It seems fat causes me pain especially when the fat content of a food is higher than the carb content. It story starts on a fine stressful day in the office and little voice in my head saying get chocolate :D. I succumbed and found some green and blacks, I am unsure exactly which flavour it was but it wasn’t the 80%+ stuff. To my dismay I spiked at the 2 hour mark and corrected appropriatedly. I calculated this correction as a percentage of the original dose and the magic number was 45%. So I tried again another day and to my delite increasing my dose by 45% worked. Now it got me wondering which foods could this magic number work on and when it was needed.
The battle of the fish and chip commenced, I calculated the chips to be something like 200gs of carbs (large portion). Oki it was a one off right? I don’t exactly make a habit of doing it, I increased by dose by 45%, however my bg spiked uncontroably. I woke the next day high and spent the rest of it fighting highs. So where did I go wrong? Forgot to count the batterd fish, doh! So today I did the maths:
chips
weight: 306g
carb percentage: 0.305
fat percentage: 0.124
total carbs: 93.33g
total fat: 37.944g
fish
weight: 235g
carb percentage: 0.204
fat percentage: 0.197
total carbs: 47.94g
total fat: 46.295g
total carbs: 141.27g 😮 😮
total fat: 84.239g 🙁
8.80 units *1.45 (45%) = 12.76 units 😀
So what happened?
6:06 PM 6.9mmol/L or 124.2 mg/dL
7:36 PM 12.75units (forgot to bg test)
8:52 PM 5.0mmol/L or 90 mg/dL
9:44 PM 4.9mmol/L or 88.2 mg/dL
10:34 PM 5.3mmol/L or 95.4 mg/dL
11:42 PM 4.6mmol/L or 82.8 mg/dL
12:11 AM 5.1mmol/L or 91.8 mg/dL
Wow I am truely amazed and I would be interested to see if others have tried similar experiments.
The initial test was to consume a food which has a high percentage of fat/carbs and dosing normally. Correcting appropriatly until the bg evens out, adding up the corrections and working it out as a percentage of the bolus.
I am still unsure of exactly which foods are best to try this on but so far I would sugest that when the fat content greater or equal to carbs or fat greater than 50gs with a large quantity of carbs.
I have conducted this experiment over the last couple of months and will continue to test. I am still unsure when I will be able to repeat this experienment so I thought I better document my efforts. The mystery continues!