{"id":1144,"date":"2009-08-03T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/adjusting-insulin-when-losing-weight-or-gaining-dblog\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T12:15:42","slug":"adjusting-insulin-when-losing-weight-or-gaining-dblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/adjusting-insulin-when-losing-weight-or-gaining-dblog\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting Insulin when Losing Weight (or Gaining) #dblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find that bolus rates are influenced most when I lose (or gain) weight.&#160; I will start seeing that my blood sugar is lower than I want it to be after corrections and\/or meals.<\/p>\n<p>When that happens, I\u2019ll do an adjustment in carb ratio.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The first thing I do is record my blood sugars and use the rule of 1500 and 1800 to make sure that my boluses are at close to what is recommended.&#160; You can do an internet search on \u201cRule of 1500\u201d and \u201cRule of 1800\u201d to find them.<\/p>\n<p>I also adjust by meal, as I have found that I need high insulin to carb ratios in the morning, and lower in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Same thing goes for correction rates.<\/p>\n<p>When I start seeing that my basal \/ bolus rates are off (I think it is recommended that they be 50%\/50%, I\u2019ll adjust the bolus rate, lowering it by 10% overall.<\/p>\n<p>Then I start watching my bolus rates again.&#160; Sometimes I need to adjust them up.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I didn\u2019t come by all this magically, it\u2019s in the Insulin Pumper\u2019s Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find that bolus rates are influenced most when I lose (or gain) weight.&#160; I will start seeing that my blood sugar is lower than I want it to be after corrections and\/or meals. When that happens, I\u2019ll do an adjustment in carb ratio.&#160; The first thing I do is record my blood sugars and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}