Carb Counting

If you read my last article in this section, you surely know something about my very first method for what concerns diabetes managenement. Well, due to that wonderful results, my trust for that strategy had gone a bit too far: I started to think that I could have used it for my whole life, being adverse to any possible kind of change in it, even though the degree of insecurity I had to face in many situations was too big and could cause some rough errors.

"Problems" started when my dietologist strongly recommended me to adopt carb counting as the base method for the decision of my insulin doses: keeping faith to my stubborn principle, and also blinkered by pride, I refused to do so, thinking that this approach would have been less effective than my self-created one.

Luckily, my parents helped me to change my mind, and I finally accepted the dietologist's advice. After passing from a first phase of data collection about my carb ingestion at each meal, we went to a second medical visit with her, who, examining the statystics I had brought, calculated a first carbs/insulin ratio and actually enabled me to apply the method completely.

During the following months, always with the precious help of my father, we managed to adjust the carbs/insulin ratio to extremely precise values, which allowed me to be able of handling extremely different situations with a decisely lower degree of uncertainty compared to my previous method. However, even though this strategy wasn't perfect and would have been strongly implemented in the following years, it has had the merit of making me understand how diverse our reaction to carbohydrates is during different times of the day. If you are curious to know more about this last topic, make sure you visit the Diabetes Management section.

But as I said before, the way to the definition of my own personalised method was still long and contorted. If you want to gain all these knowledges, all you have to do is to keep visiting my website.