Living with type 1 diabetes is by no means easy (until you find a treatment of course), but there’s no doubt that you can do it to make it a little easier.
Here are seven things to help you make my Life with type 1 diabetes is easy. These seven things help me stay in my target A1C range None Diabetes management is the center of my universe.
Let’s take a look.
Use a container or bowl of the same size for starchy foods
Don’t you like to measure everything you eat? For starchy foods such as vegetable medleys such as rice, oats, and corn, you can remove that measurement step without sacrificing the accuracy of carbohydrate counts using the same container or bowl for that meal.
example: For a recent breakfast, I eat a large container of frozen “vegetable medleys” (corn, peas, carrots, green beans) served with three or four breakfast chicken sausages. It’s easy for my outing morning (I have two small children) and I microwave it for a few minutes before I leave the house. By using the same microwave container and filling it to the same level each time, you know that 4 units of insulin is needed for that breakfast. It’s easy.
exercise in front You’ll eat
We were all taught in the doctor’s office that we need to eat in advance and feed our exercise by reducing or skipping insulin doses for our meals. Instead, exercise in front You eat your next meal means you don’t have a large bolus of insulin onboard in your bloodstream. In this way, aerobic exercise is much less likely to cause a significant drop in blood sugar levels.
This approach will help you relieve you of the constant worry of hypoglycemia during exercise.
example: I prefer to exercise around 7pm just before dinner. To keep this as simple as possible from a blood glucose control perspective, I try not to eat from 4pm to 7pm. Please don’t By the time I start the rope, my system still has a fast acting insulin active.
Usually I can find that I can start a 30-minute jump rope training with a blood glucose level (although as low as 90 mg/dL) that is 30 minutes away.
Eat the same thing (mostly) for breakfast, snacks, and lunch
I certainly don’t suggest you eat the same food all day every day. It’s boring. However, eating the same thing every day with two or three meals makes blood sugar management much easier. Because they know that they need exactly the insulin they need for those diets.
And that doesn’t mean you can’t switch things up. Maybe you’ll eat the same thing for breakfast for three weeks, then switch to something different.
And dinner (and dessert) might be a meal that makes you more enjoyable and flexible as we usually eat dinner at home, and those other meals are on the go and rush a little more.
example: Recently, my go-to breakfast is a big tupperware of frozen vegetables and chicken sausages, then a vegan strawberry protein shake for my next meal, then a dinner consisting of apples and raw pecans, and usually meat + vegetables…and of course, homemade desserts!
I know about three out of five of those meals that’s right How much insulin is needed is less likely to be large fluctuations in blood glucose and predictability.
Use very specific foods to treat hypoglycemia
Well, this is easy. Do not treat hypoglycemia with foods that are reaching impulsively.
If you don’t have any carbohydrates that act quickly, you’ll end up choosing one that contains more carbohydrates than you need, one that contains too many fats and proteins for quick digestion, and more actual calories than it needs.
Instead, choose a few “treatment” foods that you consider to be cheap medications. And put those food in your wallet, your desk, your nightstand, and your car.
When you’re not ready to the lowest, you’ll probably over-treat the low ones and end up with that nasty blood sugar roller coaster.
example: Now I’m using gummy lifesaver because I know I only need three or four to treat hypoglycemia. Mildly low, I know I can eat one or two and be on the way. By using this as my minimum treatment, I avoid the risk of overeating low foods and overremembering them.
For more information on treating hypoglycemia, read “How to treat as quickly as possible”
Include the carbohydrates you care about most
If you don’t do that love Cereal… stop eating it! There is no need to cut All carbohydrates To benefit from low peopleteeth-The Carb diet, but considering the carbohydrates you can’t miss and the carbohydrates you most love, it makes blood sugar management easier.
By reducing carbs in other diets, you’ll create space for the carbs you love the most. Do you get hooked on bread and butter for dinner? Well, avoid bread and other sugar-filled or starchy foods for breakfast and lunch.
Don’t want to give up on ice cream? Now, make sure your dinner is protein, fat and vegetables. This will help you store your carbs for dessert.
example: I don’t mind a bit about cereals, oatmeals, waffles, etc, but if you tell me I have to give up All dessertsI’ll feel very stolen and rebound instead – I want it All desserts!
Instead, I try to avoid sugar and starchy processed carbs throughout the day and save those delicious carbs for homemade gluten-free desserts!
Identify the worst “insulin administration” habits
Do you ever do what you always seem to set during the day for a blood sugar coaster or ultra-high or ultra-low levels?
Identify that nasty habit – maybe you’re munching for breakfast for the lowest possible time, or drinking extra coffee without administering it for that extra caffeine.
Whatever your habits are, it appears to be interfering with your blood sugar goals, identify it and come up with strategies to change it.
example: I hate hyperglycemia, so my worst habit is that if you have too much insulin, it overcorrects your hyperglycemia and then lowers it. Their lowness can be tiring!
So I have to remind myself: do your corrective maths – you only need one unit of insulin to correct this high! Please hold on!
Let go of extreme food rules
Are you constantly putting yourself in a low-carb and ketonogenic diet that has struggled to stick to for more than 13 days?
Let go of the rules of extreme food that don’t work for you. Just because you lose weight in these 13 days doesn’t mean that your diet “works” if you can’t follow it for more than 13 days.
As people with diabetes, we are flooded with rules, “bad foods” and things to avoid. At the end of the day, we all need the same thing that non-diabetic patients need: almost Authentic food.
More vegetables. There’s less junk to be processed. More authentic food.
What if you let go of all the rules and work on making more “real food” choices every day while actually giving yourself? permission To eat one thing you’re always trying to avoid?
example: I can eat anything – I am the one who chooses food in my mouth. But I know The best mood When you start your day with vegetables, fats and protein. I know I feel it’s great When eating bacon and a glass of broccoli for lunch or dinner. I know I feel it’s the most balanced When you don’t eat sugar until after dinner.
These are not “rules.” Those are just things I learned about my body’s nutritional needs through experimentation and listening. My goal every day is simply to eat Almost authentic food. period.
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