My heartburn is finally subsiding, and I actually got my insulin usage below 60 units today without trying. I tweaked my correction factor by 1, so that should help bring usage down too.
Here’s what I find: the more I eat, the more insulin I use. That sounds like a big duh, but I don’t mean that when I eat twice as many carbs, I use twice as much insulin. It’s closer to twice as many carbs, three times or four times more insulin. If you read pumping insulin, it does make sense. Dr. Bernstein lives by that — he calls it “small numbers”.
But Atkins (and the rest of the lo-carb gang are right). The more carbs you eat the more you crave. I get in this vicious cycle.
So yeah, I COULD eat what I want with pump, but that means I use more insulin, crave more carbs, gain more weight.
If I eat less carbs, slower carbs, I stay off the roller coaster and the cravings.
YMMV (Your milage may vary).