{"id":2883,"date":"2005-05-17T00:29:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/better-8\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T00:29:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T00:29:21","slug":"better-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/better-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I find:  the more I eat, the more insulin I use.  That sounds like a big duh, but I don&#8217;t mean that when I eat twice as many carbs, I use twice as much insulin.  It&#8217;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 &#8212; he calls it &#8220;small numbers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, I COULD eat what I want with pump, but that means I use more insulin, crave more carbs, gain more weight.<\/p>\n<p>If I eat less carbs, slower carbs, I stay off the roller coaster and the cravings.<\/p>\n<p>YMMV (Your milage may vary).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s what I find: the more I eat, the more insulin I use. That sounds like a big duh, but I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}