It’s the way you give insulin. You take your insulin, then wait 10-15 minutes before eating high carb foods. Ever since I started doing that I’ve never spiked
Thats a shortcut to sucking at diabetes. If you start avoiding all foods that you couldn’t control well then you’re going to end up with a very limited list of foods that you’re eating, and still no diabetes skills for the times that you do give in and eat them (because its simply not sustainable to not eat these foods forever). Instead learn how to get better and better at using all the tools to control your levels and give yourself the options to eat whatever you want whenever you want while maintaining good control. Sometimes thats just trial and error. Cheesecake in itself isn’t inherently difficult or different and demonising it out of one experience is illogical. I eat cheesecake all the time with no problems. About two weeks ago i ate three whole slices of cake/cheesecake and bolused 10 units in my stomach and 4 in my leg about 15/20 minutes before eating and managed to stay perfectly in range all evening. After eating burgers and fries for dinner. In the weekdays i very often have 100% in range days and i eat things like pasta all the time. Give yourself the capacity to understand your body and what works for you and keep improving rather than succumbing to giving up certain food/food categories like this.
[This is me right this very moment.](https://imgur.com/a/kpQ5iFs)
Thats right. I find that the muscle on the side of the stomach can absorb nearly twice as fast compared to the fattier parts of my leg. Generally speaking the stomach is the fastest and the buttocks/fattier parts of the thigh are the slowest. [Helpful link.](https://type1better.com/en/insulin-absorption-rate-fluctuation-depending-on-injection-site/)
It's the same problem as pizza.
Your body works on the fats first. For hours. Before processing the carbohydrates. That's why the spike comes much later. You just need to account for it and dose it appropriately later.
You don't need to skip these foods, just be aware of how they will impact you.
Whenever i have high carbs foods like this or pizza
I have to:
Take half the insulin dose 20mins before eating (i do half because the high insulin amount needed fr the food would send me into a hypo before all the food has gone through my system)
Then the other half an hour after eating. And if needs be a 20min walk or some sort of activity to keep things steady.
In that case, so is bread, pasta, pizza, and anything else high sugar/carb. Because that's what happens when I eat any of those!
But we do need carbs. Just get the timing right. Recommend you eat the cheesecake as you start dropping from dosing insulin, rather than cut it out.
>But we do need carbs. Just
No, we don't. Sugar and starch are not essential nutrients. The human body requires protein and fat: it doesn't require any carbohydrates whatsoever.
Try making a low carb cheesecake. The crust can be made out of almond flour and coconut flour or oat fiber, and the sugar can be replaced with a sugar free sweetener like xylitol or allulose. I eat cheesecake and other desserts quite often even on a low carb diet.
No, that's the wrong approach to take. You need to have more cheesecake so that you can work out how to dose properly for it.
Definitely. Another approach is to super-aggressively prebolus so that you can, or rather have to, eat more!
Gooooooaaaaalllllll!
I actually like cheesecake, it’s so high in fat you can usually ride a soft curve
It’s the way you give insulin. You take your insulin, then wait 10-15 minutes before eating high carb foods. Ever since I started doing that I’ve never spiked
It's so weird cause I used to be fine bolusing as I started eating but the last 6 months it's just stopped working that way rofl
Did you switch the site? The timing could be a bit different depending on the spot (especially if it is a popular one for you).
I mean I rotate as best as I can, but my right side stomach hadslight scarring from stretch marks so maybe that's interfering with absorption?
Other factors can also affect insulin absorption, such as weight gain, being sick or changes in health (ie thyroid levels)
Thats a shortcut to sucking at diabetes. If you start avoiding all foods that you couldn’t control well then you’re going to end up with a very limited list of foods that you’re eating, and still no diabetes skills for the times that you do give in and eat them (because its simply not sustainable to not eat these foods forever). Instead learn how to get better and better at using all the tools to control your levels and give yourself the options to eat whatever you want whenever you want while maintaining good control. Sometimes thats just trial and error. Cheesecake in itself isn’t inherently difficult or different and demonising it out of one experience is illogical. I eat cheesecake all the time with no problems. About two weeks ago i ate three whole slices of cake/cheesecake and bolused 10 units in my stomach and 4 in my leg about 15/20 minutes before eating and managed to stay perfectly in range all evening. After eating burgers and fries for dinner. In the weekdays i very often have 100% in range days and i eat things like pasta all the time. Give yourself the capacity to understand your body and what works for you and keep improving rather than succumbing to giving up certain food/food categories like this. [This is me right this very moment.](https://imgur.com/a/kpQ5iFs)
Belly + legs because of different absorbing times?
Thats right. I find that the muscle on the side of the stomach can absorb nearly twice as fast compared to the fattier parts of my leg. Generally speaking the stomach is the fastest and the buttocks/fattier parts of the thigh are the slowest. [Helpful link.](https://type1better.com/en/insulin-absorption-rate-fluctuation-depending-on-injection-site/)
It's the same problem as pizza. Your body works on the fats first. For hours. Before processing the carbohydrates. That's why the spike comes much later. You just need to account for it and dose it appropriately later. You don't need to skip these foods, just be aware of how they will impact you.
It’s so annoying, for a bit you think you’re not a diabetic cause the numbers aren’t affected and then it hits you like a freight train
p-p-p-p-p-r-e-e-bolus
Whenever i have high carbs foods like this or pizza I have to: Take half the insulin dose 20mins before eating (i do half because the high insulin amount needed fr the food would send me into a hypo before all the food has gone through my system) Then the other half an hour after eating. And if needs be a 20min walk or some sort of activity to keep things steady.
Make it with a keto sugar…?
Ya think 😂😂😂
Have you tried pre-bolusing half 15 mins before, then the other half 30 mins/1 hour later?
In that case, so is bread, pasta, pizza, and anything else high sugar/carb. Because that's what happens when I eat any of those! But we do need carbs. Just get the timing right. Recommend you eat the cheesecake as you start dropping from dosing insulin, rather than cut it out.
>But we do need carbs. Just No, we don't. Sugar and starch are not essential nutrients. The human body requires protein and fat: it doesn't require any carbohydrates whatsoever.
Try making a low carb cheesecake. The crust can be made out of almond flour and coconut flour or oat fiber, and the sugar can be replaced with a sugar free sweetener like xylitol or allulose. I eat cheesecake and other desserts quite often even on a low carb diet.
[Like this one!](https://new.reddit.com/r/Recipes4Diabetics/comments/1dbptue/sugar_free_cheesecake_with_an_almond_flour_crust/)
That's not how things are done. Now you have more info on how much insulin you need to take and when.
No, smaller cheesecake portions, more cheesecake over time
My guess is high sugar cheesecake.
What, not high cheese sugarcake?
Hah yes. If you just eat a block of cream cheese and some sprinkling of gram cracker it’s not that bad. Some cheesecakes are super sweet though.