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Originally Posted by _mystictiger_
You need to completely avoid sugar and anything containing sugar or glucose supplements. You can only have sugar when you are having a "low" (hypo).
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That's steer manure-- mystic, you're GROSSLY uninformed.
T1 is a balancing act: after taking a continuous "basal" level of insulin, you eat the food amounts which you need to maintain a healthy weight-- and match those meals and snacks with fast-acting "bolus" insulin doses.
As "Basal", most people either use Lantus (a very long-acting insulin) in shots once or twice a day, or they use their fast-acting insulin (Humalog, Novolog,
Apidra) in a pump, doing a more-or-less continuous drip. I'm a pumper, using only "fast" insulin.
All calories raise bG, but protein and fat calories raise it VERY slowly. If you were to eat only fatty meals, you would need more insulin for a period of about 8 hours. A "meal" of only carbos would need all of it's insulin within the first hour or two. A well-balanced meal is just a little bit faster than the "fast" insulins, so it's best to shoot up a little bit before actually eating.
Not all fats are unhealthy. And there are carbohydrates which digest FASTER than table sugar. And sugar is not a "poison" you can't eat... THEY (there's many different kinds of sugar) are just fast-acting carbohydrates, you shoot up correctly and they're perfectly OK to eat.
Mystic is speaking like an idiot, EXCEPT when she says that a session with a D-related dietician could be helpful. That part was right on.
Re: need to completely avoid sugar ? (WRONG !!!)
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