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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on May 30, 2012 at 3:07pm

Medic Alert Necklace is where I hang it! I agree with everybody else on the "easier" bit. The point is to eat what I want, but not to weigh 275 lbs like I used to. The pump also has improved my "logging" by keeping track of input/ output a lot better, even more with the CGM but the "delta" was probably more going from "none" to "some" than from "some" to "lots?"

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Permalink Reply by Richard P Cosgrove on June 1, 2012 at 9:35pm

Eat what you want just count your carbs and don't over eat.

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Permalink Reply by jbowler on June 1, 2012 at 11:35pm

Yes, using Omnipod and counting carbs religiously (well, ok, my wife does that, bless her.)

I'm type 1 since around 1973 (I can no longer remember); I don't like anything sugary and I've learnt not to like wheat products (common in the west, I guess rice products also in the east.)

The carb counting is the limiting factor. Non-diabetics can consume carbs that need almost infinite amounts of insulin; 1 US pint of ice cream, for example. Approaching 40 years of diabetes, most of it MDI, means I don't do that (except occasionally).

So I eat what I want, but what I want is cultural and my culture is diabetic.

John Bowler jbowler @ acm.org

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