April 24, 2022
During the day on Saturday, I let my levels linger near 140 mg/dl. That’s not great. It was largely the result of grazing/snacking during the day. I was moving about, but also snacking, and as a result, there wasn’t any specific exertion that brought my levels down. The fact that I didn’t eat a big meal meant that bolusing some fast-acting insulin might bring me lower than I wanted, especially if I started exerting myself in an unscheduled activity. Weekends are unpredictable, so that was always a possibility.
Then we decided to walk to a friend’s house in the evening, so I didn’t want to set out on that excursion with insulin in my system because it would cause me to crash, so I held out a bit longer. In the end, we ran late and drove to within a 10 minute walk of our destination. So my walk there at about 8:15 pm and back around 11:00 pm were both shorter than I thought probable.
The upshot was that I decided to jump on the elliptical when we got home, drop the BG levels, and then consider what might be the right amount to take me into the night. Doing that I dropped to 80 mg/dl, and then as I was getting ready for bed, I bolused four units of long-acting insulin. That allowed the levels to rise slightly, but then drop to about 100 mg/dl for a soft landing. The estimate for that worked out.
I would have clumped my eating into single meals if I could do it over again, but then I’d also certainly wonder how much to hedge in case I were to do something active during the day that I hadn’t planned (given that it was a Saturday.)