
When I was working, I was desk-bound five days a week with extremely predictable SITTING. Sitting in the car commuting there and back…and sitting all day long. I took MASSIVE meal doses to eat and was waiting 45-60 minutes to eat.
Insulin does nearly nothing for me if I’m not active.
So…after being home for six years now…what I’ve decided works best for me is just always taking “active lifestyle” smaller meal doses with a heavy prebolus timing.
My kids are still young enough that they can have spontaneous injuries that require me to drop everything and come to their assistance right then. It happens enough that I absolutely hate dosing for meals based on inactivity dosing now…bc I do have so much unplanned activity.
So my life now looks more like what it did back when I was honeymooning still and my doctors all thought I was Type 2: I’d eat medium to low carb foods and walk afterward.
These days I walk after every meal if I’m not already doing something else that is active (cleaning or doing some kind of active family outing).
I just absolutely hate the lack of physical flexibility that I feel with the “oh damn, this might suddenly fall off a cliff if I become active” dosing.
I hope you find something that works for you! The “breaking loose” lows are the ones that bug me the absolute most. They didn’t bug me as much before becoming a mom…but I really don’t want my boys picking up routinely on “fear” in me and the best way for me to avoid that is to stay active all day long so that lower doses do more for me.