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One of those funny things — the less insulin you use, the less you need.

According to the “rule of 500” I have for a week required a 11 unit of carb to unit of insulin. That is certainly shown by the numbers. I’m consistently low, and I don’t want to go so low, I have hypoglycimia. So I’m changing my setting in EzManager for that calculation.

I am also still very slowly dropping my basal rates.

And if this works I’ll be using even less insulin. However, I’m not losing weight very fast, but I am working out extremely consistently.

My blood sugar is still doing well. I decided that today would be my break day from cardio because I was having quite a bit of foot and leg pain — I’m doing 60 minutes or 25 minute sessions according to iShape, so I switched over to the non-exercise basal.

Woke up at 4:30 — I really wish I knew why I do that, took blood sugar and it was at 124. Went back to bed after messing on the computer for a half hour or so and woke up at 8:00 am to a 104 blood sugar. Ate, did weights, etc. and now 1 1/2 half later, I’m at 144. Right where I want to be all day so far.

I’m still gradually reducing my basal by .05 units a half hour a day, so it isn’t significant, but still keeping my insulin usage in the 40-50 unit range. In fact, the insulin rules say I should be at 11 carb to insulin ratio, but I’m staying at 10 for a bit longer and watching my blood sugar closely. I’m not quite ready to drop to that — besides 10 carb to insulin is SUCH an easy division!

I decreased my bolus rates last week. I’m down to 10 units of carb to 1 of insulin. It’s working exceptionally well, I haven’t seen a blood sugar post pranial (4 hours after a meal), over 135 since I made the change when I had an accurate carb count.

I’ve missed on a few guesses, and been a little high.

I’ve even changed my lunch bolus as I’ve been seeing blood sugar in the 120’s and hitting low in the late afternoon. I did one other thing for “insurance” though and switched to low carb lunches for a while. I’m following Dr. Bernstein’s idea, that the less variability the easier it is to control.

I’ve decided to drop my basal rate, on a very gradual basis.

My basal rates were set as:

12:00 am to 4:00 am — 0.90
4:00 am to 8:00 am — 1.10
8:00 am to 12:00 am — 1.00

And a second program for exercising:

12:00 am to 4:00 am — 0.90
4:00 am to 8:00 am — 0.55 << for exercise in the morning
8:00 am to 12:00 am — 1.00

By the way, the second basal rate has been working very well and was my idea. I have it set right now, and plan to get up before 8:00 am and work out. I haven’t had an exercise low in the morning since I put this in place, and was having plenty before that.

Anyway, back to the plan… so what I did last night, was to set a basal rate at 11:30 pm for 0.95 When I woke up this morning, my blood sugar was close to what I’ve been seeing in the morning — in the 110-115 range.

Tonight I’ve change the rate to kick in at 11:00 pm and plan to back the time up by a half hour every day until I start seeing a change in the morning.

Anyway, it at least SEEMS logical.

My morning blood sugar is still good — in fact, today was UNDER my target.

My average use is still not very stable — but then again, I’m adjusted both the basal and bolus lately. The calculations show I can go down to 11 units, but I want to stay at 10 units for a few days and see if things stablize.

I’m a bit discouraged on the weight loss… I’m losing but at around 1/2 pound a week. I think mentally it would feel better if I was losing a bit more — but I don’t want to put my body in starvation mode either.

Anyway, I’m off to the home gym…